Today it might hard to remember a time when Alicia Keys, goddess of all things good and makeup free, actually wore makeup regularly. After declaring herself free of the stuff last June, her name became synonymous with natural beauty, her example responsible for an overhaul of our morning routines.
Keys recently explained that makeup and the effect it had on the skin made her feel “even more self-conscious, objectified and judged” in the early days of her career. But take a look back at her beauty looks of yesteryear, and you’d never know it. Her wide range of bold looks included bright eyeshadows, deep lips and more epic hairstyles than we can count.
Of course, starting with a pretty fabulous canvas helps, but looking back at our our favorite Alicia Keys beauty moments only solidifies that she’s simply stunning, both with makeup and without.
In honor of her birthday on Jan. 25, join us in fallin’ down one seriously gorgeous memory lane.
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2001Ron Galella via Getty Images
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2001Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images
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2001John Rogers via Getty Images
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2002Frank Trapper via Getty Images
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2002SGranitz via Getty Images
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2002Tony Barson Archive via Getty Images
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2003Jean-Paul Aussenard via Getty Images
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2004SGranitz via Getty Images
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2004Dan MacMedan via Getty Images
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2004Stephen Lovekin via Getty Images
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2005Scott Gries via Getty Images
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2005Carley Margolis via Getty Images
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2006Bryan Bedder via Getty Images
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2006Jon Kopaloff via Getty Images
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2006Bennett Raglin via Getty Images
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2007Scott Wintrow via Getty Images
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2007Michael Loccisano via Getty Images
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2007Jim Spellman via Getty Images
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2008Philip Ramey Photography, LLC via Getty Images, XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM
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2008Frazer Harrison via Getty Images
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2008Jon Kopaloff via Getty Images
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2009NBC NewsWire via Getty Images
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2009ROBYN BECK via Getty Images
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2009George Napolitano via Getty Images
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2010Bryan Bedder via Getty Images
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2010Jamie McCarthy via Getty Images
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2011Kevin Mazur via Getty Images
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2011Maury Phillips via Getty Images
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2012Luca Teuchmann via Getty Images
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2013Juan Naharro Gimenez via Getty Images
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2013Raymond Hall via Getty Images
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2014John Lamparski via Getty Images
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2014Steve Granitz via Getty Images
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2014Daniel Zuchnik via Getty Images
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2015Kevin Mazur via Getty Images
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2015Lars Niki via Getty Images
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2015Michael Loccisano via Getty Images
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2016Clemens Bilan via Getty Images
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2016NBC via Getty Images
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2016Allen Berezovsky via Getty Images
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2016Jason LaVeris via Getty Images
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2016Gary Gershoff via Getty Images
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2017Noam Galai via Getty Images