By Notte A. Vampyre

1. Keeps yourself and others safe!
2. You can epically lip sing to yourself on your biweekly walk to get COVID testing and nobody would ever know where that Beautiful Music is coming from.
3. You can play a fun and seasonal game with every passerby—who is most likely to be hiding vampire fangs?
4. Hides vampire fangs.
5. Feeling cool and sexy when you return to your house after a long day and seductively remove your mask after washing your hands.
6. Matching your socks and shirt is so last decade. Matching your mask to your socks? Now That’s What I Call Fashion. 
7. You can wear a hat and sunglasses and a mask in the grocery store and pretend to be a celebrity in disguise.
8. If you’re a skilled craftsperson, you can humbly boast about your handmade mask.
   1. “Oh, this old thing? It’s no big deal, just a homemade mask that I created with my own two hands and original design.”
9. You can save a snack for later ;)
10. You can tape dental floss to the inside of your mask so you can get the spinach out of your teeth that nobody would have the misfortune of seeing.
11. You can secretly store 101 gumballs in your mouth. 
12. You won’t get ridiculed for mouth breathing.
13.  No Shave November is every month! Grow out those whiskers to your heart’s content!
14.  For all those with bad vision like me- you can play a fun guessing game!
    1. Is that really my friend I see in the distance? It is hard to tell for sure without seeing her dazzling smile.

15. Keeps your face warm when it snows in October.

art by Dr. A. Cula