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Bishop Briggs has the calligraphic letter “B” inked on her left upper arm.
She says that “getting tattoos is a way of really honing in on the darkness, and being okay with it and accepting it, and perhaps making art out of it.”
Jemima Kirke has a face tattoo on her right upper arm.
Hilary Duff added a new inner-arm tattoo to her collection in December 2017. The actress shared a video of herself sitting in the chair at the parlor of Dr Woo, who inked her arm with the cursive lettering “Take Fountain” which refers to the Fountain Avenue.
The quote “Take Fountain” become famous thanks to actress Bette Davis. An interviewer asked her the best way for young actresses to get into Hollywood, expecting her to answer with acting or career advice. Instead she took the question a different way and responded “Take Fountain” because driving on Fountain Avenue is a shortcut to get into the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. (more…)
Anne-Marie has a tattoo on her upper right arm with the name of her 2018 debut album “Speak Your Mind.”
Amber Rose maintains a good relationship with her ex-husband Wiz Khalifa, with whom she shares a son Sebastian Thomaz, but she didn’t want her face on her arm now that they’re no longer together. Rather than removing the tattoo, she returned to the original artist Bobby Serna in August 2017 to give it a new look. Serna transformed the face into that of Amber’s rockstar idol Slash from Guns N’ Roses. She already had a full-body portrait of Slash playing his guitar on her forearm.
Zoë Kravitz has a tattoo on her upper right arm which “Mississippi” on one line with a bunch of keyboard symbols “*@!!?*@!” on the next. It represents the song “Mississippi Goddamn” by Nina Simone with the symbols used to censor the expletive word. Zoe is a big fan of Nina’s music and likes to fall asleep to her albums. She told Harper’s Bazaar:
“Even if I don’t go out, I have a hard time falling asleep, so I go to bed around 1 A.M. I listen to a lot of jazz when I’m getting ready for bed: Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.”
The song “Mississippi Goddamn” was released in 1964 at the height of the African-American civil rights movement and speaks about the struggles that black people faced while fighting for equality and how she is sick of waiting for slow change. Although much progress has been made, unfortunately racism is still present today and as a biracial woman Zoë Kravitz has experienced it first-hand. She has spoken openly about her struggles learning to accept her own racial identity and the typecasting that she experiences in Hollywood. She told Allure:
“Racism is very real, and white supremacy is going strong. I am definitely mixed. Both my parents are mixed. I have white family on both sides. The older I get, the more I experience life, I am identifying more and more with being black, and what that means — being more and more proud of that and feeling connected to my roots and my history. It’s been a really interesting journey because I was always one of the only black kids in any of my schools. I went to private schools full of white kids. I think a lot of that made me want to blend in or not be looked at as black. The white kids are always talking about your hair and making you feel weird. I had this struggle of accepting myself as black and loving that part of myself. And now I’m so in love with my culture and so proud to be black. It’s still ongoing, but a big shift has occurred. My dad especially has always been very connected to his history, and it’s important to him that I understand where I come from.”
She hopes she can provide more representation for mixed-race women through her work in the public eye — acting, modeling, and singing — since she herself did not see many mixed-race women in those roles when she was growing up.
Zoe Kravitz got this tiny plus sign (+) tattoo on her upper right arm in 2016.
Artist Tye Harris’s final additions to Skylar Grey’s woodland-inspired full sleeve tattoo include this snake on the inside of her upper right arm, just above the elbow.
Ängie has a snake tattoo on her right upper arm and a plant going up on her shoulder.
Amina Buddafly has a matching tattoo with her sister. The ink which seems to be a bunch of letters symbol is on her right upper arm.
