When Karen Betts found out that her close friend had breast cancer, she knew that she wanted to do everything in her power to help restore her confidence. Like thousands of other women in the UK each year, Karen's friend had a mastectomy following her diagnosis. Struggling with the aftermath of the operation, she felt as though she'd lost her femininity, admitting to Karen that she couldn't bear to look at herself in the mirror.
As a trained professional in hair and beauty, Karen owned her own salon, so she decided to give her pal a treatment that hardly anyone else offered at the time. She told The Mirror: "I had a tattoo artist who rented a room in my hair and beauty salon, so I went and got his tattoo machine and I tattooed her some eyebrows and some areolas."
