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Would KISS Be Successful Without Makeup 💄🎸

17 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Lewis Howes explores whether KISS would have achieved global success without their iconic makeup, comparing their visual brand to Mount Rushmore and the Beatles' haircuts. The discussion examines how much of the band's fame came from their look versus their music.

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The four kissed faces are more well known on the entire planet than Mount Rushmore. You can go to Africa and as soon as they see one of the four faces, they say it's Kiss. If you show them one of Mount Rushmore's faces, they wouldn't know what it was. Yeah, yeah. Would Kiss have done as well without the makeup? Probably not, really. You could ask the Beatles. Would you have gotten as far with the same songs and everything if you didn't have the matching haircuts? It's always pieces of the puzzle that make the whole bigger than the sum of its parts.