Does her tattoo reveal more than words can say? Rihanna appears to have added new ink to her collection. She already has stars on her neck and a tribal tat on her right wrist. But now she’s sporting a gun on her right side.

The tattoo represents strength, according to New York-based tattoo artist BangBang, 23, who did the work at Rihanna’s Hollywood home on March 19.

“She has a necklace that I love that I saw about a year ago,” BangBang told PEOPLE. “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.”BangBang has done more of Rihanna’s ink.

“I haven’t done all of her tattoos but the majority,” he said. The two became acquainted when she saw a tattoo he 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.”

Next tat to feed the ink addiction? 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.”