{"id":595121,"date":"2026-08-16T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595121\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:16:10","slug":"ariana-grande-debuts-a-new-tattoo-with-a-not-so-secret-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/595121\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Debuts a New Tattoo With a Not-So-Secret Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ricky and Ariana attend a Spotify event in Los Angeles together as a couple in February 2016.Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Grande and \u00c1lvarez became Instagram official this week and seemed to confirm their reunion with a photo dump that featured several mirror selfies of them embracing. One slide also featured a close up shot of a page with \u201cI do love you\u201d written in blue ink\u2014a hint at what was to come.<\/p>\n

Grande has up to 75 documented tattoos, the first a small heart above her toe which she had done when she was 18. Spread across her body, there\u2019s a mix of dainty and intricate fine-line pieces and bolder scenes: a large image of the character Chihiro from Spirited Away on her forearm, album title R.E.M. behind her ear, H2GKMO (an acronym of \u201cHonest to God, Keep Moving\u201d) on her hand. Several tattoos pay tribute to significant people in her life, including a \u201cfor good\u201d tattoo in reference to Wicked which she shares with Cynthia Erivo and an \u201cE\u201d for Erivo\u2019s character Elphaba.<\/p>\n

Besides body art, beauty and glam are a huge part of Ariana Grande\u2019s storytelling: both personally and as a pop star. Within the two-hour show, Grande\u2019s glam team, Michael Anthony<\/a> and Alyx Liu<\/a>, also join her onstage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis show, and everything that I do, would be incomplete without them,\u201d Grande previously told<\/a> Vogue in an exclusive interview. \u201cMakeup and hair are such an enormous piece of storytelling, for both music and acting. [I wanted them to be a part of the show] because my art is nothing without theirs.\u201d After three years as a blonde for Wicked, Grande went back to a shade of honey brunette late last year<\/a> in time for tour. Across the show, she has also returned to her famous and signature high pony, which Liu alternately styles into a scrunchied ballerina bun and long and loose throughout the show.<\/p>\n

Last night, Grande changed the lyrics in \u201cthank u, next\u201d once again: \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky, we don\u2019t talk about that.\u201d A clavicle-caressing tattoo debuted on one of the world\u2019s most prominent stages to around 20,000 people is, still, quite the statement.<\/p>\n