Best Nose Hair Trimmer For Men in 2021

It might seem like even the best nose hair trimmer is a needless indulgence for anyone who already owns tweezers. But there’s a really good reason to avoid plucking your way to a well-groomed schnoz: your nostril hairs serve a distinct purpose. Namely, filtering out all the dirt and dust in the air you inhale every day, so you’re not just sucking grime into your lungs. You don’t want to go scorched earth and simply pluck them into oblivion. A good nose and ear hair trimmer will cut your hairs down to one standard length, keeping them well out of view while still in prime functioning and filtering condition. (Also, it just hurts a lot less.) 

Which means it’s worth picking up a dedicated gadget to do the job. The shaver you use to tame your facial hair isn’t going to cut it—nor will the clippers you rely on for at-home touch-ups. (Never mind trying to wedge some scissors up there.) To properly tame any errant nose and ear hairs, you are going to want a machine specifically designed to get up in the contours of your nostrils. Sticking just anything else in there is ill-advised at best, and downright dangerous at worse. 

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The Best Nose Hair Trimmer

Panasonic sets the standard when it comes to nose and ear hair removal. The brand’s easy-use wet-dry trimmer delivers crisp cuts with stainless steel blades, and a vacuum makes cleanup quick and simple.

The Best Manual Nose Hair Trimmer

Tweezerman’s manual clipper is specially designed to minimize cuts and nicks, helping you, and your nose, avoid any undue irritation down the line. It takes a little longer to get an even clip than if you were using an automatic one (but, like 18 seconds instead of 3 seconds). Best of all: It needs no charging nor replacement batteries.

The Best Deep-Canal Trimmer

Wahl’s multiuse tool comes with interchangeable heads built with hygienic trimming in mind. It’s tiny and portable, but also a powerful one-stop shop for easy inner-canal trimming, eyebrow even-ing, and facial-hair detailing—all at a price that’s tough to beat.

The Best Budget Trimmer

Wahl’s second appearance on this list comes via the brand’s sleek, hyper-functional trimmer, a super-streamlined tool designed for peak portability. The trimmer’s pair of attachments will help you reign in errant noise and ear hairs and detail your brows or beard, while its anodized aluminum shell will stand up to whatever you—or your nostrils—throw at it. This is the device to whip out if you’re pressed for storage space and can only allocate a ballpoint pen-sized amount of room to your trimmer.

The Best Grooming Device with Nose Hair Trimmer Attachment

You do not need a standalone nose hair trimmer if you have a multi-purpose beard trimmer or e-shaver (one that has a swappable nose-hair attachment to tackle the task). Panasonic, which already holds the top spot on this nose trimmer list, also gets the distinction in this ‘best attachment’ category, for its outstanding new MultiShape. This tool is a grade-A trimmer, clipper, shaver, and nose hair trimmer. Best of all, you can pay for whichever attachments you need, rather than stocking up on a kit and shelving half of it. (Though we recommend getting the beard/body trimmer, shaver, and nose hair clipper, at the least—the price of which is reflected here. Oh, and get the lithium ion battery—it’s just 10 bucks more and holds a way longer charge.)

The Best Errant Hair Snipper

While this trimmer is terrific for sideburn, beard line, and eyebrow tidyings, it’s also great for snipping those periodic peeker-outers from the base of your nostrils. We wouldn’t recommend shoving it inside the nose entirely, since it’ll trim the hairs too short, but if all you need is to clean up the periphery, you may as well get a product that does more as its primary function. 

The Best Multi-Purpose Trimmer

For another multi-tasker, Philips Norelco’s fully-washable detail trimmer features the brand’s signature dual-cut blades, which are sharpened twice for a smoother trim and cleaner edges. Interchangeable heads and guards are especially conducive to a wider variety of grooming functions, including touching up sideburns and rear neck hair. If you’re ever in a pinch and can only grab one device for all your detailing needs, you could do far worse than stuffing this one in a Dopp kit with the knowledge that—at the very least—your ears, nose, eyebrows, and edges will be set.

The Best Nose Hair Scissors

All of these bulkier devices begs the question: What about nose-hair scissors? They’re just as good for the job, in fact, so long as they have a rounded, blunt tip to prevent poking. These stainless steel “nostril” scissors from Seki Edge can tidy up stray eyebrows, mustache sprouts, split ends, and of course, any peek-a-boo nose hairs.

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