Facewear is a new cosmetic option in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail. It allows you to customize your glasses and other facial equipment better, including spectacles or monocles. It is a brand-new equipment slot, though none of these items have combat stats.

While accessing the feature is fast and simple, you must find and purchase the eyewear. This could include needing a lot of Gil fast in FF14 or other currency to buy it outright. Some glasses are obtained from quests or are converted from older gear released in Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker or Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers.

How To Unlock and Use Facewear

A New Equipment Option

The facewear slot technically automatically unlocks for any players who have patched the game up to 7.0, the full release of Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail. This can even include those still playing through the massive free trial. However, the menu will be empty until you own at least one pair of glasses.

Once you own some Eyewear, open the character equipment menu. The eyewear slot is on the lower left, directly underneath the feet slot. This will show the Facewear menu, where you can pick out your equipment and dye it various colors.

You can even use this menu in instanced content, like a dungeon or raid. However, like all equipment, to switch, you need to be currently out of combat .

How To Purchase New Facewear

Glasses Must Be Bought or Converted

As mentioned, the Facewear menu will be barren until you first own some glasses. These can be old ones gained during previous expansions or new options available only in Dawntrail. For the former, you may need to see an NPC to make them compatible with the new system.

Converting Obsolete Gear

Some of the current facewear used to actually be headgear back in Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker. This includes prizes from victories in FF14's PvP modes. If you still have items in the incorrect equipment category, visit a Calamity Salvager in any of the three main cities. At the bottom of their menu, there will be an option to convert everything to facewear.

Brand New Glasses

You may be a player who never owned any facewear in the first place. In this case, you will need to seek out various merchants in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail. But keep in mind that most of these can also be directly purchased on the market boards. But, the player-controlled economy can result in some outrageous prices.