Look at Bey's cover that includes text.
Now, look at Kelly's cover:
How would a magazine cover text on the cover with an elbow? If nothing else, the elbows and/or biceps would be covered by the text, and I could see some alphabets or symbols. (VIBE has always allowed the title of the mag to be covered, so that's not up for debate.) Looks like some technological tomfoolery to create a situation to hype up a blog to.
And that is a beautiful (somewhat) natural pic of Kelly. Better than one with vast amounts of weave and makeup that I saw recently.