Rihanna Never A Failure Always A Lesson Tattoo, Rihanna’s New Tattoo: “Never a failure, always a lesson.” Your girl Rihanna just got herself a new tattoo not too long too ago! She reportedly hit up her favorite tat parlor East Side Ink Monday night (Dec 7) and had the words “Never a failure, always a lesson.” etched across her top right shoulder.

“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.”

The tattoo was most likely written backwards so that it would look legible in a mirror. Continue reading for more shots of the tat!