Black-and-Gray Tattoos

Skylar Grey

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Skylar Gray has a large forest scene tattoo covering her whole back. The tattoo represents a period in her life where she lived in the woods in Oregon before re-inventing herself. This time was essential to her growth both as a person and as an artist.

“I moved into a cabin in the woods and I was broke and I was down on my luck and depressed. It was there that I proved to myself that I could survive anything. And when I came out of the woods I wrote ‘Love The Way You Lie’ and that changed my life forever. So that tattoo represents that whole dream to me.”

The imagery of tattoo includes storm clouds and lightning bolts to represent her struggles and cabin to represent her shelter in the storm. The more lighthearted part of the tattoo is a lumberjack clown which was inspired by her tattoo artist Mister Cartoon’s affinity for clowns.

“I wanted a lumberjack. Mister Cartoon has this signature thing that he does clowns. So I thought, why not just make it a lumberjack clown? Because that’s what I do, I mix weird stuff together. My album is like that, my fashion sense is like that,” she told Amp Radio.

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Jesy Nelson

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In August 2013 Jesy got a Roman Numeral tattoo on her right wrist which says “XIX-VIII-XI” or “9-8-11.” In the British way of writing dates this would be August 19, 2011–the day that Little Mix were formed during bootcamp on The X Factor UK series 8. Little Mix went on to win the competition and were the first group ever to do so.
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Black-and-Gray Career Date Roman Numeral Serif / Typewriter Wrist

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Iggy Azalea

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Iggy Azalea covered up her old flower tattoo in November 2012 with a large portrait on her right forearm. It is the head of the Roman goddess Venus from Sandro Botticelli’s famous 1486 painting “The Birth of Venus.” She told Power 106:

It’s a tattoo of Botticelli “The Birth of Venus,” Disneyfied, where Venus de Milo is born in a seashell…and it covers my old ugly tattoo.

She calls it “Disneyfied” because it’s a cartoonish interpretation of Botticelli’s original piece.  The eyes in particular have a sweet and innocent look with long lashes and no definition of the bottom.

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Cara Delevingne

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Cara Delevingne’s first tattoo was a detailed lion’s face on her index finger, which she got in May 2013.

Tattoo artist Bang Bang told Heat how he and Cara came up with the design: “Cara wanted the word ‘lion’ on her finger and I told her that I didn’t think that was too sexy. I said ‘let’s put a real lion on there,’ because it’s unique, it’s hot, it looks like jewelry, like an accessory. I think it’s a great use of a really small spot of skin. I have a similar one myself that is a Japanese mask, and Cara loved that. It was a photo reference from a real lion that I mapped out, I translated it so it works small, so you have to think about the aging process, because fingers don’t fade perfectly. I altered the image on the fly.”

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