I’ve always had something of a big nose. I’m no Barry Manilow, but unfortunately my nose is somewhat ‘wide’ and my big grin only serves to increase its width meaning that it takes up a bit more of my face than I would ideally like a lot of the time.
When I was younger this used to upset me more than it does now (because I have a self-esteem these days that borders on full-blown narcissism) and it didn’t help that my mates came up with the helpful nickname ‘schnout’ for me. What are friends for? =)
As such then I decided to look into whether or not it was possible to reduce the size of my nose without undergoing painful/embarrassing surgery and of course I found I wasn’t alone in this plight and that others were out there trying the same thing. Of course they had suggestions and I decided these were worth a try, so the question is – did any of these ideas work? Here I’ll present you with my findings and how useful they turned out to be.
Squeezing and Shaping
The first thing I found were the many claims that you could reduce the size of your nose simply by squeezing it and because it’s made of cartilage it follows that it would be more malleable than bone and that this would be more likely to have an effect.
Upon my first attempt I must admit that it worked and my nose did look a little slimmer. I held the sides in near the top firmly for around two minutes so that it was just uncomfortable and when I let go I had a less pronounced widening up the top there where the problem area was. I have to admit that this did lead to a thinning of my nose that was noticeable to touch and that was just about noticeable to look at. The problem with that immediate effect though was that my nose was also very red which actually meant it drew more attention to itself – not ideal.
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