The nose hair trimmer power button slides up and down to turn on and off. Easy enough to turn on one handed yet difficult enough to actually set the nose trimmer off at the bottom of your bag (making it sound like you are carrying around a vibrator). You can’t really avoid it, all electric nose hair trimmers have that annoying buzzing sound coming from the motor. Unless you choose a battery free nose hair trimmer it’s just something that you will have to put up with.

You’ll also get a protective cap to keep the cutter clean and protected, and a pouch with drawstrings for travel and general storage. The narrow head coupled slides easily into your ear or nose leaving you room to move. Once inside the dual edged blade whisked away any hairs that came near. Panasonic also has a vacuum version of this trimmer – the ER430K Ear & Nose Trimmer with Vacuum Cleaning System – much like a vacuum beard trimmer, it “hoovers” up-cut hairs as you trim. By vacuuming the hairs away into a chamber that can be emptied later, you have less chance of inhaling or making a mess of the sink with cut hairs.In short, no. Nose trimmers work like beard trimmers, meaning the results should last a while before regrowth begins to show. Laser hair removal is the only permanent option, but it can damage the nasal cavity. How do I choose a nose hair trimmer?

Unfortunately, if a rinse isn’t enough to remove clipped hairs and other build-up then you are going to have to take the nose hair trimmer apart. Unfortunately throwing this nose hair trimmer in the bottom of your bag reveals the shortcoming of the vents, dust and grit easily found it’s way on to the head of the trimmer. We tested the ER-GN30-K roughly over two weeks, taking it through 4 batteries, playing with it in the shower and under water, deliberately dropping it to the ground on more than one occasion. Hygienic washable design with “vortex” system to wash out all remaining cut hairs, without removing any parts or need for cleaning brush.

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The name definitely isn’t catchy. I would have called it the Panasonic Awesome Snip. If Panasonic’s branding department is reading this, you can use that. One of the main downsides that electric nose hair trimmers seem to have, is that, instead of cutting, the hairs get jammed in the machine and ripped from your nose. At first I was puzzled as to why the mirror was blurry but it turns out there is a plastic film on top, preventing it from being scratched. With the film removed, the mirror is clear and reflective.