In the Halloween spirit, I bring you my two favorite Etsy finds this week. Just look at these gorgeous handmade leather masks!

This first one, made by Merimask, is a Copperhead Medusa Mask, hand-sculpted from one piece of leather and then hand-painted with meticulous detail. Merimask has done work for Cirque de Soleil, and her work is featured in galleries around the country. With Merimask’s talent, her take-charge attitude, and radical confidence in her work, this mask is bound to be a collector’s item. This gal is going places, and the prices of the masks are likely to only go up and up. So even if it’s too late for Halloween this year, plan ahead for next.

This delicate, yet durable, gem of a mask is made by Wendy Klein Masks. I love the subtle details of this mask, from the embroidery to the embedded rhinestones. My favorite feature is that the beads wrap over your ear rather than tying behind your head (and thus messing up your fabulous Do because you’d have to have fabulastic hair to go with this beauty). Now, I haven’t tried this myself, and I have doubts about how well that actually works, but the craftsmanship of this mask is so superior that I have to believe it works to at least a satisfactory degree.

Happy Halloween!

** Disclaimer – All items from Etsy that I choose to feature here are of my own finding. They are things I like, not things I will get a kickback on or a free gift of. No one has approached me asking me to review their product. Most importantly, I don’t always BUY these items (what, you think this blog is making me any MONEY?) This is just me, doing my part and sharing a little bit of what’s worth finding on the world WIDE web.

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