Writing Tattoos

Kelsea Ballerini

Kelsea Ballerini has a tattoo on her ribcage which says “Love. love.”  The word “love” appears twice because it’s in the handwriting of each of her parents.

The tattoo also celebrates a major milestone in her career, her debut single “Love Me Like You Mean It” hitting number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.  She was the first female solo artist since Carrie Underwood to have her debut single top that chart and the first ever to achieve that feat while on an independent label.  She told Ty Kelly and Chuck:

The week that ‘Love Me Like You Mean It’ went No. 1, I received letters from my mom and dad. I was in New Orleans, and I took the letters and got ‘love’ tattooed in my mom and dad’s handwriting.

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Kelsea Ballerini

Kelsea Ballerini has a tattoo on her left forearm with the line “how sweet the sound” from the song “Amazing Grace.” It’s special to her because it was the first solo that she ever sang in her church choir. Singing was always a big part of her life, but she never thought that she wanted to make it a career until she discovered her passion for songwriting at age 13.  She told CMT:

“I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school — even glee club. I always loved performing and music.”

She got the tattoo in June 2014 and posted a picture on instagram captioning it:

“First song I learned, first solo I sang, and now first tattoo. #amazinggrace”

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Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato got the word “free” in script inked on the side of her pinkie in June 2018. She shared the new tattoo on her instagram story after opening up about her recent relapse six years into sobriety and releasing a new single “Sober” about the experience.

Several members of her team got matching tattoos to show their support.  Hairstylist César DeLeön Ramirêz wrote “Everyone deserves to speak their truth! Love is accepting someone for who they are and for who they are not!” Manager Lauren Einbinder, personal assistant Kelsey Kershner, makeup artist Jill Powell, and bodyguard Max Lea were also part of the crew who got inked together in Madrid Spain during the Tell Me You Love Me World Tour.

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Alexis Ren

Alexis Ren got the word “Duality” tattooed on the inside of her right foot during a trip to Barcelona, Spain in July 2017.  She visited artist Ese Black at LTW Tattoo for the simple inking and documented the process on her instagram stories.

She wrote about duality in an Earth Day post a few months before getting the tattoo:

You are a direct expression of the whole of the universe as it currently is; you (as everything else) is a brief movement in the dance of nature. You do not exist independent of the perceived outside; outside and inside are two sides of the same coin. (Duality)

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Lily Cole

Lily Cole has a foot lettering tattoo on her left foot reading “Ut Apes Geometriam”. The Latin phrase for “as bees, geometry”, inked in a sophisticated Gothic font, is an extract from a quote from Victor Hugo’s dark 19th Century tale The Hunchback of Notre Dame: “I possess philosophy by instinct, by nature, ut apes geometriam”.

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Sophie Turner

Actress Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones, has a tattoo on the back of her left arm featuring the House Stark’s direwolf emblem and the phrase “the pack survives.”

When she got the tattoo in June 2018 many fans assumed that it was a spoiler for the show’s upcoming final season, implying that the House Stark would be victorious.  However Sophie insists that’s not the case, telling James Corden:

Actually while I was getting it done people advised me not to because it looked like I was giving everything away. But I wasn’t, it’s just a quote from last season. But everyone figures that the pack really does survive.  It’s just a moral that I like to live by.

The quote “the pack survives” implies that there is strength in unity.  It was first said by Sansa’s father Ned Stark, but is repeated by Sophie’s character in Season 7 Episode 7 The Dragon and The Wolf, where she tells sister Arya Stark (played by Maisie Williams):

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

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