Let’s start with the big, obvious ones on Styles' chest. On his sternum, Styles has a large butterfly, which he got in 2013. The butterfly reportedly symbolizes an early transformation for Styles, though the exact meaning hasn’t been discussed. Under his left armpit is an empty bird cage, two theater masks, and the acronym “ SNCL,” which stands of “smile now cry later.”

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Styles’ tattoos are often disparate—individual pieces representing family members, music references, and personal experiences, as well as just aesthetic interests and terrible on-camera choices.

Over each collarbone, Styles wears a date: 1957 on his right and 1967 on his right. The dates are the birth years of both Styles’ parents. And on each shoulder, he wears a cursive “ g” and “ A,” the “ g” standing for his sister Gemma and the A for his mom, Anne. Two swallows face one another on Styles' pecs. “I like that kind of style of tattoos, like the old sailor kind of tattoos,” Styles told Us Weekly. The swallows are sometimes tattooed one at a time for the departure and return of a voyage. “They symbolize traveling, and we [One Direction] travel a lot!” In an interview with James Corden during his One Direction days, Styles said he even gave himself at least one tattoo. “I’ve got a couple stupid ones. I don’t know if I regret them so much,” he admitted. How stupid? “I mean, I wrote ‘big’ on my big toe,” Styles said, laughing. The musician got his first tattoo on his eighteenth birthday in 2012, choosing to ink the outline of a star on his left bicep. The star was later filled in. Since then, Styles has averaged around seven new tattoos a year. We now commence to identify them all. Join us on this important journey.