In the first 10 seconds of her unforgettable video “N.J. tattoo artist transforms mastectomy scars into remarkable art,” videographer Lauren Raposa grips you instantly.

A soft, melancholy piano motif plays, its notes gently clashing with the buzzing of a tattoo machine. The camera lingers on the back of a blue-haired woman in thick-brimmed glasses, then shifts to another woman, reclining in a chair, topless.

One breast is adorned with delicate, multicolored floral ink, emerging from beneath the pink gloves of the artist holding the needle. Each progressive piano note lands like a gentle tap on a healing heart.

For the next four minutes and 22 seconds, the music guides the viewer as if in a dance between the two subjects, the empathic Cranford-based tattooer with her atypical approach to

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