Adam Levine caught Alicia Keys using makeup on 'The Voice' — and she had the perfect response
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The INSIDER Summary:
- Alicia Keys and Adam Levine are both coaches on "The Voice."
- Keys has decided not to wear makeup on the show anymore.
- In a recent interview, Levine said he saw Keys put on "a little bit of makeup" backstage.
- Keys responded by saying, "I do what the f--- I want."
Alicia Keys has been appearing publicly without makeup for almost a year now. Back in May 2016, the Grammy-winning artist penned an essay in Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter saying that she was formally breaking up with covering up.
"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."
And through all the trolling and praise, she's stayed true to that makeup-free stance, even in her appearances on "The Voice." But it seems that her co-star Adam Levine saw her making a small exception on set, BuzzFeed reports.
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Levine recently visited "The Howard Stern Show," where he talked about what it's like backstage at "The Voice." Stern asked Levine what he thought about Keys's choice to forgo makeup.
"She was putting on a little bit of makeup [...] and I was like, 'Oh yeah, I thought Alicia doesn't wear makeup.' And she's like, 'I do what the f--- I want.' And I'm like, 'I love you so much."
Levine's tone makes it clear that he respects Keys and her decision to wear or shun makeup as she chooses. (As we all should.) In the interview he also told Stern that Keys is "so great."
Watch the clip from "The Howard Stern Show" right here:
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Keys first embraced the no-makeup life after meeting photographer Paola Kudacki. After arriving at the photoshoot straight from the gym, Kudacki told her he needed to take the photos right away because they would be "raw," just like her songs.
"It was just a plain white background, me and the photographer intimately relating, me and that baseball hat and scarf and a bunch of invisible magic circulating," Keys wrote. "And I swear it is the strongest, most empowered, most free, and most honestly beautiful that I have ever felt."
The no-makeup trend is definitely on the upswing. Other celebrities such as Adele and Mila Kunis have also publicly embraced the makeup-free look.
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