From Lil' Kim to Ice Spice, hip-hop artists have been pioneering beauty trends for years.
“She was the contour queen,” recalled Nzingha, Lil Kim’s then-makeup artist. “She contoured everywhere. Sometimes she’d do it without me and I’d come back and just, ‘Girl — that is not what I gave you.'”Lil’ Kim donned fluorescent wigs, heavily lined lips and iridescent eye shadow: She was over-the-top in her glam always, and in doing so proved that female rappers didn’t have to renounce femininity to gain legitimacy in the male-dominated rap game.
Because of her soft glam M.O., it was a shock when Blige appeared wearing bold, dark lipstick in the 1995 music video for “Not Gon’ Cry.”
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