Lady Gaga has twenty-three tattoos located on various part on the left side of her body. During the Musicians@Google Presents: Google Goes Gaga, Gaga revealed that she only has tattoos on the left side of her body because her dad asked her to keep one side of her body ‘slightly normal’. She referred to her left side of her body like her ‘Iggy Pop side’ and her right side (without tattoos) her ‘Marylin Monroe side’.

During the second leg of The Monster Ball Tour in Japan, she got a temporary tattoo while on her way to Japan, saying, “リトルモンスター” (Ritoru Monsutā), which means “Little Monster”.

Lady Gaga’s very first tattoo was a treble clef at the center of her lower back. Obviously music has always been a huge part of Gaga’s life. She got this tattoo when she was only 17 years old and used a fake ID because she was underage. She later added a large flower tattoo beside it but instead of covering the music note she kept it intact and had it touched up.

Lady Gaga’s parents have come to accept her tattoos but they weren’t always fans. She says “when I got my first one, they like had a freakin’ heart attack!” Gaga of couse continued to get more tattoos. She says that when she got her next tattoo “I had a heart attack because I felt bad for not telling them I was gonna it. We’re really close. So I went home and I started crying and I was like ‘I really love it, I’m really sorry.’”

Lady Gaga has a tattoo peace sign on the inside of her left wrist as a tribute to John Lennon, one of her musical idols. Lennon was a major advocate of the anti-Vietnam war movement and a believer in peace. “My peace sign…was inspired by John Lennon. I grew up two blocks from the [Strawberry Fields] Imagine memorial. It’s actually one block away from where John Lennon was assassinated. And I am a huge Beatles, John Lennon, Yoko Ono fan. So ‘give peace a chance’,” Gaga explains, referencing John Lennon’s 1969 hit solo song “Give Peace A Chance.”

The tattoo is pointed inwards towards her in order to serve as a reminder to herself. “You will notice that if you’re looking at it it’s upside down, but for me it’s right side up,” she says. “The reason I had it put kind of upside down is because I wanted it to be a reminder to me that even though I always write fun music about sequins and panties and fame and money, that I make sure to always keep in mind the important things.”

Another of Lady Gaga’s earlier tattoos is this design of three daisies on her left shoulder.