“stick with it” - This is what Alicia Keys had to say after her son, Genesis painted nails

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Alicia Keys was sad when son Genesis, 4 decided that he didn’t want the rainbow coloured manicure he’d asked for because he felt he’d be judged for wearing nail polish.

Alicia admitted that the incident had made her reflect on how “concerning” it is that people feel they have to hide parts of themselves.

In an Instagram video captioned “Less Labels, More Expressions”, she said: “He’s in the chair and he’s like, ‘I want [a] rainbow’. So he told the manicurist that he wants rainbow colours on his nails. And she brings all of these colours and she paints each nail a different colour. And after she painted his nails, he looked at me and he said, ‘Mommy, I don’t want this on my nail’.

“And I said, ‘Why? You were so sure. You were good’.” Keys continued. “And he was like, ‘People are not gonna like it’. Can you believe this? Four years old. He’s four! And he already understands the concept that someone is gonna judge him because he chose rainbow colours on his nails.”

Alicia encouraged her son to “stick with it” as people wouldn’t judge him for showing how “creative and amazing” he is, before reassuring him that lots of other guys wear nail polish

She added: “That made him feel better, but it just got me to thinking how completely judged we are all the time.”

She said: “The way I see it, there is masculine and there are feminine energies inside of us all, period. It gets concerning to me that we can’t just explore these different sides of ourselves. These different energies that are within us.”

Alicia said: “And, all the time, if that happens, there are the judgments, and there’s the stereotypes, and there are all the energies that come towards that.

“And for my boys, [it’s] similar, if they want to express the feminine energy that’s inside of them. There’s all of these judgments, and all these rules, and stereotypes, and vibes.”

The "Girlfriend’ hitmaker feels “really, really frustrated about it”.

She added: “I ask myself, ‘Why is that? Why can’t we just express the different energies that are inside us?’

“We should be able to explore and express [our masculine and feminine energies] however we want to.”

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