It’s generally not a good idea to pluck nose hairs. Use a trimmer or scissors with rounded tips. Ingrown nostril hairs can be very dangerous sources of infection, not to mention painful. It’s one of the big questions I get on my hair removal forum.
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Back in the bad old dark days before Amazon and the ubiquitous internet, before big data was big, my college professor in a marketing course taught us about the goldmine that are nose hair trimmers. They used to show up in ads in the back of magazines, often sold at rock bottom prices. Supposedly the mailing list generated from people who bought them - people who were concerned about their appearance but too embarrassed to walk into a pharmacy to make the purchase - was far more valuable for resale than the loss on the devices. The people who were on the list were apparently total suckers for all kinds of mail order come ons.
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Ouch!
And gross!
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To all the people suggesting trimming nose hairs, with scissors or a trimmer: no thanks. The trimmed ends of the hairs are sharper then the naturally occurring (I assume) pointy end of the hairs and will give my the worst case of itchy nose for 2 or 3 days following a trimming.
I try and trim a few with tweezers every once in a while but I must admit that I have also developed the, probably disgusting to many, habit of plucking them out with my fingernails.
Doing them all at once like this seems like a good idea to me.
I was thinking @astrootter meant cuticle trimmers, but I may be wrong…
The blood-brain barrier is a result of the structure of the very capillaries that are inside the brain. It’s kind of like those liners that are inserted into old rusty pipes to stop them from leaking. It’s not like a big filter in the neck separating the head from the rest of the body. So open wounds in the nose or anywhere else on the head shouldn’t be any more dangerous to the brain than a cut anywhere else.
At least, that is my understanding.
(Edit: Though I will need to read more about the “Danger Triangle,” although it doesn’t seem specifically about crossing the blood-brain barrier.)
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I had to start doing it when I discovered that my nostril hairs are not just long, but thick and black. Which is especially odd as most of my hair is light brown and thin. I’ve pulled hairs out of my nose (with pliers) that look like the should belong to a farmyard animal. I find it’s only the ones near the end that sting, the long ones seem to start from about halfway to my eyeballs, and don’t hurt much.
You had to show us the final picture? Dude, that’s just wrong.
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I wince just thinking about it! I am no badass.
Reminds me of Max von Sydow’s character in Bergman’s Virgin Spring wherein he flagellates himself with birch tree branches (to get the old circulation going) prior to doing battle… and also for an artistic reason or two.
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There was this one fellow at my previous employment who apparently allowed his nose hairs to grow unabated. He was quite well known there for that. His nostrils looked as if they had tiny Afros growing out of them; they could be seen from a long way off, they were that bushy and poofed out. One day, either someone said something or he just decided on his own, he came in him with clean, shorn nostrils. For some reason I had mixed feelings about that.
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Microorganisms do not always have to invade the neural tissue itself to wreak havoc. If those get stuck in a capillary they can multiply and cause infection and/or a cyst.
For pathogens it’s just a short ride to the brain from the Danger Triangle. The body’s defense system might not catch them.
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The infections/ingrown hairs are more painful than even the ripping, don’t do it…
Just pretend it’s a cute little hedgehog, like @nemomen 's Princess Pricklepants.
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Well it’s not as if one can hold off until Locks Of Love will accept the wax plugs, but one could try to dye the hair first and take a kind of flip-floppa before pulling the plug in order to feel ‘filter plug’ about any personal worries and hair about achievements.
That Danger Triangle has to have a citation in Electron Ick Musician someplace. It’s about time the voice assistant got a sense of humor about how wrong you’d like your lay medicine and whether it should converge on a Spotify playlist or stanchions of medical fact (with 5 Lancet dipping sauces.) Maybe instead there should be a Shu Uemura styling set (see also: After ON podcast about beauty, natural selection, sexual selection, and mostly Manekins plus that 6’ long bird that can make a half-sky planetarium of isomorphic golden apples) that permits display behaviors using that hair. Mo’ modems mo problems.
I complained to my dermatologist of painful Ingrown hairs in my nose. His take was that it is probably just infections from the clippers piercing the skin to blood, and then pathogens do their thing.
I have since been religious about rinsing my clipper with water before and after each orifice (2 ears and 2 nose holes: 5 rinses total). He also gave me an antibiotic Rx to rub in the nostrils afterward. I used it often in the past but not for a year or so.
Net of this new routine is that I have not had any of the painful “ingrown hairs” which were probably just infections cause by my poor sanitation. For several years none at all after having them at least a few times a year.
Sanitize. EDIT: or just practice good hygiene!
How do you get people to sit still while you use it on them?
Just rinsing with water isn’t sanitizing, though.
No need if you just tell them you are asking them to test a new type of nose plug to block scents. :-0
(That kind of thing isn’t my style, though. But I imagine it would work.)
I feel like the idea that nose hair reduces infection is a bit aganist biology or evolution. Why wouldn’t that be something you see appear much earlier in life? Even when I was 25 it wasn’t a deal, a decade later I owned a trimmer. Frankly if they filtered things that much it would make more sense to have more thinner hairs that were shorter, not something that looks like it was made from strands of 26 gauge wire.
I really hate when they curl or one pokes the other side of your nostril.
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