How Did Alicia Keys Before Famous Alicia Keys Never Wearing Makeup Again
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Alicia Keys took to Twitter today to analyze her position later on her controversial appearance at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards final night.
The Grammy-winning mother of ii honoredMartin Luther King Jr.and spoke pointedly well-nigh equality while presenting All-time Male Video to Calvin Harris—who, not coincidentally, couldn't have achieved what he did on the song without Rihanna.
So Keys, after hearing enough from the twitterverse, felt the need to set the record directly.
"Y'all, me choosing to be makeup free doesn't mean I'k anti-makeup. Do you!" she wrote, punctuating the sentiment with a couple of kiss-blowing emojis and a makeup-costless selfie.
Wait...
What was the controversy once again?
Well, as information technology always turns out, some people on the Internet took issue with the fact that Keys didn't wearable makeup to the VMAs final night. Her perfect skin (she didn't say she was giving upward skincare, simply the stuff that covers it) was all aflame just her blank face still made for an understated look that stood out as quite the statement amid all the heavily made-upwards faces.
Of course, in this day and age, only try making any kind of statement and getting away with it without existence the target of a few choice tweets.
But Keys' look shouldn't take come equally a surprise. She was already at the forefront of the #NoMakeup motion this summer, announcing that she wouldn't be wearing makeup, not just in her daily private life or even during live shows, but onThe Voice. On Television set! Where even the men wear makeup!
She went makeup-free at the Autonomous National Convention, at the BET Awards, in the September issue ofEbony, on the encompass ofGrazia. On all the promotional materials forThe Voice. She made a determination and she's been sticking to it, while inspiring others to dare to go bare in the process.
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"I hope to God information technology's a revolution. 'Crusade I don't want to cover upwards anymore. Not my face up, not my mind, not my soul, non my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing," Keys wrote in an essay forLena Dunham'south Lenny Letter in May, expounding on the diverse kinds of masks we wear for fearfulness of not being accepted.
She talked almost 1 of her new songs, "When a Girl Tin can't Exist Herself," quoting the line "Who says I must conceal what I'm made of / Maybe all this Maybelline is roofing my cocky-esteem."
I couldn't help but think of the 1998TLC vocal "Unpretty" and the lines "You tin can buy all the brand up that 1000.A.C. can make / Just if you tin can't look inside you / Observe out who am I to / Be in the position to make me feel so / Damn unpretty."
Point existence, makeup has been a symbol of sociological ills in a judgmental, male-dominated globe for years—as information technology was for decades before TLC sang about it also. Unlike in 1998, though, with social media being what information technology is, celebrities can attain millions of people at once every time they speak up for a crusade, and the #NoMakeup movement—if not necessarily widely adopted by a lot of people as famous as Keys is—has certainly found an enthusiastic following.
And then with months (if not years) of precedence behind her, why the big to-exercise over Keys skipping makeup at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards (every bit did Alessia Cara—and Kim Kardashian went for the gently made-up no-makeup look)?
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While there were a few particularly nasty tweets, the predominant theme was skepticism, with most naysayers doubting that she reallywas going brand-up gratis (is tinted moisturizer makeup, talk over) and others advising Keys to just get over herself.
"@aliciakeys looks a F--Rex MESS & needs to get TF off the stage," tweeted one young woman. "I'm all for natural beauty but Alicia girl you lot not setting no tendency with this no makeup s--t. Put on concealer & call it a twenty-four hours," added a guy.
"Alicia keys did not wearable one spec of makeup to the VMAs and I wish I was on board with it but I'm just not," wrote another adult female.
The more supportive reactions ultimately ended up winning in a landslide (equally did the defense force of Keys that included nasty jabs at the supposedly ugly women who were obviously jealous that they can't get makeup-costless), just not earlier enough people had weighed in to make the backfire to the #NoMakeup movement come live once over again.
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Are people concerned that...what? The makeup concern is going to endure? That the government'due south going to come for your makeup? That all suddenly you lot'll wake up to find no one in the world wearing makeup and so you lot'll feel like a fraud if you even so desire to conceal a pimple?
And don't worry, guys, this doesn't mean yous have to stop wearing makeup, either.
What we're seeing here is society being so used to something—we're talking deep, deep entrenchment here—that we tin can't get over the slightest whiff of a shift in the force either way. The virtual applause is sweet, as are the compliments virtually how radiant and beautiful Keys looks. The love is certainly nicer than detest.
But it remains a personal preference, and no 1 should feel aback for enjoying makeup any more than they should experience weird aboutnon wearing it.
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In example we hadn't noticed, Meryl Streephas come as close as possible to skipping makeup entirely on the red rug, even at the Oscars, foryears now—all the amend for our tradition of marveling over her unbelievable pare on an annual basis.
Glamour featured a makeup-gratuitous-ish (over again, is a little pearly highlightermakeup-makeup, talk over) Mila Kunis on the back cover of its Baronial issue. TheBad Moms star, apparently relishing the opportunity to not sit in the chair for an hr before a photograph shoot, told the mag, "I don't wear makeup. I don't wash my pilus every day. It'due south not something that I associate with myself. I commend women who wake upwardly 30, 40 minutes early on to put on eyeliner. I think information technology's beautiful. I'g just non that person."
(Actually, whoever'southward taking 40 minutes to put on eyeliner is doing information technology wrong.)
"Y'all tin put yourself out there and non Photoshop yourself or Facetune yourself," Emma Roberts told Allurelast yr virtually posing for underwear line Aerie, which no longer retouches its ad campaigns. "It'south only fine to say, 'Oh, I looked bad in that picture, but that was such a fun day'...I also wanted to evidence people: Aye, there is an Emma Roberts, but there is also 'Emma'! Meaning, non ruby carpet. My hair down. Basically no makeup."
And last summer Tyra Banks relished showing her fans what she looked like on whatsoever given morning sans makeup, assuring them that she normally sported a full face of makeup.
"I wanted to smooth out my dark circles then desperately!!!" she captioned a makeup-gratis selfie. "But I was similar, 'Naw, Ty. Show 'em the REAL you.' So...hither I am. Raw. And there You are...looking at me, studying this picture. Perhaps you lot're thinking, 'Whoa, she looks ROUGH.' And if you are, great! Y'all deserve to encounter the Real me. The REALLY real me. #RawAndReal."
Alicia Keys wrote in May that she was hoping the no-makeup thing would become a revolution—less of a phone call for everyone to be like her and more of an acquittance that it would certainly be an easier choice to stick with if more women did it also, because it's apparently nonetheless headline news when a celebrity goes makeup-gratis.
Only that'southward what separates those who do from those who wait for others to do. Keys went for information technology and, whether anyone else follows suit or at some bespeak she's sporting mascara again, she's made a good point most what a lot of women are expected to do vs. what they actually want to practise.
Here'southward hoping that something we can all agree on wanting is the freedom to live and let alive. Considering makeup is actually just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to respecting other people's decisions.
Source: https://www.eonline.com/news/790899/alicia-keys-stopped-wearing-makeup-and-the-world-is-still-having-a-hard-time-adjusting