Just below the nape of her neck, Angelina Jolie has the words “Know Your Rights” inscribed on her upper back.
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Just below the nape of her neck, Angelina Jolie has the words “Know Your Rights” inscribed on her upper back.
On Angelina Jolie’s left hip is a large black cross next to the Latin phrase “Quod me nutrit me destruit,” which translates to “What nourishes me destroys me.”
On Anglelina Jolie’s left wrist is this little symbol of a letter H, which is believed to be for her brother James Haven.
With the faded silhouette of her laser-removed dragon tattoo still visible, Angeline Jolie had a new tattoo done on top of it. This tattoo pays homage to her children, listing the latitude and longitude coordinates of their birthplaces. Shown in this photo from 2007 are the birthplaces of her first four children, but she has added onto the tattoo as she and Brad Pitt have welcomed more children into their family.
One of Angelina Jolie’s earlier tattoos is the Chinese-style dragon on her upper left arm. Above it she tattooed the name of her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton. After their divorce she had both pieces removed and she covered up the area with a new tattoo representing her children.
Angelina Jolie has a Arabic word beneath her right elbow which translates to “Determination”
Avril Lavigne has the outlines of two stars on her left hip. She has a few different star tattoos, but this one is the largest.
This star tattoo on the inside of Avril Lavigne’s right elbow has gone through three iterations. At first it was a small blue star to cover a freckle. Then in April 2008 she added a black outline while her friend Allie got a tattoo at the same time. Finally, she had the whole tattoo filled in with black ink.
Lily Allen has nine tattoo small tattoos wrapping around her wrist like a bracelet. She started on the inside of her wrist with seven symbols — five to represent different major world religions along with a communist symbol and, oddly enough, Homer Simpson’s head. She later filled in the empty space on the back of her wrist with two more fun and lighthearted tattoos of a happy face and a cartoon dog.
Lily has never explained why she chose to get these symbols tattooed on her, but she has expressed some very mixed feelings about religion. She was raised Catholic but told Word magazine that she is “confused by religion” because the values that the religion preached were often at odds with how her parents acted. “I was brought up in a Catholic school and they told me gays were bad, adultery was bad and drugs were bad,” she says. “At the same time, all my mum’s friends were gay, my dad was having various affairs and there were drugs in the house when I was a kid – so it was a bit cruel.” She respects many religions and has said that she is particularly fond of Hinduism.
Here is a list of all nine wrist tattoos:
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Om (ॐ) is a common symbol of Hinduism, though Om is also important in Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism. Om is the divine energy of the universe. |
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The six-pointed Star of David (✡) is a symbol of Judaism. |
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This tattoo is a silhouette of the Buddha sitting in a meditation pose. This of course represents Buddhism. |
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The star and crescent (☪) is a symbol of Islam. |
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The Latin cross (✝) is the most predominant symbol of Christianity, representing the cross that Jesus was crucified on. |
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The hammer and sickle (☭) is not a religious symbol, but a political one. It represents communism. The two item represent industrial and agricultural workers and crossed they symbolizes the unity between the different social classes. |
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This is the head of Homer Simpson, one of the leading characters in the cartoon TV show “The Simpsons.” |
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The barking dog comes from the works of artist Keith Haring, whose pop art style drew much of its influence from graffiti. |
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Lastly Lily has a smiley face (☺), a symbol of happiness. |
Avril Lavigne has a tiny star tattoo the right side of her upper back. It was initially done in blue ink. Like the star on her arm, she had it recolored with black ink to make it more opaque and permanent.