Everybody knows Alicia Keys braids. Just check out the selection of her pictures below and discover cute and elegant styles Alicia has worn to formal events, award ceremonies and everyday life.
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Alicia Keys' best braids hairstyles
Here you will find the most interesting Alicia Keys braiding hairstyles or just the ones that involve braids as a style element.
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- The cornrows the celebrity has in this picture are not straight but form a shape of a serpent’s body even though the parting lines are straight. It’s an interesting effect that catches the eye. Alicia’s braids are decorated with black ribbons attached to the hair as a kind of decorative extensions. Both the ribbons and the braids are richly adorned with shiny metallic and deep red polished beads
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- This hairstyle is an interesting find, because it’s done on previously undercut hair. The long hair Alicia has on the crown of her head, a kind of Mohawk style, is done into cornrows that create a simple but adorable pattern.
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- This picture demonstrates another but very similar variation of beaded braids. Here Alicia has almost the same pattern on her head, with a braid in the middle, and a cord is tied around her head. In addition to the beads she has on the tips of her braids, she has one more, which is attached to the central braid and decorates her forehead
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- Here Alicia wears cornrows again but we can’t see the tips of the hairstyle. However, we can see that beads are attached to the braids at a different height on the very length of separate braids. The cornrows are not simple and straight: they cross each other, twist, and create a pleasant diversity
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- Here, the young Alicia has cornrows again, but these are quite unusual ones. Some are done in such a way that it’s not clear where they start. The rounded rows run from the front to the backside of her head while some of them are braided from behind her ears to the front. This hairstyle looks very authentic with all those metallic and semi-transparent beads that are attached to the braids. This is one of the loveliest styles for Alicia Keys braids with beads
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- In this picture, the young star has her braids reach her shoulders with their tips heavily decorated with transparent beads. The tight braids on her head form a complicated pattern. It seems that cornrows are favorites among all other Alicia Keys braids hairstyles
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Alicia has also worn simple braids without special decorations several times.
- This hairstyle combines simple tiny cornrows braided to sides from the parting in the middle and curled braids. The cornrows are done up to the middle of her head while the part behind the crown is braided from the roots of her hair. The extensions are picked so carefully that the color matches Alicia’s own hair color completely
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- The amazing orange and pink braids have once created a lot of noise on the web. Untied at the ends, done in different length, these braids are exactly what’s required to create an amazingly bright Instagram look.
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- These perfectly accurate cornrows matched the young face of the pretty singer so much! Here we can see how Alicia’s hair is done into tiny but perfectly neat braids that create a slightly wavy pattern on her head. This is a classic braided hairstyle that will never be out of fashion
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- These side swept cornrows with long black extensions look so strange and unusual. They are far from being straight; instead, they get tangled with each other, create an interesting pattern and a lovely pile of braids thrown to one shoulder
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Diverse and lovely Alicia Keys braid styles
Apart from braiding the head all over, Alicia has shown the world many other diverse hairstyles, in which braids were just a supporting element. Let’s see how braids can be used to create a stylish and lovely look.
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- Wearing braids can be as simple as this. Just add a headband or tie a shawl this way and nobody will see anything except the braids that you leave hanging loosely from under the headpiece. It’s such a romantic and lovely hairstyle!
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- In this updo, Alicia has used her thick voluminous and soft braid to create a kind of bun on the crown of her head. It’s a great alternative to regular buns, which can be seen quite frequently on other women
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- Here, Alicia has a curly Mohawk right from the forehead and to the back of her head while the sides are supported by rows of braids. This hairstyle is as simple as it looks but if your face is like Alicia’s, you will be delighted when you discover how lovely such a hairstyle looks
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- In this picture, Alicia’s carefully straightened hair is done into a spiral messy braid with quite a careless set of wavy strands on the top of her head. Such a hairstyle is even suitable for an office that has no strict rules regarding haircuts and hairstyles in its dress code
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- Again, braided temples create a stunning effect due to the pattern they create. A mirror-smooth bun a little lower than the crown of Alicia’s head completes the look. With all its simplicity, the look is really worth the highest appraisal
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- Here, we can see Alicia wearing an extremely feminine and elegant hairstyle with all her hair swept backwards and done into a thick inverted braid. The braid looks like it has no beginning and no end and this illusion adds beauty to the hairstyle
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- A kind of the Mohawk hairstyle we’ve seen in Alicia’s “Girl on Fire” has an element of braiding, too. While the frontal part forms the characteristic bun, the rear part of Alicia’s hair is done into a tight secret braid
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- Some braiding into twisted cornrows, and here’s a side ponytail done on the opposite side from the braiding. The idea is so simple and so great. The tips of the braids added to the ponytail serve as a natural decoration
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- Twisted and crossed braids all around the face and tight springy curls on the back of Alicia’s head, gathered into pigtails – here’s this elegant and really smoking hot hairstyle
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- Some more thin cornrows that create a twisted pattern and leave the tips of hair free for a bun on the back of Alicia’s head.
These are the best braided hairstyles seen on the lovely Alicia. However, seeing her love for braids of different types, we can assume that something awesome is still waiting for us in the future. No doubt, having tasted the colorfulness of the orange and pink braids, Alicia is very likely to go on and surprise her fans with new hair experiments quite soon.
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