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Mrs Q commented that my nose hair was too long yesterday and maybe I should cut it.

I've never cut it before, and was thankful to remember my beard trimmer had a nose hair attachment which tickled a lot.

How often should I trim my nose hair, and is it a bit like shaving your balls, in that if you do it once, you have to keep doing it because it itches so much?


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:31 am
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NTFU. Grab & pull.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:32 am
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As above - real men pluck (then cry).

Wait tip your eyebrows go berserk.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:33 am
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[i]As above - real men pluck (then cry).[/i]

Yup 8)


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:37 am
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Plucking would have taken hours, it would appear a small jungle had erupted out of both nostrils since I last looked in the mirror two weeks ago.

Is there a growth calculation relating to age I can carry out to work out how much they will grow and set a reminder in my filofax to trim them?


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:38 am
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Indeed. I always pluck mine during particularly stressful moments in rugby matches. My son tells me off.
I've also noticed I pluck my ear hairs when I'm stressed by driving. Better than picking bogies I suppose.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:40 am
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[i]Is there a growth calculation relating to age [/i]

No mirrors in your gaff then?


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:41 am
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8:56 for about 60s


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:42 am
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Plucking would have taken hours

You don't do it all at once, plucking nose hair is a continual thing done from the mid thirties onwards.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:45 am
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^ So I should have started plucking 18 months ago, and it wouldn't have grown so much


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:45 am
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tweezerman-Stainless-Steel-Slant-Tweezer/dp/B00GWG6QDQ

Alternatively, a lad I used to know used to deal with his olfactory foliage by snorting matches.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:46 am
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sad to say I ended up spending £12 on a decent pair of tweezers (missus kept hiding her's when she found what I used them for), so that you don't get any 'misfires' when pulling the buggers out.

EDIT: That's them there ^^^ Tweezerman FTW! 😳


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:46 am
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It'll still grow, but you just continually keep it in check for the rest of your life!!

You even stop crying after a year or two.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:48 am
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real men pluck (then sneeze uncontrollably for 15 minutes because each hair is hard wired directly to your brain)


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:52 am
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Pliers...needle-nose are best


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:52 am
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I'm pretty sure your nostril hairs are just the other end of your eyebrow hairs (assessing length of plucked nostril hairs tends to confirm this).
If you pluck them, you will lose all your eyebrows.

I just give mine the occasional trim with one of those 'old man hair trimmers'.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:55 am
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I get the missus in there with some dainty scissors. Quite enjoy it actually.

Although if I notice a solitary 'big boy' then I yank it out by hand. No tools.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:57 am
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You even stop crying after a year or two.

That means your dead inside. You should never stop crying.

My barber does mine. All except the odd stray which my wife seems to enjoy taking a yank at. More I think to see me wince.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:58 am
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Do mine every few months. Use a battery powered clipper. It's not like I'm Dennis Healey but it is irritating if left unchecked.

I'm sure it's my body's way of apologising for letting me go bald on my head.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:00 pm
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Nads

[url= http://www.boots.com/en/Nads-Nose-Wax_1440718/ ]linky[/url]

we had a few giggles the other week at work with this....not all that painful and a surprising amount of hair removed!


 
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Rachel


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:06 pm
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I use a chainsaw...lol


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:10 pm
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Our Turkish Barber offers free nose waxing

I don't think I'm ready to venture that far yet


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:13 pm
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Screw plucking them, I just use a cheap circular-headed trimmer thing, no pain at all (never catches the skin etc.). Need to do it every couple of weeks but takes 5 minutes.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:14 pm
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^ That is what I used, but it was an attachment - it tickled and made me feel funny.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:23 pm
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Time to grow a beard and hope no one notices your nose hair mingling.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:24 pm
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it tickled and made me feel funny.

You know it's for inserting in your nose, right...?


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:30 pm
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^ I thought it smelled a bit like poo


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 12:36 pm
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...My barber does mine....

I was observing to my barber how he used to ask if I wanted "something for the weekend, sir?" whereas now it's "shall I do your eyebrows and ears, too?"

OP - just start plucking. Give it a few years and you get past the crying stage.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 3:37 pm
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Wasn't there some myth going around a few years ago that plucking nose hair was bad for you, or some bacteria would get in the follicles or something?

In any case, nothing more irritating than when one gets a bit long and you can suddenly feel it just starting to curl under the septum, but it's not long enough to yank out!

Only 27 here, not a particularly hairy person, but nose, ear and eyebrow trimming are insisted upon by the other half now........


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 3:44 pm
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Don't pluck with abandon - ingrown hair in the nose cavity. 😯


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 3:46 pm
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Oh the memories

I currently use the pinch, breath in, breath out, relax, achieving a zen like start of relaxation before plucking them out sharply technique, however I used to have a circular trimmer electric thing on a shaver attachment. Anyway when that got lost in a house move I was tempted by a cheapy version of just the nose hair trimmer from some market stall whilst out window shopping with Mrs-g. Anyway, after a few minutes of me waxing lyrical about how amazing these nose hair trimmers are and how I used to have one we got home and I put a battery in and fired it up, its making that high pitched whirring sound as I insert it into nostril A, however, instead of the satistifying sound of hairs been chopped, instead I hear the slowing of the whirring sound that indicates that the cheapy thing I have just bought is not quite as high powered or sharp as it needs to be and is currently slowing down as it becomes entwined in still attached nose hairs. Mrs-g sees the panic in my eyes and immediately bursts into fits of laughter, while i slowly come to the realisation that there is only one way out of this situation and its going to hurt.

Now I pluck


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 3:56 pm
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Get it waxed. Be a Real Man


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 5:32 pm
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I would rather saw my arm off with blunt rusty saw than pluck a nasal hair, far less painful.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 6:30 pm
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Oh the memories

I once did that on my chin with an electric shaver. I can about imagine how a nasal jamming must've felt.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 7:13 pm
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Didnt read rest of thread.

Tried a trimmer once, spent the next week with an itchy annoying nose as the hair grew back.

Tweezers & pluck!


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 7:34 pm
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I use a round nosed scissors designed for this, a quick Edward Scissorhands random chop once a week keeps me trim.
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Posted : 27/08/2015 7:43 pm
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PSA for those with an inqusitive mind. Don't try the "sniff a lighter flame" method. The hit of agonising pain is instant (and, strangely, felt in the back of the throat as well) and when you eventually stop sneezing (hours, not minutes), you'll notice a browny/red liquid with little black charcoaly bits seeping from the affected nostril. I'm not sure what sort of primitive threat has led to the body to evolve by simultaneous eye watering and every sphincter snapping shut in unison the instant the flame touches nostril lining either, but you can look forward to that as well.


 
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What jimjam said been using it for a year or two now ears are worse than nose with me TBH 😕


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 8:04 pm
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Jimjams got it, phillips one, argos £10-15 I think. Good bit of kit


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 8:16 pm
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Another vote for that kind of trimmer. I use the Remington version but with that particular attachment for ears and nose - much more effective than the rounded type.

Don't get me wrong, plucking is the ultimate in close removal but recent use of that trimmer has me wondering why I put myself through the discomfort*. I envy those that only have to do it once every few months

*I know, if I had any manly points they've just been used up...


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 10:25 pm
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I use the Phillips one. It does the trick mostly, but I still need to do the occasional pluck fest to prevent a short but thick bunch in a curve of my nostril. Also use it for ears.


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 10:46 pm
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I just occasionally use some small nail scissors up my nose, on my eye brows and on my ear lobes. Don't think I've got hair growing out of my ear holes yet. I don't have the guts to pluck


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 10:47 pm
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And if this thread was over on pink bike its title would be?


 
Posted : 27/08/2015 11:20 pm
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trimmer here too. I would never leave the bathroom if it was left to plucking, as the hair from my nostrils and ears just grow back too quickly 😥


 
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What threads and images is google suggesting for you from this thread?

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Posted : 28/08/2015 2:15 am
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Jimjam has it.

I have to pluck the odd ones still. I used to pluck but got sick of in growing hairs. 😯

I would like to ask any higher power that happens to be listening, what the universe has in store for me that necessitates the growing of nose and ear hair? I didn't have it as a youth, nor whilst my twenties blurred by. Why now in my forties do I need it?


 
Posted : 28/08/2015 8:33 am
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For me, and I bet I'm not the only one...

Plucking nasal hair is a "good" kind of hurt... just like nettle stings... I quite enjoy it.


 
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Got a Phillips trimmer for my 55th from the missus. Much better than plucking or angling scissors in my various orifices.


 
Posted : 30/08/2015 8:17 pm