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:

Anyone else see similar masks or ideas?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBuYgzfPsRW/

That's pretty freakin wild!