she has dozens, no complete list exists, and the two most famous are a tribute to a city and a japanese barbecue grill.
the short answer
she has dozens of small tattoos and no verified complete list exists. the two most documented are the manchester worker bee, added after the 2017 attack, and the japanese characters she had done for 7 rings in january 2019 which read as shichirin — a small charcoal barbecue grill — rather than as seven rings.
the manchester bee
the worker bee has been the symbol of manchester since the industrial revolution, and after the 2017 attack it became the emblem of the city's response. she had it tattooed behind her ear, as did a very large number of other people — several manchester studios ran the design for donations to the victims' fund.
it is the only one of her tattoos with a meaning that needs no explaining, and the full context is on the one love manchester page.
the 7 rings tattoo
in january 2019, around the release of 7 rings, she had 七輪 tattooed on her palm, intending it to read as seven rings. it does not. 七輪 is shichirin: a small charcoal grill used for barbecue.
the individual characters are right — seven, and a counter used for rings — but japanese does not work by concatenation, and the compound already means something else. she acknowledged it publicly and had it partially amended, which produced a second reading that is generally agreed to be no better.
it is a genuinely useful cautionary tale about tattooing a language you do not read, and she handled it with more humour than the internet did.
the others that are documented
- a crescent moon, one of the earliest and the piece the site's own ornament and mark deliberately do not imitate.
- mille tendresse across the back of the neck, from breakfast at tiffany's.
- a series of small hand and finger pieces, several of which have been covered or reworked over the years — which is precisely why photograph-based lists go wrong.
- work associated with former relationships, some covered and some not. this page does not itemise those, because doing so turns a tattoo list into a relationship autopsy.
questions people ask
how many tattoos does ariana grande have?
dozens, but no verified count exists. published totals are assembled from photographs and include work that has since been covered or altered.
what does ariana grande's 7 rings tattoo say?
七輪, which reads as shichirin — a small japanese charcoal grill — rather than as seven rings. she acknowledged the error and had it partially amended.
why does ariana grande have a bee tattoo?
the worker bee is the symbol of manchester. she had it tattooed after the 2017 manchester arena attack, as did large numbers of other people in tribute.
what does mille tendresse mean?
roughly "a thousand tendernesses" in french. it is tattooed across the back of her neck and is a reference to breakfast at tiffany's.