Logo Tattoos

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj’s second tattoo is of the word “Barbie” on the inside of her right wrist. Throughout her career she associated herself with the Barbies as a symbol of female power. To her, the line of dolls represents how perfection can come in so many different forms. She told Wonderland “I feel like Barbie is great because it doesn’t only focus on beauty – you have Barbies that work, they have tons of different jobs now. And they come in different shades, which I love, and different hairstyles. So I think that they’ve gotten to the point where they’re making girls feel like it’s OK not to look like or be like the traditional Barbie.”

She calls her fans Barbz and has called herself a Barbie so many times that her Barbie image has taken on a life of its own. “It’s definitely a movement at this point,” she told MTV. “People really identify with me through that and I definitely don’t think that when we say ‘Barbie,’ we’re thinking of the plastic little doll with the blond hair anymore.”

She got her “Barbie” tattoo in June 2018 during the recording of her album Queen. The tattoo session was filmed for an episode of VH1’s “Black Ink Crew Chicago.” She called up Chicago-based artist Ryan Henry while he happened to be in Los Angeles and he met up with her in the recording studio to do the tattoo. “I have an album called Queen, and I want to always remember this era in my life, it’s like the best era that I’ve ever had making an album. So I want to commemorate that with getting a tatt.”

“I’m scared to do it here [on my wrist] because it everybody says it hurts, but I want to do it here,” she told the artist, who assured her that she could handle it. Having learned her lesson from the tattoo on her arm, which she initially wanted on her neck and has regretted changing her mind on, she was willing to endure the pain in order to get the tattoo on in the spot where she most wanted it.

It hurt a lot though! In a video which she livestreamed on her instagram, she can be heard crying out in pain. It was so bad that she had to stop midway through and numb the area. When it was finally done, she complained to artist Ryan that he hadn’t properly warned her how much it would hurt. But he was looking out for her interests and didn’t want her to back down because he knew that she wanted it to be on the wrist. And in the end she was happy with the results.

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LIGHTS Poxleitner

Before her album and accompanying comic book series Skin&Earth was even released to the public, LIGHTS has already gotten a tattoo on the back of her wrist matching the one on the character Enaia Jin (“En”), who she based on herself. But fans kept getting introduced to more new characters in the Skin& Earth universe with every subsequent issue.

LIGHTS added another tattoo featuring three different logos on her upper left arm after all six volumes had been released and the whole story was revealed. The design and the placement of this tattoo matches characters in the story, just as the tattoo on her wrist did. The mysterious goddess Mitsuki has these three symbols on her arm and she marks En with them as well. The meaning of the symbols is explained by Mitsuki in Issue #6:

“She marked my arm with three symbols: a moon, a soul, and a sun, to remind me of the true order of life. We are born, we live, then we die and give back, skin and earth once again as one.”

Although En is an embodiment of LIGHTS, she jokes that her own look is based on the character rather than the other way around and that she’s cosplaying every day.

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LIGHTS Poxleitner

LIGHTS and several members of her crew got matching tattoos on March 5,2018 during her We Were Here Tour. Artist Scott Sonner inked them at Divine Machine Tattoo in Buffalo, NY during a day off in the middle of the tour.

She has tattoos for many of her albums, but had never gotten a tattoo specifically for a tour until this one. However this tour was especially meaningful. Following the final show on April 8th she wrote: “That’s a wrap on #WeWereHereTour holy shit the best tour of my life, I love you all more than I can explain. I love my crew and band and am so proud of the last two and half months!”

The red gas can tattoos are inspired by the “We Were Here” music video and issue #4 of the Skin&Earth comic book, which both tell the same story. LIGHTS’ character Enaia Jin carries around a gas can from out of a gas station convenience store and eventually uses it to light a truck on fire. The gas can in their tattoo is embellished with the logo for LIGHTS’ Skin&Earth album. This exact design appears on the We Were Here tour t-shirts. Interestingly, the gas can in the video and comic has a different logo featuring a bird and an oil rig.

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Sophie Turner

Sophie Turner paid tribute to her role as Jean Grey in the X-Men movie series by getting a tattoo of the X-Men logo on her left side.  It’s not known exactly when she got the ribcage tattoo, which was first seen at the Beijing premiere of X-Men: Apocalypse in May 2016.

Rather than getting the classic X-Men logo, which has much thicker lines, her tattoo shows as updated version which serves as the logo for Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in the film.  Sophie played a younger version of Jean Grey who was a student at the school.  She will resume her role as a more mature Jean Grey and alter-ego the Phoenix in the 2019 film X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

Fellow actress Alexandra Shipp, who plays Ororo Munroe / Storm, has a matching tattoo.

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Gabi DeMartino

Gabi DeMartino has a tattoo on her left ankle featuring three of the flower logos from designer Louis Vuitton’s iconic monogram print. She was inspired by fellow YouTuber Jeffree Star, who has Louis Vuitton logos on his knuckles.

She chose this design simply because she likes the way it looks, along with the bow on her wrist that she got at the same time.  She got both tattoos in March 2018 as the weather was beginning to heat up and she thought that an ankle tattoo would look great with her spring and summer shoes.  In her vlog she explained:

I’ve only ever got meaningful tattoos, so I’ve never got a design tattoo or one that just looks cute. So I’m going to get those little Louis Vuitton flowers on my ankle so that when I wear heels it looks super cute….These are tattoos I’ve thought about for a long time now and I just want to go ahead and get them done.  I want them for summer — summer’s like my favorite.

She thinks that it’s fine to get a tattoo just for its appearance, and wrote on her instagram:

“Never got a tattoo before that was just for looks/fun. My tattoos that I have are all meaningful so it was super fun to get a small lil design that means nothing. And that’s totally okay!”

Gabi loves high-end fashion and posts luxury haul videos, so it’s no surprise that she’s got a lot of Louis Vuitton items in her million dollar closet.  And we mean a lot — she’s got at least 13 LV bags. In the monogram print she has a suitcasetravel bagspeedy handle bag ($1,000), mini backpack ($1,960), popincourt satchelsaint cloud crossbody, and a toiletry bag ($650). In the Damier checkerboard print she’s got the keepall travel bag ($1,840), neverfull tote bag ($1,320), sperone backpack ($1,950), eva clutchcosmetics pouch ($375), and zippy wallet ($805). She wears Louis Vuitton clothing as well.  We’ve seen her in a bikinidenim jacket ($1,580), hoodie, blue scarf ($590), pink scarf ($590), and silk scarf.  She even has a Louis Vuitton monogram print pillow in her closet.  All in all, that’s around $20,000 in merchandise.  So it’s safe to say that she was already very committed to the brand before she got it inked.

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