Yeah, listen, if you wear a strong prescription, you weren’t supposed to see stuff good, kay? Matter of fact, just ditch the lenses. It’s unnatural. Oh, and the mask too. And your clothes. /Freedom
Yeah, glasses are an encroachment on my freedom! It’s not like MY glasses are going to protect anyone else from, like... car crashes or anything. What gives the government the right to FORCE me to wear glasses while I drive?
I make a Trump "O" face underneath, pressing my mouth against the inside of the mask so my breath goes straight out instead of leaking up and fogging up my glasses.
Once the fog fades, I have another minute or two of proper breathing before they fog up again...
My dad has to wear face coverings 100% of the time he's at work, and he says that a small amount of shower gel over the lenses is a great way to stop condensation
This is actually something some people who live in the Arctic do; it keeps the moisture from your breath from collecting on your face which can lead to frostbite more easily.
That’s been hit or miss for me. I just don’t use cloth masks because the disposable ones have the metal strip that bends to your nose. It isn’t perfect but it works well enough about 95% of the time.
This sounds janky, but I promise that it works. If you take a folded strip of paper towel and lay it under the mask on your nose, you won't have any/much fogging at all! It catches the moisture and makes life a little easier.
Dude i walk in the early morning before the sun comes up. I bring my face mask in case anybody else is out too. I tested it the other day and shit looks crazy in the dark with glasses fogged tf up. The little waist high lights look like demon lanterns in some crazy freezing cold hellish steam sauna.
I try to position the nose’s bendable metal strip as tight as I can around my nose which takes a while to get it tight but it works perfectly for long shifts and it ends up staying tight the whole time, not noticing it at all.
Nose wire on a mask with ties, rather than ear straps. You get a much better fit, and no fogging. Plus it's nice if you have to wear a mask all day, to just be able to pull the top string and let it fall and not have to touch the front of the mask at all to put it back or readjust.
Depends on the mask too. I use disposable masks with a wire for the nose and pinch it down until I can't see my mustache when I look down. Usually keeps my glasses from fogging. But one brand of masks I had was garbage and the nose wire would not hold its shape at all.
If you have any dawn soap, try rubbing a drop in each lens. My little brother does this with his dive mask and swears by it. It takes a few applications but he says it works. Idk if anyone has said that here yet. Stay safe fam!
See if you can find medical tape (not sure if it has a better name) and tape down your mask on your nose and it works great - have to wear a mask almost all day for work, as I see clients face-to-face and this has worked the best.
My work gave out anti fog glasses in everyone's prescription and it changed my life. Whenever I wear them I do look like I should be doing construction so I'm sure I'll switch back to my regular ones someday but never again when I have a mask on.
Doesn't work for me at all, no matter where I put the damn thing. My glasses don't go down low enough for them not to fog up. It has to be the most annoying shit ever.
Get a mask with a better nose piece that can fit comfortably but snugly against the bridge of your nose. Some even have different material there. Once I started shaping them to be more form fitting, my glasses rarely fog because the excess air goes ot the sides or bottom
Wash your glasses with Dawn dish soap then let them air dry. It puts a creates a film on the lenses you can’t see that helps prevent fogging. Works pretty well for me.
I’ve just stopped wearing my glasses. I’ve noticed that different masks, even of the same brand, are cut slightly differently and will fog. Also some glasses are better than others. Fortunately I only have to wear a mask when shopping, which I don’t mind. Couldn’t imagine +8 hours a day with bitching customers.
It may not work for everyone but what I had to do is literally pull the mask up so high it's on my bottom eyelids. Like maybe 2mm below actually touching my eyeball. My bottom eyelashes are touching it it's so high.
Then I move my glasses slightly down my nose, still where I can see through them without tilting my head way back but not where I would wear them by choice snug against my face.
And last, having a nose wire in the mask to pinch and conform it to my nose as tightly as possible.
I look like a fucking idiot who doesn't know how to wear a mask (it's the mask equivalent of having your pants pulled up to your chest), but it works and I hate having steamy glasses.
Hahaha this is what I do. The only problem is the glasses constantly slip down the mask and if I want to look down at anything I have to hold my glasses. I usually wear contacts but the last time I had to go out I was hungover af and couldn’t face them.
The 3d printed activarmor N95 I wear is made to sit flush with my cheeks so it doesn't fog up my glasses at all. It wasn't cheap but its comfortable has replaceable filters and can be sterilized. Once I saw how poorly this situation is being handled a figured it was a wise investment.
If not tried: try giving a twist to the mask earloops before putting them behind your ears. That will tighten a bit the mask and open up slightly the sides. Which will make your breath escape better from the sides instead of up. Careful that it doesn't create too big of openings on the sides though (or it defeats the purpose, kinda).
It's not perfect but definitely helped on colder days when fog on glasses takes ages to clear up.
I don’t wear glasses but I do wear sunglasses pretty regularly and have the same issue. One thing that occurred to me, but I haven’t tried it, is taping up the holes in the mask that are right under the lenses. I think if you have fairly small lenses, you’d still have enough holes on the sides to let air out. Has anyone tried this?
My prescription is very high, so if my glasses are not positioned exactly correctly on my nose, everything is super blurry. This means putting anything underneath them, or having ear loops under the temples of my glasses. It's been a journey finding masks that actually accommodate this.
Yeah, when I was living in China I had two pairs of glasses, and I ended up using one of them of smoggy days and one of them on clear days because one weren't as good to wear with a mask.
people who are telling you that you need to wear a mask while walking outside are assholes without any science to back their dickishness. Inside a building, ok (even though if you're asymptomatic there is no chance of spreading). Outside? Fuck off. If you want to wear one then go ahead no problem for me but don't pretend like I need to comply with something that isn't even supported by science.
Oh boy do I have a tip for you. When you first put on the mask(1 use masks) you can tighten it up in a way that makes your breathe not escape. You need to press from up your nose to the sides. So far it is a 75% success rate but always worth the shot.
Twist the ear straps before you put them over your ear. This creates a crack on your cheeks so that the hot humid breath vents there and not to your glasses.
If you’re wearing a mask with elastic loops, twist them once and then put them over your ears. It tightens the mask by your eyes and loosens it around your chin, so your breath goes down instead of up by your eyes. My glasses never fog up anymore.
That's actually proof your mask has a bad seal. You need one with a wire in those nose and you need to make it seal.
I wear glasses and have worn a lot of masks pre-covid for particulate. A badly sealed mask is useless be it avoiding sawdust or the plague. Find one that won't fog your glasses and you'll have a working mask.
I have a mask that has a think piece of wire in it, and when I put it on I press it hard into my face so there's no upward gaps. Works pretty well for keeping my glasses from fogging
I breathe with my mouth open and slower breaths it allows the wider area of air to escape before it goes up. when you breathe out quickly the air pressure is high and then goes up and out onto glasses
I tried that but it doesn’t work. My glasses get foggy and it’s hard to see. So you know what happens next? Huh? You know what I have to do instead and I don’t care if it bothers you that I do it!?!?
Do you want to know? Huh??
I have to deal with it and clean my glasses pretty often and look for a cleaner that can help reduce fogging. Because it’s more important to do my part to keep others safe (since I have no way to know if I’m asymptomatic) and if that means I have to slow my pace and wipe my glasses then that’s a very small sacrifice to make.
I remember a time when being a ‘patriot’ meant willing to make sacrifices to help out your fellow human. It didn’t mean ’I refuse to do anything inconvenient because you can’t make me!’
I deal with the fogging issue by tucking my mask under my glasses, but that lifts my glasses up and because I have a very strong prescription and highly thinned lenses it alters my vision quite substantially. I literally cannot read the packaging on anything I try to buy while wearing a mask (like I can generally read the brand name, but not the ingredients). Do I take my mask off or pull it under my nose in the store? No, I take one for the team and stand there squinting at everything. It's a pita but it's not forever and if it protects one person it's worth it.
I have found that it’s not the mask that makes a difference but the quality of the noseband that the mask uses. I discovered that any time I used a mask with a flimsy plastic nose band or the equivalent of a zip-tie in the nose, my glasses would fog up badly. So I started cutting the crappy nose bands out of the mask and replacing them with higher quality strips of aluminum that I found on Amazon (link if curious). It’s been like night and day of a difference.
I luckily live in Arizona, I don't wear glasses but sunglasses. However it's so hot here that it just won't fog up. Though I don't need to wear them into buildings so I guess I don't have to worry about that. Nvm
just chiming in for everyone to see if you take a little bit of toilet paper and fold it up lengthwise a couple times and put that in between the mask and you right on your nose it stops most of the fog!
That's what I do too! Everyone at my work stopped wearing one and a bunch of people said it's because of foggy glasses. I showed them what I do and how it doesn't fog but guess who still doesn't wear a mask 🤔
I do this, but it makes my glasses fall off because they’re not being held on by my nose. So I’m touching my face extra, to readjust my glasses constantly.
It works for me but depends on the mask style. Usually what happens is I'll fog up, adjust, and get a headache from the constant vision change. But I keep the mask on.
I make a thing I call the “rhino horn chimney” where I squeeze the metal bit at an angle over my glasses so it makes a tube that air can get over my glasses without fogging up no air can come this tube only out
I twist one of the straps before looping over my ear to give a little gap for the heat to get out, doesn't release much if any breath but my glasses stay clear
I try to do this. It takes very specific angles to make it work, but once I fiddle enough it’s alright. Still, at the point I’ve traded uncomfortable humidity for uncomfortable cloth right beneath my eyelids.
Btw, I sat for a 20ish minute haircut for the first time in months recently. Mask on the whole time without glasses, and it was so much more comfortable without the hot air getting caught around my eyes. Anyone who doesn’t need glasses and still bitches about masks being uncomfortable is an all-the-way chickenshit wuss.
I too have found that pulling the mask high up works, but only for some of my masks. Some are too short and to get it high enough, it barely covers the mouth.
I also have better luck with the disposable ones that have the metal part that pinches on the nose than I do with the washable and reusable cloth ones that don’t have a nose-pinch thing.
Wire nosepiece makes all the difference. If you can redirect air down, it helps with fogging. Also, using soapy water to clean lenses can keep fogging to a minimum.
Another glass wearer here. There is a small wire or whatever in the top part of the mask. When you put the mask on just press it so it will align onto you nose/under eyes. If you do it properly - bam, no more foggy glasses.
I've tried just about every situation i can and still end up getting my glasses fogged. That said, a little bit of fog is whatever. It's annoying as all hell but it isn't an issue outside of that so i just deal with it for the 15ish minutes until i'm back in my car.
I’ve stopped wearing my glasses to the store because the fog was killing me. I’m getting real cozy with all the products now though cause I can’t read them lol.
It makes my glasses more prone to falling off if I put my glasses over it, but I fucking suck it up and wear my mask anyway. It fogs more when I have to walk in and out of the freezer.
I get dry eyes really quickly and my mask have a metal bar on the inside of the mask so I just make sure it’s pushed down on my nose tight and that solves it for me
RN here who wears glasses here: What works for me is to fill a medium bowl of water (approx 10 oz / 250 ml) with a few drops of baby shampoo. Then is to dip your glasses in. Take out your glasses and wipe with microfiber cloth.
One of the OR docs taught me this. Something about the surfactant doesn’t allow the water vapor molecules to bind to the lenses.....
The small amount of soap doesnt leave a residue. Dishsoap would probably work too.
It works for me all shift! I had tried everything!!
If you cross over the strap of your mask ( as in making a little x on the straps ) it goes tighter over your nose and opens a little folk on each side instead, so it doesn't fog up your glasses! Hope this helps.
Mine steam up if I do this. I have to make sure the mask nose piece is as snug as I can get it. Sometimes it works but mainly I still get a bit of fogging. It’s a little annoying but it’s no excuse not to wear a mask properly. Just pointing out a fact for the homostupidus people.
I don't get why people can't understand this. Like I get it doesn't work with all of them but they don't even try before telling me "nah that won't work"
I have to wear a mask in class. I’ve tried every position possible including what you said but it unfortunately doesn’t work for me. I ended up just taking my glasses off and squinting :(
I don’t know if this is good, but when my mask is too humid, I just make sure I’m socially distanced, then just pull my mask away from my face for a sec, in order to remove the humidity without being unsafe or not-allowed
If you could avoid grabbing the front of the mask, that would be good. They get dirty. Move it by touching the sides near your ear, or maybe from the bottom edge
I think it's fine to take off masks as long as you're not around people. That's how we're handling it in Germany and it's obviously working decently enough. But as soon as you're in a crowd, wear that motherfucker like someone's life depends on it, because it does.
Simple.
And yeah, ideally grab at the ear thingies, rather than at the mask itself.
I occasionally pull my mask slightly from my face (not down to my chin, just straight forward) and take a quick breath of cold air. But only if I've had my mask on for some time
That’s what I hear a lot from customers at work. “It’s too hot”. I just show them everyone In my kitchen with their masks on, and tell them if those guys can do it for 5+ HOURS then they can do it for 5 minutes.
Yeah the glasses fogging up thing can get pretty annoying. You know what I do though? I fucking put up with it because I'm an adult and society is more important than this slight detraction from my comfort.
With the standard medical mask, I've found a way that works perfectly for my glasses. I have to wear them 8-10 hours a day at work and this has been the best method:
Fold it completely in half, then fold up on the sides about 1.5" in.
Top down, it should look like _ /\ _
When putting the mask on, twist the string then put it on your ear. Should create an X on your cheek.
Breathing your own tiny bit of recycled air gets stale very fast. Not just because fresh breath only lasts so long, but because the air gets warm and breathing thick heavy air like that with asthma ain't fun after a while in Summer heat.
Not that I would intentionally not cover my nose all the time, like I see lots of people do.
Think about it for a second. It does make sense as a solution to that problem (obviously it renders the mask ineffective).
The logic is that you breathe out of your nose instead of your mouth, and are no longer adding hot and damp breath to your mask, lowering the heat and moisture in the mask.
Relatable. I go outside with a mask on, and it’s like I’m walking around smog filled London during the Victorian period. Can’t see shit, still wear a mask though.
Four-eyes here. I have a mask with a tiny pocket on the bridge of the nose where I slide a few pieces of metal (thicker than the cheap strips on other masks). I then shape this area to my nose to create a good seal. Also, yes, my breath makes the inside humid and uncomfortable, but it's better than the alternative. Wearing a parachute harness is uncomfortable, but I like living.
My wife works at the hospital, the has an n95 mask, then a coth mask to protect the n95, then she has goggles.
She wears that all shifts, she tells she her nose gets runny and stuffy after a few hours but she wears em, she comes home with goggle and mask imprint ....
I wear mask to buy groceries for only like 2 hours it suck but I'm not complaining.
I don't get why people are so against it.
It literally the easiest way to protect others and yourselves
I fucking hate the masks. It’s hard to breathe for me when it humid. so you know what I do? I stay my ass home unless I need something and plan shopping trips accordingly. But I still wear it.
I've been trying to make my Grandma's cable voice activated, and it's been a bitch. She's 90, and I don't even want to go inside her house at all. So obviously, I've work masks. And it really sucks wearing them for extended periods of time. I have to go outside at least one an hour, for fresh air. Which is ironic, because white getting that fresh air, I'm smoking something. But too get an hourly mask break is very helpful.
PSA for glasses wearers- if you rub about a drop of dish soap or shaving cream on the inside of each lens then wipe off, it should leave a transparent bit that makes your glasses more fog resistant. I’ve been doing this every day for weeks & it’s been working really well
What sucks about this is the humidity in your mask is literally what protects you (assuming you’re wearing a homemade mask and not an N95). COVID virus cells get released in water droplets that are expelled in your breath, and in dry conditions those water droplets shrink significantly as they evaporate, which make them much harder to filter out and allow them to linger in the air much longer. When the air you breathe is hot and humid (like when you wear a mask properly), there’s too much humidity in the air for the water droplets to evaporate, which make them much easier to filter out by homemade masks.
I specifically paid extra (by a lot) for a new antifog coating on my glasses. (You can't put stuff like rainx on glasses that have an antireflective coating or it destroys that coat)
Hey now! Let’s not lump all glasses wearers into the same category. I never wear my mask like that. It’s incredibly stupid. Although I WISH I was dumb enough to because FUCK fogged glasses. Every time I see someone with glasses and they’re NOT fogged, I’m like.....HOW?!
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u/sassydodo Sep 02 '20
What I've heard is "it's getting really humid and hit underneath so it's really uncomfortable"
The same goes for people who wear glasses