VANESSA HUDGENS got a new tattoo this week.  It’s a butterfly on the back of her neck.

BRANDY recently got an elephant tattooed on the inside of her left wrist. But the trunk came out looking a little PHALLIC. So she had it altered this week.

–The artist who did it says it was his call . . . quote, “I wanted to fix the offending tip . . . remove the whole phallic aspect. I told her I’d just swing it upwards.”

Note the sweet tattoo she’s got all the way around her midsection. I can honestly say I envy the guy who got to ink that one.

49-year-old Cathy Ward of Reading, England has a “Twilight” tattoo on her back that is absolute OVERKILL.

Her entire back is covered with images of Edward, Bella and Jacob.

ALANIS MORISSETTE had henna tattoos painted on her pregnant belly . . . and, of course, posted a picture of it on Twitter.

–Alanis is surrounded by friends who also had henna tattoos painted on their hands and arms. The caption below the pic reads, quote, “Some rituals surprise in the heart-warming department.”

–Apparently, this is some kind of Arabic ritual that occurs during the seventh month of pregnancy. Alanis and her boyfriend, superstar rapper MC SOULEYE, are expecting a boy early in the New Year.

(–Here’s a picture . . . which I find borderline erotic. It looks like the first or second pic in a series you might find on a pregnant orgy website. Not that I would know anything about such matters . . .)

MILEY CYRUS has been in Spain over the last several days because she was scheduled to perform at the “MTV Europe Music Awards” in Madrid on Sunday night. –She did. And on the red carpet before the show, she wore an outfit that was so skimpy, it showed off the “Just Breathe” tattoo that she has under her left breast.

As bizarre as it sounds, DR. LAURA got a tattoo on her arm of a skull clutching a rose in its mouth. Don’t believe me? She put pictures of her day at the tattoo parlor on her website. (–Check ‘em out . . .)

There’s a video online of some middle-aged woman with no tolerance for pain, who decided to get a tattoo on her upper back . . . which is always a good idea at age 40.

–The video basically consists of the woman screaming and moving around the whole time, while the tattoo artist gets more and more annoyed. (–Search for “woman screaming while getting a tattoo.”)