Mothica’s tattoos include a right-arm sleeve, a snake across her torso, lettering tied to her music and a back piece inspired by a painting. In interviews, she has explained the stories behind several of them. Her comments give context to the designs without requiring a guess at the meaning of every mark.

The sleeve tattoo mixes motion and structure

Mothica has said her right sleeve was done by Ian Healy. It includes a hawk in flight with an arrow through it, a ram skull and a fern leaf. The motifs move between an animal in motion, a skull and a plant; together, they cover much of the arm without becoming one uninterrupted image.

She has singled out this sleeve as a favorite, praising Healy’s work. The photograph shows how the different pieces sit together along the arm.

The snake tattoo turns her torso into a canvas

A red-lit Kerrang portrait shows a snake running across Mothica’s side and midriff. Its long curve follows the torso, making it look different from the separate images on her arm. The photo shows the placement, but doesn’t establish a meaning for the snake.

The full-arm tattoo coverage is the loudest part

The Wonderland portrait shows Mothica’s chest and both arms in one frame. With her arms crossed, you can see how much of her upper body is tattooed, and how the individual forms overlap in the photograph. The image is useful for seeing the overall coverage; close views make the separate designs easier to distinguish.

Chest tattoos and the spaces between pieces

The PM Studio portrait gives a front-facing view of the chest and forearm tattoos. From this angle, the chest pieces sit between the arm work, while the forearm designs remain distinct from the heavier coverage above them. The photo shows where the tattoos sit, though it doesn’t identify every image or explain its meaning.

The visible words in Mothica’s tattoo collection

In a 2020 interview with Inked, Mothica said the words on her body are titles of songs she has released or still has in progress. She named “chaos,” “VICES,” “heavy heart” and “NOW.”

She also has “forever fifteen” on her wrist. Mothica said the phrase recalls her first suicide attempt at 15 and reminds her to be strong for her younger self. She told Inked that three moths swarming a lamppost inspired the name Mothica.

Why the details feel personal

Mothica’s first tattoo was a geometric cube on the back of her neck. She told Inked that she was interested in minimalism and architecture at the time.

The back piece draws on the painting Lucretia. Mothica described the tattoo as a woman stabbing herself, cradled by Death in the form of a skeleton and surrounded by flowers. She said she saw her own experience with self-harm in Lucretia’s story and wanted the tattoo to reflect that. The meaning comes from her explanation, rather than from the image alone.

What makes the collection work

Mothica’s tattoos range from the hawk, skull and fern on her sleeve to lettering and a large scene across her back. Some are connected to her songs or personal history because she has explained them herself; the photographs show the rest of the collection without filling in details she hasn’t confirmed.

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Julien Baker’s tattoos point to music, Memphis, a cicada sound she missed while touring, and a book she kept returning to. She has explained several of them in interviews; the sections below keep those accounts separate from what the photos show.

The two foxes on her left arm

The two foxes on Baker’s left arm face each other, their tails catching together. She told Mikiki the design was inspired by lyrics from Every Time I Die. In the same interview, she said she had also turned mewithoutYou lyrics into images after deciding she didn’t want her body covered in words; that was a separate reference, not the source she gave for the foxes.

The mockingbird and Baker’s arm collection

Baker identified the bird on her right arm as a mockingbird, familiar in Memphis, her hometown. Performance photos show larger animal shapes alongside smaller marks, linework and lettering, though stage shots don’t make every piece easy to identify.

The cicada tattoo came from life on the road

Baker told The Boston Globe that touring kept her away from the sound of cicadas and said she missed hearing them. She had one tattooed on her arm for that reason; the account is about a sound from home, not a general symbol attached to the insect.

Lettering that stays close to the skin

On her wrist, the phrase “Dios Existir” means “God exists,” Baker said. She connected it to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, where residents post signs with words they need to remember during an outbreak of insomnia and memory loss. She chose a tattoo because it would be in her sight each morning.

Other lettering appears across Baker’s hands and arms, though live photos don’t make every word easy to read. Hand and wrist ink is hard to keep crisp; if you’re considering a phrase, check its spelling and look at the stencil at actual size before settling on placement.

The Underoath logo tattoo and music on the skin

The New Yorker reports that Baker has a stick-and-poke Underoath logo. When she was 12, she asked her father to take her to see the band; she later described the show as changing how she understood a performer speaking to a crowd. The tattoo keeps that early musical connection visible.

The small boygenius tooth

Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus each got a small tooth tattoo connected to boygenius. Dacus later said Phoebe came up with the idea and tied it to the song “Bite the Hand”; their tattoo artist advised them against placing it on their hands because the ink can fall out.

Why the collection feels personal instead of staged

In photos, Baker’s collection ranges from readable lettering to small motifs and larger animal pieces. The amount visible changes from one shot to another, and the interviews don’t explain every mark. This guide sticks to the designs with a source-backed account.

A better way to borrow the feeling

If one of these tattoos gives you an idea, start with the reference behind it, not the exact shape. A lyric, a local bird or a sound tied to home can lead to a design that belongs to your own life. Bring that story and your placement idea to an artist, then work out the scale together.

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Rosalía’s tattoos mix album lettering with references to art, flamenco and people close to her. The designs covered here span her fingers, feet, thigh, ribs and back; some stories come from Rosalía, while others are documented through photographs and coverage.

Motomami finger lettering

She put MOTO across one hand and MAMI across the other, leaving the thumbs bare. Rosalía shared the process around the announcement of the Motomami World Tour and joked about her mother’s reaction. The short lettering makes the album title readable when she raises her hands.

Finger skin moves and rubs against things, so small letters need room to stay legible. Her four-letter words keep the design compact without adding a longer phrase.

RR sole tattoo

On El Hormiguero, Rosalía took off her shoe to show the double R on the sole of her left foot. She said the two names share an initial and confirmed the tattoo referred to her relationship with Rauw Alejandro at the time. She also said it hurt a lot and she had it done without anesthesia.

The sole is usually hidden by a shoe, which made the reveal part of the story; the tattoo itself is a small pair of overlapping letters.

Valie Export garter clasp tattoo

The outlined clasp on Rosalía’s upper left thigh refers to VALIE EXPORT’s 1970 Body Sign Action. Rosalía described the garter symbol as a statement that she decides when she is sexualized. She shares the design with her sister.

The tattoo is a light outline, with a few straight strokes suggesting the strap. Its high placement keeps it under everyday clothes and visible in some stage outfits.

Right instep mandala tattoo

One of Rosalía’s oldest documented tattoos is the black mandala along the top of her right foot, running from the toes toward the ankle. She showed it during an Instagram Q&A and rated the pain ten out of ten. No personal meaning is established in the account, so the design is best described by its concentric shapes, pointed details and dot work.

Flamenco lyric back tattoo

The script across Rosalía’s upper back quotes Manuel Molina’s flamenco song “Que nadie vaya a llorar.” The line says, roughly, that no one should cry on the day she dies because singing through sadness is more beautiful.

It is longer than her hand and foot tattoos, but the handwritten lettering stays fine and open across her back. The song is the reference she chose; the tattoo doesn’t need extra symbolism added to it.

RAUL rib lettering

The small uppercase RAUL beneath Rosalía’s left breast appeared in social photos. Coverage connected the name to Rauw Alejandro’s given name, Raúl, but that reading comes from reporting rather than a statement from Rosalía in the sources used here. The plain lettering sits close to the ribs, without decoration.

What makes Rosalía’s collection work

The six pieces covered here range from small hand and foot lettering to a long back lyric. Rosalía has explained some of their stories herself; for the others, the available reports establish the design or placement without giving a personal meaning. Keeping that distinction clear makes the collection easier to read without turning every mark into a symbol.

Beabadoobee’s tattoos range from a Peanuts strip she has tied to hard moments to a face Mac DeMarco drew on her during a karaoke night in Dublin. Photos also show a dark upper-arm design, hand doodles, a sternum butterfly, a shoulder flower and an unclear piece on her thigh. She has explained some of the stories; the rest are best described by what the images show.

The Peanuts arm tattoo

Beabadoobee has said the Peanuts strip on her arm first showed her that it’s okay not to be okay. Charlie and Snoopy’s friendship also reminds her that she has people to talk to when she feels sad. The tattoo is a narrow comic panel, not a large character portrait.

The sun and mandala-style upper-arm piece

Photos show a larger, dark, rounded design on her upper arm, with radiating details. It can read as a sun or mandala, but I haven’t found a public explanation from Bea that settles the motif or gives it a personal meaning.

Small lettering, knuckle doodles and loose flash

Pitchfork’s 2022 portrait shows a kitten face on her knuckle. Performance photos also catch small lettering, including XO, but the available sources don’t explain those marks. The doodle-like lines give this part of the collection its most casual look.

The butterfly, flower and softer placements

Pitchfork identified a pink butterfly near the top of her sternum. In a 2026 i-D interview, Beabadoobee showed a flower on her shoulder and called it her most recent tattoo. She said she often gets tattooed when she feels stressed or a little sad, and finds the sensation therapeutic.

A dark tattoo on the thigh

Concert and editorial photographs show a larger, dark tattoo on her upper thigh. The available images don’t make the design clear enough to identify, so its placement is the most that can be said with confidence.

How the whole Beabadoobee tattoo collection hangs together

The collection includes pieces with very different stories: the Peanuts strip has a personal explanation, while the face on her arm came from a night out with Mac DeMarco. Other marks are visible without a backstory in the sources used here. The mix of considered and spontaneous tattoos is more useful than trying to make every design part of one theme.

Beabadoobee tattoo ideas to borrow

Take the choice behind a tattoo, not Bea’s exact image: a comic panel you return to, a drawing from a friend or a motif connected to a memory. Keep the size and placement legible, and ask an artist how the design may change as it heals, especially on hands or near the sternum.

If you want the loose, mixed look, let each piece keep its own shape instead of filling every gap to make a matching set. A simple sketch can work at small scale; the artist can help adjust it to the spot you choose.

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