Trend Highlight: Dainty Tattoos
Although tattoos are not a new trend, dainty and well-hidden tattoos on celebrities are. Whether they’re black and white, colored, designed on fingers or even on the inside of lips, these tiny tattoos can range in meaning from family member tributes to fashion statements. From the Jenners to Selena Gomez, it seems every celebrity has a tiny tattoo these days. This recent boom in popularity only confirms that in order to get into the above 10M club on Instagram, you’ve gotta be able to rock a dainty tattoo.
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner, who has six tiny tattoos, recently had a butterfly tattooed on her ankle to match boyfriend/baby daddy Travis Scott. However, this isn’t her first time dedicating a tiny tattoo to a boyfriend, as she recently covered up her previous “t” ankle tattoo for ex-boyfriend Tyga with “la,” her home and birthplace. Kylie also had her grandmother’s name, Mary Jo, written in her grandfather’s handwriting in red ink (Mary Jo K Lip Kit, anyone?) on her bicep in 2016. An obvious fan of red ink tattoos, she also has a red heart on the back of her left arm, a matching red “m” on her pinky with best friend Jordyn Woods and “\ sa-nədē \” in red on her right hip.
Bella Hadid
Bella Hadid only has three tattoos, but they are all so dainty they could easily be missed. After walking the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2017, Bella Hadid went to celebrity tattoo artist JonBoy for black angel wings on both ankles. In July of the same year, Bella returned to JonBoy for her second tattoo — a delicate and minimalistic rosebud tattooed above her left elbow.
13 Reasons Why Cast
In April 2017, after the first season of the Netflix show “13 Reasons Why” was aired, several members of the cast, including producer Selena Gomez, got tiny matching semicolon tattoos. According to Project Semicolon, this punctuation mark is a worldwide image that represents suicide prevention, symbolizing that “this is not the end, but a new beginning.” This tattoo was fitting for the cast members as the show’s focus was on the main character Hannah’s struggle with depression and eventual suicide.
Hailey Baldwin & Kendall Jenner
Model Hailey Baldwin, queen of tiny tattoos with 17 — nine of them being on her hands — got a dainty matching shattered heart finger tattoo with best friend Kendall Jenner in 2015. Kendall described the white broken heart as “the devil side,” as she also tattooed a tiny full white heart on her opposite hand to represent “the angel side.” A few months later, Kendall tattooed “meow” on the inside of her bottom lip, writing on her blog that she “just wanted to be able to say I have a tattoo on my face.”
Pretty Little Liars Cast
In 2016, after filming wrapped on the Pretty Little Liars series finale, lead characters Shay Mitchell, Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Janel Parrish and Sasha Pieterse emotionally got matching dainty tattoos with the letter of their PLL character’s name on their pointer fingers. The placement of the tattoos allowed them to immortalize the “shh” shown in the opening credits. The Snapchats posted by the girls in the tattoo shop were touching, showing that tattoo or not, their PLL love is both real and forever.
