Wed, 09 December 2009 at 9:50 am

Rihanna's New Chest Tattoo: Never A Failure, Always A Lesson

Rihanna got some new ink at NYC tattoo parlor East Side Ink earlier this week.

“She came in at about 2:00 A.M.,” East Side Ink owner and artist Keith “Bang Bang” McCurdy tells OK!. “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.”

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.”

WHAT DO YOU THINK of Rihanna’s new tattoo — HOT or NOT?

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# 1

lisa @ 12/09/2009 at 9:52 am

first?

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Sammyjo @ 12/09/2009 at 9:54 am

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Hate her! I wish her 15 minutes would hurry up and be over! She’s just trashy!

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Zoe @ 12/09/2009 at 9:56 am

NOT!! This is NOT coo, itt’s ugly and it will look worse as she gets older. It’s a good motto but what is the point of tatooing it on your body or are you too stupid to remember it.

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T @ 12/09/2009 at 9:57 am

HOT!!

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Lilly Pie @ 12/09/2009 at 9:58 am

Can’t stand this chick and I’ve never liked her songs. She thinks she’s sooo hot but she’s freak’n ugly and looks like a alien. She must be too stupid to remember the motto to have it tatooed on.

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baby @ 12/09/2009 at 10:04 am

Great tattoo. More celeb & Angelina tattoos on angelinajolie.forumotions.com

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Y @ 12/09/2009 at 10:05 am

Well…the tattoo’s okay and everything, but the the photos are kinda annoying - too ‘pose-y’. Why can’t she just smile? She’d look much nicer.

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Ice @ 12/09/2009 at 10:07 am

She is too young to be inking her body up so much.

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Fyn @ 12/09/2009 at 10:07 am

Tatoos are so yesterday!
Once every Tom, **** and Harry sport a taatoo, the appeal is gone!

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oh snap @ 12/09/2009 at 10:08 am

It’s trashy like her.

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ganymede30324 @ 12/09/2009 at 10:08 am

Considering that she cannot commit to a hairstyle or color, is it really wise to invest in permanently marking her body?

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Catalina @ 12/09/2009 at 10:09 am

-1

She always looks so dirty.

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MISS INDEPENDENT!! @ 12/09/2009 at 10:10 am

THIS IS UNBELIEVEABLE… I GOT THAT SAME TATTOO ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY CHEST!! I LOVE THE TATTOO ON HER CHEST TOO!! THIS IS SOOO GREAT!!

WHY IN GODS NAME WOULD YOU SPENT YOUR TIME TO POST A REACTION ON RIHANNA’S TOPICS?? HA, TELL ME?!

YOU JUST SAY YOU HATE HER OR THAT YOU’RE SICK AND TIRED OF HER, BUT THIS PROVES THAT Y’ALL NOT “BIG-RIHANNA-HATERS” BUT “OBSESSIVE-RIHANNA-LOVERS”!!!

YOUR CAUGHT IN A BAD ROMANCE, BABY!!
I WANT YOUR LOVE AND ALL YOUR LOVERS REVENGE… YOU AND ME COULD WRITE A BAD ROMANCE!! HAHA…

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yes @ 12/09/2009 at 10:10 am

She is going to look a mess when she’s 50.
All those ugly tats.

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enoughalready @ 12/09/2009 at 10:11 am

Rihanna needs thereapy and not because of Chris. Rihanna cant take what she put out when she was laughing at other individuals who had actual talent and did not make it when their CD came out. They knew from the start this girls talent was limited to only looks, they got away with it with the others and GGGB and thought they had fooled everyone! Not So! Now she is getting a much needed wake up call and she wants to tat her self with that slogan, if that’s how she wants to mask a FLOP then so be it. She will regret it in the end! What the World needs now is TALENT from you not walking the streets plotting! They better stop her from doing live performances cause that’s the problem! You know it’s getting ready to get worst when the HARD video comes out looking a hot mess!

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lol @ 12/09/2009 at 10:13 am

@MISS INDEPENDENT!!: You stans are delusional. Good luck in buying those extra CDs! lol.

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hotlanta @ 12/09/2009 at 10:15 am

She needs to lose that silly cap.

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kick me @ 12/09/2009 at 10:18 am

It looks good !! .. but I wrote my opinion yesterday at the other Rihanna post !! .. Even the motto doesn’t it change that much !! ..

“I don’t fail” !! .. That’s a HARD tattoo !! ..

@JJ .. you thinking ?! .. I wrote in a Rihanna post yesterday and today again ?! .. overexposure ?? ..

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Sway @ 12/09/2009 at 10:18 am

Agree, she does need therapy. She hits NY and makes a beeline to get a new tattoo and makes sure she’s photographed so it hits the pages of OK magazine. The girl is too attention-seeking. Something is not right. She probably calls the paps on herself.

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elisa @ 12/09/2009 at 10:21 am

another tatoo??? she already looks awful whith the others
sorry but too many tatoos looks trashy, and even moore in a girl

what is going on whith her???
it seems that chris brown cause her brain damage because she doesn´t seems to be the same since that incident

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nyro @ 12/09/2009 at 10:21 am

Ugly tat.

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MAC @ 12/09/2009 at 10:22 am