Since I saw posts about Ichigo's post Ulquiorra battle mask being underwhelming (art by lordbalda)

Understand that if Ichigo wasn't traumatized and hadn't mentally nerfed himself, THIS is what his Hollowfication would have been for the Fake Karakura Town Arc. The problem was that he was scared into trauma from what his fully Hollowfied self did and each time he wanted to use his mask afterwards he always had that fear of losing control again, so he mentally nerfed himself, rendering him incapable of properly Hollowfying, resulting in the two-striped mask that we got.

Fact is that if Ichigo hadn't been "killed" by Ulquiorra and somehow found a way to induce full Hollowfication against him while he was still conscious, then that's what we would have gotten from that point on. Vasto Lorde Ichigo was never "White" taking over. It was Ichigo's unconscious body moving on instinct and desire alone. He unconsciously induced that Hollowfication, and his violent nature was his own. And I think that he was fully aware of that fact, since he was convinced that he got rid of White back in the Visored Arc, therefor he realized that White wasn't to blame for what happened to Ulquiorra, rather his own destructive impulses were, so Ichigo just didn't trust himself anymore.

Anyway, just wanted to make this post to try and clarify and explain it a bit, since I saw people talking about the two-striped mask and being disappointed by it, and it occured to me that a lot of people misunderstood what that mask actually represented. It was never an evolution of the mask. It was a nerf of the Vasto Lorde form that Ichigo could have / SHOULD have had control over.