i have one and it works bettetr than a q tip. my mom does it for me cuz one korean moms worry bout ur ear and stuff and two, i sometimes dont feel like it
How do you clean? very simple. Put a drop of hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol on cotton balls/ kleenex and wipe it until it's clean. FYI they do have this in Japan too.
That's so true. I still remember the feeling on my mother's lap. You guys don't know what you are missing. As Martina guessed, it's between moms and kids.
did you know that most east asians have dry earwax and most people of european and african ancestry have wet? i'm guessing that's the main difference in using a q-tip and an ear pick? maybe?
this is sooooo normal for me xD doctors use this too. you use it when your ear gets "plugged" with earwax and q-tips dont help. Americans usually use this weird numbing liquid to dissolve it. but yes I've always haaaaaaaated that tickling feeling
Asian parents use those ear picks for their children mainly, so you're right about that Martina. My mother used to do that for my siblings and I when we were younger. It's actually very relaxing because you get to lay on your mother's lap and like another commenter said -- it's like getting your back scratched.
we used to have that. this is gonna sound kinda gross, but my little brother and sister used to get ear infections and my parents used to clean their ears with the pick thingy. we live in California so i dunno if its an asian thing or finders keepers type deal.....i dunno....
my dad cleans out my ear with that LOL i havent been able to do it by myself bc it could potentially rip my eardrum or watnot kkkk. family members do it to each other, if u hav someone outside ur family clean out ur ear with that it's really weird....
we've always used that so i actually thought it was weird that other ppl didnt. wat do u guys do when u hav an earpoop surplus???
There are two types of earwax. In general, most Asian people have the dry type of earwax, which means it's easier, and also better to use an ear pick.
Every time I watch your videos I say "Oh just one more." and then I see the clips for more of your videos and I end up watching them for at least an hour...>_>
I actually think these would be better for your ears than a Q-tip. Q-tips just seem to push the gunk further back while this would be able to get around it and pull it out... Just saying...
hmm its like a family thing and usually the people who uses this has like ear boogers O.o or soemthing x) my mom uses to do it to my brother all the time :O
Asians do that. It's usually the mom doing it for their children. My mom used to do it for me. It's very comforting and I always end up sleeping on her lap. :3
The reason Koreans use ear picks is because most East Asians have flaky earwax (look up earwax on Wikipedia!), so a Q-Tip usually won't cut it. It doesn't make much sense for white people to use the ear pick because their earwax is waxy/wet. Just as an interesting aside, half-Asian, half-white people have told me that their earwax is sometimes waxy, sometimes dry/flaky.
Younger children tend to have more earwax than adults. So the kids usually have their mom's pick their ears for them cause they could potentially damage their eardrum.
Actually, it's pretty normal to me because my mom and aunt cleaned my ears like this ever since I could remember xD I kind of like the feeling...it tickles me toes and the back of my triathlon O.o
The chinese ones are made of some kinda metal. I wish they were light up, like the korean ones. and why would other people clean your ears? When I was small, my mom would make me lie down on the bed and she would clean my ears for me (XD) and i'd fall asleep. MOTHERLY LOVE<3
Qtips actually pushes your earwax inside... so these ear pick scrapes it out like that. xD. my doctor said this to me. He actually recommends ear picks over qtips.
hahaha, it does sound a little creepy - other people cleaning the wax out of your ears, but only my mom does it for me and it feels gooooooooooooood. ^____^
I don't think one can really see their own ear or clean it very well if they can't so I can see why they made that like my mom could clean my ears and it wouldn't be weird.
That light-up ear pick would have been so helpful when I was younger. My dad would clean my ears when I was young and because he couldn't see anything in the deep dark depths of my ear, he had to use a flashlight to see and used a bobbypin to scoop. My ear got really hot because of the flashlight. @.@ Now I clean my ears with an ear pick, but it doesn't light up. ^_^"
for Asian when using a Q-Tip it pushes the ear wax more deeply into our ears. so we use a "ear scoop" to dig those wax out. Also we let someone else to help us dig those wax out because it's more dangerous to do it by ourself because the other person can see our ear while by ourself we cant. and if we do dig those wax out by ourself, it's not as clean. =) my mum used to do it for me xD
@DoGunna But the thing with the scraper; it's better in all honesty no matter what type of wax you have, strictly because Q-tips typically push the wax that is in your ear further down the canal, and you cannot reach it; with the small scoop you can spoon it out.
when i was younger i used to love it when my mom cleaned my ears. actually, she was more worried about us using q-tips on ourselves because she thought we would poke our eardrums and go deaf. ahahah. being allowed to use q-tips on ourselves was like starting a new phase of our lives in our house. -___-
Cooool! Beans!!! Im asian n i know what that is!!!! usually my mom or siblings dig my ears! Its an asian thing!!! I grew up digging n having other dig my ear!
Me and my brother are adopted from Korea and our doctor is Korean and she told my mom to carefully use a bobby pin to clean our ears. So this is the only thing I haven't found really odd.
Omg Simon and Martina its because Asians are the only ones with dry ear wax so it is used to scrap it out usually u do it laying down tho. Everyone else have mucus like earwax so Americans use qtips
It's not just Korean. It's ASIAN. I'm Chinese and my mom cleans my ears out sometimes. It's super relaxing. I lie on the couch and nap. When I wake up....CLEAN EARS WOOOT!
As a nurse in the US, I actually use ear picks fairly frequently. They're actually more effective at removing ear wax than q-tips in general, but especially when the ear wax is thick and there's a lot of it. Also the light helps to better visualize the ear canal (believe me, it's a godsend because it's a pain in the ass to have to go in there with an unlighted one & an otoscope/penlight at the same time).
The ear pick feels so damn good, it can literally make you fall asleep in a few minutes. It's like..ear sexual intercourse because sometimes it sometimes hurts 8D
@sdgj26 ..against the cotton and does nothing, hence the ear picker. It's a cultural difference, in Korea there's always that thing of your parents cleaning your ears for you, and it's just a comfort thing lying there watching tv with your head on mum's lap while she does it very gently. And yeah, it is more of a close bond thing, ESP since you need a lot of trust, seeing as how the person holding a little stick inside your ear has the potential to make you deaf. Married or couples that have be
I've used both and while non-Asians might find the idea of q-tips better because it's got the soft wool tips so it seems automatically softer etc, all they really do is just move and push the ear wax further in. Like the person below said though, Asians do have the dry, sandy ear wax while caucasians are supposed to have the actual wax like 'wet' stuff - which means q-tips work better for the latter since the wet texture adheres to the cotton. As an Asian myself I find that the wax just moves a
As an Asian, I personally think that the ear pick gets more gunk out of my ear than a Q-tip does. But another thing I heard was that foreigners and Asians have different ear wax types. Apparently Westerners have more gooey earwax and Asians have more sandy earwax.
I actually live in America and use one of those. I see them a lot here. I'm Chinese so I'm used to the ear pick. Also I never heard if using the q-tip to clean my ears. Funny.
actually this kind of instrument is used for small children so that you can see the bunk more clearly and to prevent yourself from damaging their ear drums...hehehehe...this is quite interesting. Im asian and i used it before and you can find it around asia. I dont know who invented it, but its quite helpful. Just b sure to dis-infect it with an alcohol afterwards.....good job Simon and Martina!!!!
so weird my family doesnt use that (im Asian) we use q-tips
i dont want someone else looking in my ear to help me get the wax out (even if its my parents) and i dont think i want to do it for others either... =P
I find this video so funny because I guess the whole ear picks thing is so obvious for me and I have never thought about it in this way -> "the level of intimacy that shouldn't be crossed". For me, picking somebody else's ear happened only among family members. And they also have wooden ones (I guess the wooden one has been around longer - even though I don't know when and where they were invented).
ever since i was little my mom cleaned my ears, but now i do it myself i think it has something to do with the asian culture, i don't know. But i remember when my mom did it, it was really relaxing, and it tickled :) i don't really use q tips because i always push it in too far and then it really hurts so yea im gonna stick with ear picks
I always get my ears checked by my elders, and I always HATED it. To me, it hurts like hell when they get to a certain area. We usually use a Bobby pin to do it. Lol. I think it's an Asian thing.
ok, so i've used these ear picks since i was young, so i know how tickle-y they feel. and after watching the first minute of this video, my ears started itching. XD
I read somewhere that asians use them because we have harder earwax... I personally can not take earwax out with a Q-Tip. It would actually push it further in, since it is so hard.. My doctor normally uses the scoop to scoop my ear out. Of course, he's asian. Haha! But.. I hear so much better after everything is out..!
when i was small my mom used to use a ear pick made out of wood to clean my ears and i actually really enjoyed it, it was very relaxing, but of course the person cleaning the ear has to be good at it
The reason we use cotton-y things like Q-Tips and they use plastic-y things like that is because Caucasians and Asians have different ear wax. I'm not kidding, this is totally true, though I have no idea why. Caucasian ear wax is waxy, and Asian ear wax is more dry and crusty/flaky. So for us soft fibrous cotton is best as latching onto the wax, while for them a hard spoon is best for scraping out the "wax."
@katiekawaii wow I never even thought of that, but i think it's true. My bf who's half Caucasian/Hispanic & me have totally different um ear wax. Sorry, tmi? :D but ear pick is amazing, even my bf concurs!
I think it's an asian thing too....like where i'm from you can actually go to like a "mini" stand on the street and they'll have this "ear pincking service" :P haha it cost like 1$ or something. XD but my mom always cleaned my ears for me too, but not anymore now that i'm older :P
Yeah maybe it IS an Asian thing. Cause i've had my mom clean my ears since i was tiny :D and still do. That thing is really cool though :D My mom uses those torches that you can wear as a headband when she cleans my ears :D
It's definitely an Asian thing ^^ there's something calming about my mum cleaning my ears, may sound weird, but these are EXTREMELY effective and way better than Q-Tips :) Well, we have a fancy bamboo one. That's right bamboo, with a fuzz ball at the end.
the traditional ones are either metal or wood since my grandparents have one at their house. usually the women would kneel on both legs & the male would put his head either on a pillow or her lap to get his ears cleaned..hehe
its common to my family just that mine is not plastic but metal so sometimes it hurts but usually they use those on kids... i guess some people thinks that the q tip cant clean as much?
HI! When I lived in korea when I was a wee kid, my mom did it for me. We have other people cleaning it out for us, because there is no way we ourselves can check what the inside of our ears look like, and if we just dig around our ear with a ear pick than we can damage the inside so that is why we have other people doing it for us. However, we don't find it disgusting like we would if someone else picked booger LOL
I was born in the US, but I grew up using an ear pick (or we call it ear digger too, lol) . . in my opinion, my ears feel unclean if I don't use it after a while, haha. But I don't like people to do it for me, I usually do it myself even though my mom did it for me as a child. The ones I use are usually made out of metal.
I live in Canada (Vancouver) and i was born here too but im fimiliar with this. and i don't ifind it weird cause i grew up with it. But my mom would usually do it for me. But the sticks we use are abit longer.
Lol I'm Korean and Koreans use that to clean their ears and a lot of times family actually do it for you. It might seem a bit weird and dirty for another person to do that, but it's actually cleaner once you do so.
Actually I think that ear picks like these are much better than Q-tips. Q-tips maybe able to clean some of the earwax from the ears, but it also pushes the wax farther in your ear. If that makes sense.
@RandomGils I think it depends on your ethnic background, actually! :) Asian people usually have dry earwax, which is better removed by the picks. Caucasians and people of African descent have wet earwax, which requires a different removal technique. So that would be why the ear wax picker seems foreign to non-Asians!
My mom used to clean my ear with a ear cleaner when I was younger but it was a regular metal one and she held a mini flash light in her mouth(that she cleaned every time!) so she could see. It so relaxing, it puts me to sleep xD
It's a classic like Korean thing that shows close relationships.
shopiayay 17 hours ago
OMG I never knew you could move the subtitles by clicking and dragging them :O
butterbeercorks 3 days ago in playlist WTF Korea
i have one and it works bettetr than a q tip. my mom does it for me cuz one korean moms worry bout ur ear and stuff and two, i sometimes dont feel like it
CrazyBunny2126 5 days ago
im asian and this is just plain weird to me...first time ive ever seen anything like this
crzy4funn 6 days ago
Yeah, my mom used to clean my ear as a kid. Koreans ftw.
YangSunWoo 1 week ago
I dont know if cuz im asian but,
I tend to walk into a room, see my dad using one of these cleaning his ear, watching TV or reading something on my mom's laptop......
Me: Gee Hi dad...
Dad: Hi =3
maplecookie66 1 week ago
The feeling of an 'ear tool' going down your ear, many asians can relate.
PurpleRicex 1 week ago
115 people is just jealous that they're ear pick dont have light on them!!!
potentialbreakup006 1 week ago
my mom used to do this to me...
I'm Canadian.
tomyferland1234 1 week ago
when i use this, i feel like a dog having my belly rubbed, pure bliss .., kekeke
trixchialoveskimchi6 1 week ago
my mom would use something like that when i was little except it was made from metal xD but now i just use Q tips . lol
animexfreak33 1 week ago
How do you clean? very simple. Put a drop of hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol on cotton balls/ kleenex and wipe it until it's clean. FYI they do have this in Japan too.
ylfriends 1 week ago
Its because asians have dry earwax. So it means we have to pick it out.
flaming002 1 week ago
I don't think you understand, in Korea taking care of people is the ultimate love.
My Korean friend Dae does this for me all the time.
AmazinglyShy 2 weeks ago
i think the best feeling in the world is lying on my mother's lap while she scrap all those junk out of my ear. you are deprived, my friend.
MsSunhappy 2 weeks ago 111
@MsSunhappy
That's so true. I still remember the feeling on my mother's lap. You guys don't know what you are missing. As Martina guessed, it's between moms and kids.
gogomaty 2 weeks ago in playlist simonandmartina님의 동영상 더보기
@MsSunhappy all koreans should agree with this
metabolife 1 week ago
@MsSunhappy all asian will agree with this
observerinpink 1 week ago
@MsSunhappy I loved that :D They say i'm too old now :<
smalltallhall 3 days ago
did you know that most east asians have dry earwax and most people of european and african ancestry have wet? i'm guessing that's the main difference in using a q-tip and an ear pick? maybe?
UrMyHappiness 2 weeks ago 5
@UrMyHappiness OMG. This is my first time to know there's wet earwax!! Biggest cultural shock ever!!
LikeAndUnlike 2 weeks ago
Mine doesn't have a light... T.T
GoodWithRice 2 weeks ago
*help lol
xXsunshine159Xx 3 weeks ago
This is more of a family thing, but my friend ling likes to h
xXsunshine159Xx 3 weeks ago
haha I want one! =D
teelaelmes 3 weeks ago
I want Simon's jacket so much :(
oryantezuka 3 weeks ago
It feels sooo nice and refreshing. :D It's weird that this is such an Asian thing to do... and with the scrubbing of the skin. lol
doogeun 3 weeks ago
this is sooooo normal for me xD doctors use this too. you use it when your ear gets "plugged" with earwax and q-tips dont help. Americans usually use this weird numbing liquid to dissolve it. but yes I've always haaaaaaaated that tickling feeling
Piggy950623 3 weeks ago in playlist WTF Korea
Lol that would be sooo weird for someone to turn to me, hand me that thing and say "would you do me the honor..of cleaning my ears?"
Ambi1021 3 weeks ago
I.... I have one of those xD
4i 3 weeks ago
my mom used to do it for me when i was young. it's sooo relaxing.
linkinlolipop 4 weeks ago in playlist WTF Korea 2
Asian parents use those ear picks for their children mainly, so you're right about that Martina. My mother used to do that for my siblings and I when we were younger. It's actually very relaxing because you get to lay on your mother's lap and like another commenter said -- it's like getting your back scratched.
angle021 1 month ago 4
the thing about qtips is that it doesn't get the junk out. it pushes it back in, whereas a pick takes it out.
BL4CKR4BB1T8D 1 month ago
it's great and it feels so pleasurable like a like getting your back scratched,
MrShiromochi 1 month ago
Lol, don't most Asians have those..? I have one...just it doesn't light up xD
Scorpio26854 1 month ago
we used to have that. this is gonna sound kinda gross, but my little brother and sister used to get ear infections and my parents used to clean their ears with the pick thingy. we live in California so i dunno if its an asian thing or finders keepers type deal.....i dunno....
kesosauce 1 month ago
i loved when my mom picked my ears. it was really relaxing.
polarmerr 1 month ago
you have to let somone who knows how to do it (parents) in my opinion the qtip just pushes it in more and the other one will just scoop it out
aisha038462983 1 month ago
i miss using that shit D:<
iixAmuto 1 month ago
and also it usually feels really good until the person scooping out ur earwax presses too hard against the wall or goes too far in =]
dbsksarangx3 1 month ago
my dad cleans out my ear with that LOL i havent been able to do it by myself bc it could potentially rip my eardrum or watnot kkkk. family members do it to each other, if u hav someone outside ur family clean out ur ear with that it's really weird....
we've always used that so i actually thought it was weird that other ppl didnt. wat do u guys do when u hav an earpoop surplus???
ive never seen one with a light though lol
dbsksarangx3 1 month ago
There are two types of earwax. In general, most Asian people have the dry type of earwax, which means it's easier, and also better to use an ear pick.
brzy89 1 month ago
Q tips are not safe. my eardrum was ripped by a q tip.
Dahoon0198 1 month ago in playlist WTF Korea
Every time I watch your videos I say "Oh just one more." and then I see the clips for more of your videos and I end up watching them for at least an hour...>_>
AnimatedBeauty 1 month ago
@AnimatedBeauty You are not alone. ;-;
PainterSaane 1 month ago
I actually think these would be better for your ears than a Q-tip. Q-tips just seem to push the gunk further back while this would be able to get around it and pull it out... Just saying...
ISewSquids 1 month ago in playlist WTF Korea 4
... ew
mita4hh 1 month ago in playlist More videos from simonandmartina
I'm Korean, and I remember when my mom used to clean my ears with a really HARD wooden one XD
JustinFanViolin 1 month ago
hmm its like a family thing and usually the people who uses this has like ear boogers O.o or soemthing x) my mom uses to do it to my brother all the time :O
SmileyFace4690 1 month ago in playlist WTF Korea
i do it myself and im 13
heatherisdapunk 1 month ago
In Asia (and mostly also in Japan), people clean the ears of their children or their significant others.
TheLestat94 1 month ago 2
@TheLestat94 Don't bring the japan here please^^
leesol0812 1 month ago
Asians do that. It's usually the mom doing it for their children. My mom used to do it for me. It's very comforting and I always end up sleeping on her lap. :3
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1LG1116 1 month ago
sometimes you miss and help from another is always kwool!!!
blanket101 1 month ago
Q-tips push the wax further inside the ear, this one takes it actually out
child0of0satan 1 month ago in playlist WTF Korea 121
@child0of0satan yeah...thats true...
SHINeeSuperJ 1 month ago
Look so stu.pi.d get off ur ugly face
starfishkjp 1 month ago
Just dig ur ass
starfishkjp 1 month ago
The reason Koreans use ear picks is because most East Asians have flaky earwax (look up earwax on Wikipedia!), so a Q-Tip usually won't cut it. It doesn't make much sense for white people to use the ear pick because their earwax is waxy/wet. Just as an interesting aside, half-Asian, half-white people have told me that their earwax is sometimes waxy, sometimes dry/flaky.
JanaHLee77 1 month ago 9
BAHAHA When I was little I called it the evil lightening bug hooky ear cleaner.. my mom would torture me hahah
momo135 1 month ago
3:43 - 4:00 NASTY THINGS LOL
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annerawrrr 1 month ago
i clean my ear with those ear picks first, and then use the q-tips.
ookaybunny 2 months ago in playlist WTF Korea
I really like your jacket, martina *o*
ChocolateChipGirl1 2 months ago in playlist WTF Korea
They usually don't clean it, or if they do they use water and a napkin to clean and dry it off >.<
Eclasuion 2 months ago
Younger children tend to have more earwax than adults. So the kids usually have their mom's pick their ears for them cause they could potentially damage their eardrum.
Eclasuion 2 months ago
This reminds me of the episode in Goong when the dad cleaned the daughter's(Yoon Eun Hye) ear out.
HiennyAtYourService 2 months ago
Its totally normal for asians = = Because 'cotton ear pick' may left some fibers in your ears. I used to use metal ear pick. lol
leejiawen97524 2 months ago
Lolol its normal for asians xDD
littlexcoolgirl 2 months ago
Actually, it's pretty normal to me because my mom and aunt cleaned my ears like this ever since I could remember xD I kind of like the feeling...it tickles me toes and the back of my triathlon O.o
TweetyBirdie1998 2 months ago 2
When I hear about people's ears being cleaned, they usually describe it as a "eargasm" or something like that.
wingsofhope2 2 months ago
LOL " Ok, uuuhh ... take off your pants and bend over " 3:44
fromasialuvasia 2 months ago
just understand korean culture..
I love it, I hate cotton one
kjin0815 2 months ago
"And next week we're gunna introduce some breathmints"
Hahhahhaahha
PunjabiRani016 2 months ago
I think this would be kind of good to get ear wax out as long as you're careful... I'm American but I've never thought q-tips were all that effective
kimishim 2 months ago
I'm Hispanic and in my family we use bobby pins to get the gunk out then finish it off with a Q-tip
RAREwritings 2 months ago
@RAREwritings omg my family used to do that! and they did it to me when i was little! i didnt hate it....
VintageVeggieMorena 2 months ago
The chinese ones are made of some kinda metal. I wish they were light up, like the korean ones. and why would other people clean your ears? When I was small, my mom would make me lie down on the bed and she would clean my ears for me (XD) and i'd fall asleep. MOTHERLY LOVE<3
OperaChiken 2 months ago in playlist WTF Korea
Wow martinas a teacher? Ddnt kno she had students 0.0
tonnhoohnnot 2 months ago
Qtips actually pushes your earwax inside... so these ear pick scrapes it out like that. xD. my doctor said this to me. He actually recommends ear picks over qtips.
jhonez479 2 months ago
but this is amazing! ear picks are liked by everyone!! :) it cures the itchiness in your ears amazingly!
nhyn304 2 months ago
hahaha, it does sound a little creepy - other people cleaning the wax out of your ears, but only my mom does it for me and it feels gooooooooooooood. ^____^
prototionist 2 months ago
it feels good lol....
crazydumb1234 2 months ago
my mom cleans my ear with that. :x
Grizzlebearify 2 months ago 89
moms clean(?) ears for childrenn with that thing lolllll. :)
my mom used to clean my ear....(?)for me when i was young :S
Sharon369369369 2 months ago
I don't think one can really see their own ear or clean it very well if they can't so I can see why they made that like my mom could clean my ears and it wouldn't be weird.
OtakuSeikatsuTamashi 3 months ago
But , Are Q-tips sold in Korea..? OMG I'm planning to go and I don't want to use one of those things
MsCarito09 3 months ago
@MsCarito09 Of coz they have Q-tips in Korea. Don't worry.
LikeAndUnlike 2 weeks ago
That light-up ear pick would have been so helpful when I was younger. My dad would clean my ears when I was young and because he couldn't see anything in the deep dark depths of my ear, he had to use a flashlight to see and used a bobbypin to scoop. My ear got really hot because of the flashlight. @.@ Now I clean my ears with an ear pick, but it doesn't light up. ^_^"
prettycatchy 3 months ago
for Asian when using a Q-Tip it pushes the ear wax more deeply into our ears. so we use a "ear scoop" to dig those wax out. Also we let someone else to help us dig those wax out because it's more dangerous to do it by ourself because the other person can see our ear while by ourself we cant. and if we do dig those wax out by ourself, it's not as clean. =) my mum used to do it for me xD
derekbegins 3 months ago
well that you would only use to clean the ears of your children or your spouse and i know for experience thanks to my mom.
SYeNCLeoN 3 months ago
Speaking of moms and kids; when are you and Simon going to have a baby?
DoGunna 3 months ago
@DoGunna But the thing with the scraper; it's better in all honesty no matter what type of wax you have, strictly because Q-tips typically push the wax that is in your ear further down the canal, and you cannot reach it; with the small scoop you can spoon it out.
DoGunna 3 months ago
my mom just got one today and now im watching this video. (btw i love the feeling you get wen u clean ur ear. its like a dog scratching it's ear)
kooleo1014 3 months ago
I'm Hispanic and my mom has always used these to clean my ears when I was younger.
Squintern501 3 months ago
LOL yes my mom uses that for mee and yes u have to do use someone else to do it
BCutehere 3 months ago
I'm asian and i have waxy earwax, more used to q tip :P
xi0ngie 3 months ago in playlist WTF Korea
I loved having my ears cleaned with an ear pick when I was younger. To me it was really soothing/relaxing to the point I would fall asleep.
Woolee23 3 months ago
Asian kids can't do it themselves (they will deaf themselves) do there mom does it for them
cashapso 3 months ago 72
my mom cleans my ears
eddylee99 3 months ago
when i was younger i used to love it when my mom cleaned my ears. actually, she was more worried about us using q-tips on ourselves because she thought we would poke our eardrums and go deaf. ahahah. being allowed to use q-tips on ourselves was like starting a new phase of our lives in our house. -___-
xXENINAJXx 3 months ago
Its the best!!!!!!! Dont diss!!!!
msaudible 4 months ago
Cooool! Beans!!! Im asian n i know what that is!!!! usually my mom or siblings dig my ears! Its an asian thing!!! I grew up digging n having other dig my ear!
msaudible 4 months ago 2
OH MY GOD! I WANT ONE
LIKE NOW NOW NOW! NOOOOOWW
X1randomziiz1X 4 months ago
Culture shock.....hypocrite white folks.....sometimes the white man's way is not always right.
paperbagshinobi 4 months ago
Me and my brother are adopted from Korea and our doctor is Korean and she told my mom to carefully use a bobby pin to clean our ears. So this is the only thing I haven't found really odd.
natwolffandalexlover 4 months ago
Omg Simon and Martina its because Asians are the only ones with dry ear wax so it is used to scrap it out usually u do it laying down tho. Everyone else have mucus like earwax so Americans use qtips
pcho614 4 months ago
It's not just Korean. It's ASIAN. I'm Chinese and my mom cleans my ears out sometimes. It's super relaxing. I lie on the couch and nap. When I wake up....CLEAN EARS WOOOT!
silentdaffodils 4 months ago
As a nurse in the US, I actually use ear picks fairly frequently. They're actually more effective at removing ear wax than q-tips in general, but especially when the ear wax is thick and there's a lot of it. Also the light helps to better visualize the ear canal (believe me, it's a godsend because it's a pain in the ass to have to go in there with an unlighted one & an otoscope/penlight at the same time).
allygirlie 4 months ago
yeah its actually really comfortable and you'll get used to the feeling. but its important not to go too deep into the ears
mssummerbird 4 months ago
The ear pick feels so damn good, it can literally make you fall asleep in a few minutes. It's like..ear sexual intercourse because sometimes it sometimes hurts 8D
xRaemii 4 months ago
@sdgj26 ..against the cotton and does nothing, hence the ear picker. It's a cultural difference, in Korea there's always that thing of your parents cleaning your ears for you, and it's just a comfort thing lying there watching tv with your head on mum's lap while she does it very gently. And yeah, it is more of a close bond thing, ESP since you need a lot of trust, seeing as how the person holding a little stick inside your ear has the potential to make you deaf. Married or couples that have be
sdgj26 4 months ago
I've used both and while non-Asians might find the idea of q-tips better because it's got the soft wool tips so it seems automatically softer etc, all they really do is just move and push the ear wax further in. Like the person below said though, Asians do have the dry, sandy ear wax while caucasians are supposed to have the actual wax like 'wet' stuff - which means q-tips work better for the latter since the wet texture adheres to the cotton. As an Asian myself I find that the wax just moves a
sdgj26 4 months ago
As an Asian, I personally think that the ear pick gets more gunk out of my ear than a Q-tip does. But another thing I heard was that foreigners and Asians have different ear wax types. Apparently Westerners have more gooey earwax and Asians have more sandy earwax.
animeobsessed89 4 months ago
qtips actually say not to stick in ears O_O weird~
arashifanatic 4 months ago
I'm australian and my mum used to clean my ears. She'll probably still do it now. But we used Q-tips :P
Beaniekid99 4 months ago
'-' omg lol Q-tips for the win.
DigiChan 4 months ago
on the contrary ive never seen Qtips. my mom always helps me clean my ear with ear-picks too haha:)
its really comfortable. all asians use ear picks i guess.
qlAoK3li 4 months ago
I actually live in America and use one of those. I see them a lot here. I'm Chinese so I'm used to the ear pick. Also I never heard if using the q-tip to clean my ears. Funny.
emily4674 4 months ago
actually this kind of instrument is used for small children so that you can see the bunk more clearly and to prevent yourself from damaging their ear drums...hehehehe...this is quite interesting. Im asian and i used it before and you can find it around asia. I dont know who invented it, but its quite helpful. Just b sure to dis-infect it with an alcohol afterwards.....good job Simon and Martina!!!!
tahetsu 4 months ago
jajajajajajaja soooo much fun!!!!!
sacbemaya 5 months ago
so weird my family doesnt use that (im Asian) we use q-tips
i dont want someone else looking in my ear to help me get the wax out (even if its my parents) and i dont think i want to do it for others either... =P
MDQEChristine 5 months ago
Don't trust the toothpicks Martina! I got one stuck in my ear when I was smaller DD:
lalafunnys 5 months ago
My sister gets a kick out of taking out my earwax. We are uber close
pinayqt92 5 months ago
my mama always cleaned my ears and prob still would if i asked, and im white.
pattertatter 5 months ago
I find this video so funny because I guess the whole ear picks thing is so obvious for me and I have never thought about it in this way -> "the level of intimacy that shouldn't be crossed". For me, picking somebody else's ear happened only among family members. And they also have wooden ones (I guess the wooden one has been around longer - even though I don't know when and where they were invented).
lina22522 5 months ago
my mom has one of those :) and yeah. when we're little, our parents force us to have them clean our ears @.@ they hurt
sanji4ever 5 months ago
ever since i was little my mom cleaned my ears, but now i do it myself i think it has something to do with the asian culture, i don't know. But i remember when my mom did it, it was really relaxing, and it tickled :) i don't really use q tips because i always push it in too far and then it really hurts so yea im gonna stick with ear picks
EverLastingFriend97 5 months ago
I always get my ears checked by my elders, and I always HATED it. To me, it hurts like hell when they get to a certain area. We usually use a Bobby pin to do it. Lol. I think it's an Asian thing.
bratzboi 5 months ago
ok, so i've used these ear picks since i was young, so i know how tickle-y they feel. and after watching the first minute of this video, my ears started itching. XD
GaarakunFanatic 5 months ago
When i was younger i used put my head on my aunt's lap, and shd clean out my ears. I thougt it felt nice.. o.O oh crap, im weird
Someanime5 5 months ago
I read somewhere that asians use them because we have harder earwax... I personally can not take earwax out with a Q-Tip. It would actually push it further in, since it is so hard.. My doctor normally uses the scoop to scoop my ear out. Of course, he's asian. Haha! But.. I hear so much better after everything is out..!
HappyLensGEO 5 months ago
when i was small my mom used to use a ear pick made out of wood to clean my ears and i actually really enjoyed it, it was very relaxing, but of course the person cleaning the ear has to be good at it
xxMengusxx 5 months ago
I never understood how people use q tips to clean their ears?
PinoyPanda26 5 months ago 62
The reason we use cotton-y things like Q-Tips and they use plastic-y things like that is because Caucasians and Asians have different ear wax. I'm not kidding, this is totally true, though I have no idea why. Caucasian ear wax is waxy, and Asian ear wax is more dry and crusty/flaky. So for us soft fibrous cotton is best as latching onto the wax, while for them a hard spoon is best for scraping out the "wax."
The More You Know! (Ba dum dum bling.)
katiekawaii 5 months ago 120
@katiekawaii wow I never even thought of that, but i think it's true. My bf who's half Caucasian/Hispanic & me have totally different um ear wax. Sorry, tmi? :D but ear pick is amazing, even my bf concurs!
nhyn304 2 months ago
@katiekawaii wait, but i'm asian and my earwax (i feel weird talking about his but..) is more waxy. It's not really dry and flaky
THeLittLeFrame 2 months ago in playlist More videos from simonandmartina
@katiekawaii what about black people? is our
fisherwomen1515 2 months ago
My mom used to do this for my ears when I was little. It felt nice. xD
LynnMaruu 5 months ago
I think it's an asian thing too....like where i'm from you can actually go to like a "mini" stand on the street and they'll have this "ear pincking service" :P haha it cost like 1$ or something. XD but my mom always cleaned my ears for me too, but not anymore now that i'm older :P
MYsuperh3ro 5 months ago
my mom uses a metel one 0__0 and i've always found it hard to clean my ears with q-tips... weird...
vianne94 5 months ago
i never imagine that foreigners would think like that... hahaha XD
culture shock? :p
vlfflvls2 5 months ago
Yeah maybe it IS an Asian thing. Cause i've had my mom clean my ears since i was tiny :D and still do. That thing is really cool though :D My mom uses those torches that you can wear as a headband when she cleans my ears :D
LizardAndPretzelRawk 5 months ago in playlist More videos from simonandmartina
It's definitely an Asian thing ^^ there's something calming about my mum cleaning my ears, may sound weird, but these are EXTREMELY effective and way better than Q-Tips :) Well, we have a fancy bamboo one. That's right bamboo, with a fuzz ball at the end.
LyntSNSD 5 months ago in playlist More videos from simonandmartina
This actually feels soooo good. =w= Much better than a q-tip. Like really. REALLY. It's really relaxing, and your parents usually do it for you ;w;
DisturbedStrawberry 6 months ago
i no how to use them u turn on the light and put it in ur ear and pull out things out
TheLol3701 6 months ago
It's a fact that asian ears wax are dry and flaky, and others are greasy
linathaovy 6 months ago
the traditional ones are either metal or wood since my grandparents have one at their house. usually the women would kneel on both legs & the male would put his head either on a pillow or her lap to get his ears cleaned..hehe
DaiDaaisuki 6 months ago
its common to my family just that mine is not plastic but metal so sometimes it hurts but usually they use those on kids... i guess some people thinks that the q tip cant clean as much?
cherie88cc92 6 months ago
Never wanna prod a metal or plastic object in to my ear O__O Im good with just Q-tips
rhnpeterson 6 months ago
my mom cleans my ear with something like that but it's made from metal and I do it my self also it cleans better then a q-tip
mehero33 6 months ago
Imma be honest and say that my dad used that on me when I was young but held a flashlight next to it. That thing would've been soooo useful!!! XD
NgMb0Yz 6 months ago
i'm filipino and i've used those things since i was a toddler.
i thought those were normal. o.o
LuvinTheAznLife 6 months ago
HI! When I lived in korea when I was a wee kid, my mom did it for me. We have other people cleaning it out for us, because there is no way we ourselves can check what the inside of our ears look like, and if we just dig around our ear with a ear pick than we can damage the inside so that is why we have other people doing it for us. However, we don't find it disgusting like we would if someone else picked booger LOL
MsHMChai 6 months ago
I was born in the US, but I grew up using an ear pick (or we call it ear digger too, lol) . . in my opinion, my ears feel unclean if I don't use it after a while, haha. But I don't like people to do it for me, I usually do it myself even though my mom did it for me as a child. The ones I use are usually made out of metal.
onecrazylady916 6 months ago
I still use something similar but it's wooden. My mom used to clean my ears and call the wax batman (cause my ears are like caves) lol
noshills 6 months ago
I have this in my home too!@@
nganga96 6 months ago
lol my dad used to clean my ears for me. xD hahaha
ilingling23 6 months ago
i always thought that ear thing was normal and everyone uses it LOL
gangstergiirl 6 months ago
oh the sticks (spoons) i use are actually metal :/ but they dont hurt.
Mrkpoplover 6 months ago
I live in Canada (Vancouver) and i was born here too but im fimiliar with this. and i don't ifind it weird cause i grew up with it. But my mom would usually do it for me. But the sticks we use are abit longer.
Mrkpoplover 6 months ago
3:47
....goatsie? :O
HelloBeezus 6 months ago
Lol I'm Korean and Koreans use that to clean their ears and a lot of times family actually do it for you. It might seem a bit weird and dirty for another person to do that, but it's actually cleaner once you do so.
a8ftdyha4 7 months ago
lol, this is actually pretty common in asian countries (agree with ruinatsumi).
iammeakame 7 months ago
your not supposed to stick anything smaller than your elbow in your ear....atleast that was what i was told
RingoinWonderLand 7 months ago
Actually I think that ear picks like these are much better than Q-tips. Q-tips maybe able to clean some of the earwax from the ears, but it also pushes the wax farther in your ear. If that makes sense.
RandomGils 7 months ago
@RandomGils I think it depends on your ethnic background, actually! :) Asian people usually have dry earwax, which is better removed by the picks. Caucasians and people of African descent have wet earwax, which requires a different removal technique. So that would be why the ear wax picker seems foreign to non-Asians!
sugarycactus 6 months ago
@sugarycactus
Oh I see. Well I learned something new today! (: Thanks!
RandomGils 6 months ago
My mom used to clean my ear with a ear cleaner when I was younger but it was a regular metal one and she held a mini flash light in her mouth(that she cleaned every time!) so she could see. It so relaxing, it puts me to sleep xD
tiffyyle10 7 months ago 3