Dove Cameron Adds a New Hip Tattoo to Her 20+ Collection

Sometime in 2022, Cameron got an abstract line tattoo on her inner forearm. The ink is located below her “candy is dandy” tattoo.

In 2022, Cameron got a thick gothic script tattoo on the side of her right hand. It’s visible when she’s holding a mic, but it’s unclear exactly what it says or what it means.

On May 18, 2022, Cameron shared a new script tattoo etched along her right thumb that reads “none of this is real.” The post came with a cryptic message to her fans: “i wish i could post photos of my naked body every day-not because it’s sexy but because it’s terribly vulnerable. i wish i could reach through the phone and hold your hand. i wish i could attach the smell of my perfume to this post so you could smell what i smell. i wish more than anything to know you all so intimately like i know myself. i wish you knew you were safe with me . i am so happy to be alive. i wish connective apps were actually made for connection. i wish we weren’t so afraid of each other . i love you so much and i am feeling so human . full hearts and heart break feel the same.”

In January 2021, Cameron debuted fresh ink with the word “ALCHEMICAL” in all caps on her upper left shoulder. While she’s yet to reveal its meaning, the word itself can represent the philosophy and process of creation.

On the middle finger of her right hand, Cameron has a snake that extends from her knuckle. She was inspired to get the tattoo because of how femininity is usually compared to the reptile in a negative way. With the ink, she decided to “take back the snake,” she told Refinery29. She has an assortment of other tattoos – mostly stars, arrows, and other constellation designs – on her pinky, pointer, and ring fingers.

In August 2020, Cameron added a new tattoo on her left-hand ring finger above her knuckle that reads “SHE” in all capital letters. While the caption on the photo was vague, reading “who is she,” Cameron’s fans have their own ideas about the hidden meaning behind the new tattoo. Many speculated the ink is a nod to Harry Styles and his song “She” off of his 2019 “Fine Line” album. “A harry styles song,” one fan’s comment read. “She lives in day dreams with me,” another comment read, quoting a lyric from Styles’s song. Others included “Harry styles that’s all I see” and “So you a harry styles stan now? k i stan.” Cameron has neither confirmed nor denied the rumor.

Keeping in line with the snake theme, Cameron debuted a larger version of the animal on her ankle. Dove’s Instagram followers first got a look at the serpent-themed design on July 2, 2020, when she shared a few throwback snaps from the day a Los Angeles tattoo artist, who goes by @sweriet, gave her the tat. It’s unclear exactly when she got it, but we do know it’s one of the largest and most eye-catching in her growing collection.

After Cameron’s close friend Cameron Boyce passed away at age 20 from epilepsy in July 2019, she got a tattoo of a revolver shooting out a single rose in December 2019. The tattoo is a symbol of Cameron’s own views on gun control, which she and Boyce had in common.

“It’s sort of a nationally recognized symbol for peace and anti-gun movements,” Cameron said of the tattoo in a YouTube video on her channel. She then went on to explain that, before Boyce’s death, the late actor was working to create an organization called Wielding Peace, which is still underway and seeks to use powerful photographs to advocate for ending gun violence. One project involved photographing people from all walks of life holding peaceful objects in place of weapons. During his photo shoot, Boyce held a bouquet of flowers. “It was really beautiful, and I’ve been trying to think of a tattoo to get for him since he passed, and I just felt that this one was really appropriate,” Cameron said.

Cameron has the word “Immortal” tattooed on the inside of her right wrist. It means “to never die.”

Cameron opened up about her father passing away when she was 15 and said that the phrase “candy is dandy” is her first tattoo in memory of him. It’s located on the inner elbow of her left arm.

Cameron has “do it for Aphrodite” on the side of her arm. Aphrodite was an Olympian goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. Cameron told Refinery29 she got it because “to do something for the raw, sexual, female natural energy of the world – and do it on behalf of that, instead of doing it from a diminished, demure P.O.V. – is both powerful and what we need right now.”

In October 2021, Cameron debuted a never-before-seen tiny tattoo on her rib cage. While she has not revealed what the tattoo reads, or the meaning behind it, fans have speculated that this is the tattoo she decided on after chatting it through with her audience at a recent show.

Cameron got the words “Matière D’étoiles” tattooed on her ankle with her mom and sister, which is the French translation for “Star Stuff,” a bedtime story her mom wrote for them.