The Juicy Stories Behind Some of Your Favorite Celebrity Tattoos

Rihanna's hand tattoo has become synonymous with the singer. Ahead of her 2023 Super Bowl halftime show, "there were Super Bowl ads of her hand holding a football, and you knew everything that you needed to be told. There was no text that had to go along with that — you knew that's Rihanna by that tattoo. It's unique to her."

That ink was actually a cover-up design. "It was fixing something that wasn't great, and it turned into something really fun," Bang Bang says. "But my relationship with Rihanna is probably better than any of them — [she's a] repeat client that I've tattooed for many years."