Another technique I use is to burn the little bastards. Take a lit safety match, place up to nostril and quickly remove, there’s a quick crackling sound, a charcoaly(sp) type smell, and voila no nasal hairs. If done quickly enough you shouldn’t burn your nose.
I discovered this by accident, when I happened to buy a fire-liqueur in Austria. Instead of blowing out the lit drink before quaffing, I tried it still lit and lost my nasal hairs, eyelashes and eyebrows in one sudden whoosh (this is not recommended, as you look like an alien for a week or two).
This I believe is one of the two great uses of matches for non smokers/candle-fanciers; the other of course is the crowded house/only 1 toilet/bad gut scenario.
Well, hemostats for me too, and I have been a plucker for 15 plus years. Seems like we have a veritable forest up our nostrils, because there are always more to pluck. One must also remember they serve a purpose: trapping dust and other fine particles which then turn into snot and said snot is then held in place (one hopes) by said hair. ( Oh, you were eating?) I usually do many at once because it does make me sneeze for up to an hour afterwards, which I suppose is our body’s way of punishing us.
Back in 1983 I was at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, to wait for a friend who would be between planes. While there I observed an older couple(man and wife?) , dressed in ordinary clothes, not weird or exotic in any way. Well, she gets out a pair of clippers and proceeds to trim his earhairs, right there in public! And when she was done with THAT he tilted his head back and she plucked his NOSEHAIRS! EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!
I have hair in my nose and my ears now, but my fingers are fine and delicate enough that I can achieve salvation with them directly, instead of seeking intercession through pliers or tweezers.
But the hairs always grow back. Lumpy, even plucked hairs will grow back.
I want a permanent solution, which leads me to this question:
Aside from the pain, is there any good reason why one shouldn’t have electrolysis for excess nose/ear hair?
Wimps. I’ve gotten pretty good at pulling them out with my forefinger and thumbnail. Trap it between your forefinger and your thumbnail, give it a quick yank, and viola!
although I hate it when one slips loose. yeeeouch.
I’ve been doing this for years as well. Haven’t gotten an infection yet, but there’s supposed to be a lot more bacteria inside the nose, so I guess the chances of you getting an infection are theoretically higher than if you yank hairs from other parts of the body.
And trimming nose hairs won’t help, for me at least, I have to yank them. Sometimes they have a really thick root, which causes discomfort in my nose, and trimming it won’t get rid of the root, so I have to yank it. And I’ve heard yanking is supposed to damage the follicle, but they seem to grow back in the same place over and over…
If I can get a good grip on one, I find twisting it continuously in one direction will cause it to pull out with virtually none of the plucking pain. Good for those days when you think you’re good, then blow your nose in a restroom and discover there was a really long one just waiting to be blown out and be seen. Go to the nearest tall, shut the door, grab, and spin until you’ve got a liberated hair in your grasp.
It’s the rare hair that’s long enough for that, though, and now that I’m in my late 30s and the hair has gotten bushier, if not longer, I’ve just resorted to using a small pair of scissors as needed when I’m doing my other hair-trimming activities (shaving, sideburn trimming, snipping off wild eyebrow hairs that grow an inch in length overnight, trimming the mutant white hair that curls out of my left ear canal, whatever). Make it part of one’s daily ablutions and it becomes no big deal, though perhaps it’s still a big deal to have to add another body part to the hair-removal plan once in a while.
I do wonder if electrolysis would be worthwhile. Or even doable.
another vote for the forefinger and thumb. Contrary to the rest of the posters, mine are not painful. I mean there’s a little 10 second sting, not as bad as a shot in the arm, and that’s about it. No crying, weeping, screaming like a little girl action. YMMV
Years ago I stopped to get a haircut at a barber shop I had never visted before. The barber was an older Asian gentleman and he did a fine job cutting my hair. After he finished he told me to tilt my head back so I did. He lit a wooden match, let it burn a few seconds, blew it out then stuck it up my left nostril and twirled it around. He then did the same to the right.
Other than the smell of burning hair that lasted for a second or two, it worked great. Since then I keep a box of wooden matches in my bathroom. No hair plucking or hairs getting yanked out by nose hair trimmers.
One of my cousins had the insides of his nostrils waxed. Now, I’m not sure whether this is a commercially available procedure in the UK, or whether he just decided to do it on a whim one day, or indeed if he did it for a bet, but I do know that he posted a photo of the immediate aftermath on Facebook. The result looked for all the world like two baby hedgehogs sleeping on a tissue.
And yeah, I regularly just yank them out using the thumb and index fingernail method. Now and again one will hurt like hell and cause about 15 minutes of sneezing and eye-watering. Keeps the day interesting.
Yeah, thumb and forefinger can be used, but sometimes they’re too deep or too short for that. And I rarely feel any pain, but that’s probably because I’ve done it so much that my nose is now desensitized to any pain.
Same thing here. I’ve got a $15 Philips nose hair trimmer, and it works great. You have to work it around a bit, but it’s getter than scissors, tweezers, or what I occasionally resorted to – needlenose pliers.
been plucking for years. Tried a trimmer once, hate it; the stubble is itchy. About once every three months I spend a few minutes plucking. My weapon of choice is a pair of tweezers from the drug store - tweezers designed for plucking hairs.
Oh, you were eating?) I usually do many at once because it does make me sneeze for up to an hour afterwards, which I suppose is our body’s way of punishing us.