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This works on the same principle as singing your arm-hair without burning the skin. Your skin contains a good amount of water so it is able to absorb more energy than hair. Medieval barbers used to...

Thanks for the pic. Where can you pick one of those up or how would you go about making one? Right now I'm tempted to use q-tips dipped in alcohol.

I didn't get around to experimenting yet, but I will keep you gentlemen posted when I do.

Thanks Matt. I'll contact him and post what he tells me here. I think I need to wake myself up and be coherent before I do that though as this is my first post of the day, over the first cup of...

Lol. I was planning on doing it in the bathroom more to extinguish the taper than to extinguish the nasal hairs as they'd be gone once they burned up, which is the point of the exercise.
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It could have been alcohol to drop the burning temperature. If you'd be willing to roll up the paper the way you remember them doing it and maybe even take a picture, I'm crazy enough to give it a...

I already am hooked but the point of contact is too large to safely depilate human nostrils. A cool-burning flame would actually be LESS dangerous.

I remember somebody talking about having their nasal and ear hair burned off with a burning taper in a Turkish barber-shop. Does anyone here do this or know how it's done (like where those tapers can...