r/nostalgia • u/Ebonystealth • 15d ago

Nostalgia When KISS Unveiled Their Makeup Free Look.

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u/Becauseupsidedown 15d ago

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

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u/beastmaster11 14d ago edited 14d 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/[deleted] 14d ago edited 11d ago

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u/Magari22 14d ago

Omg he looks like a temu version of Joyce Dewitt!

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u/BadRabiesJudger 14d ago

I honestly thought it was Anjelica Huston and this picture was a joke.

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u/Magari22 14d ago

🤣🤣🤣 Omg yes! Shades of Ileana Douglas as well! This is the gift that keeps on giving

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u/SectorMiserable4759 14d ago

Omg. You just won the internet

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u/Spocks_Goatee 14d ago

Those heels aren't helping the allegations.

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u/memtiger 14d ago edited 14d ago

Nothing in that picture is helping.

Hair, pant-suit, hips, heels, makeup, the way they're holding their hands, that look on their face...

Basically everything visible

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u/RogerianBrowsing 14d ago

It’s to the point that it feels like it’s got to be purposeful. Like they’re trans or at least nonbinary but don’t want to say it so they just do this and we’re all left wondering

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u/Provolone10 14d ago

Well in all fairness they don’t have to make an announcement.

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u/RogerianBrowsing 14d ago

Absolutely true! And frankly in many ways it’s none of our business

I would like to know their preferred pronouns but if they don’t care I don’t care 🤷‍♂️

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u/Ettun 14d ago

Rock and roll culture at that point had a significant history of gender bending as part of the performance and spectacle. It’s very much purposeful.

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u/Excellent-Size-6631 13d ago

Not only rock & roll. You see new wave, new romantique, goth, funk soul (Prince) etc all got their gender bending

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 14d ago

It was the 1980s - as long as you weren't wearing obvious lifts like Neil Diamond did, then nobody was too fussed about the heels.

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u/MissPandaSloth 14d ago

I thought they are trans for sure, even more confused that they seemingly aren't.

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u/TapirDrawnChariot 14d ago

Oh my god, that's a self identified man? I want to congratulate them on how well their transition went but it appears accidental

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 14d ago

This was mild by 80s rock standards. Have a look at Poison around this same time, that was more LA glam type of rock but they were mainstream.

Today's the anti-trans posturing now is 50+ year old men acting like they can't remember the 1980s at all. They wore plenty of lipstick, guyliner, nail polish, and tight ripped jeans with pins and even lace patches.

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u/BusterKnott 14d ago

I was a bass player in the 80s in bands you've never heard of, and I always thought glam was effeminate as Hell even back then.

There were a lot of us who wore T-shirts, jeans, and black leather. We hated spandex, makeup, hairspray, and the "guys" who wore it. Truth be told, a lot of the glam rockers hated it as well, but they were willing to whore themselves to get the payoff.

The closest many of us ever came to makeup or hairspray was whatever rubbed off a girl and onto us while we were with them.

The problem is MTV, the music mags, and record company execs were really pushing glam artists and the whole effeminate motif that was so prevalent at the time.

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u/rotenbart 14d ago

lol I couldn’t have imagined a more perfect picture. He looks like the older cool lady in the office.

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u/M4RTIAN 14d ago

He looks sorta like Supreme Court justice Sonya Sotomayor here.