Rihanna has quite the eclectic tattoo collection, which include a cluster of stars on the back of her neck and a Maori-inspired tribal mark on her right wrist. But new amongst them is a gun on her right side, rib cage, that represents strength, says New York-based tattoo artist BangBang,who came to Rihanna’s home in Hollywood to do the tattoo on Thursday.
“She has a necklace that I love that I saw about a year ago,” BangBang says. “I was like, ‘You should get a little gun tattooed on you. Then when I was in L.A. to tattoo her friend – she brought me there for his birthday as a gift to him – she wanted to get a tattoo and I brought the gun out again and I stuck it on there and she loved it.”
Rihanna and BangBang had also considered putting guns on her shoulders, but BangBang says “she’s very beautiful and it took away from her face a little bit.”
Guns are not the first contribution of BangBang’s to Rihanna’s collection of body art. “I haven’t done all of her tattoos but the majority,” he says, adding that they initially got acquainted when “she saw a tattoo I did of Freddy Krueger. She loves Freddy Krueger so she tracked me down and I did the tattoo on her hip. That was the first one.”
And it won’t be the last. The pair have another design in mind, “something along the lines of a very soft, light grey tattoo that will be blended into her skin,” he says. “She loves getting tattoos. They mean a lot to her.”
As for how Rihanna is doing now, BangBang says, “She’s doing great. She’s having a blast. She’s on top of the world right now. Everybody loves her and supports her and she’s got great friends. She’s very tough and she’s got more than enough people around her that if she needed anything, she’s got it in a heartbeat.”
She is way too pretty for crappy tattos like this. It lowers her retail, thats for sure.
That is a dumb tattoo. I like her stars though.
Is this picture taken inside of her house?
I LOVE RIHANNA…she is the best…a chris brown je toliki kreten sto je istuko,al opet je ona glupa ispala sto mu je to sve oprostila,jos sam cula da su se vjencali…e to mi je bas glupo…al u svakom slucaju na njezinoj sam strani…chris mi je oduvijek bio cool al kad sam cula da je pretuko nisam mogla da vjerujem…riri ich will dir alles,alles bestens mit dein freund chris….P.S.ANTONELLA….PEACE
a onaj pistolj tetovaza nije mi bas nest,to sam zaboravila napisat……..by BITCH……peace……hahahaha