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How to decrease areola size without surgery?

January 6, 2015
Asked By:Mykah in Baytown, TX

I am a medium brown and my areolas are a few shades darker (not black or dark brown). They are huge and I want to have normal ones. I saw tattooing/permanent makeup but on websites it says for breast cancer patients/people who have gotten a breast argumentation but can anyone get it done. My overall question is , is it possible that some of my areola can be tattooed the same color as my breast to make smaller ? Is their anything i can do besides surgery? Like a areola repigmentation?

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