Rafael Valdez Tattoos

Kylie Jenner

Kylie Jenner elaborated on her existing hip tattoo in July 2016.  She added the word “before” to the left of the “sanity” tattoo which she got six months prior.  “Sanity” is spelled out with the phonetic alphabet like in a dictionary, as “\ˈsa-nə-tē\,” while “before” is written normally.

The two parts of the tattoo blend together seamlessly though they were actually done by different artists. The original text was inked by celebrity-favorite Bang Bang back in December 2015; but she chose Rafael Valdez, who had done many of her then-boyfriend Tyga’s tattoos, for the rework.

Iggy Azalea

Much like her “The New Classic” tattoos on her right hand fingers which spell out the name of her debut album, Iggy Azalea tattooed “Digital Distortion” on her left hand fingers in anticipation of her sophomore album, which was never released.  She got the tattoo from artist Rafael Valdez in March 2016.  Her then-fiance Nick Young tagged along and got an unrelated tattoo on his arm.

Iggy’s tattoo covers up two of her old “Live Love A$AP” finger tattoos which she had removed.  “Digital” is on her ring finger and “Distortion” is on her middle finger.  “I covered up my old finger tattoos since they were light enough from the laser removal. Still working on the pinky though,” she tweeted.

The album title “Digital Distortion” represents how facts become warped in the age of social media and clickbait journalism.  Iggy has often ranted about news stories she sees about herself which are either untrue or aren’t newsworthy.  Even though the album was never released, the term “Digital Distortion” still means a lot to her.  In response to a fan who asked if she planned to remove the tattoo, she tweeted:

Digital distortion is an ongoing fact of life in the internet. Unless the internet starts being honest it’s relevant as fuck to me.

Digital Distortion‘s release was pushed back multiple times for different reasons.  After her breakup with Nick Young, she scrapped a whole album because she felt that the songs she’d previously written no longer reflected what she wanted to say.  Her label was underwhelmed by the chart performance of the singles that were released.  Eventually the whole project was shelved.  Iggy switched to a new record label and a new management team and announced that her next album would be called Survive the Summer instead.

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Madison Beer

Madison Beer’s first tattoo was of the word “Honey” on the inside of her lip. She got this tattoo back in March 2017 and has mentioned it a few times, but it was over a year before anyone actually saw it. Fans finally got their first glimpse of secret tattoo in June 2018 when her “Home With You” music video was released. The video includes a brief closeup shot of Madison’s inner lip.

Honey is the name of one of Madison’s pet dogs, who she declared as the “love of my life” in an instagram caption. She had another dog named Boo Boo first and chose Honey’s name as a reference to reality TV star Honey Boo Boo.

Madison is known to be a huge dog lover.  A search through her twitter brings up statements like “hello I love dogs goodbye,” “can’t wait to get older so i can live with 500 dogs,” and “what did humans do to deserve such a gift like dogs.”

In March 2017 she accompanied Jack Johnson’s girlfriend Claudia Tihan as she got her own “honey” lip tattoo from the same artist Rafael Valdez.  So it’s somewhat of a matching tattoo, but it seems like Madison had hers first.

Check out more pictures of the tattoo and some pictures of Madison with her dog Honey below:

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Jordyn Woods

Jordyn Woods has a tattoo on her upper back with illustrations of the seven chakras of the body. The chakras are thought to be the energy points of the spiritual body in Indian religions including Hinduism and Buddhism.

“It all starts at the root,” Jordyn wrote on her instagram. The tattoo was done by artist Rafael Valdez in September 2015 using a single needle style.

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Jordyn Woods

Jordyn Woods showed off this new tattoo in an August 2015 instagram photo. It is a small outline of a heart behind her left ear.

The tattoo is a tribute to her best friends, including Kylie Jenner, who got her first tattoo of a heart at the same time. “Got a lil heart tatted behind my ear for my girls,” she tweeted.

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Nathalie Paris

Nathalie Paris has the word “princeza” which stands for “princess” in Spanish inked on the side of her right hand. Tattoo by Rafael Valdez.

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Kylie Jenner

Kylie Jenner’s first tattoo was a small red heart on the back of her upper left arm.  She waited until she was 18 to get inked because her mom Kris Jenner wouldn’t approve otherwise — but she didn’t wait long!  She debuted the new tattoo at her 18th birthday party in August 2015.

The outline of a heart is a matching friendship tattoo with a group of her closest gal-pals.  They got inked together but each chose a different body part: Jordyn Woods got a heart behind her ear, Anastasia Karanikolaou aka “Stassiebaby” got a heart on her forearm along with her sister’s birth date, and Justine Skye got a heart with three dots on her knuckle.  Kylie is the only one who opted for red ink.

There are many rumors that the heart is also a tribute to her heavily-tattooed boyfriend Tyga.  Kylie has never confirmed this herself, but an insider source told Hollywood Life “Kylie got her new heart tattoo to symbolize all the love in her life — and obviously Tyga is a big part of that. He has her heart completely, so of course he was on her mind when she chose the design. Fortunately, she’s smarter than to get his name permanently inked on her.” Not that smart apparently, because she did end up getting his initial on her ankle as her fifth tattoo.  Fortunately it was small and the cover-up was easy.  She has never covered up this heart, which shows that the tattoo is about more than just Tyga.

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