
But it's about the choices she's making and the products she's using. She comes from a very strong place and she comes from a very kind place. It's also about how you process your energy.
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"Alicia gets regular facials, does acupuncture and she eats healthy and exercises," Keys' makeup artist Dotti told W in October 2016. "She knows you have to invest internally for your skin to look great externally. Rest-assured, folks, it takes effort to look that good bare-ish-faced. Do you!" she reminded the world via Twitter after an appearance at the 2016 VMAs.
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"Y'all, me choosing to be makeup free doesn't mean I'm anti-makeup.
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Some people claimed to feel judged, as if Keys was taking a holier-than-thou stance on cosmetics use, while home audiences watching her on TV couldn't help themselves in recommending that she resume covering up. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. In May 2016, she famously stopped wearing eyeliner-and every other kind of makeup, writing on Lenny Letter, "I hope to God it's a revolution. In 2012, Keys said eyeliner was her makeup must-have. She blamed Keys, and wrote as much in an open letter to the singer in 2009. Mashonda didn't blame Sabastian for the end of her marriage anyway. "I only reached out with official paperwork after I have found out that the divorce had already been filed for totally different reasons that had nothing to do with my child and I." ".I had to put my pride aside to give my child a chance to have a relationship with her father, however it had to happen at the right time," she said. The U.K.-based performer didn't tell him she was pregnant at first because she didn't want to be blamed for ending his marriage or have her daughter have to deal with that negativity. Sabastian told in 2014 that Swizz saw Nicole three or four times a year and was a good dad. Keys was by Swizz's side when he went to London to take a paternity test in 2009. He and Tifrere also separated in 2008, finally divorcing in 2010. His third child, daughter Nicole, is with British singer Jahna Sabastian-and he didn't know about her until a year after she was born in 2008. In the meantime, Swizz had a son, Prince Nasir, with Nicole Levy in 2000. He married singer Mashonda Tifrere, the mother of his son Kasseem Jr., in 2004. It was a very slow burn, but it does still burn and it's beautiful." He and I used to hang out and say things like, 'Maybe we'll work together one day.' It's cute that we knew each other when we were 16 but it was not an instant connection. "We first met when we were something like 16-a high-school friend of his ended up being managed by the same people as me. "We were both in the same industry," Keys told the Daily Mail in 2012. Keys married Kasseem Dean-aka prolific record producer and rapper Swizz Beatz-in July 2010 in a small ceremony officiated by Deepak Chopra on the French island of Corsica. When her grandmother got sick, "I realized wasn't an evil person so I said, 'Can we start from this point on? Can we be friends? I can start to understand you and you can start to understand me.'" I was angry then and am sure I had the right to be angry, but if you hold on to all this anger the only person you're hurting is you." He was with Egypt last week and he loved it.I would say in the process of growing up you realize you've been holding on to anger. There's less pressure on the relationship, so maybe it's closer. I think something happens when you become a grandparent. Recently I feel both me and my father have grown up.


"Daughters are often closer to their fathers," she reflected to the Daily Mail in 2012. In 2006, however, after her paternal grandmother, whom she did remain close to, died, she let her father back into her life.

Probably, it was better for me this way." "It made me mad, made me angry," she told The Guardian in 2001. "But it helped show me what a strong woman my mother was, and made me want to be strong like her. Keys' parents split up when she was 2 and, growing up, she didn't have a relationship with her father, Craig Cook, a flight attendant. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor." These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. "In the '80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. "Times Square was dark-gee, it was dismal," Keys told The Guardianin 2016. Family MattersĪlicia Augello-Cook hails from the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, where she was raised by her mother, Teresa Augello, an Italian-American legal secretary and actress who exposed her daughter at an early age to jazz and classical music and had her in piano lessons by the time she was 7. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock 1.
