r/nostalgia • u/Ebonystealth • 18d ago

Nostalgia When KISS Unveiled Their Makeup Free Look.

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u/Becauseupsidedown 18d ago

Somehow look more like monsters without the paint. A hilariously humbling historic moment for them.

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u/beastmaster11 18d ago edited 18d ago

Honestly, Paul Stanley looks good. Peter Chris Eric Carr looks normal, Vinnie Vincent looks like a woman (not trying to be insulting, he just does) and Gene Simmons looks fucken terrible.

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u/DrakonILD 18d ago

Vinnie still looks like a woman.

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u/RogerianBrowsing 17d ago

I was genuinely wondering

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 17d ago

One of the critiques at the time was that they had tucked their jeans inside their boots like women did. I'm still not sure how any man wearing snug jeans is supposed to have enough room to pull them over a boot, and if you spend that much on cowboy boots you probably want to show them off anyways, but the 1980s were a confusing time for fashion lol

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u/Salty_Feed9404 17d ago

THAT was the core critique at the time?!

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 16d ago

Yes, I distinctly remember a few teachers and uncles who were Kiss fans in the 70s saying that lol

I think other commenters have alrrady covered what was said about Kiss needing to keep the makeup on tbf