1987:PLAYSETS
KISS CURL's GROOMING PARLOUR
AKA The Brush Me Beautiful Boutique
Yellow earth pony with pale pink mane and tail, aqua and pink bows and curls symbol
Kiss Curl was the last pony to be sold with any form of the Grooming Parlour, though the shell exterior would be recycled yet again in future years for the My Little Pony Kitchen. Instead of the blue and white parlour, however, Kiss Curl's was purple with an aqua-green base and - so I am told, but mine is in the attic so I can't check - she did not have name tags for any pony other than herself. Her pal was Snowball the white kitten - both are pictured below. My Snowball is a bit battered and the other one I have is up in the attic with my playset, so my apologies there!
Brush Me Beautiful Boutique, Year 6 Insert, United States.
The playset was sold in North America as the Brush Me Beautiful Boutique, and the kitten was called Catnip. Kiss Curl never had a North American release, however. She was only sold with the re-issue of the Grooming Parlour in the UK. Despite this, she is fiendishly common on the second hand market, usually in a horribly faded way.
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SYMBOL VARIATIONS: Pink bows and aqua curls and aqua bows and pink curls.
Kiss Curl was never sold with white hair - any found this way have faded from the original pale pink. There is a Kiss Curl variation though - she can have either pink bows with aqua curls or the reverse. Though it's not necessarily always to do with the country of manufacture, Kiss Curl was sold during the years when pony production (at least for the UK market) largely moved from Hong Kong to China. There are Kiss Curls made in both countries.
In my experience, the symbol version of pink bows and aqua curls is more hard to find.
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