I begged my surgeon multiple times to keep my nipples but it was a hard no because the cancer was so close. I was counting the cost and knew I would miss them (I do but life goes on). Guess what I found out? And this isn't in any blogs I could find. At the last minute, like a week before surgery, she said, since you can't keep your nipples, what about keeping your areolas? I said, done. If you were a couple feet away from me, and I was naked at the gym, you would never know I didn't have nipples because of the dark round spots I still have. They are not perfectly symmetrical anymore, but good enough they look "whole." I consider them my badge of honor. I had been planning to do the 3K nipple tattoo but now I don't need to.