Nicki Minaj's Beauty Secrets

Many your megastar will turn up for an meeting clad in denim or even a casual dress in order to appear more down-to-earth. Not Nicki Minaj. When we fulfill in a hotel room overlooking Innovative York's Union Square after the unveiling of Minaj's M.A.T Viva Glam lipstick, the little chart-topper looks as though she simply beamed down from planet Exhibit Yourself. It's hard to know where you should look first: the shoulder-length brown wig dotted with light redoutfit, or the fox-fur-embellished Louboutin stilettos. Minaj's fondness with regard to wackadoo fashion, Day-Glo makeup, and cartoonish hair extensions? aso several wigs? ahas established her, along with Coo and Katy Perry, as one of the most colorful and fun-to-watch ladies currently top the hit parade.

Include long have you been into refining your look?
I was always empowered by people who did wild stuff but didn't always have the balls to do it myself. At this point I can't leave it alone. Besides my wigs, I get bored. I can't believe I used to have on the same hairstyle every day of the year.


When did the hairpiece love begin?
When I achieved a person who could do them. I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one who could pass for a incorporate. And I have an amazing hair stylist [Terrence Davidson]. I could literally tell him to place a jukebox on my head, and hubby would figure it out.

What's the most high-maintenance portion of your beauty routine?
The eyes, because they're the one thing I require my makeup artist to complete. I don't have the patience, the hands shake, and I clutter everything up. So my makeup artist has to do my brows and lids and lashes. Everyone knows I'm a new lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I believe naked.

Are they extensions or even strips?
Today I'm wearing bunches. I used to wear the individual eye-lash, but those became hence time-consuming. We needed to figure out a lot easier way, so my cosmetics artist has been experimenting with slicing lash strips in half and piling them on top of the other person.

What's the best tip a makeup artist has taught an individual?
I contour by using a lighter shade of foundation within my eyes instead of concealer. I take it down in a triangle by the sides of my own nose, and then apply dry on top. I don't do round, rosy cheeks; that's for old people. It's played out. I enjoy the color to be like a diagonal line across the cheekbone up to this temples. It really changes the form of my face.


What's always in your makeup bag?
We can't see myself without light red lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there seemed to be no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously. And also a good white pencil cheaper than the eye, just inside the casing. It helps you look like you're with.

How do you keep your skin who is fit while touring?
I acquire my makeup off quickly. If I don't, I'll wake up and be just like, Oh my God! because I'll have got breakouts.

And on days off?
I'll however wear pink lipstick, along with perhaps some lip conditioner.

Your nails are surprisingly easy.
My nails used to be, just like, a mile long, with all these kind of crazy designs on them. The reason why I stopped doing that was mainly because one time, when I was generating from New York to Altlanta ga, I hit my hand upon something and it ripped off your nail and the skin. I did to pull over I was around so much pain and stay in the $50 motel where the truckers slumber. I vowed I would never ever get long nails once more.