WEST ALLIS — “My husband was shocked. I was speechless when I first saw them.”

That's Jean Blake talking about the first time she and her husband saw her new tattooed nipples and areolas. She received the tattoos after getting a double mastectomy and a battle with breast cancer. She beat cancer, by the way.

“I know it sounds crazy, but because of the 3D nature of the tattoo that she does, they literally look twistable. It’s insane," Blake said.

She got the tattoos in 2022, and on Friday, it was time for a touch-up by Zoe Braun, who owns Tiger Lily Collective in West Allis. Braun gave her the first tattoos.

“It’s a tattoo that just looks like a real areola, so first we map out get the symmetry and placement and size, and then I mix up a certain custom color blends like several different

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