Forearm Tattoos

Tulisa Contostavlos

Tulisa Contostavlos’ most famous tattoo is her nickname “The Female Boss” on her right forearm with a female gender symbol (♀). Tulisa loves showing off this tattoo whenever she gets the chance. It’s even created controversy from critics who were concerned that her flashing of the tattoo on X-Factor constituted a product promotion for her fragrance TFB, which stands for The Female Boss. She responded “I was showing off my tattoo long before The X Factor. It’s always been my trademark and it’s always been my nickname.”

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Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert has a large tattoo on her left forearm of two crossing guns with wings. Miranda says that she got the tattoo to honor her success as a performer, but that her dad hates it. “The only reason I regret it is because my dad was pissed,” she explains. “I love it, it’s kind of become my signature, it’s on everything I have, it’s my logo, it’s on all my backdrops–but my dad was upset. He’s kind of old school so he took it personally. But we’ve gotten past it. She turned the experience into lyrics in her song “Heart Like Mine,” in when she sings, “Daddy cried when he saw my tattoo / Said he loved me anyway.” Of course she admits that she didn’t think to ask first: “I got it when I was 22 on tour with George Strait. It’s the first thing I ever did without asking my parents. My dad didn’t speak to me for a week,” she says.

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Heidi Klum

The large tattoo on Heidi Klum’s forearm may look like just a swirl, but it actually represents her ex-husband and her children. The large part of the tattoo is a stylized version of “Seal,” for her ex-husband singer Seal Samuel.

The four stars are for her four children, and each star has an initial in the center. From bottom to top, the stars represent each child in the order of their birth: “L” for Helene who is nicknamed “Leni,” “H” for Henry, “J” for Johan, and “L” for Lou.

Heidi and Seal were divorced in 2012 after seven years of marriage. We don’t know if Heidi will decide to remove the tattoo.

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Miley Cyrus

The long passage on Miley Cyrus’ left forearm says “so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” It comes from the Citizenship in a Republic speech given by former United States president Theodore Roosevelt in 1910. Miley’s fiancé Liam Hemsworth has the preceding line on his arm.

The passage that this quote comes from is:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

The message of the tattoo is that it is better to try and to fail than to never try at all.

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Grimes

Grimes and her brothers all have matching tattoos of the triforce symbol from The Legend of Zelda, her favorite video game. Grimes’ tattoo is on her left arm just below the elbow. She explains to Bullett, “The Legend of Zelda was the first video game me and my brothers ever got, and so we all got matching Triforce tattoos.”

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