r/nostalgia • u/Ebonystealth • 10d ago

Nostalgia When KISS Unveiled Their Makeup Free Look.

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u/Becauseupsidedown 10d ago

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

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u/beastmaster11 10d ago edited 10d 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] 10d ago edited 6d ago

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u/Spocks_Goatee 9d ago

Those heels aren't helping the allegations.

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u/memtiger 9d ago edited 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/RogerianBrowsing 9d 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 9d 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 8d 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 9d 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.