Selena Gomez has gotten at least sixteen tattoos. Here's where they are and what they all hateful.

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  • Selena Gomez has gotten 16 tattoos that we know of, listed below.
  • Her first tattoo was a tiny musical notation on her wrist in 2012.
  • She also has a Bible quote on her hip, the word "Rare" on her neck, and a large rose on her back.
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Gomez's showtime tattoo is a small music note on the side of her correct-hand wrist.

Selena Gomez attends the "Spring Breakers" premiere at the 2012 Venice Motion-picture show Festival.
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When Gomez debuted her new ink in 2012, fans originally thought it was a tiny black middle.

But the 19-year-old set the story straight about her get-go tattoo at a pre-Oscars party.

"Information technology's a music note," Gomez told Admission Hollywood. "Everybody idea that it was a heart for some reason, but music is a large influence in my life."

"I was named later a singer, I'm a singer and a lot of other personal reasons," she explained, referring to the late Latina singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez.

Next, she got the number 76 in Roman numerals on the back of her neck.

Selena Gomez attends the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
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Gomez got her 2d tattoo, "LXXVI," in 2012 from the famous New York City-based artist Keith Scott "Bang Blindside" McCurdy.

"The tattoo was a tribute to a family member who she said means a lot to her," Bang Blindside told the Daily Mail.

Over i yr subsequently, Gomez posted a photograph of the ink with the explanation, "1976."

It's presumably a tribute to her mother, Mandy Teefey, who was born in 1976 and was just 16 years old when she gave nativity to Gomez.

She has "God who strengthens me" written on her right thigh.

Gomez posted this photo on June 22, 2016.
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Gomez got her third tattoo on her thigh former in 2012, but kept information technology concealed from the public for more than than one year.

"I've washed a pretty expert job of hiding it," she told Ryan Seacrest during a radio interview in 2013.

After she was photographed at the beach and fans noticed the ink, Gomez explained to Seacrest that "God who strengthens me" is an contradistinct excerpt from her favorite Bible passage, Philippians 4:xiii.

She got a lowercase "G" on her neck to honour her sis, Gracie.

Selena Gomez attends the 2022 Cannes Motion picture Festival.
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No one knows exactly when Gomez inked this dainty initial, merely she confirmed in a 2022 interview with Refinery29 that the "G" stands for Gracie, her one-half-sis who was born in 2013.

Gomez has "Honey Yourself First" written in Arabic on the upper-right side of her dorsum.

Selena Gomez attends the 2022 American Music Awards.
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Gomez was inked by Bang Bang again in 2014.

"Selena already had information technology written out how she wanted," he told Due east! News, adding, "she had been wanting this one for a while."

"We played with information technology a bit laying information technology out, until we institute the perfect spot," he said. "She loved it; she flipped out."

She has a symbol on her left hip, apparently commemorating the time she met ane of her best friends.

Gomez posted this photo on January 2, 2016. The screenshot is from her temporary tattoo sheet, posted Apr xx, 2016.
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It'southward unclear when Gomez got this tattoo, merely fans spotted its faint outline on Gomez'south hip in 2015, when she was photographed at the beach.

Although many fans and media outlets take identified this design as the sacred "Om" symbol, Gomez told Refinery29 that it'southward actually a date.

Every bit paraphrased past writer Heather Wood Rudulph, the tattoo on her left hip "represents when she met 1 of her best friends eight years ago."

The following year, Gomez posted a photo of a temporary tattoo canvass with replicas of her own pieces. The abstruse symbol in question looks like "Ten," "three," and "one" combined in a curly font.

Gomez, Alisha Boe, and Tommy Dorfman got matching semicolons on their wrists.

Gomez posted these photos on April 9, 2017, and May 14, 2019.
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Gomez executive produced the controversial Netflix series "13 Reasons Why," which premiered in 2017.

Presently later on, Gomez joined the show'southward stars Alisha Boe (who played Hannah's ex-BFF Jessica) and Tommy Dorfman (who played poet Ryan Shaver) for a tattoo session in Hollywood.

Their matching semicolons correspond mental health awareness and suicide prevention.

"Project semicolon is a motion defended to presenting hope for those suffering from depression , thoughts of suicide, habit, and self-injury," Boe wrote on Instagram.

Amy Bleuel, whom Boe referenced in her caption, was the mental-health activist who started the mental-wellness not-profit Project Semicolon. According to Bleuel's interview with "The Mighty" the inspiration backside the semicolon for a mental-health organisation is derived from its grammatical use.

"In literature, an author uses a semicolon to not end a sentence but to continue on," she said. "We run across information technology every bit you are the author and your life is the sentence. You're choosing to go on going."

Gomez and her best friend have matching "ane" tattoos.

Gomez posted this photograph on August xviii, 2018.
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Gomez has a "1" on the right side of her rib cage every bit a tribute to her friendship with Courtney Lopez (née Barry) — whom she calls her "actual #i."

Gomez revealed their tiny matching tattoos in a 2022 birthday mail for her pal.

The same twenty-four hours, she and three friends got matching "4" tattoos.

A photograph Gomez posted on August xviii, 2022 and behind the scenes of the "Swain" music video.
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Gomez and her 3 closest friends — Lopez, Ashley Cook, and Raquelle Stevens — have identical "four" tattoos on different parts of their bodies.

Gomez'southward "4" is on her correct forearm, just underneath the pucker of her elbow. She shared a photo of herself getting inked in a slideshow on Instagram.

"#four because these women take stayed by my side for 7 years," she wrote in her caption. "four, because yous are my 4 for the rest of my life. I honey you ladies. You all inspire me to be better, stronger, closer to god and we take lived the most INSANE story together already. Can't wait for fifty more than!!"

She got matching arrows with Julia Michaels in 2019.

A photograph posted past Julia Michaels in 2019, left, and Gomez in the "Rare" music video.
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Gomez and Michaels are shut friends and collaborators; Michaels has cowritten many of Gomez'southward best songs, including "Lose You to Love Me" and "Bad Liar."

On November 11, 2019, Gomez made a surprise appearance at Michaels' concert in Los Angeles. After they performed their duet "Anxiety" and shared a smooch onstage, they got matching tattoos backstage from artists London Reese and Brad Reis.

The women got pocket-size, identical arrows inked on the bases of their thumbs, which point towards each other when they hold hands.

"Information technology'due south tatted.. my arrow points to you forever," Gomez wrote on her Instagram story.

She has the give-and-take "Rare," the championship of her third solo album, on her neck.

Blindside Blindside Tattoo posted this photo on January sixteen, 2020.
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Gomez got another tattoo from Bang Blindside in Jan 2020, to marking the release of her third solo album.

She inked the title, "Rare," in thin black lettering on the right side of her neck.

"Did information technology once again," she wrote on Instagram, tagging Blindside Blindside and adding a butterfly emoji.

She got a tiny cantankerous on her left collarbone in Apr 2021.

Screenshots of Gomez in a video posted by Bang Bang Tattoo on April 15, 2021.
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Gomez's get-to artist Blindside Bang unveiled Gomez's newest tattoo with a short video on Instagram.

The black-and-white clip shows a close-upwardly of the dainty cross on her collarbone, earlier panning out to bear witness Gomez smiling and reaffixing her mask.

"I'm very, very spiritual," she recently told Faddy. "I believe in God, merely I'k not religious. I've been a Christian for a while now. I don't talk about it too much — I want to, but it's gotten a bad rep. I just want to make it clear that I love beingness able to accept my organized religion, and believe in what I believe in, and that truly is what gets me through."

Gomez got a large pinkish rose on her upper back in Dec 2021.

Bang Bang Tattoo posted this photo on December 28, 2021.
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Blindside Blindside Tattoo posted a blackness-and-white photo of Gomez on December 15, 2022 with her back turned towards the camera. The image showed new ink that starts at the base of her neck and stretches down in between her shoulder blades.

2 weeks later, the celebrity creative person shared an up-shut image of the tattoo: a pink watercolor rose that sits only beneath her Roman numerals.

The following month, Gomez revealed that Cara Delevingne partially inspired the pattern.

"It means a couple of dissimilar things," Gomez said on "Alive with Kelly and Ryan." "Me and Cara, one of my best friends — I was maybe sixteen when I met her — she calls me rosebud. Then it'due south a nickname. And I've e'er wanted a rose and now I got one. And I love it."

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