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Tulisa Contostavlos has a tattoo on her left forearm of a vintage style microphone and roses surrounded by music notes. The writing says “RIP Uncle B N Dubz for Life.” It is a memorial to her uncle Byron who helped her achieve success with her musical group N-Dubz.
Kesha got this dollar sign tattoo early in her career. The dollar sign in her name actually came from her tattoo which symbolizes her lack of money at the time.
“The dollar sign in my name is a tattoo–a bad tattoo. And, uh, it just came about because I was broke, and I was just making a joke out of it. Instead of being, like, mad like, ‘I’m so broke,’ I was just like, ‘WHATEVER! Out of money…Whatever. I don’t need money.’ So, out of money, put it on my hand, put it in my name, and it was just kind of a joke, and it stuck.”
She stylized her name as Ke$ha for many years. After she left rehab in March 2014 she turned over a new leaf and dropped the dollar sign from her name because she felt that it represented her old self.
Allison Green tattooed the words “Business Never Quits” on her right foot in January 2013. “Business Never Quits” is a slogan used by the Millionaires and Melissa has it tattooed on her back.
Allison Green has “Millionaires” tattooed on the side of her right middle finger in hot pink ink. Millionaires is the name of Allison and her sister Melissa’s pop duo, and Melissa did this tattoo for Allison in May 2012.
Fantasia Barrino has “Rock Star” tattooed on the back of her right hand
Ivy Levan has a tattoo of a frying pan on her right wrist. It’s inspired by her song “Hot Damn” which contains the lyrics “Who turned that temperature up? / It’s hot enough to cook an egg in a frying pan.”
Tameka Tiny Harris’ left arm tattoo is two shackled hands in a praying position. She also has the name of her R&B girl group Xscape.
She told Urban Ink: “I always tell people that the praying hands tattoo is about praying to escape. The symbol is the broken shackles on the arms. And you know, with the group I was in (Xscape) and going through a break-up. It’s a lot to deal with. So that was my first tattoo, so it symbolizes a lot and it means a lot to me.”
Sky Ferreira has a cartoonish crown tattoo behind her left ear. It’s similar to the famous Basquiat crown, but with six points instead of three. “I used to draw this crown on everything and it used to be my logo,” she told MTV. “And it I used to get people to spray paint it everywhere.”
Tove Lo has a large tattoo on her upper left arm of a girl riding a bumblebee from the Mark Ryden painting Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers.
The tattoo reminds her of the times she spent in her first band called Tremblebee. “I used to have black hair and bangs when I was in that band, and since it was my first band that I was part of it meant so much to me. I had my first gigs with that band,” she told Arena. “Then I found this painting of Mark Ryden’s that I really enjoyed, he’s an American painter who’s super talented. I saw this picture and I’m like ah, that just goes straight to my heart, so I decided to put it all over my arm.”
The painting was created to be the cover of alternative rock band Jack Off Jill’s 2000 album Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers. Jack Off Jill’s lead singer Jessicka Addams came up with the concept for the artwork and the based this particular character off of herself. However it seems that Tove Lo didn’t know that the painting was designed for an album cover. In an instagram post, Addams explained that she was flattered by the tattoo, even it is was unintentional. She writes: “[Tove Lo] happens to have (unknowingly) my face on her arm. This image is from a painting by Mark Ryden created to become Jack Off Jill’s “Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers” album cover released on July 18th 2000. It doesn’t upset me that the singer claims to know nothing of this album, but it does exist.”
This was her second tattoo and it’s much larger than her first, which was the scorpion on her chest. “I went from that to this big one, this Mark Ryden painting,” she says in a YouTube vlog. “I remember after I did this one I was kinda like ‘Fuck. What did I just do? It’s over my whole arm.’ But now it’s just part of my body.”
Chrisette Michele has a pair of lovebirds tattooed on her upper right arm with the words “Hopeful Romantic.”
In a blog post she wrote: “I have the words ‘Hopeful Romantic’ tattooed at the top of my shoulder blades (I don’t talk much about my tats but I have a point). There are two love birds underneath them. Maybe my idea of romance doesn’t always involve a boy. Romance is the life I live. Daring to imagine that everyday is purposed and full of meaning. There’s a great story being told at the end of every road. Everyone has beauty somewhere if you just look for it. I’m a little naïve. It’s true. But I’m in love. All day long. Constantly dreaming. Constantly believing and always experiencing ‘Love Moments’ like this.”
