Girls With Tattoos Are Hotter

#20 Love Struck

What does an arrow through the heart mean? The myth begins with the god of desire, Cupid. When he shoots someone with his arrow, they're filled with uncontrollable affection. Do you think she's in love?

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#19 Model: Veronika Kate

She’s an Austrian model who said, “Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.” It appears she has done just that and her design choice of large pink and turquoise roses fits her beautifully!

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#18 A Big Evening Out

A frequent concern is how to wear formal attire with visible tattoos. It’s not so much a question of being accepted for donning ink, but how to style the whole look. This gal is an awesome example of how to wear it ALL confidently and beautiful.

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#17 A Sense Of Art Nouveau

Art nouveau has got to be one of the most feminine designs in history. It could be this gal is just starting to stylize a look for a sleeve, but it’s really nice the way it's all black. Sweet!

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#16 Tattoos and Elegant High Fashion

Model, Katie Fogarty and her stylist clearly demonstrate that two opposites can mix: tattoo subculture and elegant high fashion, isn't it fab?! Tattoos ARE fashion.

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#15 Musical Butterflies

Do you recognize the written music at the bottom and its melody? The tattoo is a simple one color design, yet it's poignantly laid out. You can almost hear the musical notes. Lovely.

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#14 The Stunning Bride

Photographer Jeremy Lawson is known for his work featuring “Rock ‘n Roll” weddings. He really lucked out with his gorgeous tattooed bride! What’s not shown here in addition to her full back tat, is that she sports amazing full sleeve tattoos on both arms.

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#13 Lady In Red

Fierce! She's an amazing canvas for this intense skull design. Sleeves are the best way to easily show off tattoos. Skulls traditionally symbolize death and are often thought of as, “the transience of a person's life.”

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#12 The Attention Grabber

We love this long metallic dress, it seems to have been designed with her tattoos in mind. Why have tats on your back without showing them off, right? She’s the center of attention and is pulling it off flawlessly!

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#11 The Wedding Bouquet

How lovely and feminine is this tattoo, even in gray? What makes the artwork stand out is its expert soft shading, which requires a skilled tattoo artist to achieve. The bride's dress compliments the floral tattoo design and vice versa.

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#10 Tattoos: What About Fading?

Black and grey tattoos have a lower rate of ink rejection. If you want your ink to standout like this cutie, a safeguard is to see examples of older tattoos done by an artist and beware of a portfolio filled with bright fresh tats.

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#9 The Tattoo Trend

A study found that of women, 80% of tattoo customers were, "upper middle-class white suburban females." Apparently the trend is spreading among well-educated women in affluent communities, BUT who wouldn’t want to don a gorgeous sleeve such as this?

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#8 A Victorian Cameo

Cameos were popular during the days of Ancient Rome. Later they were revived in the Victorian era in England and worn as brooches. This cameo tattoo is certainly a new take on its history and the size of it is spectacular!

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#7 Fanny Maurer AKA Lady Diamond

The young French model is currently in huge demand with photographers across the world. As a beauty we can see why, plus her tattoos are amazing! Today they cover an even larger portion of her body with the most recent being a bird on her hand.

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#6 Ann Hathaway's Collection

It appears Hathaway has several tats, and this one compliments her elegantly. The other documented tattoo is a classically styled letter “M” on the inside of her left wrist. The mystery is, what does “M” represent?

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#5 Trying It Out First: Paint

It is painted, BUT why not try a bit of paint to see how real ink would look? Everyone knows what they find visually appealing, but there are many questions: which design, where to place it, what size and what color?

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#4 Megan Fox & Text Tattoos

Fox's ink on her ribcage reads a poem she wrote, "There once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her HEART". Text tattoos are about committing to a personalized word or saying. Try yours out with a sharpie before going for the real deal!

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#3 Behold Scenic Vistas

This flora and fauna tattoo is like a master’s painting. The artist is such a talent that someone chose to hang this heavenly scene on their back! The colors pop and her "paleness" makes for the perfect canvas backdrop.

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#2 The Popular Sleeve

The dreads are cool, but we’re spying on those tats! What’s nice about a sleeve is you can build upon your artwork over time to produce the effect of the tattoos around and down the arm.

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#1 Flock of Birds

This flock looks to be flying right off her shoulder. The effective simplicity of the design is amazing, but there are many meanings behind the symbol of birds. Birds in flight often represent the human spirit and or the human journey through life.

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Best & Worst: Models and their tattoos

Cara Delevingne’s got a lion; Kate Moss has swallows; Freja Beha Erichsen has… a lot. We rate them all, with the help of your mother.

Cara Delevingne announced her first ever tattoo on Instagram today: a lion on her right forefinger. We think it’s pretty cute, don’t you? Delevingne joins a long, illustrious heritage of models you’ve gone in for ink.

We rate the best and worst from a scale of “your mother’s burst into tears and is Googling ‘tattoo removal’” to “your mother’s disowned you and doesn’t ever want to speak to you again how could you DO this to yourself”.

1. KATE MOSS

Moss has dabbled with tattoos: she’s got anchor on her wrist, a sun and moon on opposite sides of her foot. But her real crowning glory is the design of two tiny swallows on her lower back – tattooed by Lucian Freud, who learnt the trade while he was in the Navy. Given that his highest valued painting was sold for £17.2 million, that must make Kate’s tattoo worth a few mil – at least.

Distraught mother rating: “You let some 88-year-old man tattoo you? Get me a paper bag… Wait, how many million are we talking about?”

2. JOURDAN DUNN

Noted Cara Delevingne cooking buddy has the phrase “you owe it to yourself, set the world on fire” on the inside of her right arm as well as a design of the Egyptian goddess Isis on her upper back. The latter actually bears a close resemblance to a similar tattoo on Rihanna (although Riri’s got it under her boobs – obviously) – so maybe that’s one of the reasons Dunn was picked to front Rihanna’s River Island collab.

Distraught mother rating: “Oh, so your friend Ribena’s got one? NO DON’T CORRECT ME, I KNOW HER NAME. So if she jumps off a bridge are you gonna jump off one too?!”

3. FREJA BEHA ERICHSEN

Surely the most be-tatted of them all. The Danish model has “serendipity is life” on the back of her upper right arm, “this too shall pass” on the inside of the same arm, “float” on the side of her neck, a lightning bolt and a star on her ribcage… She started at sixteen and now she’s up to 16 and counting. In an interview with Style.com, she said, “I’ve never had any issues with it, I think by now it’s become part of my style. If you’re a brand new model, [having lots of tattoos] might be a bit difficult for you to get signed.”

Distraught mother rating: “You did it when you were 16? How long have you been hiding this from me and Dad? I’m dying here. DYING.”

4. ERIN WASSON

The party-hardy model and sometime Alexander Wang muse has always had tatts on her upper arm, but showed off a beefed-up version of them for her Zadig and Voltaire campaign. There’s no grand design behind her tattoos, either. As she told Into The Gloss: “I’m the girl who just thinks up something as I’m walk into a tattoo parlor and I’m getting it an hour later. I believe in ornamentation of the body… I believe if you feel it, you should just do it.”

Distraught mother rating: “What do you mean, no idea? Are you gonna walk into some shop on the street and tattoo a tiger on your face next? You’re grounded, lady.”

5. CHANEL IMAN

Unlike many on our list, the 22-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia has only got one tattoo. But it’s worth pointing it, given that some have called it “the worst tattoo ever“. We wouldn’t go so far as that, but it’s a pretty… er, literal representation of being a model. It’s just that tattooing your own name on yourself that seems a bit, well, weird.

Distraught mother rating: “Honey, I love you, but why tattoo your own name on yourself? You gonna forget it or something?”

6. ABBEY LEE KERSHAW

Next to Freja and Erin, Abbey’s probably got the most tattoos out of any on the list. She’s got an owl on her middle finger, a peace sign in her palm, stars behind her ears and the word “index” on her, er, index finger. She’s also got “truth” tattooed on the inside of her bottom lip, which apparently looks more painful than it actually is. Not to forget she’s also big fan of temporary branding, too, what with her writing “GUN CONTROL” on her belly for the Met Gala.

Distraught mother rating: “I’m never going to be able show my face at bridge club again. You get invited to a party and you make a political statement about America? Honey, you’re Australian.”