We can all agree that the blonde hair color trend is working overtime among both Hollywood’s elite, music industry heavy hitters and all kinds of pop stars. And when it comes to Ms.Minaj, she’s no stranger to having a very distinct look whether fans hate it, love it or feel indifferent. Crazy ensembles aside, her trademark hairstyles have turned heads all around the globe. However, we all know Nicki doesn’t care what people think of her. She’s been quoted on how early in high school she learned how to deal with the haters and embrace her own quirks:
“Every time my parents fought, my mother would have us move and I would have to go to a new school, which meant I’d have to face the task of making new friends,” she recalls. “I dreaded it. I had butterflies in my stomach each time: Are people going to like or hate me? Will they talk about me?”
She grew a thick skin, she says, because she didn’t have the choice not to. “I encountered jealous girls a lot—it wasn’t like I had nice clothes, so they couldn’t be envious of that, but they were like, ‘You shouldn’t be that confident,’ ” she reveals. “Sometimes, if I felt like there was a physical threat, I would call my older brother and say, ‘Can you meet me after school because I don’t know what might happen?’ Sometimes there’d be a fight, sometimes not. I let people know I wasn’t going to be pushed around. What it came down to is that the bullies wanted me to bow down to them. And I just wouldn’t.”
Eventually, Nicki created her own strategy for dealing with haters: “I was a jokester. I let everything roll off my back,” she says. “I always felt like I had other things going in my life outside of school, like church and extracurriculars—I was even on the softball team,” she adds with a laugh. When Nicki began freshman year at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, the famed New York City performing arts institution, things finally clicked into place. “It was the first time I felt like I really fit in. Everyone there was creative,” she says. “For once, I didn’t feel like there was something weird about me.” — TEEN VOGUE
Today we take a long look at some of the best and worst Nicki Minaj blonde hairstyles EVER.
Spoiler alert: Her look definitely gets better the further she steps away from the ‘Halloween fashion” of her earlier years.
