Campaign launches to allow nipple tattooing images on social media
Medical micropigmentation artist and head medical micropigmentation trainer at Finishing Touches Group, Kelly Forshaw Smith, is to campaign Facebook over its social media sites Facebook and Instagram banning accounts sharing of images of nipple reconstructions.
Forshaw Smith specialises in nipple and areola reconstruction through tattooing, and has treated over 8,000 women and men, many of them following breast surgery due to cancer. She says herself and many of her peers have been banned from Facebook and Instagram countless times for posting images of their work because the pictures go against the sites’ community guidelines under the category of “sexual content and nudity”.
On 1 September Forshaw Smith and fellow micropigmentation artists will take to Facebook HQ in London dressed in inflatable breast costumes in attempt to persuade the company to make a change to its rules that would help empower breast cancer survivors to know that nipple and areola restoration treatments are available.
She commented: “...I have been banned from Facebook and Instagram countless times over the years, ranging from just having the image removed to not being able to post for over a week.”
