Alicia Keys has opened up about her famous choice over the years to stop wearing makeup.
In a recent in-depth interview for the magazine’s cover story, the classically trained pianist revealed that the life-changing resolution was born out of a “rebellious” phase. The singer-songwriter has avoided using cosmetics since 2016, choosing to keep her face natural regardless of whether she’s at home or attending a high-profile event.
Alicia Keys’ Soul-Searching Journey Frees Her Society’s Beauty Standards
Nearly three years after she confessed to being “addicted” to makeup, Keys – real name Alicia Augello Cook – has shed more light on her makeup-free journey. The “No One” hitmaker addressed the issue during her chat with InStyle magazine for the issue’s June 2023 cover story on Thursday.
“When I had a moment of rebellion, which the world clearly witnessed with me, I just got to know myself,” the “Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart” singer told the publication’s director, Madeline Hirsch.
She added that she went through “her own experience of really feeling rebellious” about what individuals “tell me, what the world, society tells me, what I should look like because I fall into it, I subscribe to it.”
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The mother of two also shared that her cosmetic-free choice is about knowing who she is and rejecting society’s beauty standards. Ultimately, the Grammy Award winner needs to analyze what he has been taught about how he should act and see, so that he can build a new set of values based on his thoughts and feelings. He stated:
“When I started getting more into that personal relationship with myself, that’s when I started to realize, ‘Okay, it’s not about anything in particular.’ It’s not about makeup or no makeup. It’s not about mascara or no mascara. It’s not about lipstick or no lipstick.”
Elaborating further, Keys stated, “What it means is how you want to express yourself and the space you want to claim for yourself. And what boundaries do you want for yourself?”
As it turns out, thinking about herself prompted her to create her own lifestyle brand, Keys Soulcare, in 2020. The line targets customers who want to “nurture” themselves through a variety of products from makeup, body care to wax. While promoting her InStyle interview on Instagram, the MTV Video Music Award winner wrote to her millions of followers:
“This world is so…. physical. You know, you’re not really taught about the spiritual, the soul, you’re not really taught about how important it is to be a whole person inside. My skin didn’t begin to change until I changed the energy around me, and within me.”
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In November 2021, The Blast detailed that Keys spent her youth with her mother, Terria Joseph, in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. He started taking piano lessons at seven after falling in love with the instrument.
His unique singing voice inspired him to write songs as he grew, eventually setting him up to become a trendsetter in his music career. The Billboard Music Awards winner’s life changed when she met music manager Jeff Robinson, who loved her raw talent and took her under his wing.
Robinson helped him create various demos and songs, which he pitched to music labels until he landed a gig with Columbia Records at age 15. However, the “Empire State of Mind” collaborator’s relationship with the label quickly ended due to differences in the artistic vision of the two parties.
He then briefly joined A&R at Arista Records before moving to J Records, where there were no restrictions on his creative abilities, and he released his debut studio album. “Songs Of A Minor. The project, like her other works including “A Woman’s Worth,” “The Diary of Alicia Keys,” “Unplugged,” “As I Am” and “Girl on Fire,” was widely praised.
Today, Keys has earned a place among the music industry’s highest-grossing artists in the United States. In fact, the lavish home she shares with her husband of nearly 13 years, Swizz Beatz, highlights her rapidly growing net worth. As of 2013, the New Jersey estate, which has 32 rooms, was valued at $12.1 million.
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