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Lena Dunham shared her new ink on her Instagram on Sunday October 15 2016, including a tattoo of The Odeon on her left butt cheek – in honor of the famed restaurant in New York City. The new design piece was inked in an orange color to matched the neon logo of the real life restaurant.
She captioned the image: “And because I’m a deranged daughter of TriBeCa, the Odeon neon sign now lives on my ass for life.”
Lena Dunham has a pair of houses tattooed on her back.
The tattoo on Lena Dunham’s upper left arm is an illustration from the children’s book The Story of Ferdinand. The book tells the tale of a bull who doesn’t want to fight and prefers to smell flowers. Lena’s tattoo depicts Ferdinand sitting under a tree in a field of flowers.
“I have tattoos from children’s books all over my arms and torso,” she told The New York Times. “The biggest one is of Ferdinand the bull, which Elliott Smith also had, but his was a different page. What a good message that book has! Just be yourself and don’t gore anyone with your horns if you don’t feel like it.”
She has had this tattoo since she was a teen and got it touched up in October 2016, writing “Ferdinand restored to his original pacifist glory… This was definitely the coolest thing I did at age 19.”
Lena Dunham’s “Staunch” tattoo on her wrist is a matching tattoo with her best friend. The word choice was inspired by the movie Grey Gardens. “It’s from Grey Gardens, where they talk about being staunch characters,” she told Time. Staunch means loyal and dedicated.
