By Rege Behe

Ginger Dickison is a special-effects artist with Spotlight Costumes, LLC, in the South Side. A native of Fresno, Calif., she came to Pittsburgh four years ago to study at the Tom Savini Special Makeup Effects School at the Douglas Education Center in Monessen.

Dickison has worked on stage productions of "Beauty and the Beast," "Sweeney Todd" and "A Christmas Carol," and on some independent film productions.

One of her specialties is replicating the makeup worn by KISS members during performances. Here are her tips for putting on one's best KISS face.

KISS!

Here's my 40th birthday cake my wife had made for me. Next night was KISS in Oakland. Great way to spend a birthday!

Best,
Brad Langford

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Check out this photo of model / actress Natasha Yi wearing a KISS bikini! The photo is posted on her Face Book page.

Thanks to Scott Schmitz for sending KOL the image.

Dear KISS,

I just want to thank you for making my childhood so great! I would have never thought that 31 years after becoming a fan that I would have the opportunity to take my eight year old daughter to see a KISS show. My daughter had a blast at the show and was singing along to all of the songs and other KISS fans were giving her high fives. This photo was taken at the Dec. 1st Glendale, AZ show. Thanks for making such a monumental occasion possible for me and my family!

Best,
Kevin Schoeff

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Here's KISS on the cover of the December 2009 issue of the Czech Republic magazine Musikus!

Here's 2-year-old Aylencita getting made up as her favorite member of KISS!

- Emiliano Martin Lopez

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Hi KISS!

I'm from Russian Federation and I love you and your music!. Thank you for concerts in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg last year!

Check out my photos taken before the concerts for a contest for the best make-up of KISS.

Love,
Marina

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Hi KISS!!

Me and my girlfriend waited in line for 18 hours outside the ticket office in order to be the first ones to grab our tickets for the upcoming Stockholm show. I was first in line for the 2008 gig and I plan on keeping that tradition alive. The picture is a short article about your upcoming tour. See you soon!

Rock on,
Alex Muller

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Here is a pic of 5-year-old drummer Logan "Robot" backstage with Eric Singer! Thanks Eric for always being so cool to Logan! For Halloween a few weeks ago, Logan dressed up as Eric and we took this video of him playing along to his favorite new Kiss song 'Modern Day Delilah'. As you can tell from the video, Logan has already seen his fair share of Kiss shows - and he'll be seeing a few more this weekend in TEXAS! Enjoy the video!

Best,
Kevin Gladden

KISS at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Hi KISS,

My family and I visited the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in London over Thanksgiving. My kids, Chris and Ally, found this unique display of the Demon. Why is it unique? It is made out of Cow Manure!

Thanks,
Raymond Law

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On the second night of the Detroit shows that opened the Alive 35 tour, the historic KISS banner shown on the back cover of KISS Alive! returned to Cobo Hall. Here's KISS holding that banner... 35 years later.

On Monday night's episode of Lopez Tonight, George Lopez mentioned that KISS is one of his favorite bands, and guest Katey Sagal went on to share a story about her friendship with Gene Simmons. Check it out!

This Wednesday, December 2nd, Kiss, and tribute band Kiss on the Rocks(www.kissontherocks.com) will be featured big time on Dutch major TV channel RTL4.

The 1 hour show focuses on collecting Kiss memorabilia, being in a Kiss tribute band, and the stress this can put on a Kiss fan's family. An impressive collection is shown and Gene on the Rocks is forced to make a decision... his collection & band, or his family. Watch RTL television at 9.30pm, local Dutch time to see what decision he makes...

The show has footage from both Kiss and Kiss on the Rocks in concert.

Thanks to our friend Rutger for sening KOL the news.

KISS is featured on the cover of the latest issue of SPARK magazine #12/2009 from the Czech Republic.

Thanks to our German friend Marcel Mueller for sending the image to KOL.

KISS is on cover of the latest Spanish edition of Metal Hammer magazine. The issue features a four page interview with Paul Stanley and a two page review from KISS' Detroit concert.

Thanks to Javier Rueda for sending the image to KOL.