What's the story behind Lady Gaga's makeup on FX's American Horror Story: Hotel?

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Gaga's performance as The Countess is helped by her glamorous appearance. The Countess is a socialite with a penchant for 1930s glamour, and that's what American Horror Story makeup artist Eryn Krueger Mekash and showrunner Ryan Murphy chose to accent her with.

Mekash spoke with MTV News recently about how she made The Countess' appearance happen.

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"Her look is basically a classic beauty look," Mekash explained. "Ryan Murphy, the boss man, wanted everything to be very glamorous and very beautiful and very classic Hollywood because of her backstory, that you'll soon be seeing a lot more of. So, we wanted to go with deep reds and some really fun eye makeup and also just that glamour, that 1930s glamour; we're doing a lot of that stuff... She's a beauty. Gaga's a beauty, just a classic beauty, so that kind of subtle makeup, beautiful glamour makeup looks great on her."

Mekash chose to give The Countess lighter accents around the eyes to highlight Gaga's beauty.

"Just using lighter shades makes [Gaga's look] happen," she said. "It's a very pronounced point that comes out past the eyebrow... It's just your basic kind of beautiful. There's blush... eye makeup, and lipstick, which makes it look super glamorous. She's got lashes on and she has beautiful eyebrows, but it's basically just a beautiful classic Hollywood look."

Meanwhile, Gaga's fiancé Taylor Kinney spoke on The Meredith Vieira Show recently about her racy (and bloody) sex scene in the premiere episode, admitting he found it a bit awkward.

"It was awkward. They had a really lovely premiere in Los Angeles the other week, and I was sitting next to her father and we were both kind of like, 'Wow! Good job, honey,'" Kinney laughed.

American Horror Story: Hotel airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX.

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