Celebrity Tattoos
Celebrity Tattoos
What do Angelina Jolie, Allen Iverson, Nicole Richie, The Rock, Paris Hilton, and Pamela Anderson have in common? The all love their tattoos, of course!
Celebrity women, mostly actors, singers and models, were far and away the most popular tattooed celebrities in our society. Since then male wrestlers, athletes and Hip-Hop artists have made their presence felt in mainstream popular tattoo culture. In 2005 The Vanishing Tattoo web site had 475 million hits, 60 million page views and over 7 million unique visitors. Approximately 60% of the traffic to the site came from the United States, 5% from Canada and the remainder from some 170 countries around the world, including the Vatican.
The following celebrities are named among the Top Twenty Five Tattooed Celebrities in 2006. These eleven women and fourteen men share little in common beyond their relative youth – their median age is only 26, their high media profiles as celebrities and the fact that they are tattooed. Now that’s what you can call star power!
Reigning at #1 – Angelina Jolie – Has to be the most popular tattooed celebrity on the Internet! Oscar-winner Jolie is an unabashed tattoo enthusiast. She is a collector and aficionado. This thirty year old gifted actress has at least a dozen tattoos, and shows no signs of slowing down her collecting of body art any time soon.
2. Nicole Richie – The actor and The Simple Life star has at least nine tattoos, including a pair of cute ballerina slippers – her father Lionel Richie wrote her a song, Ballerina Girl – and wings on her back, to go along with her lovely nipple piercing.
3. 50 Cent – “Fiddy-cent – Fifty has extensive body art, including complete coverage of his back, a piece that has to be one of the world’s most well-known tattoos. The South Side Fifty back-piece on 50 Cent has become a signature, nearly as recognizable as his face and his music.
4. Britney Spears – This twenty-five year old singer, Mom and sometime actress has tattoos of a fairy on her lower back, a small daisy circling her second toe on right foot, a butterfly leaving a vine on left foot, and a flower with Chinese symbol for mystery in the middle of her lower stomach. She also has three Hebrew characters on back of her neck – a Kabala connection perhaps? She has a pair of pink dice inside her left wrist, and apparently others. She also has an assortment of piercings.
5. The Rock – Dwayne Douglas Johnson, has a Brahma bull tattoo – he is a Taurus – tattooed on his right biceps and a large Polynesian-style tattoo piece on upper left arm and shoulder. Johnson, who is part Samoan, has claimed that the Polynesian tattoo is a traditional Samoan piece, but it more closely resembles Marquessan tattooing than the traditional Samoan Pe’a. The Rock chose the tattoo specifically to pay homage to his ethnic heritage.
6. Alyssa Milano – She has seven tattoos that we know of, some of them beautiful work, and that have been fully revealed in photos taken of her by paparazzi at various topless beaches and resorts around the world.
7. Eminem – The Rapper, producer, and actor has dog tags tattooed around his neck, a large mushroom on his left shoulder, his daughter’s name,”Hailie Jade”, a gothic style bracelet on his left wrist, “Slit Here” on his right wrist, a D on his right forearm, a 12 on his left forearm, one tattoo standing for Eminem on one side of chest, one tattoo standing for Slim Shady on the other side, a design on right bicep, and several others.
Celebrities are already popular; add a stunning tattoo or two or three and they are fabulous!