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Just In Time For Halloween: Lady Gaga With No Makeup
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Jen Carlson
Published Sep 7, 2011
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This is so Jane magazine makeunder: Lady Gaga is baring it all for next month's issue of Harper's Bazaar, where she's showing her real face... or rather, her face in a "very deliberately dressed down" spread. Or rather, her face in tons of natural-looking make-up. Anyway, EW says she looks like a "wood nymph ballerina"—put it on your list for Halloween costume ideas.
But Gaga, being all Gaga, says, "I don't really view it as 'natural.' Don't you think that what's on the cover of a magazine is quite artificial? There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural."
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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