Why does tweezing make you sneeze

Some even get runny noses or tearing eyes to accompany their sneezes. So why does this strange phenomenon occur right when you start your eyebrow treatments? The reason plucking your eyebrows makes you sneeze is related to the ophthalmic branch of your trigeminal nerve via The Healthy. These nerves are stimulated by the nose, eyebrows, eyelids, and other parts of the brain. I advise you all to try this sometime and watch the results.

My little brother has ACHOO, and we never realized why the heck he was always sneezing in the sun until one day we brought it up at a physical! Every time he goes outside, he starts sneezing uncontrollably, often four or five times in a row. Hey Kaitlyn, I seriously always wondered why I sneezed almost every time I got my eyebrows done but I never bothered to research the cause of it.

I thought it was because my eyebrow lady was always so close to my nose or maybe I was allergic to something in her salon, but after reading the studies you linked I thought it was so interesting that plucking your eyebrows can actually set off a nerve in your nasal passage, causing it.

You must be logged in to post a comment. Sites at Penn State. The trigeminal nerve connects the face to the brain — it has three branches, one of which supplies nerves to the eyes, the forehead, and the nose. Dermatologist Eric Schweiger tells NewBeauty. Brow sesh tweezerman eyebrows eyebrowsonfleek. A post shared by Kamille Wright w. To trick the nerve and avoid sneezing, she suggests pressing your finger down on the eyebrow while you pluck.

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I called Cynthia Boxrud, MD, assistant clinical professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA—she's an ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgeon—on the off chance she'd have the answer to your somewhat oddball query, and what do you know, she just happened to have spent about a year researching a paper on the anatomy of the medial aspect of the brow.

Which means she's very knowledgeable about sneezing as it relates to eyebrow plucking. The facial nerves include the trigeminal, which has a branch that extends from the brow down into the tip of the nose. Sometimes, when plucking your eyebrows, that nerve is stimulated: Aaachoo!