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PHOTOS: Rihanna Inks Her New Motto Onto Her Chest

December 8th, 2009 4:13 pm / Author: Oliver Coleman
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Rihanna Dec. 8Say what you will about Rihanna, but the woman doesn’t do things halfheartedly. Last night, the Rated R singer headed to NYC tattoo parlor East Side Ink — one of her favorites — and had her personal motto etched indelibly into her skin forever.

“She came in at about 2:00 A.M.,” East Side Ink owner and artist Keith “Bang Bang” McCurdy tells OK! exclusively. “She told me in advance she’d be coming, and then when she got there, she told me what she wanted: ‘Never a failure, always a lesson,’ but written backwards.”

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Bang Bang continues, “I asked her why she wanted that and she said, ‘It’s kind of my motto in life for everything.’ Instead of considering things to be mistakes, considering them lessons.”

He explains that RiRi, who he says is “doing great,” wanted the phrase done in backwards writing so she would be able to read it in the mirror.

Because this piece of body art is so personal to Rihanna, the pop superstar decided she didn’t want this new ink to be as obvious as the ones she already sports. “She said that she wanted to do it in gray, rather than black, because she wanted it to be more subtle,” explains Bang Bang. “She didn’t want it to draw too much attention.”

Of course, Rihanna already drew enough attention to Bang Bang and East Side Ink earlier this year. Back in July, she caused a bit of a problem when she took tattoo needle in hand and inked him and a couple other patrons during a late-night session.

And then, only a few weeks later, ex-boyfriend Chris Brown paid a visit to East Side and did the exact same thing!

Photo Source: Courtesy East Side Ink
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The Discussion

  1. daddycool says:

    that’s enough tattoos, Show Booby Shooby,Booty Wooty

  2. stephanie becton says:

    i think err body need to lay of that chris brown stuff he jus as human as anybody else i mean ion see yaw talkin bout stuff that need to be address but ya wana talk about this in i anit all his faught she had to do somthing to make him mad so err body need to stop messin wit dat man and stop makin rihana fill like she anit do nothing she jus as guilty as chris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! still gat mad love for you chris

  3. xxadisaxxnoone says:

    RIHANNA FUCK YOU CHRIS IS HAVE RIGHT TO BEATING YOU

  4. itsmeeh says:

    DAMN…. she need to stop playn the victim role. We get it Chris beat ur ass. But why u tryna make $$$$ off of it? U doin too much honey! Its not gonna make ur album sell.

  5. brazil says:

    She went thru what 69% of 100 womem goes thru….I just think is cool what she did, i might get a tatoo like that too in diferent laguage…who ever went thru what she’s been thru, would love to be famous to do the same thing she did!(show everbody hes a piece of S…) You’re on the right direction Rih

  6. Alex says:

    You cannot possibly believe that she ”deserves” what she got, because she had made him mad??!!Wow.Since when the only way of retaliation is to beat someone up? If that was the case, I’d say half the population would have to permanently check into a hospital. Any man who beats a woman is a coward and a pathetic excuse for a human being.

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