Orlando Bloom wasn’t the first celebrity tattoo fail – Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles and 3 more A-listers who messed up an inked spelling
Oops – Bloom just got the name of his son Flynn wrong (in Morse code) – but from mangled Japanese characters to misheard song lyrics, plenty more actors and musicians have made the most permanent of fashion mistakes
Everyone’s getting a tattoo these days, and with something as permanent as ink in your skin, mistakes are devastatingly noticeable. Celebrities are human, too, but their tattoo mishaps make headlines around the world. If there’s one lesson to learn from these cautionary tales, it’s to steer clear of getting your message inked in languages that neither you nor your tattoo artist are familiar with.
1. Orlando Bloom
What started out as a sweet and tasteful tattoo of his son’s name in Morse code was ruined by one missing dot. The mistake led to the tattoo reading FRYNN instead of FLYNN. Luckily it was just a dot and was easily rectified.
2. Ariana Grande
To celebrate her hit song 7 Rings, the pop singer had the Japanese characters for “seven” and “ring” tattooed to her palm. Unfortunately, those two characters combined mean Japanese barbecue grill, as fans were quick to point it out. She later tried to fix this by adding an extra character and a heart, but it just inadvertently changed the tattoo into gibberish that reads “Japanese barbecue finger”.
3. Jennifer Lawrence