Teen sensation Justin Bieber wants us all to know he’s not just the clean living bowl cut little boy who has tweens screaming and stampeding around the world. Bieber, 16, got a tattoo at a parlor in his native Canada. It’s a little bird on his hip, although it’s just a small, barely recognizable outline, and it’s allegedly permanent. Best Week Ever has the news and photos of Beiber getting inked and sporting the tattoo at the beach to prove it. (We don’t have the rights to those photos, but you can see them on Best Week Ever.) Here’s more:

Bestweekever.tv has done the next, most legal thing to laying our hands on Justin Bieber’s tattoo (technically illegal). We’ve got the photos to prove that his tattoo even exists, straight out of the Son of a Gun tattoo parlor in Toronto, Canada, where the 16-year-old Bieber dropped trou to receive his first tattoo, of a small bird on his hip.
Speculation arose alongside teenage shrieks of desire a few days ago when photos of Bieber playing football sans shirt on a Sydney beach surfaced (see gallery below). The small tattoo on his pelvis appears to be … an anvil? No. The Texas Longhorns mascot? OK, what about the plastic bag in American Beauty? Not that either… what’s that? I see.

My sources (internet) have just informed me that the tattoo is of a bird in flight. Turns out it’s a Bieber tradition, as many members of his family sport bird tattoos on their wrist.

Justin’s dad Jeremy Bieber was alongside Justin as the tatt artist went to work, defacing the body of America’s sole angel. And now, that little bird tattoo can spread his little ink wings and fly into the hearts of millions.

We just pray he stops there. Miniature hip tattoos we can cope with, but full sleeves and a dolphin tramp stamp would really ruin kill our hopes of one day birthing a litter of Biebies.

[From Best Week Ever]

Beiber joins Miley Cyrus in getting a tattoo underage, presumably with his parents’ permission. I saw this kid on Oprah last week, and he was nice enough. It’s clear that he’s a whole brand like Miley, though, and that he has an entire team managing his image and career. He told Oprah that his mom will take away his phone to punish him and that if he talks back “she’ll slap me in the face!” I hope he’s kidding. So is this Justin’s way of rebelling against the team of managers and handlers he calls “like a family“? Did his mom sign off on this or did the tattoo studio give him a pass for being underage because he’s famous? This reminds me of another musician who also got started at a young age and favors tiny tattoos – Britney Spears. I’m just saying.