Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Is She Ga Ga?

Is She Ga Ga?
Lady Gaga likes to shock with her music and her looks and what better way than with tattoos! Her designs are some of the most sought after body art designs and millions of people copy them. The most unusual thing about Lady Gaga’s tattoos is that they are all on the left side of her body.
Fans of the “fame monster” know that she has a symbol of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on her left wrist, different types of floral designs on her lower back and a unicorn with the song title “Born this Way” as well as quotes from the German poet Rainer Marie Rilke. Lady Gaga has said that the reason she only has tattoos down the left side of her body is because her Father asked her to keep one side of her body “normal”.

The tattoo of her favourite writer Rainer Maria Riike is written in German and says “Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write”.

Lady Gaga has three lilies with the words “Tokyo Love” on the back of her left shoulder. The reason for this tattoo is to celebrate the Haus’s collaboration with Japanese photographer Araki. She says Araki photographed her in bondage with ropes and Japanese knots and she says he photographed her soul and not her image. He signed the photos Tokyo Love.
She has a tattoo that was designed by famous artist Kat Von D, it is six red roses with vines that covers parts of her lower back and hips. She also has a tattoo of a unicorn with an extra long horn and the unicorn has a banner around it with a title of one of her albums “Born This Way”. The most well known tattoo of Lady Gaga is the peace sign inside her wrist, she is said to have had the tattoo as a dedication to John Lennon as he was a great inspiration in her life, because he always talked about peace and love.

Britney Spears

Britney Spears
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For most people a tattoo represents a very personal experience that only they know the real meaning of and Britney is no exception. She has around nine tattoos and the choice of her tattoo designs, such as the fairy and the butterfly, is certainly similar to tattoos that thousands of other women have and are not overly unique. She does seem to have a preference for rather small tattoos.
The most famous tattoo that Britney sports is a tattoo of a fairy, located on her lower back. The meaning of a fairy is intended to be childlike behavior, many people think that this particular tattoo is meant to represent her desire to hang onto to her youth. Regardless of what she means it to represent, it is certainly a symbol of youth. Usually, fairies are beautiful creatures that have supernatural powers. A fairy may appear to be lovely, however, they can also have a dark side and falling in love with a fairy can be a deadly affair.

Britney also has a tattoo on her left foot of a butterfly with flowers and a vine and flowers. The butterfly represents fragility and beauty. This is a concept that many women identify with and is a common reason why women choose a tattoo of a butterfly. During one of her most notable breakdowns, Britney got another tattoo. She followed Madonna’s example and had three small characters tattooed in Hebrew on the back of her neck:


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Translation of the characters means “God”. This selection of the Kabbalah word seemed irrational at the time, however, she had been studying Kabbalah when she elected to get the tattoo. She had the tattoo removed in 2008.
Britney also has a tattoo that she may regret. She has a set of small pink dice on her left wrist which were intended to be a matching pair to the blue dice that ex husband Kevin Federline had on his right wrist. The dice usually represent chance, luck, and risk. This may be her way of conveying the risk she was taking in the relationship with Federline by displaying the dice publicly.
Britney has a small tattoo of a flower on her lower stomach. The flower is a Chinese symbol for mystery. This may show her desire to keep her private life away from the prying eyes of the public.
Located on her right hand, Britney has another small tattoo of a five point star. This tattoo symbolizes guidance, protection, and balance and is one of the tattoos that she got when she was having her breakdown. Many believe that the reason for the location of this tattoo was so that she could remind herself regularly of the meaning. She also had a small set of pink and red lips tattooed on her wrist which are known as symbols of love. This is another one of Britney’s tattoos that was done during her crisis and is believed to be her way of giving herself love.

Rihanna’s gangsta style tats

Rihanna’s gangsta style tats
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You’d have thought Rihanna would be the last person to want to have a tattoo personifying violence, given recent events with one time boyfriend Chris Brown. However, the lovely lady has turned up with a discreetly placed handgun tattoo. She apparently had her favourite tattoo artist, Bang Bang, flown from his home in New York to LA for the event.
Bang Bang thinks the gun tattoo represents strength and power, “It’s powerful, it’s protection”, he said. Initially, the plan was to put the tattoo below her shoulders near her armpits but according to him Rihanna changed it to her ribcage because “it takes away from her face. You don’t want to be starting at tats. You want to be staring at her face.” She had initially had two guns drawn on her arms but decided against having them inked as they were too prominent and would interfere with a modelling job she had booked.
The uproar caused by her new tattoo is predictable, with all sorts of media and blogs turning up with the opinion that she is glamourising violence and encouraging handgun use. You could be forgiven for thinking she was espousing gang warfare by having a handgun tattooed when so many yong people are killed and maimed with these all over the world. However, it could also be argued that she has been quite thoughtful in her choice. On the one hand it could be that she views the tattoo as a talisman, protecting her from violence, in much the same way as people wear a cross, another symbol of mortal violence.
In the meantime, ex-boyfriend Chris Brown showed up at an LA tattoo parlour with dancer Natalie Mejia (CW’s Pussycat Dolls Presents: Girlicious reality show)who reckons that Chris Brown is a gentleman. They wouldn’t say what they had done though because it is personal, apparently.
On her MySpace page, Mejia declares: “Love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t and believe everything happens for a reason.”

Tattoo Artist Wins Academy Awards of Tattoo Prizes

Tattoo Artist Wins Academy Awards of Tattoo Prizes
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An Evasham-based tattoo artist has just returned from the tattooist’s version of the Oscars with a prestigious award marking him out as one of the best in his profession in the world. Terry Fuller, whose booming business Full On Ink, in Port Street, is defying the credit crunch, attended Rick’s 13th Tattoo Convention in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA, where he beat off stiff competition to win the Top Three Artists’ Choice Best Black and Grey Award.

Eminem Pays Tribute with Proof Tattoo

Eminem Pays Tribute with Proof Tattoo
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Eminem has long since been getting tattoos that tell his life story. He has tattoos of his uncle, his ex-wife, numerous ones of his daughter, and two separate tattoos that make up a whole, of D12, a band which consists of Em and five other band mates. One of these band members, Proof, was killed in a Detroit nightclub in 2006 and Eminem has made mention of this in his new book The Way I Am, which was released just this past month. But Eminem has gone even further than to simply reminisce on Proof and the impact he had on him.

Republican State Offers Free Tattoo Removal on Election Day!

Republican State Offers Free Tattoo Removal on Election Day!
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Phew Boy, so many thoughts on this one are floating out there I am sure. For many Americans, this year’s Presidential election may just be the biggest election of their lifetimes. Who is it going to be? In fact this year’s election may just well receive larger fan fare than the debochle that was once Al Gore’s and George Bush’s. Time will tell. You will find many freebies this year on election day from businesses all over that wish to hand out peace, love, and goodwill amongst fellow Americans. But bet you never guessed you could have your tattoo removed for free all in the name of patriotism, did you?

Pamela Anderson to Remove Tattoos

Pamela Anderson to Remove Tattoos
Celebrity Pamela Anderson, the former Baywatch babe, has decided to get her body art removed in a remarkable move as she blieves her tattoo designs will become an “eyesore” as she gets older.


A close friend revealed that the star is seeing the effects of age and hard living on her body and as her skin becomes softer she feels like her tattoos are becoming less attractable. Anderson, who has designs on her arm and back, wants them in a bid to appear more responsible.

She admitted “I’m not removing tattoos because I’m now a good mom - I’ve always been a good mom. And people with tattoos aren’t any less of a parent.” In 2002, the actress shocked the World by revealing she contracted hepatitis C from sharing a tattoo needle with her former partner Tommy Lee Jones.