-Hi. I'm Allyson Chiu, and I'm a reporter covering wellness
for The Washington Post.
The pandemic has actually given a lot of people time
to rediscover self-care and make time for themselves,
and for some, face masks have become part of that routine.
No, not those face masks.
These face masks.
And new to the scene is Oscar Mayer,
with their bologna-inspired face masks.
I joined some of my colleagues to try them out.
-About to try this bologna face mask for journalism.
-"A hydrating, restoring hydrogel mask
suitable for all skin types
but especially for those
who used to make masks out of their bologna as kids."
-This says, do not eat this mask.
Fine. I won't.
-I didn't really grow up eating bologna.
It was not that common in El Salvador.
-My skin-care routine is normally just
good ol' Ponds cream after a shower.
-I am curious about the fragrance.
-Never put on a face mask. I have no idea what I'm doing.
-Kind of disappointed there is no meat smell.
-Ooh, something just came out of it and splashed.
-Oh, gosh, it's all wet.
-It's like goo.
-I should probably be in a bathroom for this,
not at my desk, right?
-It's kind of a little drippy.
And let me tell you, it looks exactly like meat.
-I never ate bologna growing up.
But what struck me is -- always struck me is, like,
the weird American people food.
-You could put this on a sandwich,
and I would believe it.
-So I'm putting it on.
-Here I am with a -- a bologna beard.
-Wow.
-I guess I just...
I have it backwards. That's the problem.
This hat's not gonna work.
-This reminds me of the scene from "The Office"
where Dwight wears the dummy's face,
like Hannibal Lecter.
-There we go. That's part one.
-What do you, just peel it?
Okay, I should have read the instructions.
-I like that you can see that, like,
it looks like you bit the mouth out.
-Oop.
-Oh, it's really nice and cool.
-Okay. Okay. We're gonna come back.
-I do feel like I have bologna on my face.
-This might haunt me in my nightmares.
-I have managed to -- No, I haven't.
Thought I had managed to get it on my face.
It just says "apply mask." It doesn't give you instructions.
So if you're a new-comer, like myself,
it's very complicated.
-Hot tip -- layer your bologna mask for a tighter fit
that I feel like it's not moving around anymore.
-I'll get this eventually.
-I'm the color of bologna.
-All right, I guess we're just gonna have to hold it.
-Oh, no.
And my dog literally just threw up.
-To tortilla companies out there --
if you do this in the shape of a tortilla, I will buy it.
-Face I.D. does not work.
It won't accept my new creepy flesh face.
-All right, I've been holding it on my face like this
for 10 minutes.
-Oop. Oop. Ooh.
The party's over.
-I'm gonna take it off now.
And just gonna, you know, peel it like -- Oh, my.
-All right.
-I do have, like, a little shine, which is really nice.
I usually don't get that with a lot of face masks.
-As far as the first face mask experience goes,
my skin actually feels pretty nice.
-Pretty solid in terms of face mask experiences.
-My skin feels better. Like, it was a nice experience
and maybe a nice mask, and maybe it did something.
I don't know. Maybe the ham mask worked.
-This didn't really work for me.
But I may have done it wrong.
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