As I said, I’d love to pluck. The trouble with plucking is that you risk death.
For a bit more color on my experience with rotary trimmers–they just don’t get the job done. It’s not like they rip the hairs out or anything–so far as I can tell they just push them around. Thus why I’ll try the blunt scissors for now. I’m a bit scared of pointy scissors in my face.
Each hair has two ends. One end grows out from your scalp. The other end grows down inside your body, albeit at a much slower rate.
Over many years, the body ends of hairs will emerge, first in the nose and ears, then the shoulders, and finally the back.
Most older men simply trim the body ends of their hairs, but some solve the problem by growing the head ends of their hairs as long as they can. Then then tie the head ends of their hairs together in a very large knot, and have their wives give a series of mighty tugs (on the pony tail, not the, well, . . . ) . This pulls the hairs back up through the body, so that there are no longer any visible hairs in the wrong places.
I’m making a note for when I get me a woman. 
This $ 10 Panasonic unit works just fine and has for years for unwanted nose and ear hair. No pain or pulling etc., it just nips the hair off neatly. It’s also very effective for quickly erasing female mustache hair.
One thing to bear in mind is that unlike an electric razor where you can go several shavings before needing to clean it out, you HAVE to unscrew the little conical top and clean it out about every 1-2 trimmings. There is very little room in the cap area for excess hair and it will clog quickly and be useless if packed with chopped up hair.
Also make sure the battery (it only takes one) is fresh as the unit only works effectively when the cutter is spinning at high speed.
I’m with you. My answer won’t be the most popular one, but I keep a Gerber Tool (compact folding pliers) in my car console for just this reason. At red lights, and the like, I look in my rear view mirror and if I see nose hairs sticking down, out come the pliers. *** yank!!! *** and the problem is solved. It doesn’t even hurt or itch anymore.
For a more palatable solution; I have used the same hair-cut person for 10-15 years now. She regularly keeps my ears and eyebrows in check. She would do my nose if she needed to. I keep my ears in check with the above mentioned pliers; but not as often because I can’t see them too well in the rear view mirror. re: my eyebrows; I’ll occasionally use a beard type trimmer. When my eyebrows are moist from post-shower; I’ll comb them up and clean them up with the trimmer. Then I’ll just brush them back out.
Second! My favorites are the inch-long white ones and the ones that look like Black Widow legs.
What the hell is going on up there?
You should get THIS ONE , which is very similar to the one linked by CubMistress. Honestly, you want non-electric because the electric ones can snag instead of cutting. And nothing is worse that a snagged nose hair.
I have this model and am so taken with it that I have purchased several for my friends, it is a great design and made in the USA!
What do you think the tiny scissors on the small swiss army knife is for? Nose and ear hairs and finger nails.
Well, shit, so much for sleeping tonight. Maybe I’ll play games with the gas grill and try to burn it all off.
I use groom mate platinum every six months. Some of my nose hair are over growing. I like groom mate because it doens’t require a battery.
Anyone here tried nose hair waxing? I didn’t even know this existed until it was shown on a “Dirty Jobs” episode. It looks painful, but very effective.
I use a battery-powered Remington trimmer (not the rotary kind) which works well for both nose and ear hair. It cost me about ten bucks and has held up for years.
I have one of those as well, and it keeps my regular nose hairs in check and my few white(!) nose hairs in check and not visible.
Real men use matches…
I use a Panasonic ER-GN30. It works. I’m having a hard time figuring out how any device of this type wouldn’t.
I mean, I guess you could build one with a really shitty motor or something, but it’s not something that requires a lot of power. Mine runs on a single AAA battery that seemingly lasts forever. You could put shitty blades in it, but that would mean pulling instead of cutting, which you’re not describing as a problem. Just pushing the hair around seems like it’s a bad tip design, but this isn’t exactly a complex problem. Mine is like an asterisk with four lines instead of three, and an 1/8" hole in the middle.
I just don’t understand how one could design and market a nose hair trimmer that doesn’t work. I’m honestly perplexed.