Alicia Keys' Guide to Wellness-Inspired Beauty | Beauty Secrets | Vogue

What's going on? I'm Alicia and I'm going to

guide

you through my daily skin care,

wellness

, hair care, head wrap, okay, so let's get into this and have a beautiful time, it's just plugged into our bathroom because, like Elsewhere, do you connect with people inside the bathroom? It's the best place. I usually get up pretty early. My husband tends to be a bit of a man because I leave so early. He asks me: Where are you going? I could do a meditation. It could be early morning. workout I could just sit in silence and once all that is done, I go to my bathroom and I love the candles.

I am a fan of candles. I like my candle and believe in setting an intention. There's something about lighting something, something burning, that's very sacred. and I'll think about what I would like for myself today so let's say today I'm looking for clarity. I'm looking for peace. I want to be more patient because you know I'm doing a lot of the homeschooling. kids right now and it takes patience and sometimes I lose it so I like that and then I'll put it on the side arm and then if I've been sweating because I've done my workout or if I've done my meditation, you have to do it.

When washing my face, what I like to use most at the moment is osmosis. My skin requires a little more strength when cleansed properly, so I give it my little pump as much as I want. I wet my hands. Lather. Put it in place. mmmmmm this. old library and all I know is about getting on your skin and your neck so boom I did it I deep cleaned it and I'm going to wash it okay so now that I'm back I washed it it feels good I feel renewed. I have always cared about skincare, but somehow I felt very frustrated because I didn't always have good skin.

I learned some of the

secrets

and also found some products that work for me because everyone is different, you know? and you have to keep trying and you have to keep finding what's good for you and it's great, sometimes it takes a minute, like it took me quite a while and one of the

secrets

that I definitely learned was but really for me. I didn't really drink enough water and didn't even think about making water part of my skincare regimen. Water from a large jug like this one. I call this my coconut. I don't look like a little coconut below.

In fact, I really love this epicurean it is one of my favorite brands. I was always fascinated that if you put probiotics on your face or on your body wherever you want, how good it is, so I love this mask, this calming aloe vera gel, which is also amazing. Like I said, I'm always looking for something to calm me down, calm everything down, I throw it in my hand as much or as little as you want, you know, write about how much I get and then the mask, if you smell it, it's almost milky or something it's like a powder like that. that you sprinkle it on there as much or as little as you want and you rub it in and what I like is that first of all it smells like there's food on your face so you want to eat it yourself and then Second of all it has a little bit of a grainy texture and Something like that feels good sometimes when you want to look like Napoleon, but it's not really calming.

In fact, I'll wait five minutes this morning. maybe twenty minutes, okay, dry it, dry it again, it's off, now my scan feels great. I love this, it's called secret rose water, so basically just spray it all over your body like a thousand times more than you need. and you take it and you breathe it you smell it and what I love about Rose is it opens hearts it literally opens hearts so you know one would give to someone else who loves roses it really opens your heart and don't we all need it ? I just need to open your heart, open up, be ready to receive all the good intentions and then you will know that I am coming to the end of my kind of morning facial routine and I always like a good under. -eye something like this this is really cool and I especially like it because there is one for the day and also for the night those who don't like it you know just pay attention things like that that I get into a lot of times we are not even paying attention under the eye , you know, my mother said the other day that she would never put anything low high for a hundred years, it's not a country, but whatever, I understand it and I'm sorry that we start now to put all these areas in place.

Well, finally just a little bit of cream, so it actually smells pretty good and it's also a sunscreen, but for me, like I said, my skin is very, very sensitive, so I use very light, very light, because the cream a Sometimes it can be, you know, a little heavy. this one is amazing, although we love sunscreen, we like to make sure our face has sunscreen on it, it's very good for you and then you have to have a good date, okay, I can't be around here with dry lips, it won't be Well. thing so I love this mmm it feels good and I've also learned that certain things on the

wellness

side and on the intake side in your body I've cut out dairy and also believe it or not I'm getting rid of breads.

Let me tell you, I'm the first person, I'm addicted to bread and then obviously fried foods and oil and all that, and the skin is never really good, so that's the morning, that's the routine, that's the wash, that's the feeling. that's wellness like kindness, keep it up all day long as you can take that time for yourself and you know it, even if you feel overwhelmed, if you wake up for part of the day and you just feel overwhelmed, escape to your best moment . Move around and just breathe in a little bit as you exhale, do that about 10 times and we'll move on to my hair routine and how I wrap my hair because a lot of people have asked me how I wrap my hair and I love head wraps.

They are so beautiful, so what I do is first I take out my hair. I have a great oil that I use and this is Saharan liquid gold argan oil and anything I could discuss maybe you'll feel good about it it's quite oily so it all depends on your hair type my hair type works with things like this you know I'll put it in it smells really good you can put in whatever you want definitely get to those ends you know, get into it and then you can take your brush I love a hard brush, I'm really good at it and you know, brush it good, brush your hair, what's that?

But they used to tell you, brush it a hundred times, your strokes, it's fine, so brush your hair, stimulate your scalp, stimulate yourself where it feels good. I really loved this hair mask that I've been using lately, which is really bad, so if you were in the shower you could put it on smells, it's so big that my hair definitely, you know, takes a beating, it sure does. You know, but when I wear my hair in braids you have to be very careful because many times the braids are very heavy or very, very tight. I do braids that are very beautiful but they are very tight and that's like Pulling your hair, pulling your hair all the time, all the time, so I definitely realized that hair care treatment is definitely very important First of all give it a break and also put some good nutrients in there, so yeah, my hair.

It's taken its share of beating and right now it could use a trim, you can use a lot of things right now, but you know, here we are and we're going to do what we can and I don't know the bathroom and That's good too, so I'll keep going Go ahead and leave this on all day because it gets cold at night. I'll wash it or in a couple of hours I'll wash it and it's fine, it just sits there and works fine. things so now that I've done that let me show you how to wrap forward and I'll turn it around and lift this up okay I'm back look so you have to put the hair on the top of your head near the top of your head. as you can, one of the ways I like to do it, obviously there are so many ways to do it, there are so many beautiful ways to wrap your head and such a beautiful tradition that you've seen all your hair up where you put it up. at the top of that head and you find a good spot, you know, somewhere in the middle, right here, you know why you want it.

I like it really high because then the rack rises up and elongates the neck and kind of gives it a good shape, so that's what I'm doing, boom, you're going to take your headband and put it on as tight as you can, but don't mate and don't care, hey, then I'll basically do it. Make a basic button, the bigger your bun is, the bigger the grid will be on this part and I'll just wrap it with another hair bow and then boom, it just stays there, you know, so it doesn't have to be the all special at this point.

Which is great, usually my choice is that this is not all silk because if it's too silky it falls off, so you have to get a scarf that's probably a long cotton one. I like that this material is very, you know, it's not that slippery, so the less slippery the material is, the better or else you'll be pulling on your thing all day. The pain depends on how big you want it, if you want a little smaller, go for a smaller scar, go for a little bigger, go for the bigger scarf. a smaller scarf, you'll fold it into a triangle, you know, edge to edge, like this, you'll put it on the back of your head, the long part and the triangle in that apartment, and then you'll wrap it around. around the button so I'm going to make the biggest one because that's what I'm looking forward to for the larger rectangular start that you're going to fold in half to make it smaller and again you're going to start with a long side behind you, I really do it.

I'm feeling, the long side, which is the folded part, is going to go behind my head, then it's going to get really long here, okay, I'm going to cross it in front and then basically I'm just going to go. wrap it around my head as many times as possible because this is what we want, we wanted to start growing, literally, I'm tucking the edges in, if you wanted it like this, just do it like this, but what are you? I grab a second scarf, not the short one but the long one, so now this is the biggest square and you know the patterns are fun, you see how this pattern is great and what I like the most is when when you wrap it around my head, no you have any idea what the color will be or what kind of feature because it's just an art, it's like a beautiful expression again, this long part that's been folded, I put it on the back of my head.

I'm going to hold this tight because I wanted to stay like this, so I'm okay, take this part and my son really put me into this. You see how I pull this this way so that it crosses over and crosses up here so you can give yourself like You know, almost like a turban that vibrates and goes up so that it has a nice triangle shape on your face that will help your eyes. rise and all the things we want. My son came up with this. In fact, he told me to turn it. two pieces so it can be more like a braid type.

I turn them all the way in and it stays because you pressed it too hard, you know, you're thinking, oh, look at me, even though I'm going to be able to walk around the block because I can't go anywhere. I'll still be shining. Take this, wrap it up. I like that it's tight. I like that it has these beautiful shapes. I like that I can. just do what I feel, this part is a little bit of the other Scott. I take the last bit of this twisted part and I literally just stick it in, that's it, you see, oh, you have to take your ears off because they get stuck. if you want extra security, you know it's just mom and then it becomes whatever it is and it's just beautiful when you get to be cool as hell.

I take another scrunchie, there's a regular scrunchie, this one is big so let us know what you have to stretch it and I literally just wrap it like this, tuck it in, you can't see it anymore and then it stays all day, oh well what is it? The skin feels great. I feel like I set my intentions. My head wrap is exploding. So I can do whatever I'm going to do. You know, right now I'm going to go see Egypt and make sure he's doing his schoolwork. So I'll look at it like this and feel amazing.

This is all. I'm so glad we can connect sending you love.