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Rihanna inks new look

Rihanna  is not the kind of starlet who wants a cute butterfly tattoo on her ankle. The “Disturbia” singer has gotten attention for her choice of body ink before, and recently had a gun tattooed on her rib cage.

Now, Rihanna is back with another flashy piece of body art. OK! magazine this week posted photos on its website of the singer with her new tattoo which reads “Never a failure, Always a lesson.” Rihanna has inked the phrase under her right collarbone, written backward.

The 21-year-old Rihanna reportedly wanted the phrase, which is a personal motto of hers, written backward so that she can read it to herself when she looks in the mirror.

Now that Rihanna has moved on from her relationship with singer Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty in June to assaulting her, the Barbados-born singer seems to have her career back on track, releasing an album called “Rated R” that debuted at  No. 4 last month on the U.S. album charts.

Meanwhile, Brown’s album “Graffiti” came out on Tuesday,  to mixed reviews.

What do Fan Fare readers think of Rihanna’s new tattoo? What should be her next ink job?

Lindsay Lohan speaks with her finger — no not that one

Actress Lindsay Lohan appeared before a judge on Friday to explain why she had not regularly attended her alcohol education program. LiLo was mostly quiet, letting her attorney do the talking, but a photo from the hearing shows she had something to say with her index finger.

The word, “Shhh…” was tattooed on the digit. It’s been there for awhile, but this photo from the courtroom shows how the tattoo can add drama to even the most mundane of gestures.

Perhaps in a case like this one, where LiLo is dealing with the aftermath of a pair of drunken driving arrests, the actress would like everyone to follow her tattoo’s lead and hush up about the case.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel no doubt had the media scrutiny of LiLo in mind when she told the actress, “Your life is followed — it’s not as if you can just hide out.”

LiLo’s appearance in the Beverly Hills courtroom came after paparazzi photographers spent the morning pressed against the windows outside, waiting for a chance to take shots of her going through the security entrance.

The hearing was delayed more than an hour as the courtroom waited for LiLo to show up. During that time, Revel showed herself to be quite an entertaining judge, and got the reporters tittering by pulling out a giant, 4-foot gavel and chatting about “Balloon Boy” , the reality show “Jon & Kate Plus Eight” and the time a baseball landed in her lap at Dodger Stadium.

When she walked into the courtoom, LiLo was wearing sunglasses and holding hands with her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley. During the hearing, Holley explained to the judge that LiLo had fallen behind on her alcohol education program because she had several projects going. LiLo these days is spending her time narrating a BBC documentary about human smuggling, recording an album for Universal Music Group and overseeing her fashion line, Holley said.