Janina Gavankar
Janina Gavankar has a cross and a Bible line inked along her spine: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me Philippians 4:13”.
Janina Gavankar has a cross and a Bible line inked along her spine: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me Philippians 4:13”.
Inanna Sarkis posted on Instagram a photo of herself dressed as an Anime character and wearing a new back tattoo in Assyrian on her back.
Christina Aguilera has a lower-back tattoo which reads “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine” in Hebrew, right above her ex-husband’s initials, JB.
Mariah Carey reveals a back tattoo with Nick’s name standing in for the body of the butterfly.
Sahlt covered up her grandma’s memorial back tattoo with an ample design of stargazer lilies which are her mom’s favorite flowers.
Maggie Lindemann has a quote in a script font on her upper back from the poem “Troll” by author Shane Koyczan. It says “turning freedom of speech into freedom of cruelty.” The poem is about how internet trolls are extremely harmful to their victims and trolling is not a game.
On her twitter, Maggie explained that the tattoo is an anti-bullying message, writing: “freedom of cruelty meaning bullying.” She has spoken out about the seriousness of bullying as well as her own experiences:
Sorry for getting in my feelings but when it comes to bullying it really gets to me. Bullying forever affects you. Those words never leave your head. People were so mean to me starting 5th grade. I was so desperate to be loved, people made a joke out of me. I just wanted to be loved. Someone almost burnt my house down and put plastic forks under my window and pads everywhere right after I had gotten out of treatment. I am strong now. I know my worth and I know I’m not that fragile little girl anymore. But some words really hit home. You just never know what someone has gone through. Always be kind. For anyone that has gone through bullying. I’m always here for you, it’s a real thing. It’s a scary thing
When Maggie was going through dark times, Shane Koyczan’s poems hit home. They resonated with her so much that she’s had two of them tattooed — the first is on her arm. She got this tattoo in December 2016 from her favorite artist Romeo Lacoste, who does all of his cursive tattoos in his own handwriting. “Thank you @romeolacoste for always being the best at what you do,” Maggie wrote on her Instagram.
Julia Michaels got this tattoo on her upper back which says “Kiss Here” from artist London Reese in August 2017. She describes how the process of co-creating a design with a tattoo artist is similar to writing songs as part of a team. Julia and her co-writer Justin Tranter have written major hits for artists like Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. She told Vevo:
You’re trusting somebody to put something so permanent on your body, and with songwriting it’s the same. You’re having somebody come in, and you have to trust this person completely to help you articulate words into a song. And then there’s a trust there. Because of that, you become really close friends with them. Like London, who does a lot of my tattoos.
Jaira Burns has a written tattoo going down her spine.
Amina Buddafly has a tattoo on her lower back.
Kym Marsh used to have Kanji symbols of unknown meaning running down her spine on her lower back.
On an interview she said that she got a Chinese symbol ink while they were popular and it was suppose to be a tribute to her first husband, Jack Ryder, but actually it turned out to be totally different and was only pointed out when she was having dinner at a restaurant and the waiter went, ‘Ahh, communist!’.
Later after they break up she covered the tattoo with a new ink art piece.