Nicki Minaj, (My hair role model)

NICKI MINAJ, although this is her stage name, many people still refer to her as. Onika Tanya Maraj. she is a female rapper that presents herself as a "black barbie"

Nikci comments on her image and says "[w]hen I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot... and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing."

She saw the rapping industry as something very sexual especially for females in this industry, so when she was growing up she thought she had to also represent something sexual and therefore she would be miss representing herself.  

This especially for me to see a female like Nicki Minaj, who has an different approach to the sexual image that woman are "made" to portray in the rap and music industry. Her hair for me has also been a mixture of how she is staying true to herself, but also showing a bit of  adventure, femininity and also rebellion into what society wants us to believe and behave.

My 10 day intervention I choice Nicki as a role model as she is someone that always has outrageous hairstyles, but also as a public figure she uses her outwards appearance as something that only other people can see and this is not a true reflection of who she is.

Her outfits also match her outrageous hairstyles, but she mainly does this to put on a persona as a public figure, but behind all the fame and public appearances she is an ordinary woman.