Sleep Mask Review: Written by Someone Who Actually Needs One

The Sleep Mask Review — Written by Someone Who Actually Needs One

When your schedule looks like mine — work days that bleed into work nights, years of bartending that rewired your relationship with the concept of a normal bedtime, and an 80-pound dog who considers midnight a perfectly reasonable time to need something — the hours you do sleep have to actually do something. Lying in a room with light coming through the curtains and drifting in and out for four hours is not sleeping. It's just being horizontal.

I reviewed the sleep masks we carry over on Sleep With Nikki. The full version covers what I was trying to fix, why every flat travel mask I'd tried before failed at the most basic level, and what actually changed when I switched to this one. The short version: I fall asleep faster, I stay asleep, and I wake up when I mean to instead of slowly surfacing over two hours because my brain kept registering light signals all night.

If you're sourcing sleep products for a property and want to understand what you're actually putting in guest hands — or if you're a person with a complicated schedule who needs sleep to count when it happens — the full review is worth a few minutes.