Before she was BadGalRiRi: music fashion and beauty icon Robyn Rihanna Fenty was a little girl in Barbados transfixed by her mother's lipstick. The first time she experienced makeup for herself she never looked back. Makeup became her weapon of choice for self-expression—a way to radiate her ever-changing mood—and it powered a fearless take on beauty that helped her become the boundary-breaking icon she is today.