Face Your Fears

Besides being what appears to be Uncle Fester after getting his face caught in the cake mixer, this mask is a true piece of craftsmanship. Just look at the lines, the curls, the colors, the shading. This thing is a masterpiece and if I were any less of an Italian, I'd likely not have just kissed my fingers in a *muah* kind of manner. But since I am an Italian, that's exactly what I did because that's how we display our admiration of beauty in our culture. That and making love to bowls of pasta. Italian jabs at myself aside, this thing really is a masterpiece, and by the end of it, I'll have even the most non believing agreeing with me. Most of the masks I cover are, in essence, fairly simple. They are a flat rubber or latex shape that doesn't deviate much from the general design. Oh sure, some look like ghouls and some look like fish and some look like some weird ghoul fish that a deaf woman would try to have sex with, but in the end, they're all cut from t...

   So, we need to have a talk. I was doing some searching on eBay for potential new masks to cover, as I usually do every few months, when I came across this sale. They're charging 26 dollars for it (19.00 plus 6.00 shipping) and this was the only singular photo attached to the listing. I checked out the seller, who seems to have fairly good reputation, and they only had a handful of other masks for sale, plus a package of lightbulbs, a sealed box of toothbrushes and oh yeah a korean spicey ramen packet. Seems like a pretty legit seller, to be honest. There's virtually no description and in fact the vague semi description that does exist is just parroting the title of the listing itself, so. And my first reaction when I saw this image was "This gives off an evil vibe". Everything about this photo is ominous. I don't generally do posts like these, I mean, I did do Fleshless Phyllis a while back which kind of touches on the same subject, but this is...