Judas Video (Part One): I’ve been throwing around designs for the Judas video forever and I’ve finally condensed the ideas and imagery from the video down into (what I’m thinking will be) three desig...
Born This Way Single Cover Challenge: My lovely friend Sarah from @Monster_Facts asked me awhile back if we could both do designs based on the same image and then compare them. I loved the idea, so h...
Born This Way Ball Tour Poster: Here they are! My first design ever for the Born This Way Ball! Once again, I was able to incorporate a recent nail art trend into the design: galaxy nails! (thanks, G...
Arriving at the Born This Way Foundation Launch 2.29.12: This past February, Gaga set up a conference at Harvard University for the launch of her Born This Way Foundation. Originally I didn’t think t...
Arriving in Seoul 4.20.12: The Born This Way Ball has begun! Gaga made a grand entrance to kick off her tour in Korea, looking very much like a Gagaifed Grecian goddess, fresh from her brief media hi...
Out in London 11.15.11: Here’s another one of those simplistic and trendy designs I was talking about. Gaga rocked the highlighter dress back in the Fall, and the color is all over the place this Spr...
Out in London 11.16.12 (HQ): Commence the immature giggling! I did several simplistic designs based on some of the outfits Gaga wore this past November, around London. All of which were very bold, un...
Out in London 11.13.11 (HQ):This past November, while doing promotion in London, Gaga stepped out several times looking very much the part of her “Lady” title. I wanted to post something that looked...
“Eins…Zwei…Drei!” Telephone Part Four: Here’s my fourth and final design for the Telephone video! The themes in this video rely heavily on both feminism, as well as a suggested relationship between ...
“Prison for Bitches” Telephone Part Three: The entire link between the song and the video for Telephone rests on the idea of unwanted phone calls. Gaga said in an interview that the video depicts he...
“The Pussy Wagon” Telephone Part Two: Gaga took a page out of Quentin Tarantino’s cult film direction book for her highly stylized video for Telephone. The story goes that the green Rolls Royce, whi...
“Let’s Make A Sandwich” Telephone Part One: Gaga made the premiere of her nine minute mini film into a “pop culture event”, turning the video for the uncharacteristically gener ic bubblegum, “in da cl...
Promotional Photoshoot for ‘The Fame’: In 2008, Gaga began promotion of both her debut album The Fame, as well as her public image. She was often seen sporting lightening bolt shapes on her face as ...
2009 Promotion of ‘The Fame Monster’ in Berlin: Back in 2009, Gaga began her early promotion of her second album, appearing at numerous press events around the world. In September she made a photoca...
The “Pyro Bra”: Over the course of her short career, Gaga has become associated with certain stage props which she turned into pop culture staples. Most of you are more than likely familiar with the...
2011 Grammy Awards: Gaga arrived on the red carpet at last year’s Grammy awards not wearing a gown, but huddled within a womb/egg-like sculptural piece (dubbed a “vessel”) designed by Hussein Chalaya...
‘Marry The Night’ Revisited - The Apartment: I mentioned when I did my original design for the Marry The Night video that I may be doing another. There’s so much packed into the video that it’s har...
After debating if I should bother posting about this or not, I’ve decided that I ought to put in a quick word here. Polished Paws Up was recently featured on The Upcoming: A UK based online magazine...
This has been making the rounds on the Nail Art Tumblrs, and I just wanted to make a quick post here about it. The blog NailArtWorld.tumblr.com has been retagging and reposting stolen images from na...
Gaga’s Own Nails—Poker Face Video: This nail design was one that I wanted to do when I had the idea to start this blog! This video is what started it all for quite a few Gaga fans, including myself....
So excited! The fashion journalist, model, designer, and always fabulous Audrey Kitching has featured Polished Paws Up on her Buzznet blog! I’ve been a fan of Audrey’s for years (let’s be honest, m...
Opening of Gaga’s Workshop at Barney’s New York: Back in November, Gaga attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for her holiday collaboration with Barney’s New York stores: Gaga’s Workshop. She made he...
‘Marry The Night’ Performance on The Ellen Degeneres Show: Gaga performed a ballet influenced rendition of Marry The Night on Ellen a couple weeks ago; looking much like a Gagaifed version of The Nut...
‘Marry The Night’ Video: Gaga’s highly stylized, 14-minute short film for ‘Marry The Night’ has been met with largely positive reviews (and, as always, left a few others scratching their heads). Gag...
EMAs Press Room: Gaga took home a bundle of awards at the 2011 Europe Music Awards, and made her appearance in the press room afterwards in a stunning metal work gown and full space makeup. I though...
Marry The Night (2011 EMAs performance and video finale look): Gaga began her performance of Marry The Night at the 2011 Europe Music Awards chained on top of gigantic moon, wearing a stunning, satel...
MTV Style features Polished Paws Up! First and foremost, a HUGE thank you to Chrissy Mahlmeister of MTV Style for the write up (not to mention the amazing support)! After checking my mentions yester...
Mint Blonde: Gaga wore this earlier this month, debuting her new “mint blonde” hair on her way to a taping of the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show. I loved this look and knew I had to turn it in...
HQ “Fuck Fashion”: Gaga wore this outfit back in September, during New York Fashion Week. She’s also seen wearing it in the Government Hooker Interlude used at the iHeartRadio festival; which was mo...
HQ Yoü And I (RoboGaga): When we first see Gaga in the video for ‘Yoü And I’ she appears with various robotic parts and bloodied feet. Gaga says that this symbolizes that she has walked from New Yor...
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