Bethany Cosentino
Bethany Cosentino has a cartoon bird tattoo on her right upper arm
Bethany Cosentino has a cartoon bird tattoo on her right upper arm
Bethany Cosentino has a a portrait of a 1920’s flapper girl in a hat on her left arm, contained in a cameo-style frame.
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.
On the inside of Bethany Cosentino’s left upper arm are two hearts with banners with the names “Richard Terri Jen”
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”
On the back of her left upper arm, Carah Faye Charnow has two skeleton hands making the “LA” symbol for Los Angeles.
Carah Faye Charnow has a portrait of a Geisha on her upper right arm as part of her full sleeve tattoo. She writes “There isn’t really too deep of a story behind the lady on my arm. I didn’t want it to be anyone specific. I just wanted the whole piece to be a collections of things that fascinate me about Japanese culture.”
A close-up photo of Carah Faye Charnow’s full sleeve tattoo, which uses a red yellow and black color palette.
Alice Dellal has an upside-down skeleton tattoo on the inside of her right arm. The tattoo is a cartoon skull, vertebrae, collarbones, and ribcage.
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.”