Celebrity Tattoos

Maren Morris

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Maren Morris has a tattoo of a watercolor-style hummingbird on the inside of her left forearm. She loves hummingbirds, but it is symbolic of her music career as well. She explained to Country Note:

This is my first tattoo. It’s a hummingbird. My first ever guitar was a Gibson Hummingbird. And I just love them. That was when I was 18.

Based on an interview with Huffington Post, it seems like the Gibson Hummingbird was actually her third guitar. She got a cheap Ibanez acoustic guitar from her dad when she was 12, which she loaned to a neighbor and never saw again; and Martin acoustic guitar which she still has. The Gibson Hummingbird was an 18th birthday present from her parents.

Regardless, the Gibson Hummingbird is the one that’s special to her. We love that she found a creative an beautiful way to represent it with this hummingbird design rather than getting a picture of the guitar itself.

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Maren Morris

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Maren Morris’ back tattoo says “It’s a wondrous world of ridiculous things / but nothing so rare as the love that it brings” which is a line from the song “Christina” by folk singer-songwriter Patty Griffin. There’s actually a tiny error in the tattoo since the second line should start “with” instead of “but.”

She got this tattoo in April 2013 after putting a lot of thought into planning it. She shared a photo on instagram back in August 2012 where she edited the lyrics onto her back in two different fonts, trying to decide which she liked better.

Patty Griffin is one of her influences and musical idols. “Going to see Patty Griffin at the Ryman this evening. I may never come back down,” she tweeted before seeing her in concert in October 2013.

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Zonnique Pullins has a symbol tattoo behind her right ear.

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Iggy Azalea

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Iggy Azalea got a tattoo of a blindfolded horse on her right forearm in July 2016. Artist Sean Smith used etching lines to create the illusion of shading. A dark area of the horse’s mane covers her old number “1” tattoo, while the long and flowing mane follows the curves of her existing Venus tattoo. The was the first of a series of tattoos which she got within the span of a few months to convert this arm into a half-sleeve. The Venus tattoo stayed but she eventually covered up her old “Trust Your Struggle” tattoo.

Iggy Azalea developed a love for horseback riding during 2015. One of her new years resolutions was to learn to ride a horse well and that goal turned into a full-blown passion. She bought two horses of her own named Defender and Strictly Business (nicknamed “Bizzy”). 2015 was a hard year for her career-wise and riding helped take her mind off things. She tweeted “Horses saved my life and now I have two and it’s all good. Now I have discovered another passion.”

The blindfold on the tattoo could have a few meanings, including keeping calm in the face of danger and blind trust. The most common reason that owners put a blindfold on a horse is to keep it from becoming frightened.

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Chiara Ferragni

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Chiara Ferragni has a tattoo of an eye on her left ring finger. Eyes have become synonymous with her fashion brand Chiara Ferragni Collection, which started out making shoes and has now included eyes in the designs for everything from bikinis to phone case. She told Female:

I created @chiaraferragnicollection in 2013 and it’s growing like crazy. I designed this blue eye for the first collection because eyes are the feature that I love the most in a person and it became iconic, it’s the logo of the brand now.

Eyes are a common tattoo motif since “evil eye” talismans are thought to ward off evil in many cultures. Chiara has confirmed that the tattoo does have some superstitious meanings to her, but wouldn’t elaborate on it, telling Glamour:

I really liked the aesthetic. The most iconic piece of my shoe line, Chiara Ferragni Collection, is the blinking eyes. There is a secret meaning about it I won’t tell. I am Italian, so I am pretty superstitious :)

She loves the look of eyes and has been known to wear eye jewelry from many different brands, not just her own.

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