Nicki Minaj

Why Nicki Minaj Spent $50K a Month on Labels

Courtesy of VOGUE

For Trinidad-born, Queens-raised rapper Nicki Minaj, cultivating her larger-than-life style required some trial and error.

“I was dressing in Tommy Hilfiger baggy shirts and Boss jeans,” she tells Vogue of her high school wardrobe.

It took meeting someone who “dressed like a tiny lady — pantsuits, heels, lots of makeup” to inspire her to experiment. “I had never seen myself made up before. I didn’t want to wash it off,” she says. “I felt like I had one day to live this fantasy of being a glamour girl.”

Years later, she’s trademarked a kind of Gaga-on-Prozac look: wigs, mega lashes (“When I don’t have my lashes, I feel naked,” she says) and a whole lot of color. And while the majority of her wacky looks are custom made by Japanese designers including Shojono Tomo, Minaj is not unfamiliar with brand names.

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Go Behind the Scenes with Nicki Minaj and Ricky Martin for M.A.C

Nicki Minaj has always wanted to be a M.A.C Viva Glam girl. So when she got the chance to work with Ricky Martin on the brand’s latest campaign, needless to say she was floored.

“I wanted to hug everyone that worked at M.A.C for giving me this opportunity,” she says in the clip above.

The R&B star and her sexy Latin counterpart, announced as the faces of M.A.C’s HIV/AIDS awareness campaign last year, shot their ads with photographer David LaChapelle last July. The clip above explores their shoot — and spotlights the cause.

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