Nose Hair Extensions: Is This New Beauty Trend Real?

Nose Hair Extensions were the latest beauty craze to sweep the Internet Tuesday. A girl on Instagram went viral after sharing her new look, which featured fake eyelashes emerging from her nostrils. The bold look has inspired many social media users, mostly women, to experiment with the new beauty trick.

Gret_Chen_Chen is the Instagram user that created the now-viral trend. She shared a picture October 4 to the photo-sharing application of fake eyelashes protruding from her nostrils. She referred to the look as "Nose Hair Extensions."

Gret_Chen_Chen’s look has elicited numerous comments from Instagram users. The comments have ranged from "gross" and "not cute" to "beautiful" and "keep doing you."

It’s been said that Gret_Chen_Chen’s look was meant to be a joke, primarily because much of her Instagram content is comical in nature. Many people, including beauty YouTuber’s, have taken the liberty to try their hand at this new beauty trend.

English YouTuber Sophie Hannah Richardson tried the trend using Eylure's fake eyelashes in a video she shared on Instagram Sunday. Richardson first pretended to place the false eyelashes on top of her own, but quickly put the Eylure eyelashes into her nose. The beauty YouTuber then applied mascara to the fake eyelashes to top off the look.

"Trying out the next beauty trend... NOSE HAIR EXTENSIONS," Richardson wrote in the Instagram post's comments."It's everything. Would you wear it out?!"

Richardson also included a series of laughing emojis within her video's caption.

Canadian YouTuber Taylor R intended to try the trend for "fun" and "experimental purposes." She applied eyelash glue to her false lashes before placing them into her nose. The beauty vlogger, however, came across technical difficulties when attempting to place the nose hair extensions.

Taylor removed the first pair of false lashes and replaced them with a shorter set. She then played around with her newly placed nose extensions to evenly spread it around the outside of her nose.

"So far, I don't hate them," Taylor said in the video Sunday. "They're not that uncomfortable. It kind of just feels like a big booger in your nose or something there that you want to pick out, but it's not really unbearable."

Taylor added, "You can breathe normally, they don't even move when you breathe [and] they don't tickle, or anything. It just feels like something is there, but, it's bearable."

Beauty YouTuber Davison also tried the trend with a twist: adding the false eyelashes to her lips. "I couldn't not try the @gret_chen_chen nose hair extension trend... I also added lip lashes," Davison wrote on Instagram Saturday.

Experimenters haven't declared a serious interest in wearing the look in public at this time.

The Internet primarily provided negative feedback on the nose hair extension trend. Many users have expressed their disapproval for the emerging trend, but several others shared their confusion on the matter. Twitter mostly echoed one user’s thoughts on the look, saying, "this nose hair extension trend needs to stop."

"No internet! No," Vogue Arabia Editor Zahra Lyla Khalil wrote in a tweet Monday. "The nose hair extension is not a trend!!"

"Yuck! Seems like SPIDERS coming out [of the nose]," a second user tweeted.

Gret_Chen_Chen's nose hair extensions aren’t the only unusual beauty trend that’s baffled the Internet in 2017. Faux freckles, lollipop lips, eyebrow wigs, wasabi lip plumper and silly putty highlighter were among a long list of bizarre beauty trends to emerge this year.