This girl is on fire -- with makeup or without.

After penning a powerful essay on Lenny Tuesday depicting the struggles and pressures women go through to look a certain way, Alicia Keys vowed to officially stop covering up. "Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing," she said.

Already, in just the few days since the piece was published, the songstress has made good on her promise.

Take, for example, her new breathtaking spread from Fault Magazine :