July 23, 2009

The Top Twenty-Five Tattooed Celebrity

Popularity of tattooed celebrities

The Vanishing Tattoo first started tracking the online popularity of tattooed celebrities in 2001; using search engine results and web site proliferation, while compiling the Internet's largest photo archive of tattooed celebrities and historical figures. We compiled the following list of the top twenty-five celebrities with tattoos in 2006 based on over ten million 'celebrity tattoo' searches, web sites devoted to celebrities and their tattoos, Blogs and news stories during the 2006 calendar year. Five years ago, celebrity women - mostly singers, models and actors - were far and away the most popular tattooed celebrities. In the intervening years male wrestlers, athletes and Hip-Hop artists have made their presence felt in mainstream popular tattoo culture.

Celebrity Tattoos of Anjelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie - The undisputed reigning Queen of celebrity body art. Jolie toppled Pamela Anderson off the top of the list of tattooed celebrities back in 2001 and hasn't looked back since. Jolie routinely gets up to three times as many search inquiries as the next highest-rated tattooed celebrity. Her high-profile relationship with Brad Pitt, who got inked within a short time of hooking up with Jolie, and her growing family of international adoptee's has kept Jolie firmly planted in the public eye.

Well-known celebrity favorite tattoos

This year's list has its share of well-known celebrity favorite tattoos and a whole new crop of celebrity newcomers - the celebrity flavor du jour. How long their fame will last is anyone's guess. This year saw a reversal of gender popularity, the women increasing their dominance from eleven of the top twenty-five to fifteen. The men tumbled from fourteen to ten.

Back Tattooed Celebrity

Her tattoos are a reflection of her personality, exotic and with more than just a hint of dangerous sensuality. This is a women with an edge and a true lover of body art. A woman who professes she likes to play with knives in bed and who doesn't hesitate to have the name of the man she loves tattooed celebrity on her. And when he exits stage left, she doesn't hesitate to laser it off and replace it a new tattoo.