Black Ink Tattoos

Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Seyfried and two of her friends and co-stars have matching “minge” tattoos on their feet.  To her minge just a funny nickname, even her instagram handle is @mingey.  But it’s a very vulgar slang term in the UK, describing a woman’s hairy labia.

The joke originated on the set of the 2008 film Mama Mia!  Actor Colin Firth would say “minge” and Amanda, being American, didn’t know what it meant.  British actress Rachel McDowall had to explain it to her.  Rachel has a bunch of tattoos but Amanda had never gotten one before and was curious what it was like.  So she got the matching “minge” tattoos with Rachel and a third Mama Mia! actress Ashley Lilley.  The three of them got to be very close during the filming of the movie.  She told Seth Meyers:

We’re best friends, my girlfriends Rachel and Ashley. We got “minge” tattooed on our feet. It’s a term of endearment and in England it means ‘vagina.’ But in the U.S., where I spend most of my time, it just doesn’t mean anything.  So we commemorated our friendship with “minge” tattoos.

It turns out she’s not so into tattoos and probably won’t get another, at least not on her own.  She told 5 News:

I didn’t really love the experience — I liked the bonding experience I had with my girlfriends.

However she loves the resulting tattoo and told Chelsea Handler:

It’s to make me laugh, and every time I look at it, I do.

People in England aren’t so amused.  When she first got the tattoo she would cover it up with makeup when coming to the country.  Describing the reactions that she gets to the vulgar ink while in the UK, she says:

They roll their eyes, it’s always a judgement.  Which is fine.  It’s fine because it means so much more to me than vagina.

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Chantel Jeffries

Chantel Jeffries has Hebrew writing tattooed on her right side which is deeply meaningful to her.

“I got my tattoo in hebrew because of the meaning of what it says. Besides EVERYONE has arabic… Ill pass on that,” she tweeted.

We know that it is a religious message as the last word clearly says God. That’s the word on the left, since Hebrew is read right to left: אלוהים which is pronounced Elohim.

Our best guess is that the tattoo is meant to say “Jesus is God.”

The beginning of the tattoo is where things are unclear. We believe it says “ליעס  הוא אלוהים“.  This could be read in a way that the first word sounds a little like Jesus (though it’s more like Lias). However Jesus’s name in Hebrew in actually Yeshua (יֵשׁוּעַ) — Hebrew doesn’t have a J sound.

If any Hebrew speakers can make better sense of it, please leave a comment below.

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Iggy Azalea

Iggy Azalea got this tattoo of a number “1” on her right forearm in 2015 and later covered it up with the mane of her horse tattoo.

The tattoo most likely celebrates the success of her single “Fancy,” which was a number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.  She was, at the time, only the fourth female rapper to ever top the chart (Cardi B later became the fifth) and with seven weeks at number 1 she had the longest reign.  Having spent the previous few years building up her career in the UK, she had never charted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at all prior to the release of Fancy.  With her feature on Ariana Grande‘s “Problem” in the number 2 spot while “Fancy” was number 1, she tied the Beatles as the only artists to have their first two chart entries simultaneous occupy the top two spots.

Ultimately success was a double-edge sword for Iggy.  She never expected the level of success that she had and was unprepared for the scrutiny that came with it.  Her tendency to lash out at perceived criticism kept her in the headlines for the wrong reasons and caused the public opinion to turn against her.  That might explain why she covered up the tattoo.  She told Zane Lowe:

I didn’t expect to get a number 1 hit. I never thought I would have that level of success, just as a female rapper because it’s really really hard when that’s what you’re doing. I just kind of thought if I could skate by and make a living off it and be able to do shows, that was kind of my expectations. It ended up being way, way bigger than that. And the things that come with that, like the debate or…being followed by paparazzi everywhere and that level of attention is very claustrophobic and it kind of makes your decision-making sort of a bit whacked out when you’re living in a bubble that you have to create to try to protect your privacy…. At that time…I really couldn’t get control of it and it was just tumbling and tumbling.

Now she doesn’t take everything so personally and as a result she feels much more in control.  As she attempts to make her comeback, she cares more about reconnecting with her original audience of rap fans than having crossover pop hits.

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