Rihanna’s fascination with body art is developing into an obsession – after the gun inked onto her ribcage, she’s had a proverb tattooed onto her collar bone.
The empowering message appears to be entirely for her own benefit, however, because it’s been etched on back to front.
The tattoo reads: ‘Never a failure, always a lesson’ and she’ll be able to take strength from it every time she sees it in the mirror.
The hard-working 21-year-old had it done earlier this week in New York before she flew to London, where she had a date at the Westfield mall yesterday.
Owner and artist Keith ‘Bang Bang’ McCurdy, who drew the tattoo at his East Side Ink parlour, told U.S. magazine OK! Weekly: ‘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.
‘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.”
Because this piece of body art is so personal to Rihanna, the popstar decided she didn’t want this new ink to be as obvious as the ones she already has.
‘She said that she wanted to do it in grey, rather than black, because she wanted it to be more subtle,’ Bang Bang explained. ‘She didn’t want it to draw too much attention.’
But attention is just what Rihanna needs right now, as she sets about plugging her new album Rated R, which went to No.4 last month on the U.S. album charts.
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