Celebrity Ink

I've been seeing a lot of celebrities posting pictures of their tattoos on twitter/Instagram recently, and there's so many opinions forming in my head I thought I'd share them with you guys. Firstly: Rihanna. 

Out of all the major celebs nowadays I'm pretty sure Rihanna must have the most tattoos. I think she's on 17 now but I'm not sure. All of her old ones (including the famous stars on the back of her neck) were completely blown up in the media, and now they're just part of her. I feel like that's what's happening with her most recent tattoo of the Goddess 'Isis', which I personally think is beautiful. I think if it didn't mean anything it would be a little strange, but her caption on Instagram explicitly dedicated it to her Grandmother, (or Grangrandolly...) who recently passed away.

What really struck me though, was Chris Brown's way too similar tattoo that he got after Rihanna's, of a fighter jet. The Goddess Isis is supposedly the Mother of the Egyptian God of war. Also, it's aesthetically similar, not to mention placement.

Chris Brown & Rihanna with oddly similar tattoos

Weirdly, a tattoo belonging to Lady Gaga is slightly linked to this pair's art, as the singer recently had an angel inked on the back of her newly shaven head. At a live concert. In front of an audience. My first thought was: "What the hell was she thinking?" and then I remembered that Lady Gaga doesn't really think, she does does. Which is admirable, I guess. I'm sure she'll come up with some weird and wonderful way to display this new tattoo. I'm sure her hat collection is as big as my uni room. Then again, that's not really saying much.

Gaga with shaven head and angel tattoo. Not too sure on this one...

I really just had to add this next one in because of its weird factor. Jackson Rathbone (who played Jasper in the Twilight saga) has had a huge tattoo of a ketchup bottle etched into his lower leg. His reasoning? He just really loves ketchup. Wow.

That's some real love of ketchup right there...

And last but not (?) least... Justin Bieber. Of course. The multi-million dollar teen who has a fan base so big it's hard to avoid hearing about him at least once a week. However hard we try. It seems as though as soon as one piece of Bieber news passes, he does something else that gets him thrown into the limelight. For example, his new tattoo of the Stratford Cullitons' hockey team logo on his left shoulder blade. Claiming his grandfather used to take him to their games all the time when he was little, at least he has the excuse of independent meaning...

Justin Bieber rocking a Native Indian hockey logo tattoo

I guess if I'm slating and rating the tattoos of others I should probably finish up by posting about my one and only tattoo: My birdies. My explanation for getting birds probably sounds a bit feeble, but they actually mean a lot to me. Firstly, they represent everything that I stand for: Freedom, growth, peace and femininity. I chose to have 3 because of my 3 family members, which is something that will never change, they will always stay in my heart.

My beautiful birds.

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