Nicki Minaj Goes Blue For Vogue's March 2012 Issue (PHOTOS)

Is that a Smurf? A female version of Skeeter from "Doug"? Some sort of Disney character incarnate?

No, it's Nicki Minaj!

The singer makes a very bright appearance in March's issue of Vogue (the one with Adele on the cover!), wearing her signature pink hair in curls and a very sexy fuchsia gown and gloves as she poses for Steven Klein.

Oh yeah, and as you might notice -- she's blue.

We suspected we'd see Minaj grace the pages of Vogue someday. After all, she's been on something of a fashion tear lately, hitting New York Fashion Week parties and wearing a headline-making nun outfit at the Grammys.

But she tells the magazine that when she was in high school in Queens, she wasn't so attuned to fashion until a chance encounter:

"I was dressing in Tommy Hilfiger baggy shirts and Boss jeans, but then I met a person who dressed like a tiny lady—pantsuits, heels, lots of makeup. I thought she was larger than life. She once did my makeup—I had never seen myself made up before. I didn’t want to wash it off; I felt like I had one day to live this fantasy of being a glamour girl.”

Click over to Vogue.com to read more of Nicki's interview, including what shoes she once spent $50,000 a month on.

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Comments

[BeBop33]

09:29 AM on 02/24/2012

it's past tense for 'blows'...

[ebby811]

04:40 AM on 02/24/2012

Im a huge fan of hers!!! I love her voice! SHe looks great in blue wish I looked like her :(

[deejhw]

02:00 PM on 02/23/2012

When you don't actually have talent (anyone can scream into a microphone), you have to come up with ridiculous ways to get attention.

[squiddypie8]

01:08 PM on 02/23/2012

With alot of make up and imagination, any ugly old girl can be in Vogue if she can.

[Diane Molinari]

12:53 PM on 02/23/2012

I saw and heard her on the grammys and that was enough for me ,no talent at all

[ljsurf322]

12:39 PM on 02/23/2012

AWESOME photo! I love it, even though I'm not much of a fan and hate rap (although, for those trying to claim she has no talent, I did watch a special about her on TV about her rise years ago out of curiosity...she worked hard, and I'd like to see all of you try to rap like her).

[ShrynF]

11:56 AM on 02/23/2012

Overrated and talentless

[Leah Kaliszewski]

11:41 AM on 02/23/2012

That is an awesome pic of her. Very artistic, very good photography and hair/makeup. Also, Adele looks fine as he!! also in that Vogue pic.

[Rachetwench]

11:21 AM on 02/23/2012

Lol! Y'all are such haters! It's just about being, well, blue. Nothing more complicated than that!

[mspat44417]

12:18 PM on 02/23/2012

No it's about her being no talented useless..

[Leepconsult]

11:06 AM on 02/23/2012

I feel sorry for this girl. She doesn't know WHAT ELSE to do to bring attention to herself. Just nobody told her this is attention "not in a good way." Perhaps she is a believer in the saying "I don't care what they are saying about me, as long as they're talking about me." Misguided and lost.

[Lindsey Tyler]

10:51 AM on 02/23/2012

She looks good, blue.

[Rachetwench]

11:24 AM on 02/23/2012

Exactly. Blue. Ha.

[JJblk]

10:48 AM on 02/23/2012

Very Pretty

[songwriter704]

10:16 AM on 02/23/2012

OOMPA-OOMPA-OMMPA-TEE-OOMP !!!

[360Dunk]

10:15 AM on 02/23/2012

She looks ready for a Minaj a trois with Huckleberry Hound and a blue whale.

[kaysquare]

10:10 AM on 02/23/2012

Does this girl actually have any talent (other than looking as bizarre as possible)???