Tattoo artist Keith McCurdy aka Bang Bang has tattooed the likes of Adele and Justin Bieber -- and now has officially opened shop in New York. Enstars caught up with celebrity tattoo artist at his parlor's opening party on Wednesday, where he revealed that he was busy inking New York Knicks players last week.

The double pistol emblazoned on McCurdy's neck is signed off with a cursive 'Bang,' the tattoo which earned McCurdy his, now famous, nickname, Bang Bang. McCurdy is a tattoo artist to the stars and his clientele includes the likes of Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Adele, Katy Perry, Rita Ora, and Cara Delevingne.

The space at 26 Clinton St, New York was abuzz with the chipper flourish of people who came out to show their support and celebrate McCurdy's first tattoo and piercing parlor. One wall was adorned with a bunch of framed prints of kisses by some of McCurdy's famous friends like Perry, Alicia Keys, Alan Cumming, Lenny Kravitz, and Rihanna.

"This opening party is all for our charity event!" he said. (The kisses are up for auction at charitybuzz.com until Sept. 20, and the winners will have the option of getting the kiss tattooed on them by McCurdy. The proceeds will go to Animal Haven and Empty Caged in Brooklyn.)

Rihanna was McCurdy's first celebrity client at the age of nineteen. McCurdy has stated in interviews before, that Rihanna is his favorite celebrity to tattoo, and even after having worked with various other A-listers, he maintains that she will always be his number one.

"My favorite client has got to be Rihanna. She's been a big supporter since I started. I have been tattooing her since we were teenagers. If I had to pick one, and I love them all, she's the one. She's family!" Bang Bang told EnStars.

While Rihanna might be his closest friend and greatest supporter, his recent work with some celebrities has been creatively exhilarating. When asked to pick one of his favorite ideas for a tattoo, McCurdy chose the famous Lion finger portrait he did for English model, Cara Delevingne in May.

"It started with a really simple idea. She wanted to write the word 'lion' down her finger ,and I was like, 'Woah, I don't think that's really sexy. How about we do an image of a lion on your finger, like a piece of jewelry?'" he said. "That has skyrocketed and gotten all this press worldwide and people really love it, so her base idea spawned into a really original one."

Very recently, McCurdy added sports stars to his clientele. He told Enstars that he was busy tattooing New York Knicks basketball players J.R. Smith, Chris Smith, Amar'e Stoudemire, and Iman Shumpert.

"Tattooing sports figures is crazy because I am such a sports fan. Tattooing all the Knicks is amazing. I have become a Knicks fan, and I want to see them succeed now," McCurdy said. The art work was different for each player: J.R. got a pharaoh finger portrait, Chris got a unicorn, and Shumpert got artwork done on both of his forearms.

Bang Bang also inked soccer star, Thierry Henry of the New York Red Bulls, last week. "Thierry got his whole arm done in three days. He is solid as a rock; he is a monster," McCurdy said about his experience.

After having tattooed celebrities from within the realm of music, fashion, and sports, McCurdy suggests that it's hard to name stars he'd like to ink from the entertainment industry as he is spoiled for choice. "There are just so many people I love, it's hard to name few." But there is one outside of the industry he'd absolutely love to ink, "I've been saying it's Barack Obama and I have got to stick to that. I have been wanting to tattoo Obama for years!"

McCurdy's relationship with his celebrity clients is set in permanent ink -- every time he tattoos a celebrity, he asks them to turn the needle back on him and leave their mark.

Earlier this year, Justin Bieber got in to trouble for doing that. Bieber tattooed his trademark, swaggy mouse, on McCurdy's leg. Turns out it was illegal as Bieber didn't have a license, he could've faced a $2000 fine, and the press was all over the story. When asked what came of that, McCurdy just coolly shrugged it off, "Bah, that's no big deal."

After having "bounced around" and worked at different shops in New York, McCurdy is excited about opening his own parlor and hopes to "reinvent the tattoo."

"I am really just trying to bridge style and tattooing. Tattooing is the ultimate fashion, we just haven't realized it yet," he said.

Adding that he also wants to change the grittier image people associate with tattoo parlors. "It is also a service industry, so it has to be very welcoming. I don't think people get that vibe from tattoo shops. I am trying to reinvent that, make sure that people really feel really welcome, comfortable," he said.