If you are reading this because you are looking for skull masks, we will not ask ourselves if this is normal. At least I will not be the one to question it. What you may not have realized that the masks are not the skull; if not, it is to run out of it.
Why buy skull masks?
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end…
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be]
William Shakespeare – 1564-1616
It is not known who would be more unfortunate if the madman of Hamlet for speaking to a skull or all who, supposedly sane, turn their backs on the most challenging questions in life. By disguising yourself with a skull mask, you become for that moment what we fear most in life. In this way, we dominate that fear, peering into what is hidden behind mortality, and we acquire the power to overcome our fears. This is the reason why for centuries, the skull has symbolized knowledge.
Perhaps the reason these bony faces scare us so much is that we cannot read what is hidden inside them, and that is why they fascinate us at the same time. The skulls do not evoke what we would like to be in our deepest interior to become what we are if we shed the prejudices and patterns imposed by society.
When you put on these masks, you inherit all the true meaning, which since ancient times, our ancestors gave to this symbol. All those who carried the skulls with the pride of differentiating themselves within society. Of always living sure that there is always something else.