I’ve just waxed my nostrils with a Nair facial strip: AMA

[ItsBeginningToScabOverNow]

I’ll get you started.

Are you a woman?
Yes, a hairy one.

Do you have very hairy nostrils?
Yes. I don’t know why. I think because I’m very pale with dark hair, it’s more noticeable. Plus, I’m tall and have kind of sticky outtie nostrils so easy for people to look up and into them.

What do you normally go to remove nostril hair?
I have one of those little nose hair trimmers that all of our dads had in the 80s.

Why didn’t you use it he nose hair trimmer?
I took the battery out of it for something else and didn’t have a spare.

[MajesticWhine]

How big does your nostril have to be to get a wax strip actually inside it and adhering to the internal mucus membrane?

[Bitteralmond]

No questions but I'll just leave this here. No idea how much truth is in it.

[Bitteralmond]

metro.co.uk/2016/11/22/theres-a-danger-triangle-in-your-face-and-plucking-nose-hairs-can-kill-you-6275733/

[ItsBeginningToScabOverNow]

@MajesticWhine

How big does your nostril have to be to get a wax strip actually inside it and adhering to the internal mucus membrane?

Not very.

It’s one of those tiny strips for doing your upper lip, so maybe 1cm wide, and I rolled it into a cone.

[Neverhand]

Wtaf!

[KnickerlessParsons]

😬😮😱

[Schmutter]

Here you go

[Neverhand]

To the imminent death by nose hair removal, not to the OP.

In fact, for the OPs sake I hope that's just metro tittle tattle.

[12roundsofwhitelowfatspread]

@Bitteralmond

metro.co.uk/2016/11/22/theres-a-danger-triangle-in-your-face-and-plucking-nose-hairs-can-kill-you-6275733/

I don’t feel they ever explained in that article what the “danger triangle” in your face is… Is it like a tiny warning triangle packed inside your nose that descends in emergencies?

[ItsBeginningToScabOverNow]

Shit, can’t believe I fucked up my danger triangle in the name of vanity.

[ItsBeginningToScabOverNow]

@PragmaticWench

Are there any other orifices you'd wax now you've done this one?

No.

I think my nostril was as large as I’d go.

I did once apply some Immac to a particularly sensitive region while drunk and went for a snooze, though. And that’s why I don’t keep any depilatory cream in the house anymore.

[TheOtherBennetSister]

I carefully probe the bathroom nail scissors up each nostril and give myself a snort back and sides.

[ItsBeginningToScabOverNow]

@TheOtherBennetSister

I carefully probe the bathroom nail scissors up each nostril and give myself a snort back and sides.

I’m be done that, especially for ones that are at the point of making an escape and dangling outside of the nostril.

I’ve had some success with these. Have to be very careful as they’re so sharp, and the regrowth is much faster than with tweezing.

[FetlocksBlowing]

I've had the cotton bud of hot wax up both nostrils done by a beautician--just the once 😑

It felt like she was pulling my brains out via my nose.

Never again.

[CuppaWhiteTea]

This is the best AMA ever. Thanks for sharing, @ItsBeginningToScabOverNow!

I once accidentally squirted Immac spray directly into my eye. That was no fun.

[Pixiedust1234]

Good grief OP. I'm not sure whether to be gobsmacked at your stupidity or bravery 😱

[OneFrenchEgg]

Omg it's a thing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangertriangleeoftheeface

Another new worry

[FetlocksBlowing]

My mum always said I shouldn't squeeze spots on the bridge of my nose because it's so close to the brain and could spread an infection! Omg she was right!!

[AllotmentTime]

What did you use the original nose hair trimmer battery for?

I want to know what the fuck made you think “nope can’t borrow that battery back, I’ll rip wax off my nostrils rather than do that”…

[Fckingfuming]

How many new swear words have you invented since the waxing op?

[Haveyoubrushedyourteeth]

Baby oil will get rid of the residue OP, or at least help. Wouldn't want you to wake up with your nostrils glued together. I had a friend (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) who waxed her bum crack, and in the morning, well lets just say she didn't have a bum crack any more!

[Westfacing]

@Schmutter

Nooo. You need one of those nose waxing kits whereby you dip a stick into wax melted in the microwave and stick it up the nostril, and then wrench it out.

I do this to my dh periodically and laugh like a drain as he makes quite the fuss. Works brilliantly though.

This is what I use on myself! For some reason a few years ago my nostril hair began sprouting. I'd advise everyone not to try and save 90 SECONDS by doing both nostrils at the same time, I did once and then panicked as couldn't breathe!

Brand is Yoffee

[ItsBeginningToScabOverNow]

@AllotmentTime

What did you use the original nose hair trimmer battery for?

I want to know what the fuck made you think “nope can’t borrow that battery back, I’ll rip wax off my nostrils rather than do that”…

An epilator 😫

It has one of those really fiddly battery compartments that you have to kind of screw out, so I didn’t bother.

[ItsBeginningToScabOverNow]

@Fckingfuming

How many new swear words have you invented since the waxing op?

You know that scene in Fr. Ted where Bishop Brennan gets kicked up the arse and gets such a fright that he can’t react for several hours?

I was the bishop.

[ItsBeginningToScabOverNow]

@Haveyoubrushedyourteeth

Baby oil will get rid of the residue OP, or at least help. Wouldn't want you to wake up with your nostrils glued together. I had a friend (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) who waxed her bum crack, and in the morning, well lets just say she didn't have a bum crack any more!

Commiserations to your “friend” and her bottom.