Face Mask Hurting Your Ears? Try These Low-Key Brilliant Hairstyle Tricks

Wearing a face mask is the very least you can do to help limit the spread of COVID-19 when venturing outside. Which means you also know that wearing your mask all day long can cause some uncomfortable rubbing/pulling on the backs of your ears.

Head Wrap Mask Style

If your ears are absolutely over the friction and rubbing skip the elastic altogether for a day and try masking with something softer.

Accented Mask Hairstyles

You can still look incredibly cute while wearing a mask, so wear it, no excuses. With just a few barrettes and bobby pins.

Twisted and Clipped Mask Hairstyle

The key to making this style is a few soft layers pulled out around the face. Just two-strand twist the sides of your hair back, hook a cute barrette through the ears of your mask, then slide and snap the barrette over the twist to keep it in place. Repeat on the other side, and boom—cute hair, happy ears.

Bandanna Mask Hairstyle

You know that bandanna you initially used as a face mask before investing in a legit one? Yeah, go get it. Then wrap it around the back of your neck, slip the ends through the ear holes of your mask, and tie the bandanna up and around your head or around a ponytail for a genius hairstyle combo that’ll keep the friction off the back of your ears.

Easy Face Mask Hairstyle

These hairstyles really, truly don’t have to be difficult—just scoop your hair into a low bun, ponytail, braid, whatever, and then use a bunch of glitzed-up barrettes and pins to keep the masks elastic pulled back and away from your ears. Don’t have fancy accessories? Grab two mini claw clips to hold the loops in place

Ponytail Face Mask Hairstyle

You can still take a cue from this ponytail hairstyle by looping your mask under or through the first bubble of the braid to keep it in place and off your ears.

Face Mask Hurting Your Ears? Try These Low-Key Brilliant Hairstyle Tricks