Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've used sleep masks for many years, some good, some not so good, but this one is, without hesitation, the most poorly designed sleep mask I've ever had the misfortune to own. The problems I've faced are: 1) The rough side of the velcro that holds the mask closed faces your pillow, so if you do not have every last part of the velcro covered it will stick to your pillowcase if you lay on your back. When you go to move it "rips" off the pillowcase it has become stuck to. This noise will probably wake you up; if it doesn't the fact that the mask, which has become stuck to your pillowcase, twists on your head as you roll over and no longer keeps the light out as the nose cutout now resides on your temple will wake you up. I would imagine that only those people with small heads can have the velcro completely covered, if your head is normal or on the larger size, you'll have a significant amount of velcro showing and not only be awakened, but ruin your pillowcase, as this sleep mask has done mine. 2) Because of its design, in order to keep the mask on the entire night as you sleep, you have to velcro it pretty tight to your head. I've had several masks that are like that and usually it's no big deal, but because of the poor design of this sleep mask, if I make it tight enough to not fall off or spin around my head it pushes against my eyes fairly hard and when I awake my vision is blurry for usually more than 30 minutes and my eyes hurt because of the pressure against them all night long. 3) The assertion that the mask muffles noise is simply ridiculous. Unless you strap the mask so tight to your head that your eyeballs are being shoved backwards into your brain, you will notice absolutely no sound reduction. Even when you have the mask as tight as it will go, it still does not reduce noise in the least. This is a false assertion and was one of the main reasons I purchased this sleep mask, only to be very disappointed. 4) Finally, the ridiculous assertion that this mask helps us "ladies" keep a lovely hairstyle as we sleep, is laughable. The direct quote from their website is this, "And, for you ladies, we've all heard the saying 'Nothing looks better on a woman than a good night's sleep.' Sleep Master actually keeps your hairstyle in place during sleep! Wake up, take off Sleep Master, and you are ready to go...No bedhead!" Sleep Master's assertion only holds true if flat on top, with a band of squished hair across the middle of your head, then flat at the bottom is a hairstyle which you covet. This sleep mask hardly helps you maintain your out-of-the-stylist's-chair hair style while you doze, like it asserts. Please give a great deal of thought before wasting your money on this sleep mask. My suggestion would be to stay with a more tried-and-true model, for this one is a complete fallacy from start to finish.