YUNGBLUD/Tattoos

## Black Hearts

    YUNGBLUD got a tattoo of a full heart, filled in with black ink on his left middle finger, and a tattoo of a broken heart filled in with black ink on his right middle finger. The symbolism being that he is left handed and the full heart represents him finding himself within his fandom/community (The Black Hearts Club - a name penned by the fans), and with his right finger being when he was lost in life, he got the tattoo on his middle fingers.

The tattoos were inked on his fingers in 2018, he captioned his Instagram post, in April 2018, with *"wanna join the black hearts club?"* and tweeted out *"it's our black hearts club"*, in August 2018.

## BHC

    YUNGBLUD received a stick and poke tattoo of the letters "BHC" on his left ankle, which stands for Black Hearts Club, the name of his fandom. He got the tattoo after a spontaneous livestream started by his friend Benjamin Jackson, and later switched the livestream to his account while the tattoo was happening, during the livestreams Jackson himself and other also got stick + poke tattoos while they were bored quarantining.

## Manifesto

    Before his third studio album, YUNGBLUD, was released, in a promotional video, he was filmed getting a personal manifesto tattooed on the side of his ribcage, the manifesto reads: "Never compromise, imperfection is perfection, embrace the strange, never judge, tell the truth, pink socks, beer… move."

## Elephant

Before he became famous and took on the name YUNGBLUD, he had an elephant tattooed on his left buttcheek, the reason for this was because "Elephants never forget", he got it as a matching tattoo with his ex-girlfriend to remind them of their relationship and each other, with hers being on her right buttcheek, he stated that some time after they broke up, she got the tattoo removed, but he never did [as of February 2023]. It seems that YUNGBLUD later changed the meaning of the tattoo himself, in *"Medication"*, he sings: *"I'm insecure, so I got a tattoo of an elephant"*.

## Horns

After the hit song *"Lowlife"* came out, YUNGBLUD got a tattoo of horns on the back of his neck to represent all he has been through and how far he has come.

## References

1. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Instagram — "wanna join the black hearts club?" Posted 5 April 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
2. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "it’s our black hearts club" Posted 11 August 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2023. Archived
3. ↑ YouTube (Shantell Lord) — "YUNGBLUD & Co get stick + poke tattoos — Instagram Live (23 October 2020)". Published 24 October 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
4. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "always ..." Posted 24 October 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2023. Archived
5. ↑ NME — "On The Cover – Yungblud: “This album is about reclaiming my name and humanising the caricature”". Published 3 June 2022. Written by Sophie Williams. Retrieved 9 February 2023. Archived
6. ↑ Billboard — "Yungblud Announces Self-Titled Third Album, Gets Tattoo During Livestream – Billboard". Published 17 May 2022. Written by Gil Kaufman. Retrieved 9 February 2023. Archived
7. ↑ Leeds Festival — "Leeds Festival - YUNGBLUD fact 001 you need to know: "I have an elephant tattoo on my left arse cheek"". Published 4 April 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2023. Archived
8. ↑ Facebook/104.3 The Shark — "Yungblud shows off his elephant tattoo". Published 18 April 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2023. Archived