Joan Jett
On Joan Jett’s left forearm is a spiral with rays eminating from it. “This represents un-manifest consciousness, or consciousness at rest, with the rays coming out representing possibilities,” she wrote.
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Joan Jett
Joan Jett has an armband design around her left upper arm. She describes it as “a figure 8 arm band on my upper left arm, and a triangle with loops and swoops above the figure 8 arm band.”
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Eve
Eve has a tattoo on her upper left arm of an unknown Asian character with her name “Eve” written beneath it.
Eve
Eve has a tattoo on her right wrist of a peony, which is her favorite flower. It’s also a coverup of a tattoo that she got for her ex-boyfriend Stevie J. He had “Sleazy” and she had “Sleazy’s Girl.”
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Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding’s first tattoo was a red ink outline of a triangle on the inside of her right wrist. Ellie loves triangles and in her song “Wish I Stayed” she sings “Why do I always draw triangles instead of the words this paper so deserves?”
She told GQ magazine “I got a random tattoo the other day. It’s a red triangle, which makes everyone think I’m arty, which I’m not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something — maybe I don’t know it yet. But I’ll figure it out.” (more…)
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Sarah Harding
Sarah Harding has Tibetan writing on her arm which reportedly means “inner strength.”
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Jessica Jane Clement
Jessica Jane Clement has a brightly colored tattoo on her shoulder of a rose, done in a traditional style.
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Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj has a tattoo of Chinese writing on her left upper arm. The six Chinese characters “上帝與你常在,” pronounced “shàngdì yŭ nĭ cháng zài,” translate to “God Is With Me Always.”
She got it when she was 16 and it was originally supposed to be placed on the back of her neck, but she moved it to her arm instead. In an interview for Billboard, Nicki said that she regrets the tattoo, or rather the placing of it:
“I wish I never got the tattoo, because it’s on my arm. So when I wanna wear a beautiful evening gown and go out with the queen, she doesn’t like my tattoo too much.”
She put it on her arm because she didn’t want to deal with the pain of a neck tattoo, saying:
“I was going to get it on the back of my neck, and I told the guy: ‘Could you empty the ink out? I just wanna see how the needle feels, like if it’s gonna hurt real bad?’ So when he put that needle on that bone, I was like ‘Never…Just do it on my arm…I already paid for the tattoo just do it on my arm.'”
She also talked about her mother’s reaction and her feelings that she was too young for the tattoo:
“I was thinking how I was gonna explain it to my mother. My mother had told me, at that time I had a tongue ring, and she had told me ‘I’m disowning you.’ When she saw the tattoo and the tongue ring, she was like ‘I am disowning you.’ She was like, ‘You need to not have that’ and she was dead serious, and I was like bummed out that I went and got the tattoo. I eventually took the tongue ring out, but I think I was I don’t know, maybe 16? Way too young. You have no idea what you want to put on your body at the age of 16, or 15, or 13. You need to wait until at least 21 and decide and have your brain start to develop.”
When the interviewer asked if she would do it again, she said:
“No, I wouldn’t do it again. I would’ve gotten one Chinese character right there, like on my neck. But, no, I wouldn’t do it again.”
This was her only tattoo for the majority of her career, up until she got a second in 2018.
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Margaret Cho
Maragret Cho has a tattoo on her upper right arm of an eye surrounded by beads. Margaret explains: “This is a lover’s eye, which is a Victorian jewelry they used to have. Secret lovers would give each other a Victorian kind of little charm and it had their eye — it didn’t have their whole face, just had their eye. And so this was done for me by a secret lover of mine, so it all sort of works out.”
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Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho has a pink and orange peony on her right upper arm, which is one of a few on her body. “The reason I have a number of these flowers, peonies, is because my Korean name is Korean for ‘peony,’ so I have quite a few,” she says. She has another on her chest and a third on her lower back.
