Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and soulful singer-songwriter Alicia Keys are the last two people we’d expect to be in a stoush together.
But here we are. And it all has to do with Alicia applying a touch of mascara. Or lipstick. We’re not sure — the details aren’t quite clear.
If you haven’t been paying attention, Keys decided she’d stop wearing makeup early last year. She even wrote about the decision in Lena Dunham’s Lenny newsletter, describing the moment she realised she no longer wanted to hide behind a full face of makeup.
Her big bold decision became a movement and prompted the viral hashtag #nomakeup.
From then on, Keys appeared in magazines and on red carpets and television shows with a bare-looking face.
But it seems her radiant glow might not just come down to eight hours of sleep and lots of water.
Adam Levine, who is a judge alongside Keys on the US version of The Voice, told Howard Stern that he busted the singer breaking her #nomakeup rule.
“She’s, by the way, so great,” Levine pointed out before beginning his anecdote. “She was putting on a little bit of makeup … and I was like, ‘Oh, I thought Alicia doesn’t wear makeup’ and she’s like, ‘I do what the f*ck I want.’ I love you so much.”
It’s not the first time Keys has been outed bending the rules with her no makeup revolution. Last year, her makeup artist revealed the secrets behind the star’s face. As expected, there is some makeup involved — just not the layers usually applied to a celeb before they step in front of cameras.
“Compared to the world of makeup, there is minimal. She’s already powerful to look at, with those amazing Cleopatra-shaped eyes, and now we get to see them!” Dotti, the one-name make-up artist to celebs, told W Magazine. She admits that she fills Keys’ brows, enhances her freckles, applies self-tanning serum to her cheeks for glow and takes away shine using a matte powder.
And when it comes to Keys’ more natural approach to skincare, it’s still quite the process, involving applying cucumber pulp to the face, regular use of face masks, oils for rehydration, and a rather painful-sounding treatment involving ice.
“Right now, we’re doing a lot of ice work to tighten skin, bring the blood to the surface. To basically give it the pop that you need,” Dotti told the magazine.
This article was originally published by news.com.au
