In a world inundated with photo-shopped images of the female body, it can be hard for real-life women to accept their real-life bodies. Outside of the realm of the airbrush, scars, wrinkles, discolorations and uneven textures abound, often to the distress of the women to whom these “imperfections” belong.
Luckily, Barcelona-based artist Cinta Tort Cartró and other artists are helping women see their natural bodies differently.
According to Cartró, all bodies are beautiful:
“Every one of us is different and, at the same time, every body has one form or another and has its own essence and energy. There are many types of bodies, the same way there are many different kinds of stretch marks,” reads her Instagram (written in Spanish).
“Painting Yacine, Monica, and Roser, I observed their skin in great detail; the delicacy that existed in each of the women, the time, beauty, and essence that each of them had hidden. There are people with more stretch marks and fewer stretch marks; people with thicker and thinner stretch marks; people with darker or lighter marks; and in this, in the diversity, there is richness.”
Here are 60 times that Cartró, and other artists (mainly tattoo) have transformed stretch marks and other bodily imperfections into gorgeous works of art.
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“All bodies have (more or less) stains, hairs, freckles, stretch marks, curves, lines, wounds, wrinkles… and all are equally valid,” she concludes.
“It is time for us to begin to love our bodies because, after all, this is our tool of communication with the world. And if we do not like the tool we use to communicate, we can hardly feel free.”
Cartró was inspired by her own stretch marks and her path to accepting them.
“Stretch marks are those marks that many of us have on the skin. I spent years hating them and trying to find a way to eliminate them, until I realized that if I did not accept them, I was not accepting myself.”
She spent years building her self-love, always trying to find a way to accept her body on a deeper level.
“After a few years I had started to work to love myself and to see and accept all that there was on my body. To accept all this is to accept your roots, your history, everything in it and, most of all, to accept yourself. Stretch marks are part of our essence, our moments, our lives, our stories and us. They are so beautiful that at times I don’t know how I hated them.”
Other people would prefer a more permanent change to disguise their so-called flaws. Here are some gorgeous (and sometimes very funny!) tattoos that incorporate these flaws.
A super smart design here. It’s a tattoo of a bluebird on a branch. The branch is actually a scar.
This woman opted to hide her stretch marks by putting a striking tattoo of a large Oak tree with dangling Spanish moss. You’d never know there was any sort of “imperfection” underneath.
This woman’s birthmark could not be lightened. So she decided to turn it into a Harry Potter inspired piece of art. The birthmark works perfectly as the owl’s body.
This piece is very interesting. It’s a woman getting her head blown up. The dot is her birthmark which is turned into splattered brains, a bird and a butterfly.
This birthmark was perfect for this album cover recreation. It’s the cover of Neutral Milk Hotel’s album “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.” It’s cool and clever.
The birthmark is now camouflaged into the scales of the fish. It’s amazing what a tattoo can do for someone’s self confidence! Now she has this gorgeous piece of art to show off.
This cute little tat doesn’t try to hide the scar it incorporates the scar. It’s a snake that looks like it’s wrapping around a staff. The staff is the scar.
This is simply incredible. This man suffered an injury that took his eye and remove his eyebrow. Thanks to this impressive tattoo, he looks a little more like his old self.
This person was left with a devastating scar but today? You’d never know it. They opted to cover it up with a gorgeous, colorful jellyfish floating in the ocean.
How do you turn a bad scar into a piece you’ll always love to look at? Turn it into a Rick and Morty tattoo, of course! This tattoo artist did an absolutely amazing job.
An operation left this woman with a deep scar on her lower abdomen. To cover it up, she tattooed a beautiful peacock feather. Now, you can’t even see the scar at all.
Scar? What scar? Here’s another example of an amazing coverup by an amazing artist. Unless you knew there was a scar there before, you’d have no idea at all.
Even though this woman was left with a scar, it was perfectly designed to be turned into a flower. The scar itself was shaped like a stem, it was only meant to be.
Would you believe that there are hidden stretch marks underneath there? The only thing you (or anyone) can see if a beautiful tattoo of a lotus-inspired design.
Here’s another example of a person that was left from scars after causing self-harm. Having started to love and care for themselves, they turned a sad reminder into a cute hedgehog.
Even though this woman had implants put in after have a double mastectomy, she was still left with scars and missing nipples. Instead of looking in the mirror every day at scars and nasty reminders, she gave herself a brand new stunning floral tattoo.
This person looks like they’ve suffered and survived through a lot. And now, they have an angel on their body to continue watching and protecting them.
These people took their supposed flaws, imperfections, scars, and birthmarks and turned them into something they can show off and feel proud of. Do you have a bodily imperfection that you’d like to cover up with a tattoo?
60 times artists transformed stretch marks into beautiful works of art
Jenny Brown
06.19.19
In a world inundated with photo-shopped images of the female body, it can be hard for real-life women to accept their real-life bodies. Outside of the realm of the airbrush, scars, wrinkles, discolorations and uneven textures abound, often to the distress of the women to whom these “imperfections” belong.
Luckily, Barcelona-based artist Cinta Tort Cartró and other artists are helping women see their natural bodies differently.
According to Cartró, all bodies are beautiful:
“Every one of us is different and, at the same time, every body has one form or another and has its own essence and energy. There are many types of bodies, the same way there are many different kinds of stretch marks,” reads her Instagram (written in Spanish).
“Painting Yacine, Monica, and Roser, I observed their skin in great detail; the delicacy that existed in each of the women, the time, beauty, and essence that each of them had hidden. There are people with more stretch marks and fewer stretch marks; people with thicker and thinner stretch marks; people with darker or lighter marks; and in this, in the diversity, there is richness.”
Here are 60 times that Cartró, and other artists (mainly tattoo) have transformed stretch marks and other bodily imperfections into gorgeous works of art.
