Zoe Kravitz has palm tattoos on both of her hands featuring a tiny cross or plus sign with dots on both sides ( · + · )
Zoë Kravitz has at least 55 known tattoos:
Zoe Kravitz has palm tattoos on both of her hands featuring a tiny cross or plus sign with dots on both sides ( · + · )
Zoe Kravitz has a tiny tattoo on the back of her right arm with the date “11-16-67” to represent her mom’s November 16, 1967 birth date. Her mother Lisa Bonet (who legally changed her name to Lilakoi Moon but still goes by Lisa Bonet professionally) is an actress who is best known for her role as Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Zoe sees her mom as an inspiration on both a personal and a professional level, telling Elle:
“She kind of stumbled into that world. It wasn’t a conscious choice (a) to be an actress, (b) to be a famous actress, and (c) to be—she shook things up—a model for so many young women. The beautiful thing about her is that she just thought a certain way and lived her life that way.”
Zoe Kravitz has a tattoo of three tiny dots in a triangular pattern ∴ on her elbow
Zoe Kravitz added a little starburst design below the tattoo of her sister’s name Lola on her wrist.
Zoë Kravitz has a snake tattoo on her left forearm.
Zoe Kravitz has a tattoo on her right forearm of two black handprints — a traditional symbol of protection — with little dots and designs for decoration.
Zoe Kravitz has a tattoo that says “Sweet Kid” which is one her own childhood nicknames. Dr Woo tattooed the words on her right arm just below the elbow in June 2015.
Zoe Kravitz got these hand-poked protective wrist charms on the backs of both wrists from artist Talia Migliaccio in September 2015. The three larger dots in the center were a pre-existing tattoo. She added a series of dots, chevrons, plus signs, and asterisks in a cross shape.
Zoë Kravitz has a stick-and-poke tattoo on her right elbow of the letters “AY” surrounded by little dots.
Zoë Kravitz has a tattoo on her upper right arm which “Mississippi” on one line with a bunch of keyboard symbols “*@!!?*@!” on the next. It represents the song “Mississippi Goddamn” by Nina Simone with the symbols used to censor the expletive word. Zoe is a big fan of Nina’s music and likes to fall asleep to her albums. She told Harper’s Bazaar:
“Even if I don’t go out, I have a hard time falling asleep, so I go to bed around 1 A.M. I listen to a lot of jazz when I’m getting ready for bed: Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.”
The song “Mississippi Goddamn” was released in 1964 at the height of the African-American civil rights movement and speaks about the struggles that black people faced while fighting for equality and how she is sick of waiting for slow change. Although much progress has been made, unfortunately racism is still present today and as a biracial woman Zoë Kravitz has experienced it first-hand. She has spoken openly about her struggles learning to accept her own racial identity and the typecasting that she experiences in Hollywood. She told Allure:
“Racism is very real, and white supremacy is going strong. I am definitely mixed. Both my parents are mixed. I have white family on both sides. The older I get, the more I experience life, I am identifying more and more with being black, and what that means — being more and more proud of that and feeling connected to my roots and my history. It’s been a really interesting journey because I was always one of the only black kids in any of my schools. I went to private schools full of white kids. I think a lot of that made me want to blend in or not be looked at as black. The white kids are always talking about your hair and making you feel weird. I had this struggle of accepting myself as black and loving that part of myself. And now I’m so in love with my culture and so proud to be black. It’s still ongoing, but a big shift has occurred. My dad especially has always been very connected to his history, and it’s important to him that I understand where I come from.”
She hopes she can provide more representation for mixed-race women through her work in the public eye — acting, modeling, and singing — since she herself did not see many mixed-race women in those roles when she was growing up.