Sometimes, when I look at certain celebrities, I wonder what lies beneath the drag queen-y façade. Like, say, Gwen Stefani, Katy Perry, any of the Kardashians, and Lady Gaga. They all wear so much makeup, and all of them just seem to put way too much emphasis on the ridiculously “done” images they’ve created for themselves. I think my fascination with them is rooted in my personal rejection of that kind of high-maintenance beauty routine (at this point, I don‘t even wear makeup). My mother is high-maintenance like that too – she considers it a fate worse than death to leave the house without wearing makeup. You know what she looks like without makeup? Pretty much the same. In my mother’s case, I attribute it to being a “Southern thing”. What’s Lady Gaga’s excuse?

Gaga sat down for an interview with People Magazine to talk about her beauty routine, and she just sounds… gross. She wears makeup to bed!!! I haven’t done that since college, and even then, I really had to be completely wasted to not wash my face. In Gaga’s case, it’s not like she just has an odd night here and there where she’s just too exhausted to wash her face. She claims she goes to bed with her makeup on EVERY night. Gross.

It’s hard to think of someone as glam as Lady Gaga mulling over a makeup bag. But in the latest issue of PEOPLE, the superstar singer opens up about her surprisingly normal beauty routines (hint: the last thing she does before bed is brush her teeth!). Gaga, who calls her mother Cynthia Germanotta and Princess Diana her beauty influences, says her mom taught her to wash her face with Ivory soap.

But that doesn’t mean the singer always follows directions. When asked how many nights per week she goes to bed wearing makeup, she replies, “Seven. That is not good for your skin, but I’m blessed with good genes.”

What is good for her skin? The sunblock she carries around in her beauty bag.

“I don’t like to tan my face because it’s bad for wrinkles,” she explains.

The natural brunette, known for her now white-blonde locks, says she misses her dark hair when she has to “get a chemical haircut because my blonde hair is falling out.”

And that’s not the only damage fame has done: she admits that she’s dying for a foot massage, to relieve her achy feet after all those days spent walking in sky-high heels. But Gaga — whose favorite fragrances growing up were Versace Baby Rose Jeans and Revlon’s Jean Naté — says that above all, the best beauty tip is to be yourself.

“Just go with your gut,” she urges. “Whenever you try to be someone else, it’s boring.”

Perhaps that’s why she’s skipping mascara and fake lashes these days. “I think it’s more modern not to wear [either]. I just wear eyeliner.”

[From People]

Ugh, AND her hair is falling out? That’s just…wrong. At some point, maybe it’s time for Gaga to do a new look where she goes brunette. Hey, Madonna did it! I think Gaga’s monsters would still love her if she ditched the white-blonde and went dark. Also, I would like her monsters to insist that Gaga wash her face more often. You know what I wonder, though? I wonder if she goes to bed with makeup on just because she doesn’t want to start every morning from scratch. She must consider the previous day’s makeup as her “base coat”. Gross.

Photos courtesy of WENN.