Handwriting Tattoos

Jesy Nelson

Jesy Nelson revealed a new tattoo on the left side of her ribs at the Global Awards on March 1, 2018.  It says “Keepers” and it might be part of a matching “Finders Keepers” tattoo with someone else, possibly her boyfriend Harry James?

Even though the tattoo can be seen clearly, the uneven handwriting makes it hard to tell what it says.  The loop on the to of the “r” is too high while the loop on the “s” is too low.  We have to agree with one instagram user who commented “It does say Keepely tho doesn’t it? That’s what it looks like… what’s it meant to say? Cause whatever it’s meant to read it doesn’t I’d want my money back from the tattooist.”

Tattoo artist Gabby Colledge does these cursive tattoos in her own handwriting for an organic but imperfect look.  Looking through her portfolio, her letter “r” has a tall loop in many of her designs, including Jesy’s own “girl power” tattoo.

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Jesy Nelson

Jesy Nelson got this “girl power” tattoo on her collarbone from artist Gabby Colledge in January 2018.  As a girl group, Little Mix’s music is all about women taking charge and standing up for themselves.  They want female listeners young and old to feel empowered and confident. “If a girl is being bullied, or heartbroken, or just feeling like utter shite, if our music can make them feel better… then we’re doing our jobs right,” Jesy says.

The term “girl power” has been deeply entwined with female pop groups ever since the Spice Girls made it their slogan in the 1990s.  Girl power is all about women supporting each other and building each other up rather than competing and tearing each other down.

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Chiara Ferragni

Chiara Ferragni has the inspirational quote “I swear I’ll never give in / I refuse” on the back of her upper left arm in her own handwriting.  These lyrics come from the song “Best of You” by The Foo Fighters, who she described as “one of my forever favourite bands.”  She wrote on her website The Blonde Salad:

It’s a sentence with such a big meaning to me, from one of my favourite songs, written so thin that it looks like it is only written by pen. I’ve been wanting this tattoo for months and in Los Angeles I finally made my decision and made it.

She got the tattoo in April 2012.  It gives a strong message to always keep fighting even when faced with adversity.  She told Glamour:

My favorite [tattoo] I got done on my last night in L.A. after Coachella by Dr. Woo, who is super good, and it’s in my handwriting; I just wrote it on paper.

Though that was back in 2013 when she only had five tattoos, so it might not be her favorite anymore.

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Danielle Bregoli

Danielle Bregoli tattooed a cursive letter “F” on the inside of her right pointer finger in February 2018.  It matches the style of the letter “B” tattoo on her ring finger which she already had.

We’re not certain who or what the “F” represents, but we have a few ideas.

Our best guess is that it’s for her maternal grandfather Frank Bregoli.  We had previously thought the letter “B” was her mom Barbara Ann, but if the “F” is for grandpa Frank then then “B” would be for her grandma whose name is also Barbara.  Danielle is estranged from her dad but she is close with the relatives on her mom’s side of the family.

The letter “F” could also represent Danielle’s bodyguard Frank Dellatto who is constantly by her side.

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Bea Miller

Bea Miller and fellow pop singer Kennedi got matching tattoos  in March 2018 that say “it only couldve been what it was” with the text wrapping around their elbows.  The two girls seem to have come up with this phrase on their own — perhaps it’s a lyric to a future song?  It speaks to fate and destiny as well as the pointlessness of dwelling on things in the past that we can’t change.

Tattoo parlor Generation 8 Tattoo shared of a photo of Bea’s completed tattoo next to the paper that used as their template, where we can see that it printed out using a computer handwriting font similar to Daddy’s Hand with no apostrophe and no capital letters for a uniform look.

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Bea Miller

Bea Miller added this handwritten tattoo between her ghost and maple leaf in December 2017. It says “we are all going” which is a line from the John Green novel Looking for Alaska. She shared a picture of the tattoo on her instagram along with a photo of her copy of the book, showing the context for the quote. The paragraph in the book says:

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.

It is about accepting that we cannot change our own mortality and the impermanence of everything and everyone around us.

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