Sexy superstar Rihanna is spending the holidays in her native Barbados and on Wednesday she shared some of the warmth by Tweeting a couple of pictures of herself in a new bikini.

She posted an image of just her shadow (which looks pretty hot just by itself!) with the simple message, "#barBADos." Shortly before the shadow pic she shared an image of herself in the skimpy new black bottom & color print top two-piece and puckered up for the camera (pic below), this time with the message "#BARBADOS." We gather she's happy to be home.

The singer, named one of the world's top achievers under the age of 30 in 2011 by Forbes magazine, was recently at the center of a controversy with a Dutch magazine over a racial slur used to describe her that the editor of Jackie Magazine had "intended as a joke." But the joke went too far and Rihanna didn't take kindly to it, thus causing the magazine's editor to resign.

Rihanna also just released a steamy new video for her single, "You Da One." Check it out here.