If it will make you feel safer to wear a mask during the pandemic but you don’t have access to the real thing, simply use your imagination as you look around the house you’re stuck in.
Within five minutes of searching through my house, Tie o’ the Day and I found a multitude of possible items that could potentially work for me. Here are just a few. First, I tried a paper party hat on my face. I only had to fold-close the hole at the point to make a seal. It was painless to wear. The second item I found and tried to turn into a mask was my blow-up Santa beard. The plastic beard worked only so-so, because it got sweaty with breath way too quickly.
And then I tried on a bunch of Skitter’s hats. The animal-print cowboy hat was probably the overall most efficient mask made out of Skitter’s hats, in terms of both fit and purpose. My favorite pseudo-mask, by far, was Skitter’s sombrero. I didn’t care that I couldn’t see while wearing it, because it looked so very dandilicious on me.
