

Kelsea Ballerini. Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for MTV
Kelsea Ballerini used the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards as an ideal alternative to point out off her new tattoo.
Ballerini, 30, revealed her new ink on Tuesday, September 12, on the pink carpet when she circled and gave followers a glimpse of the hummingbird art work. The fragile tattoo is featured on her mid-back and exhibits the hen flapping its wings.
In the course of the awards present, the nation star took to Instagram and posted an image of the ink. Within the picture, she peered over her shoulder and smiled on the digital camera. “New lil hummingbird tattoo reveal. Thanks,” she captioned the publish whereas tagging her tattoo artist, Michelle Santana.
For the evening out in Newark, New Jersey, , Ballerini sported a crimson customized Mônot robe, that includes a halter neckline, keyhole cutout, open again, fitted skirt and lovely practice. She accessorized with chunky gold bracelets and topped the getup off with brown glittery eyeshadow, shiny lips and delicate waves.

Ballerini posed with boyfriend Chase Stokes on the crimson carpet, with the couple not afraid to pack on the PDA.
Tuesday definitely didn’t mark the primary tattoo Ballerini has unveiled. In January, she shared that she bought a brand new tattoo throughout a “Ask Me Something” Q&A with followers. I bought a bit of wave on my hip,” she wrote alongside a bikini selfie on the time. “I’ve been wanting it since 2016 and simply randomly in the future did it.”

Ballerini defined that though she “kinda desires extra” tattoos, she doesn’t need “my mother to kill me.”
She beforehand opened up about her first tattoo throughout a September 2022 look on The Late Late Present. She defined to host James Corden that the thought got here to her whereas she was preparing for her first-ever picture shoot. On the time, she was speculating that if she did the shoot with no tattoos and later bought one that folks would suppose she went “off the deep finish.”
She bought the tattoo, and regardless that it’s “a lot greater” than she wished and never the fitting font, she “wished to be the identical from the start.” The ink is written in cursive letters and reads, “How candy the sound.”
She additionally has the phrases “Love. Love,” tattooed on her ribcage in her mother and father handwriting.