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Sherri DuPree-Bemis’ first large tattoo was of a girl with a guitar, which she got in June 2010. The character is in the style of a Blythe doll, which Sherri collects, and it appears to modeled after Sherri herself. Sherri is a guitarist and the cartoon also has a similar clothing style with a frilly dress, mary jane shoes and knee socks. Coming out of the girl’s neck is a cord which says “Bemis,” Sherri’s married name. (more…)
Rumer Willis has a nude portrait tattooed on her right forearm.
Rita Ora has a portrait of a girl with an exposed heart tattooed on the inside of her left upper arm.fl
Emeli Sande has a self-portrait of artist Frida Kahlo tattooed on her left forearm. She explained her admiration of Kahlo to the Hackney Gazette: “It was the first time I had seen a woman being completely open and raw in her art, especially because they were self-portraits. She wasn’t glossing over the blemishes and you see what she went through as a woman and how strong she had to be. She gave me strength as a woman; and how she made ugly parts of herself really beautiful and very strong, that’s what inspired me.”
Just below it are the words “First, Lucy”
Iggy Azalea covered up her old flower tattoo in November 2012 with a large portrait on her right forearm. It is the head of the Roman goddess Venus from Sandro Botticelli’s famous 1486 painting “The Birth of Venus.” She told Power 106:
It’s a tattoo of Botticelli “The Birth of Venus,” Disneyfied, where Venus de Milo is born in a seashell…and it covers my old ugly tattoo.
She calls it “Disneyfied” because it’s a cartoonish interpretation of Botticelli’s original piece. The eyes in particular have a sweet and innocent look with long lashes and no definition of the bottom.
Alexis Krauss has a tattoo of a Native American man in a headdress on her left upper arm
Bethany Cosentino has a a portrait of a 1920’s flapper girl in a hat on her left arm, contained in a cameo-style frame.
Carah Faye Charnow has a portrait of a Geisha on her upper right arm as part of her full sleeve tattoo. She writes “There isn’t really too deep of a story behind the lady on my arm. I didn’t want it to be anyone specific. I just wanted the whole piece to be a collections of things that fascinate me about Japanese culture.”
Megan Fox once had a large portrait of Marilyn Monroe on her right forearm, but then had a change of heart and removed it. Marilyn struggled with depression throughout her life and died at only 36 years old. As Megan grew older, she no longer wanted to have a tattoo with such negative implications.
“I got it when I was 18,” she told Access Hollywood. “I just feel like her life was surrounded and shrouded in so much mystery and tragedy. She was troubled, and there’s negativity with her life and with her death. And I just feel like there are better things to have inked on your body than someone who struggled so much. So in getting older, I just decided that it was something that I wanted to get rid of.”
She began the process of laser tattoo removal in 2011. The removal is far more painful than getting the tattoo. “It hurts really bad. It’s really painful. Getting them is not that bad, obviously, because I have so many,” she told Jay Leno. “It’s traumatic and it’s incredibly painful. They can’t numb it enough to make the pain go away.”
Sammi Doll has this portrait on her arm of a sickly looking girl with a colorful snake weaving through her hair. The snake’s head emerges below the woman’s chin.
