Ask HN: How can you shield your face from facial recognition

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Put something colorful on your nose!
Zak McKracken nose glasses ...

On a more serious note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_dazzle

Inspired by dazzle painting for ships (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage ) rather than hiding your face this type of makeup attempts to confuse computer vision systems with weird shapes and colours.

Here are a few examples: https://cvdazzle.com/ These tend to be rather conspicuous, though. Depending on your environment and the rest of your style these might attract quite some attention.

wear a paper bag over your head