Fancy or plain?

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When we first started having to make our own face masks/coverings because of the shortage, people in Japan were using any kind of material they could find, and even that sold out fairly quickly. Grandmas and stay-at-home moms who were good with sewing machines started making very professional-looking face coverings for their kin and their neighbors. So suddenly, instead of being a country that uses basically white masks (as it has for years and years), and plain black, grey, and other neutral masks (which only started a couple of years ago), I started seeing individuality in masks. Well, now masks have become easier to find online, and society in general has gone back to white or plain masks. (Black and grey are also popular.) I had started making some of my own, but about as "wild" as I got was very subtle stripes. I made some hot pink ones for my granddaughter. I'm seeing teacher friends online with all kinds of cute patterns on their masks. Aside from being a rather "plain" person myself (I tend to buy clothes that are plain or very subtly patterned only) I have a couple I'd like. One of them is a mask with glowing Hawaiian lava, because I like volcanoes. I'd love to have a Geopark mask with Sakurajima on it, but I'd have to design it myself. Then I thought, "Kids are going to be looking at me. What will be the least likely to be distracting?" Well, the answer, I think, is to do what other adults are doing... white, grey, black. Plain, unpatterned. Kids can then focus on the subject. Oh, but it would be so much fun to have a cat nose and mouth... What about you?