Alicia Keys' No Makeup Makeup Beauty Look: Photos
Alicia Keys may be the girl on fire, but she's also the queen of rocking a no-makeup look.
The musician took a break from wearing makeup in 2016, a decision she has since made to help other women feel more comfortable in their own skin. “I realized I was getting addicted to it,” Keys said Glamor Britain in November 2020 about her relationship with makeup. “I didn't feel comfortable without it.”
She later described beauty products as her “armor” in a November 2023 interview with The cutadding that when she didn't have makeup on and her hair wasn't styled, she felt like, “I wasn't as beautiful or just less than.”
Keys has since returned to using makeup and launched her own beauty brand, Keys Soulcare, in 2020. Thanks to her period without makeup, Keys approaches beauty from a different perspective.
“I was just able to recognize that we are perfect the way we are and that doesn't mean you don't have days where you want to be different,” she said The cut. “Some days I'm covered in sweat, I don't care. I put on my sneakers. It's perfect. I love it, I feel great. Some days I think, 'You know what? This is a day where I am ready to show up in any way I can.” And some days you're somewhere in the middle and it's cool.”
Scroll down to see Keys' best makeup looks over the years: