To create an HTML email you can do something like this:
...
$message = "<html><head></head><body>";
$message .= "<img src='link-image.jpg' alt='' /></body></html>";
$headers = "From: $from_email";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
This should build an HTML email for you and you should then be able to insert just normal html.
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You can read more about how to create HTML emails using PHP from here: http://css-tricks.com/sending-nice-html-email-with-php/
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