Pink has many different styles and sizes of tattoos – over twenty tattoos. “I think they are very incredibly sexy. I don’t regret any of mine because they all represent a chapter in my life and thats what tattoos are for.” She shows no signs of stopping.

Inked Mag – Article (January 2009):

[...] What Pink is sure about is that she won’t try to erase the past – and that means keeping every tattoo from the matching “help” buttons she and Walker earned during what she sarcastically calls “a really brilliant moment of clarity” to the “Tru Love” tattoo above her wrist she and Hart got spontaneously one night at a tattoo shop in Tampa just before the then happy couple went bowling. Though it’s a reminder of the way things once were, she refuses to cover it up. “We don’t do that,” Pink says fiercely. “That’s the most disrespectful thing in the entire world. There was a rumor going around that Carey got his tattoos covered and I called him and was like, ‘What are you doing?!’ he’s like, ‘Baby, I didn’t cover the tattoos. I’m never covering the tattoos. It’s all good. What are you doing today?’”

Pink got her first tattoo, Japanese Kanji for “good luck and happiness,” on her ankle when she was just twelve, and a guardian angel on her left shoulder followed soon after. “I think part of me did it because it was illegal and it would piss my parents off,” she says as she puts her flip-flopped foot up on the booth seat to show off the four Japanese characters. “I was always really obsessed with Japanese art. My parents have these sake bottles from Japan that are ancient and are so intricately carved and painted. They also had all this Japanese art. It’s the most beautiful culture.” And, as far as she knows, the meanings of all of her Japanese characters are accurate. “I’ve checked them and checked them and checked them. My friend has big ones on her arm that mean ‘cleansing.’ She had her arm out the window and this Japanese woman yelled over ‘Tampon! You have tampon on your arm!’ She yelled back, ‘It’s cleansing!’ ‘Yeah. feminine cleansing. Tampon.’ She’s like…great.”

Her other Kanji characters stand for “strength,” and “the will to live.” And, when Pink’s mother turned 55, the two were inked with the character for “mother.” “She didn’t really take that much convincing. Anything sentimental with my mom, she’s in. Now, she wears these little cocktail dresses and makes sure that in pictures it’s showing.”

Pink’s favorite tattoo was created by an artist friend in Philadelphia and reads “What goes around comes around.” As she explains it, “It’s my only truth that never changes. I believe in karma. I believe that it comes around in both ways. I’ve watched really good people have really hard times and then all of a sudden something beautiful happens. I’ve seen instant karma and I’ve seen karma that I think takes lifetimes and I’ve felt a lot of it.”

Her other tattoos include a portrait in homage to her bulldog Elvis who tragically drowned in her pool done by Twig from Hart and Huntington Tattoo, the pink bows on the backs of her thighs that she admits were a drunken decision, and a large dragon on her left thigh by Australia’s Giovanni Di Mizio that acts as a cover up. “When I was in my mom’s stomach I sat cross-legged, so I have dimples in my leg and I hate them. So I covered them with my tattoo.” Just don’t expect her to come out of a tattoo shop covered in color. “I don’t take color well. I love seeing girls with the full sleeves that have beautiful koi fish and lotus flowers and vibrant colors, but I’m all about matchy matchy clothes and if had red and yellow on my arm, that would really fuck with me.” [...]

Video:

Pink Roadtrip #7 [Up close and personal with Pink on tour and at home.

Clip: Crew gets Tattooed in Vegas] Pink talks about her tattoos.

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“1 9879-11200-1 3” – bar code on the back of her neck.

1-3: Her lucky number (13)
9879: Birth Date (September 8, 1979)
112001: Release date of her album Missundaztood (Nov, 2001)

“Tru Luv” on her right wrist (Carey Hart have one too).

Razor blade and “Insecurity” on her inner left wrist.

“What Goes Around Comes Around” around her right wrist.

Dragon on her left thigh.

Guardian Angel chasing a shooting star on left shoulder/back.

The kanji symbol for love with a red heart in front of it, on her left lower abdomen.

“Mr. Pink” on her left inner thigh.

Memorial tattoo for her childhood dog. Written “Sir Corky Moore” (his name) and 89-03 (date of death) on her left arm.

One half of a broken Heart that says “Best Friends” (Best friend & member of P!nk’s management team Laura Jeanne Wilson has the other half).

Frog (apart from dogs, she has said that frogs are her favourite animal) on her left foot.

1: Japanese symbol (mother)
2: Japanese symbol (happiness)
3: Japanes symbol (strength/the will to live)
4 : Japanese symbol (good luck)

Dog tags, one of two metal identification tags which are worn around a soldier’s neck and contain personal information (such as name, serial number and blood type), from the U.S. Forces for her brother and dad around her right ankle.

Brother (metal below):
Moore Jason
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Dad (metal over):
Moore James I JR
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Tribal (rumoured but not confirmed to be influenced by a musical note) behind left ear.

Red star on her left hand – shared by musician, producer and friend Linda Perry.

2 red hearts – right and left big toe.

A “Help Button” (Musician and friend Butch Walker has matching ink).

Memorial tattoo for her dog (Who was given to P!nk & Carey by long-time friend Lisa Marie Presley) “Elvis” that passed away in Jan ‘07. It’s a his portrait written “A time to weep, A time to laugh, A time to mourn and, A time to dance. Sleep in peace my darling, I release you” inside left arm.

Bows on back of each legs.

Pink tattooed in January/2010 the name of her husband, “Carey”, on her right wrist (Carey Hart has Alecia written in same way too).