• Kuori [she/her]
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    16 days ago

    might abandon all pretense of subtlety and go as a plague doctor

  • un_mask_me [any]
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    16 days ago

    Love this idea OP, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'd love to attend a convention next year, and I was thinking about wearing a cloth mask over an N95 (or higher) that has the character's face printed on it. Kinda like this if I were doing this witch costume:

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    Anyone else see similar masks or ideas?

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      16 days ago

      When people were at peak give a shit, there were a lot of printed masks out there. Best just to search for something specific and you,'ll probably find it. i've got some bluey/bingo ones my niblings loved me wearing

  • Ivysaur [she/her]
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    16 days ago

    Last year I went to a small themed party as this pokemon. I used a white dress, green petticoat & green gloves, a masquerade mask, white N95 and a green wig styled to a bob. It came out beautifully and for very cheap. I got so many compliments. Masks are already part of so many costumes, there is no reason they can't work for lots of ideas.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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    16 days ago

    Wouldn't applying any kind of dyes or paints to N95 type masks weaken their effectiveness? Isn't it possible that saturating a mask with these kinds of particles could compromise the effectiveness (I recall reading the effectiveness is compromised in very high humidity conditions I think).

    Anyone have any papers or reading on this? Obviously even a compromised (K)N-95 would be better than nothing but might be better to wear something cloth that's been colored instead over it?

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      16 days ago

      You can get kn95s in all sorts of colors. N95s are a bit harder and I would recommend a cloth covering.

    • Lenins_Cat_Reincarnated
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      16 days ago

      Yeah paint would permanently break the filter of a mask. Also you’d probably be breathing the paint particles which can’t be healthy lol. But the mask in the picture looks like it was bought in that colour.