Flower Tattoos

Carah Faye Charnow

Carah Faye Charnow has a full sleeve tattoo on her left arm with Japanese imagery, from the Geisha on her upper arm to the hibiscus flowers at her wrist.  She wrote: “I just wanted the whole piece to be a collections of things that fascinate me about Japanese culture.”

Carah’s parents have not always been supportive of her tattoos, but she says “I smiled so big when my dad first said he thought my sleeve was pretty….I really felt like I had broken through their stereotype of tattoos”

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Colbie Caillat

The flower tattoo on Colbie Caillat’s arm was done in multiple sessions with each flower representing one of her albums. She told world-wide-ed: “My flower tattoo, well this smaller flower I’ve always had for a couple years and that’s the logo for my first album CoCo. And then this new flower I got in Paris a couple months ago. And that is the Breakthrough flower for my new record. So this is the new logo for like all my merch, my T-shirts, on my CD. I had wanted it for a couple years and I new it was a big commitment getting a big tattoo on my arm so I made sure I still wanted it and I got it.”

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Lena Dunham

The tattoo on Lena Dunham’s upper left arm is an illustration from the children’s book The Story of Ferdinand. The book tells the tale of a bull who doesn’t want to fight and prefers to smell flowers. Lena’s tattoo depicts Ferdinand sitting under a tree in a field of flowers.

“I have tattoos from children’s books all over my arms and torso,” she told The New York Times. “The biggest one is of Ferdinand the bull, which Elliott Smith also had, but his was a different page. What a good message that book has! Just be yourself and don’t gore anyone with your horns if you don’t feel like it.”

She has had this tattoo since she was a teen and got it touched up in October 2016, writing “Ferdinand restored to his original pacifist glory… This was definitely the coolest thing I did at age 19.”

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Brittany Harrell

Brittany Harrell has a half-sleeve on her upper left arm incorporating her peach tattoo. The tattoo has a few dessert/southwestern items including a cactus, snake, chili pepper, and buffalo skull.  There’s also a food theme — in addition to the chili pepper and corn cobs there’s also a tiny taco in the center of the flower!

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Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho’s first tattoo was a large piece tattoo featuring snakes and flowers which starts in the center of her lower back and wraps around both sides of her hips. She had the tattoo done by famous tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy in 2005 at the age of 37.  Tattoos have been Margaret’s way of dealing with aging and learning to love her body, though her admiration for tattoos started when she was young.  It’s also a way for her to take ownership of her own skin.

“Having lived under such a regime for so many years, I am finally free, and for once in my life, actually able to do something with my body that I have always wanted to do, because I feel safe enough to. Nobody is going to judge me for wanting to wear a beautiful piece of art on my skin. I will not allow it. This is my body, and this is my body with tattoos,” she blogged.  “My life is all new, with this brand new body, and the chance to start over. It is a fantastic rebirth, and I am so glad to be here.”

Margaret admits that she is a bit scared of snakes, though she admires them. “Snakes are magnificent creatures, like nothing else on earth. I don’t know why I am afraid of them. Possibly because they are so different, mysterious and unknowable, unpredictable. But on my back, they will be my protectors, my guardians, my cheerleaders and my friends.”

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