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Amber Rose got the iconic “Hollywood” sign tattooed along her left forearm in February 2017. Artist Nikko Hurtado used heavy black ink to draw the hills surrounding the sign, and left her skin showing through to define the letters.
Julia Michaels has an interesting tattoo design on her right wrist consisting of three V-shapes and three circles. You can see two triangles in the negative space even though they are not fully formed. This optical illusion is why the design resonated with Julia. It represents the power of the human mind to see beyond what exists on the surface.
People like to make fun of me for it because they’re like ‘oh Pac Man!’ But this is actually a symbol for perception. It has two triangles and three circles, but nothing is actually fully formed. Even though the brain perceives it as whole, and it’s not, which I think is really interesting how you can perceive something as whole even when it’s not.
This design, called the Kanizsa triangle, is a famous optical illusion created by the Italian psychologist Gaetano Kanizsa in 1955.
Julia Michaels has a light bulb tattoo on her right forearm as a symbol of inspirational thoughts. She and tattoo artist London Reese struggled with how to visually represent the sub-conscious mind. Their brainstorming resulted in this unique design of a light bulb containing stars and planets. She told 92.3 AMP Radio:
The light bulb of course is kind of like the bubble for ideas. And I was like ‘How do we embody the sub-conscious?’ Because a lot of the times when I write, a lot of times I don’t know where it comes from. It’s just like a weird, out of body experience. I will be talking to somebody and then all of a sudden — there’s a song. And I can’t really explain it. So I was talking to London, my tattoo artist, and we were like ‘How can we embody that feeling?’ And we came up with the universe in a light bulb.
Ruby Rose has a little cyclone swirl tattoo on the side of her right wrist.
India Westbrooks had a lot of religious tattoos oh her body. She has a big red rose tattoo with an outline cross on her neck and a red cross tattoo with the number six in it (she is the 6th Westbrooks child) right under the rose.
Katrina Jackson has flowers, rose, leaves and a bird tattooed on her right hip
Skylar Grey has a tattoo on the left side of her neck of two crossed hatchets. The image is in the negative space, with gray ink spread around it like a spray-paint stencil.
The hatchets represent the time that Skylar spent living in the woods and learning to survive on her own. She has used the same crossed axe design as her logo.
Teyana Taylor has a tattoo on her right upper arm in the shape of a diamond. The negative space has the words “shine on you crazy diamond”, which is the name of a Pink Floyd song.
