Julia Michaels Tells Us About Her 35+-Piece Tattoo Collection

During the summer of 2018, Michaels added this bird in flight on her left arm, just above her elbow. She's never talked about its exact meaning.

On Michaels's upper, inner left arm is a traditional-style tattoo in red ink of a broken heart. It has the words "Art Aint Easy" around it.

A large portion of Michaels's left forearm is taken up with a flower design. Next to it are the words "protagonist + antagonist" in script.

Her left shoulder has a woman's face with the words "Dear heart, I'm counting on you, don't f*ck this up."

In 2012, she got a vintage microphone tattooed on her outer forearm with a rose below it.

In 2014, Michaels got a vintage typewriter tattooed on her upper right arm.

Michaels's tattoo collection has a lot of flower designs in it, including a pink rose that wraps around her right shoulder.

On Michaels's right arm, a design that looks like two triangles and three circles can be seen right above her rose hand tattoo. It's the symbol for perception. She told POPSUGAR, "It looks fully formed, but it isn't, and I've always found it really interesting how the brain can perceive something as whole, even though it's not."

Above her perception symbol is a light bulb with a solar system in it. She told 92.3 AMP Radio in an interview it represents thoughts and the subconscious mind. She got both of the tattoos in March 2017.

As a self-proclaimed Harry Potter fan, Michaels got a golden snitch tattooed on her right arm with her dad in December 2017.

Scattered throughout Michaels's arms are four gemstone tattoos, with the most visible one being the heart-shaped pink stone on her right shoulder. They are for her fans, whom she calls her "little gems." She got them in July 2018.

Michaels doesn't have many tattoos on her legs, but sometime in the last few years, she added the words "hopeless" and "romantic" to the top of each thigh. However, the "romantic" ink has lines through the letters "ro" and "t," so it actually spells "manic."

Above her right knee, Michaels has a tattoo that says "calm" with a down arrow next to it, presumably meaning "calm down."

On Michaels's left hand, she has a few pieces of ink: a rose tattoo on the back of her hand, a music note on her middle finger, and the word "matter" in tiny font by her wrist.

On the back of Michaels's right hand, she has a large rose with geometric lines in the petals, which she got in 2015. She also has a small bee on her middle finger and a red-ink heart on her ring finger.

The inside of Michaels's palm also says "I love you," tattooed in her handwriting. She got it in December 2016 as a reminder to love herself. "I have a lot of little reminders on my body because I don't tell myself that I love myself," she told Music Choice in an interview. "And sometimes I forget, too."