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In this photo Hanna Beth Merjos shows off her freshly-done crown tattoo inspired by the work of graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
She also has safety pin tattoos on both arms, a skull on her wrist, and “Beautiful Life” on her hands — “Life” is shown here while “Beautiful” is on her other hand.
The first large tattoo on Hanna Beth Merjos’ arm was this crying cracked tooth which she got in July 2010.
Alexis Krauss has a grayscale tattoo on her left forearm of a skull and crossbones pierced by an ornate dagger.
Alexis Krauss has a tattoo on her left forearm of a horseshoe with an eye in the center.
Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino has three tattoos on the onside of her left arm.
On her upper arm is an illustraion of a two-tailed mermaid, also know as a Melusine. The tattoo resembles the original logo of Starbucks coffee.
On her elbow are the words “California Dreamin'”
One her forearm is a solid black silhouette of the state of California with the silhouette of a bear, California’s state animal, in the negative space. Best Coast’s logo looks like this but with a cat instead of a bear.
Carah Faye Charnow has a full sleeve tattoo on her left arm with Japanese imagery, from the Geisha on her upper arm to the hibiscus flowers at her wrist. She wrote: “I just wanted the whole piece to be a collections of things that fascinate me about Japanese culture.”
Carah’s parents have not always been supportive of her tattoos, but she says “I smiled so big when my dad first said he thought my sleeve was pretty….I really felt like I had broken through their stereotype of tattoos”
Carah Faye Charnow has “Walk Together / Rock Together” tattooed across both of her forearms. She explains: “Walk Together, Rock Together” was an album/title track for a punk band names 7 Seconds. I had it on cassette and it was one of my favorites back in the day! It’s just a great message of unity.”
Carah Faye Charnow has a grayscale rose tattoo on her left forearm
The flower tattoo on Colbie Caillat’s arm was done in multiple sessions with each flower representing one of her albums. She told world-wide-ed: “My flower tattoo, well this smaller flower I’ve always had for a couple years and that’s the logo for my first album CoCo. And then this new flower I got in Paris a couple months ago. And that is the Breakthrough flower for my new record. So this is the new logo for like all my merch, my T-shirts, on my CD. I had wanted it for a couple years and I new it was a big commitment getting a big tattoo on my arm so I made sure I still wanted it and I got it.”
Megan Fox once had a large portrait of Marilyn Monroe on her right forearm, but then had a change of heart and removed it. Marilyn struggled with depression throughout her life and died at only 36 years old. As Megan grew older, she no longer wanted to have a tattoo with such negative implications.
“I got it when I was 18,” she told Access Hollywood. “I just feel like her life was surrounded and shrouded in so much mystery and tragedy. She was troubled, and there’s negativity with her life and with her death. And I just feel like there are better things to have inked on your body than someone who struggled so much. So in getting older, I just decided that it was something that I wanted to get rid of.”
She began the process of laser tattoo removal in 2011. The removal is far more painful than getting the tattoo. “It hurts really bad. It’s really painful. Getting them is not that bad, obviously, because I have so many,” she told Jay Leno. “It’s traumatic and it’s incredibly painful. They can’t numb it enough to make the pain go away.”
