This nose hair ripper-outer I bought in Tokyo works great MARK FRAUENFELDER / 12:10 PM WED, AUG 15, 2018 I just returned home from a 5-week stay in Japan with my family. We spent the first 10 days in Kyoto and Koya-san, and the rest of the time we stayed in an apartment in Tokyo, where I worked on Boing Boing, Cool Tools, and Institute for the Future. Despite the high temperatures and humidity, we had a great time. I'll be writing about the trip here in the days to come. To start things off, here is something I bought at a chain store called Vanguard Village. There is nothing like Vanguard Village in the US as far as I know. It has CDs (Japanese still prefer CDs over MP3s), clothes, makeup, masturbatory aids, manga, books, and tons of other stuff. One shelf was devoted entirely to weird body cleaning products. I bought a few different products to try out. One of them was this nose hair removal kit called Gosso. It cost about $8 and contains enough materials to rip the hair out of six nostrils. (Amazon sells an identical looking kit that can clean out 20 nostrils for $12). To use it, you heat up waxy pellets in a microwave oven, apply the molten wax to a plastic stick, shove it into your nostril (twisting as you do so), waiting 90 seconds, then yanking the stick out and screaming "****! THAT HURT!" I have heard removing nostril hairs is a bad idea because they act as filters. But I have 10 times more nostril hair than I did when I was young, and after I used this, I still had hairs farther in the back of my nose. I'm glad to have a nose that doesn't have hairs sprouting from the nostrils. Spoiler: a bit gross
The risk isn't getting rid of the hairs as a filter, the risk on pulling nose hairs is that it is very easy to get an infection in the wounds. Even when you use a nose hair trimmer, you have to make sure its sharp and the batteries are at full power so it cuts rather than pulls the hair. I'd be wary about this product. Japan is a fascinating place, however, and would love to hear more about your trip.
I've got a coworker that desperately needs a product such as this..... Now to find a way to subtly bring it to his attention and slide the product info over his way.... Hmmm.
I'm making this a white elephant gift for Xmas party. Maybe you could do the same thing, but encourage him to steal it when it's his turn Loved the only one star review on Amazon: LOL
Great idea! But we haven't done white elephant in a while at my place. Maybe we can restart this year just for him.
I'm just going to put this here so that when No worries deletes his pics this will remain... Nose Worthy?
