Does picking your nose make the nostrils wider?


Question:
i am not being nasty so please have an open mind. i think that my nostrils have gotten wider after i picked it with my pinky nail. i been doing this a lot lately. what should i do to make it the size it was before?

Answers:
nooooooo
Stop picking your nose, hopefully you haven't stretched it too much and it will go back into shape.
stand in front of a mirror and put your finger under your nose as if to say I'm about to sneeze and flare your nostrils over&over , again a few times supporting your nose continually with your finger this will cause a resistence, slimming
take a bit of oil of any face cream which is greasing enough... apply on the nose and sqeeze the nose by slidinf your fingures from top to bottom of your nose. if you do it regularly this would give your nose a sharper look
I doubt that you actually widened your nostril... you're probably just feeling a bit paranoid about it because you've been doing something taboo.

Unless you picked it so hard you literally tore the collagen fibers in the cartilage of your nose (in which case I think you'd probably be bleeding and/or in a lot of pain), it's unlikely you've stretched out your nose.

Picking your nose is taboo but, mostly, harmless. At least make sure you wash your hands first, don't scratch, and don't probe too far or you risk damaging the tissue. Handwashing is important because otherwise you're setting yourself to introduce a lot of germs into your body from underneath your fingernails.

Lastly, if it's really making you this self-conscious, maybe you should simply cut back or stop the behavior. I imagine it's a habit, much like biting your nails. Try to distract yourself with something else.
It probably could. Especially if you start with your pinky and work your way to your thumb. (LOL). Sorry, I couldn't resist . . .

Don't really have an answer for this one, but good luck with shrinking it back (and I hope it won't require plastic surgery now).
That you picking it has a cause, maybe you have a infection(sinusitis) if that is cured then you don't have any reason to picking.Anyway try to avoid the picking and instead blow your nose in a tissue.
Hope it helps.
I read somewhere recently that two parts of your body never stop growing: your nose and your ears. Chances are nothing you did caused this.

Shindy9 had good advice: clean your hands before touching your nose. I read somewhere that infections in the nose reach the brain rapidly.
yes it dose i did it before now my nose is biger than my eye
I do believe the nostrils will be bigger if you often pick your nose.
I have allergic rhinitis since a child and often blew my nose and clean them often. And my nostrils is widen due to frequent picking and digging. So if you control it, stop picking.
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