Lady Gaga looks unrecognizable without makeup in new photo, plus watch her get her nose pierced

Lady Gaga is looking different these days in preparation for her ARTPOP album. She seems to be going for a more bare-faced, light-eyebrows look.

Everyone went nuts when she posted the above photo on her Little Monsters social media site. I think the biggest shock factor here is her eyebrows, which appear to be bleached. She usually colors them to be darker than normal. Eyebrows are major players in the face game.

Lady Gaga added a poetic caption to the above photo: “ARTPOP as they pry the single from my bleeding fingers. it’s a scary thing to revisit those things underneath, the pain in your past. but all I found was raw passion. I thought I was destroyed inside. I’m just ready to fight. start the music.”

Gaga’s transformation to her new pop album selling form isn’t done yet! Her makeup artist Tara Savelo posted a YouTube clip of Gaga getting her new nose pierced. This gives new meaning to “Poker Face” (Sorry, I know:)

Here’s Lady Gaga having dinner in Beverly Hills July 11:

Gaga with some big hair and a bare everything for V Magazine:

Lady Gaga last year, when she was wearing more makeup:

Just last June Gaga made an appearance looking more like her old self with dark eyebrows and fake eyelashes.

Which look do you prefer on Lady Gaga (who happened to be the highest earning celebrity under 30 last year for $80 million?)