She explains her Tragique Voice Promo Posters and DRAGS ATRL.
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Alicia Keys explains 'empowering' decision to stop wearing make up
The pressures to conform to typical airbrushed beauty standards in the entertainment industries are being met with a steady rebuttal. The rise of models who vary in size, the high-profile women calling out publications for Photoshopping them and the amount of women in the public eye posting pictures of them not wearing any make up are all testament to this.
“Every time I left the house, I would be worried if I didn’t put on makeup: ‘What if someone wanted a picture? What if they POSTED it?,” she wrote. “These were the insecure, superficial, but honest thoughts I was thinking. And all of it, one way or another, was based too much on what other people thought of me.”After gaining confidence and overcoming these insecurities through meditation and working on her new album, Keys partook in a no-make-up photo shoot, which formed the artwork accompanying her latest single. She says the results left her feeling “the strongest, most empowered, most free and most honestly beautiful that I have ever felt”.
I don't have an issue with people wearing makeup (and people who go on about 'natural beauty' all the time are the worst) but I totally support Alicia's choice to not wear it. Confident queen!
