KISS MAKE-UP BAGS
1980, MAYBELLINE
This promotion for Maybelline featured six different types of make-up bags. Whilst all six bags are easy to find, the contents themselves are extremely rare and very few full purses have been seen intact. Some of the bags also varied in black and white trims in certain instances.
A promotion at the time offered one winner a home video recorder, a VHS copy of ‘Kiss Meets The Phantom’ and a chance to win 50 KISS ingots on a chain. Bags 1 and 2 were the cheapest at $2.95 and came with a KISS badge, KISS Army entry form, KISS competition entry form, a KISS ‘Look Guide’ as well as either a ‘Maybelline Kissing Stick’ or ‘Kissing Potion’. The third and fourth bags cost $4.95 and added KISS photo stickers set plus ‘Great Lash Mascara’ or ‘Three Colour Lipstick’. The larger bags, 5 and 6 were $6.95 and added a KISS group photo (from the Alive II era) as well as a ‘Styler Stick’.
Photo: 'KISS: the Hottest Brand In The Land' coffee table book