By Claire Sulmers on Apr 12th 2010 4:57PM
Filed under: Celebrity Style
Like it or not, the self-proclaimed 'Harajuku Barbie'
Nicki Minaj has had quite an effect on the style of a slew of young, fashionable followers:
Though she has yet to release a full album, the female MC has single handedly sparked a 'Barbie' movement, thanks to her outrageous wardrobe and signature bubble gum style. Tweens are now racing to purchase candy pink lipgloss,various banged wigs, and nameplate necklaces in an effort to mimic her charm. The Nicki Minaj effect is so far reaching, it even inspired a facebook group with over 3,000 fans called, "
You are not Nicki Minaj, please stop!". A sampling of over 50 pictures shows girls with Nicki Minaj's style down to a T.
The most outspoken Nicki Minaj fans have taken to Youtube to show off their style and skills. In the video below (which has attracted over 37,000 viewers), a young lady who calls herself 'Sammygirlification" preens in front of the camera with pale pink gloss, a revealing top, and long hair weave. Before launching into a rap, however, she maintains that to be a fly girl, one must have lipgloss, hot shoes, and be 'white and bourgeois': The video highlights a disturbing twist in the Nicki Minaj trend: do girls simply want to preen to be 'cute' and bubbly? Or is the Nicki Minaj effect encouraging girls to aspire to a somewhat fake, artificial ideal?
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By: mario on 4/14/2010 12:48AM
and these are the black woman i have to chose from damn and she looks like a lil kim knock off
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By: ralph on 4/14/2010 12:05PM
I like Nicki Minaj, but I hope that these teenage girls obsession with Nicki comes to an end by the time they grow up, the same way mine did with Rocky and Rambo.
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By: kool on 4/14/2010 12:35PM
who would wanna be nicki minaj fake ass??
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By: ralph on 4/16/2010 9:37AM
Nicki Minaj's fake ass probably looks better than most of the women you've had. If you showed me some pictures of all your former girlfriends, I'm sure their pictures would prove I'm right.
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By: KANDY on 4/14/2010 1:32PM
KIDS WATCH T00 MUCH T.V. THAT SHIT 0N VIDE0S ARE N0T REAL. AND WHAT THE HELL IS NIKKI MINAJ WEARING.
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By: meanvee on 4/14/2010 9:37PM
I'm sorry, but what is her claim to fame? some how i missed all the hoopla.
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By: Chuckdeezul on 4/15/2010 11:16AM
So, this is what it's come to? Huh? Little girls who drank Similac as a child, with all of the steroids & growth hormones now have these ridiculous shapes, Fugly wigs and stilts that they walk on. Imagine, the people that they marry find out what they REALLY look like. I think about the movie 'I'm Gonna Get You Sucka' when Anna Marie Johnson started to disrobe and started taking limbs, wigs, TEETH and everything else off. Ewww.
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By: "DimePiece" on 4/15/2010 12:38PM
Nicki has a NEGATIVE AFFECT for the young youths! This is SAD and so INNAPROPRIATE! These girls look up to her as a role model? Ms. Fake plastic Barbie thinks that havin your breast all out and butt, wearin fake hair, caked on ridiculous clown make-up, wearin the tightest clothes, or being half dressed is a positive image for OUR YOUNG YOUTH? I DON'T THINK SO! So, lookin like this will get you where you need to be in life? The woman can't rhyme, more like stupid nursery rhymes. I can't stand when she bats her eyes and when she is in Barbie Robotic Mode! I wish she would stop makin those OOGLY FACES in every DAMN VIDEO!!!!! This is not TALENT and she will not go to far in the music industry, fo sure! Maybe in ADULT INDUSTRY! PLAIN GARBAGE! Artist like Niki, Trina, Princess, and many others, Clean up your acts!!!!!! Enuf is ENUF, people!
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By: "DimePiece" on 4/15/2010 9:21PM
Hey young girls out there, just BE YO SELF! No need to be lookin like Ms. Barbie Plastic! She doesn't care about yall? All she cares is the FAME and FORTUNE, buyin her music, watchin her on the tube, and being at her wack concerts!
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By: diamond on 4/16/2010 12:27PM
yea yea whatever its her style i dont knock anyone who wants to flaunt what they have we all were teenagers at one time and i have to say when i was 16 17 i wanted to dress like lil kim so we all go through our stages
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