Alana Potocnik
Among Alana Potocnik’s upper left arm tattoos are hibiscus flowers on her shoulder and a sugar skull on the inside of her arm.
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Brittany Harrell
Brittany Harrell has a half-sleeve on her upper left arm incorporating her peach tattoo. The tattoo has a few dessert/southwestern items including a cactus, snake, chili pepper, and buffalo skull. There’s also a food theme — in addition to the chili pepper and corn cobs there’s also a tiny taco in the center of the flower!
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Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan has a very faint tattoo on her upper left arm of a sleeping girl. A source told TMZ that Lindsay chose the design because “she liked the innocence of the girl.”
Sammi Doll
Sammi Doll has a tattoo on the back of her left upper arm with a scene from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The tattoo is in an oval frame and it’s done in an artistic style that looks like a painting. Alice is painting red roses white.
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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.
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.
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Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho has a tattoo on her left upper arm of a bird with the body of a phoenix and purple peacock feathers as the tail. “This is just kind of a cross between a phoenix and a peacock, which I just think is beautiful,” Margaret says.
