Liam Payne and his new ink, a chest tattoo that reads, “Where dark meets light.".Photo:Certified Letter Boy/ The London Social / Instagram; Mike Marsland/WireImage
Certified Letter Boy/ The London Social / Instagram; Mike Marsland/WireImage
Liam Paynestripped that down to show off his new ink.
Langford and Pablo — who has also tattooed Beckham brothersCruzandRomeo— shared photos and a video of the sprawling chest piece, captioned, “Lettering for @liampayne.”
The tattoo says, “where dark meets light” in an old-school tattoo font, with a slight break between words in the middle of the 29-year-old musician’s chest. Rather than entirely black or outlined lettering, the tattoo was (very fittingly) done in a light-to-dark ombré.
Payne shared the artists’ post showcasing his new ink on his Instagram Story, where he gave a slightly more in-depth look at its meaning.
“Where dark meets lighT,” the singer wrote, emphasizing the capitalization of the first and last letters of the phrase — although he didn’t share the reasoning behind this stylistic choice.
“The soul,” the “Strip That Down” artist wrote, thanking the artists and adding that he loves “hanging and inking” with them.
Liam Payne in his new YouTube video, in which he talks about his journey with sobriety.
Slightly reminiscent ofOne Direction’s 2013 track “Through the Dark,” which the former member helped write along with then-bandmateLouis Tomlinson, the chest tattoo is only the most recent addition to Payne’s extensive ink collection.
The timing of the new tat also suggests that its emotional significance may be tied to the singer’s recent battle with sobriety, which heopened up about in a new YouTube videoposted on Saturday.
“I just kind of feel like I’ve got more of a grip on life and everything that was getting away from me,” Payne said in the candid video. “I just needed to take a little bit of time out for myself actually because I kind of became somebody who I didn’t really recognize anymore. And I’m sure you guys didn’t either. I was in bad shape up until that point and I was really happy to kind of put a stopper to life and work.”
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The British musician also shared that he has been sober for about six months. “I definitely don’t need those things anymore,” he said. “The party’s over.”
In the video, he also apologized for his past behavior, namely his appearance onImpaulsive with Logan Paul, in which he criticizedZayn Malik, who was a founding member of One Direction along with Payne, Tomlinson,Harry StylesandNiall Horan.
Liam Payne with the other members of One Direction, including Zayn Malik, who he criticized last year on Logan Paul’s podcast, “Impaulsive.".Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
Payne continued, “I was so angry at what was going on around me and instead of taking a look inwards I decided to look outwards at everybody else, and I just think, yeah, I took it out on everybody else, which is just wrong, really.”
source: people.com
