Banding Collectively: Store Face Masks & Adjustable Headbands to Profit Well being Staff

As we have been sharing with you the tales, and psychological well being struggles, of the frontline medical staff throughout the nation who’re preventing COVID-19, Attract questioned how we would assist this group in a really sensible, and naturally stunning, method. After which trend startup Anywear got here to us with an concept.

After seeing photographs of the pores and skin irritation frontline staff are experiencing from sporting face masks throughout lengthy shifts, Anywear consulted with medical professionals about precisely what may decrease their discomfort. They discovered that headbands (and medical caps) with buttons to which masks might be affixed would assist alleviate chafing and ache across the ears. Numerous Zoom calls and a number of other prototypes later, Anywear has launched The Banding Collectively Undertaking.

At Anywear’s BandingTogetherProject.com, you should buy a scarf and material face masking for your self and Anywear will donate a scarf or medical cap with buttons to a medical skilled in want. The headscarf-and-face-covering units are available a number of totally different types and over a dozen totally different prints—that’s the place Attract got here in. As a result of magnificence is much more particular when it’s shared, we known as on some execs we take into account members of the Attract prolonged household to channel their creativity and assist Anywear create distinctive designs. Make-up artists Daniel Martin and Nam Vo, hairstylists Chris McMillan and Nikki Nelms, dermatologist Shereene Idriss, and manicurist Mei Kawajiri have every designed headbands and material face coverings with a wink to their very own artistic sensibilities. Mannequin Halima Aden, an Attract cowl star and former hospital employee herself, additionally designed a hijab-and-face-covering set. We even obtained within the recreation ourselves, creating a number of prints primarily based on all our all-time favourite nail artwork. In accordance with Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention suggestions for material face coverings, all materials are hand and mechanically cleanable—as sensible as they’re fairly.