How to Recreate 2 Iconic Lady Gaga Beauty Looks — Straight From Her Makeup Artist

Tanno describes Lady Gaga's signature "metalhead" makeup look perfectly: "sexy, smoky, but still sharp and graphic in a way." Watch how we recreated it ahead.

Because every good look starts with a solid base, we prepped the skin with some cover-up. Tanno swiped on the creamy, blendable Marc Jacobs Accomplice Concealer & Touch Up Stick ($32) to camouflage any red spots. "You can layer it over anything or even use it as a foundation," she said. "It just kind of brightens the skin."

Then, a few sweeps of Dior Backstage Glow Face Palette ($45) along my cheekbones to lend a little warmth, and finally, because "Gaga loves a dark brow — it's her thing," Tanno said, we filled in any sparse areas with the Marc Jacobs Brow Wow Longwear Defining Pencil ($15, originally $25).

The key in recreating Lady Gaga's "metalhead" look is in the Haus Laboratories Glam Attack Liquid Shimmer Powder in Biker ($20 for one; $36 for the duo). "You want to make sure you shake it before you use it because it's full of pigment and pearl," said Tanno. "For her, this felt like something you can take from the groupie to the rockstar — all in the way you build the makeup."

She applied the smoky color straight from the tube, which slipped across my lids like melted charcoal. "The doe-foot applicator makes it easy to use, and the formula itself goes on like a liquid but dries like a powder," Tanno said.

My favorite thing about the eye shadow is that you can blend it out with your fingers or with a makeup brush; one for a smudgier effect, the other to create more precise lines (Tanno did both). "It dries in about 15 seconds — that was the perfect amount of time for me, because you want the freedom to play around before it dries, but you also don't want it to move once it sets," she said. Even better: "The more you spread the pearl, the shinier it gets, which is really cool."

Where the eye shadow leaves behind a pearly, near-wet effect, the brand's new Liquid Eye-Lie-Ner in Punk ($20) is the opposite — it goes on completely matte. This was intentional, Tanno said, mostly because Gaga finds matte formulas stay on longer (and she would know).

Like a big exclamation mark at the end of a sentence, Tanno slicked on a thick wing to each eye and added a few swipes of Marc Jacobs Beauty Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascara ($26) to finish my eye look.

For the lips, Tanno selected Lady Gaga's favorite rose-colored combination: "I'm going to use her ride-or-die lip liner — no, really, it's called Rest In Peace ($16) because it's a liner to die for," she laughed. "Gaga loves a full-coverage lip, and she likes to use the liner like a lipstick. It's a demi-matte finish so you can wear it alone, too."

Then, she applied the Le Riot Lip Gloss in Blaze ($18), a product Tanno admits she wasn't initially sold on: "I was never a lip gloss girl until Gaga convinced me. She loves everything about it. She thinks it's so sexy and comfortable; she loves the action of reapplying it. That's why she wanted to lead with that, and this one is super conditioning and not at all tacky." (I can concur: it never once got caught in my hair.)

Even though this is a toned-down look by Lady Gaga standards, it felt infinitely more punk (or more something) than my everyday makeup. Still, when her very own glam squad demands you "own it, girl," you throw on your leather jacket and pretend it's not the first time you've worn a smoky eye to work. And maybe — just maybe — it won't be my last.

The complete trio we used: Haus Laboratories by Lady Gaga: Eye Shadow, Lip Gloss, Lip Liner ($49).

If you want to take the look up a notch (and, if you're a Lady Gaga die-hard, why wouldn't you?) you can opt to add on the brand-new Haus Laboratories Face Mask Armor Masque No. 1 ($25).

"We went back and forth with Phyllis [Cohen] on designs because we really wanted something that felt very Gaga but also something we haven't done before," said Tanno. "A lot of people know our relationship with Phyllis from the Super Bowl, so instead of reissuing that mask, we did something completely different."

While the stickers themselves are versatile — "You could wear them lower on your eye, or you could use it as a brow cover; that's what we usually do with Gaga," Tanno said — we decided to go all out. First, she pressed it down on the inner corners of my eyebrows and then lined it across the arches, extending the upper portion of the mask up on my temple. "You can cut them if they don't fit all the way on your brow," she added.

When you're applying the bottom part of the mask, "look in the mirror," said Tanno. "You want to get the insides to line up. If you mess up, it's a sticker — that's the magic of it. You can just take it off and press it back on. See? Quick-change makeup in seconds."

Surprisingly, I dug these eye stickers, and I'm not typically the sticker-makeup type. There's just something about them that felt fun and easy, but framed my eyes in a way that also looked badass and cool. Maybe it's not something you'd wear on the regular, but for Halloween — or even a night out in the East Village in NYC — it's practically made for the applause (applause, applause. . .).