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Here’s What Keyshia Cole’s Tattoos Say About Her

Keyshia Cole is not your typical R&B songstress. The singer is covered in a host of tattoos showing she’s anything but a silver spooned-performer and also that she keeps her family and faith in the forefront of her life.

Here is a sampling of five sets of ink that Cole has gotten as she’s risen up the ranks of success.

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Keyshia Cole sports an inked reminder to “Have Faith” just below her right ear. (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

Keeping the Faith

Cole has a small red heart tattooed just behind her right ear with the words, “Have Faith” below it. “I feel strongly and deeply that my faith got me here, that its how I accomplished my dreams,” she told Urban Ink of her faith-based ink.

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Keyshia Cole has a memento in ink of firstborn son Daniel Gibson Jr. on her left forearm. (Photo: Prince Williams/FilmMagic)

Her Firstborn Son

Cole is now a mother of two, having welcomed son Tobias Khale with boyfriend Niko “Khale” Hale. But she previously got some ink to commemorate her firstborn son, Daniel Gibson Jr., whom she welcomed in 2010 with former NBA player and her ex-husband Daniel Gibson. The tat on the singer’s left forearm reads “Daniel Jr” with red hearts on either side of it.

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Keyshia Cole’s “Truly Blessed” tattoo on her left shoulder ostensibly represents how she feels about the positives in her life. (Photo: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images)

Truly Blessed

Keeping up with the theme of faith, Cole has a tattoo that reminds her she’s “Truly Blessed.” The ink is on her left shoulder in a script font and is on top of a line of blue stars and a single butterfly.

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Keyshia Cole’s stake-though-a-heart tattoo cover most of her right upper arm. (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

A Stake Through the Heart

In another reminder of the good in her life, Cole has a grayscale tattoo of a heart with a stake through it as red blood drips out of the organ. The entire thing is enclosed in a star shape on her upper left arm. She said to Urban Ink that it “symbolizes my religion” and “the star behind it also symbolizes everything I am.”

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Keyshia Cole (detail of tattoo) has her initials tattooed on her left wrist. (Photo: Prince Williams/FilmMagic)

Tooting Her Own Horn

There’s no shame in feeling confident and Cole showed that with a grayscale tattoo of roses, clouds and smoke on her left wrist. The designs surround her initials K.C., which she explained to Urban Ink is “because I’m hot.”

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