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Mac Cosmetics Usa Nicki Minaj Onika Tanya Maraj was born on December 8, 1982 in Saint James, Trinidad to mother, Nina and father, Omar Maraj as well as older brother, Jenali. More commonly know as Nicki Minaj, Onika spent the first 5 years of her life living with her extended family in Trinidad. When she was www.macmakeupcheap.com three years old her mother and father left to pursue a better life for their family in the United States. While her parents were gone Nicki lived with her brother, grandmother and cousins. At the age of four Nicki suffered a severe hernia and became hospitalized. Her mother mac cosmetic usa returned to Trinidad and promised Nicki the next time she came back would be to bring Nicki to the US. Keeping her promise, her mother came back for Nicki and her brother a year later and brought them to live in Queens, NY.

In New York, both of Nicki's parents found work and, Nicki states, "I could remember thinking, 'this is how it should be. I should have my brother, my mother and my father' and that was perfect." Soon after, however, Nicki's father lost his job and quickly fell victim to alcoholism and drug abuse. mac cosmetics wholesale usa As an addict, her father abused her mother, stole from her brother, and at one point attempted to burn down their house with her mother inside. While all of this was happening, Nicki found an escape in her imagination. She began creating fantasy worlds in which she would act and assume character roles. Her mother brought her to church in hopes of showing her that keeping faith would help make everything okay. mac cosmetic

In middle school Nicki was cast in a play called 'Keeping the Peace.' The play, which her principal deemed 'one of the best plays' her middle school had put on, opened Nicki up to the world of acting, something she had already had quite a knack for. Soon thereafter Nicki found her niche in 'performing' for her classmates. She would create voices, speak in accents, and role play with her classmates as well as her teachers mac cosmetics wholesale . After middle school, Nicki applied to the LaGuardia School of Performing Arts in New York City. The day of her singing audition, however, she came down with a sore throat and was not accepted to the musical program. Feeling defeated and upset, she made her way down to the drama auditions. There, Nicki claimed, "everyone was like me, I didn't feel weird." She was accepted into the program and soon developed the reputation for being very loud and friendly, but also a bit intimidating. At the end of her senior year at LaGuardia, Nicki was contacted by multiple agents expressing their interest. However, gaining success in acting proved to be much more difficult than Nicki had imagined.

After failing to find work acting, Nicki worked multiple jobs in order to provide for herself. After her nine-to-five shift she would spend every minute in the studio writing songs, making mix CDs, cheap mac cosmetics and bringing them to record labels. Eventually she was fired and decided that she was going to give the music industry "just one last try . I had never given anything my all. And I [said] 'you know what, I don't care if I end up in a shelter - I'm not going back to work."

In 2002 Nicki was recruited by a street act "Hood Stars" and began recording as a solo act. Her first release was titled 'Autobiography' in which she gives a look into her dark childhood. "I wanted to reveal some truth about me and everything I had gone through." After the release, Nicki was contacted by Fendi, mac cosmetics outlet a well known artist on the underground scene, and asked to appear on his DVD "The Come Up." Shortly after the DVD got out to main stream artists, Lil' Wayne took a special liking to the Trinidad native. In 2007 Nicki worked with Lil' Wayne to release a mixtape called "Playtime is Over" which sold like crazy. After relocating to Atlanta, Nicki was signed to Young Money Records, discount mac cosmetics Lil' Wayne's record label, in 2009. Her first major feature "Bedrock" was recorded shortly thereafter, and did wonders for the female rapper in getting her name well known. In a quote from her "hype-man" and rumored boyfriend, Safaree, he says, "the door was so wide open, she just knocked that door down with every feature she did." In 2010 Nicki Minaj became the first female rap artist to have 7 songs of the Billboard Top 100. Later in November of 2010 she released her debut album, Pink Friday, that went Platinum after 5 weeks of sales. Since the release, Nicki has gone on tour with her mentor, and rap superstar, Lil' Wayne, as well as pop artist Britney Spears. Recently Nicki has been spending time on her sophomore album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" set to release on Valentine's Day of 2012. mac cosmetics romania

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Nicki Minaj's childhood is one of which a psychoanalyst would drool over. She had so many influential experiences in her life before she reached the age of double digits. Most importantly, her mac cosmetic usa father's drug addiction had a profound affect on Nicki's childhood. Seeing her father become addicted to drugs and alcohol, abuse her mother, and try to set her house on fire led Nicki to use the repression defense mechanism to remove all the negatives of her reality so she could have an outside way to escape. She found this in her imagination, she would create fantasy worlds and play in them for hours. She would speak in accents, particularly a British accent, and create silly voices for herself. She often used to role play as doctors, school teachers, and even created her own multiple personalities. In middle school Nicki fell into the love of acting, which led her to go on to high school at the LaGuardia School of Performing Arts in New York. As her success continues to grow, Nicki now uses the defense mechanism of regression while performing. She brings herself back to mac cosmetic those times when she would get lost in her imagination and fantasy life, and uses it as musical expression. Specifically, Nicki created "alter egos" when rapping. She has created characters that showcase the extremities of her personality. First, there is Roman, mac cosmetics romania a "young gay boy" that is not afraid to say what is on his mind. Nicki has stated in her documentary with MTV that Roman was born out of rage, she says there was "another voice in me that wanted to speak" (E! True Hollywood Story). Her other well known character is Martha, Roman's mother, who uses a British accent to portray discipline in her rap. Finally, there is Barbie, who is the girlie Nicki and raps in a cheap mac cosmetics stereotypical high voice with valley-girl undertones.

According to Freud, Nicki is fixated at the Latency Stage of Psychosexual Stages of Development. Often overlooked as a significant stage, the Latency period is key in a child's development. In this stage the instinctual drive of a child's sexual and emotional desires, are inaccessible to the Ego. This allowed for Nicki to gain extreme pleasure, instead, in external activities such as her education, social life and hobbies. She used this to explore the dramatic side of her personality by taking part in school plays, singing in church, as well as just acting out with her friends. This stage of Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development is important in the maturation of social skills, self-confidence and, especially in Nicki's case, communication skills.

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Gordon Allport created the Big Five to asses human traits through factor analysis. The five traits he assesses are extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, and neuroticism. After watching an MTV documentary (titled, 'My Time Now'), and E! True Hollywood Story: Nicki Minaj, these traits stuck out like a sore thumb in Nicki. She is very high in extroversion, which is evident in her dominant personality and assertive aura. Her personality shows dominance in that she is consistently over-dramatic, and takes everything she does, or wears, to the next level creatively. She is assertive in her role a female rapper, something that is very hard to come by these days. Due to the scarcity of female rappers in the rap industry, Nicki has to make sure her voice is heard, and sometimes that means being demanding. In 'My Time Now' she is quoted saying "every time I put my foot down and stand up for myself" someone in the industry speaks up about it, she continues "I'm glad you heard [about me]. Now, when I come to a photo shoot, let it be of quality . because I put quality in what I do . so if I turn up to a photo shoot and you've got a fifty dollar clothes budget . I am going to leave . [and] you know what, next time they know better." This quote gives a great look at how assertive Nicki is, and how much she needs to be in her position of power.

In terms of agreeableness, it is evident that this is very high in Nicki Minaj. In her interview in E! True Hollywood Story: Nicki Minaj, she is shown around age 10 saying that she wants to be a nurse when she gets older to "help people less fortunate" than she is. For a young child to say this, especially a child with Nicki's childhood and taking into account her fortune (or lack thereof), it shows her altruism. She shows us again just how selfless and compassionate she is at The Garden of Dreams Foundation at Fuse Studios in New York City by dressing up and calling herself "Nicki Theresa" and claiming to be the 'healer of her fans.' Here, she spoke with and offered advice to many of her loving fans. Most recently, Nicki was on the Ellen Degeneres show with two of her youngest fans, Sophia Grace (8 years old) and Rosie (5 years old). The girls sang for Nicki and she was so blown away that she offered to take the girls, who live in the UK, shopping the next day to buy them school supplies and other things they were in need of.

As a very successful growing artist in the music industry, one would think Nicki would be content with where she is in her life. Yet she is stated in multiple interviews and articles, particularly her article in Cosmopolitan Magazine, the she wants plenty more for herself. When asked by a Cosmo interviewer where she sees herself in five to ten years she responds quickly with "I'll have hundreds of millions of dollars. I will have put out five albums and will have an Oscar and Grammys." In the MTV documentary she touches on the topic of rap 'moguls' and how there seems to be a lack prominent females in power positions, whether it be a rapper or a musician in general. She states "that's what I'm gonna be." With her constant desire to achieve more it is obvious that she is very conscientious of what she does.

Nicki Minaj's vivid imagination reflects her openness. She plays with her imagination in her lyricisms, as well as her physical appearance. She carries this over into her curiosity of the fashion world. She has been quoted in multiple interviews saying that she has a lot on her plate, yet would love to become more heavily involved in the fashion industry (which she has since accomplished, releasing a lipstick with MAC cosmetics, as well as a line of nail polishes by OPI). Additionally, she is a very intellectual person, she excelled in middle school and continued to grow and do well academically throughout high school as well.

If there is one trait, however, that is very low for Nicki Minaj it's neuroticism. Although she is an emotional person, she perseveres through her emotions to make herself stronger, as opposed to letting it bring her down. Her private life, dating and boyfriends, she tends to keep private. She often uses the ever famous line 'no comment' when questioned about who she is dating, or specifically her rumored boyfriend (and hype-man) Safaree. However, Nicki does display slight obsessiveness, which would point to high neuroticism, but only in the fact that she is constantly striving to do better and become something bigger and more influential than she already is.

At the conclusion of my research, and after assessing Nicki Minaj based on Freud's Psychoanalytic Perspective as well as Allport's Big Five Perspective, it is obvious why she was so easily welcomed into the music industry. She brings something so unique to the table, not only in the fact that a female rapper is hard to come by, but also in that she is so painstakingly original. The VP of Young Money Records, was quoted saying she is "nothing like any other female rapper, nothing like trying to sound like [anybody] else. It's her own style." Also quoted is her mentor, founder and CEO of Young Money Records, Lil Wayne. "Nowadays rap is about who you actually are, and who she actually is, is interesting. It's just her personality overall that wins the attention of everybody." So whether it be dawning a stuffed animal as part of her ensemble at the VMA's, or buying a pink Bentley, Nicki Minaj is not a character of simplicity. when she was five years old, watching her father fall victim to drugs and alcohol, mac cosmetics online and finding her only outlet in performing arts, it was evident that Onika Maraj would not lead a normal life. Yet because of her strong personality and desire to do well for herself, she persevered through all the difficult times in her life to make herself the well known, influential role-model she is now.

"I've been led down a lot of dead end roads. For the last ten years of my life I've been telling people 'I'm gonna make it one day, watch, you'll see me' and I definitely think this is it. I mean this isn't the only thing, but this is the beginning. I am on the road to being something thats bigger than me."