Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer. And Instagrammer Isabella Santa Maria uses the same technique to cover her own scars.

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She grew up with facial scars following a childhood accident, and says the principle of kintsugi, where damage and repair become part of an object's history, rather than something to disguise, has brought her great comfort.

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