Singer Alicia Keys chose to go make-up free at MTV Video Music Awards as she honoured Martin Luther King with a poem about racial and gender equality. But for Alicia Keys, hitting the red carpet without makeup is a statement.
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The 35-year-old performer was joined at the event by her husband Swizz Beatz. The star paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech before announcing Calvin Harris as the victor.
And that’s exactly what Alicia Keys did as she stepped out onto the white carpet, glowing without a scrap of make-up sending out a message more powerful than anything seen on the carpet before.
The “Girl on Fire” singer had promised to “approach [beauty] differently” in an essay for Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter in May.
The Grammy-award winning artist is also joining as a judge on “The Voice” and is sticking to her makeup free stance.
Finally, Keys made a decision to adopt a new makeup-free mantra, “I hope to God it’s a revolution”, the songwriter said, “Cause I don’t want to cover up anymore”. “What if they POSTED it???” “We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, I hate this, I wish that were different – from something minor like “I have a pimple today” to something major like “I don’t want to live anymore because I don’t think I’m good enough, ‘” Cara said in Glamour ” s September issue.
“Maybe we could love somebody, instead of polishing the bombs of holy war”.
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“I hope that one day, men and women truly are equal”. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. “And all of it, one way or another, was based too much on what other people thought of me”.
