Celebrities from the world of film and music have adopted Chinese tattoos designs for extremely long periods now and have practiced this as a inspirational reason, or displaying the place of their greatest success or announcing their love for another and even the names of their children.

It may possibly appear as a surprise to know that Chinese tattoos were not at all popular in China itself and in fact were seen as the mark of gangsters and mafia who used Chinese tattoos to show their loyalty to a specific criminal gang or to present their level and possibly specialty in the criminal underworld. Tattoo designs were therefore not worn by common people or celebritiesin Chinese traditions.