I
always wonder what will these celebs do when they split from their
partners? Wait, I’m not talking without any reason. The point is these
days getting tattoos of boyfriends and girlfriends has become a great
trend. They undergo painful moments to show the world that they love
their partners truly by getting their names or initials in the form of
permanent tattoos. If they split, won’t the tattoos haunt them? Will
they go under knife again to remove them? How problematic can tattoos
become in one’s career is what I wonder.
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| Amrita Arora with her tattoo |
I
used to see floral tattoos on my grandmother’s and my maternal aunts’
hands. They even had small dot tattoos on their forehead, as in Hinduism
it is believed that it
enhances spiritual well-being and is one of the chakras on the body.
They thought it not only warded off evil, but also enhanced their
beauty. Then I have seen some tribal women with tattoos and they are so
elaborate and intricate that I wonder the amount of time and patience it
might have taken for the artist and the amount of pain it caused for
the person.
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| Ajay Devgan with his tattoo |
After
coming to Doha, I have seen most of my friends, who are westerners,
donning tattoos. And I have heard that there is no prohibition against
tattoo within the Catholic Church if the tattoo is not an image that is
sacrilegious, blasphemous or obscene. And so far, I have not come across
any Muslim friend with tattoos, as they are forbidden in Sunni Islam.
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| Akshay Kumar with his tattoo |
And
even Judaism forbids tattoos. Since it was a common practice for
ancient pagan worshipers to tattoo themselves with religious iconography
and names of gods, Judaism prohibited tattoos entirely in order to
disassociate from other religions.
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| Sanjay Dutt with his tattoos |
Ok,
coming back to the point, I have come across reports wherein celebs,
including former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm and Angelina Jolie,
regretting for having tattoos. For Chisholm it is being caught by fans.
She often gets spotted when she tries to relax incognito. The singer has
11 tattoos all over her body, including a large black cross on her left
arm and a linked chain on her right.
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| Former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm |
Tattoo
of beloved’s name can be a proud thing to sport and ever wonder how
tattoos cause problem? When celebs go out in incognito, people recognize
them by their tattoos. If they land up in a plum role which requires
them not to sport any tattoos, they have to use heavy make-up to
disguise them every time they face the camera. For instance, recently,
Deepika Padukone was asked to cover up her Ranbir tattoo on her nape by
director Ashutosh Gowariker. The director would have not made a fuss if
he was not shooting a period film, which had a backdrop of
pre-Independence era. Playing the role of a freedom fighter in the story
based on the Chittagong Uprising, Padukone was supposed to tie her hair
in a bun which exposed her tattoo, which is usually covered by hair.
Angelina
Jolie inked her first tattoo at a very young age. Her first tattoo was a
Japanese kanji for the word "Death" and was inscribed on her left back
shoulder. It served as a reminder to her to live life to the fullest.
She has since covered it up with an ancient Khmer script when she
adopted her son, Maddox.
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| Angelina Jolie with 'death' tattoo |
The
Blue Tongue Dragon is the first dragon tattoo Angelina inked on her
body which she got while intoxicated in Amsterdam. She regretted doing
it and has since covered it with a black Latin Cross tattoo. Next to the
Latin Cross is a phrase in Latin: "Quod me nutrit me destruit", which
means, "What nourishes me, destroys me."
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| Angelina with tattoos |
Then,
she has a tattoo on inner left arm, a quotation from Tennessee
Williams: "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages". She had this
tattoo done in the presence of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
At
Angelina's lower back, she has three tattoos: a tribal, a blue window
and a tribal dragon. The 'tribal' design was done at the same period
when she did the Kanji "Death" tattoo. It is unclear as to the meaning
of the 'tribal' tattoo, other than the possibility of it being an 'in'
design when she had it inked. At the centre of her lower back is a
'tribal dragon' but now is partially covered by the Bengal Tiger tattoo.
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| 'Know your rights' tattoo on Angelina |
The
'window tattoo' refers to her once held view on life: "Wherever I am, I
find myself looking out of the window, wishing I was somewhere else."
The window has since been covered up by the tail of the Bengal Tiger.
She had the window covered because she no longer subscribed to that view
and she felt that she is "where she wants to be right now".
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| Bengal tiger tattoo on Angelina |
Besides
the Khmer script tattoo, the other prominent tattoo on Angelina's back
is the Bengal Tiger tattoo. The tattoo spreads 30 cm long and 20 cm wide
and was commissioned to commemorate her Cambodian citizenship.
According to a report, it took Sompong Kanphai, the tattoo artist, two
hours to complete the design which was done in Bangkok in 2004. While
tattooing, the tattoo artist chanted ancient Buddhist hymn to bless the
tattoo.
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| Geo-coordinate tattoo on Angelina |
On
her left shoulder blade, Angelina has a tattoo done based on a Buddhist
Pali prayer written in Khmer script, the language of Cambodia where her
son Maddox was born. This tattoo was also done by Sompong Kanphai in a
hotel in Pathum Thani, Thailand. She had the tattoo done to
'spiritually' blessed her and Maddox; and to protect them from bad luck
and the translation of it is:
May your enemies run far away from you
If you acquire riches, may they remain yours always
Your beauty will be that of Apsara
Wherever you may go, many will attend, serve and protect you, surrounding you on all sides
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| Billy Bob tattoo |
A
gothic letter tattoo "Know Your Rights" is between Angelina’s shoulder
blades and the phrase is taken from the title of a song of her favorite
band "Clash".
Inside
her right forearm is an Arabic script tattoo which means "Strength of
Will". However some say it means "Determination". But whatever it means,
Angelina's interpretation of the tattoo was revealed by her in an
interview in a US television whilst promoting her film "Wanted". The
Arabic tattoo is a cover up of the abstract tattoo she had together with
her former husband Billy Bob Thornton.
On
Angelina's inside left wrist is a rune style tattoo of the letter 'H'.
According to sources, it is to remind her of her brother, James Haven,
whereas some say it is to signify her former boyfriend Timothy Hutton.
Knowing her disposition to laser off any reminders of her past
relationships, the former meaning is more plausible. On her left arm,
Angelina had "Billy Bob" and a Black Dragon inked when she was with
Billy Bob Thornton. When she divorced from him she removed "Billy Bob"
by laser. After the removal of it, in an interview, she said: "I'll
never be stupid enough to have a man's name tattooed on me again."
When
she started a family, she had the Black Dragon removed as well and in
its place are geo-coordinate tattoos (expressed in the degrees, minutes,
seconds notation) of where her children were born :
N 9º 2' 0" E 38º 45' 0"
S 22º 40' 26" E 14º 31' 40"
N 10° 46' 0" E 106º 41' 40"
N 43º 41' 21" E 07º 14' 28"
N 11º 33' 0" E 104º 51' 00"
- pinpoint a spot near a pond somewhere near an airport in the
Cambodian capital of Phomn Penh where, purportedly, Maddox, was born. N 9º 2' 0" E 38º 45' 0" - is the coordinate of a house in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa where her daughter Zahara was born. S 22º 40' 26" E 14º 31' 40"
- is the coordinate in Swakopmund (Namibian beach resort) where
Angelina gave birth to her biological daughter with Brad Pitt, Shiloh in
2006. N 10° 46' 0" E 106º 41' 40" - refers to the coordinate in
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where her adopted son Pax Thien was born. The
two new tattoos which both read N 43º 41' 21" E 07º 14' 28", were
added later showing the birth locations of the hospital in the French
city of Nice where her twins, Knox and Vivienne, were born in July.
Finally, Angelina inked an intimate heart shape tattoo on her inner thigh for Brad Pitt. In an interview with MTV, when asked about the tattoo, Angelina confessed: "Um, it's for Brad".
Then
there is Megan Fox who has Old English text on her right scapula
reading: "We will all laugh at gilded butterflies." This is a reference,
not a complete quote, from Act V, Scene III of Shakespeare's tragedy
King Lear.
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| Megan Fox's 'We will all laugh...' tattoo |
Megan
is obviously a fan of stringing words together with her own personal
meaning. Like the large Old English text on her left rib cage: “There
once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her HEART”.
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| 'There once was a little girl...' tattoo on Megan |
Megan
is an obvious fan of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe and she has a
popular image of Marilyn tattooed on her inner right forearm. On the
inner aspect of her lower leg above her right ankle, she has a crescent
moon overlapping a five pointed star. It is the one visibly coloured
tattoo that she has. Megan had a long term on again off again
relationship with actor Brian Austin Green that lasted six years before
she married him in the summer of 2010. She has a script tattoo of his
first name between her pubic bone and right hip.
On
the inside of Megan's left wrist is a tribal tattoo of two waves
entwined like a yin and yang symbol. This tattoo has a bit of colour,
but looks like black ink from a distance. On the back of her neck just
below the hairline Megan has a black ink tattoo of the Chinese symbol of
strength in calligraphy. It's a simple tattoo with a strong meaning.
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| Marilyn Monroe tattoo on Megan |
Leave
that point, everybody knows that tattoos, like diamonds, last forever.
When a person is a celeb and relationships don’t have a long shelf life,
why should they risk with them? I sometimes feel that it is their valid
proof of stupidity.
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| Esha Deol with tattoo |
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| Rakhi Sawant with tattoo |
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| John Abraham with tattoo |
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| Kanagana Ranaut with her tattoo |
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| Khushboo with her tatoo |
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| Mamatha Mohandas with tattoo |
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| Namitha with tattoo |
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| Raveena Tandon with tattoos |
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| Simran with her tattoo |
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| Shruthi Hassan with tattoo |
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| Trisha with her tattoos |
What
will they do with their tattoos when they end relationship with the
person? I think what if they, celebs endorsing some beauty creams, come
up with some creams which can erase tattoos also? ;)
Celebs
can have one more easy choice. If they can’t erase the tattoos of their
ex-flames, will they find another person with the same initials? ;)
