Daydreaming authors with writer's block find themselves sticking just about anything in their ears. Bent paper clips, used coffee straws, and dirty, chewed pen caps.
It's only natural that they might try to clean their ears out, and the French manufacturing company Bic understands this. That is why they continue to produce the writer's favorite: the reliable and timeless Bic Cristal with its ergonomically designed pen cap made for safe scraping and efficient digging.
Bic knows sticking their pen caps in your ear feels so damn good. They also know that writers lack hygiene or any self-care routine. This is why they've designed the first pen cap that actually doubles as an ear cleaner!
The clip has a rounded end that makes it ideal for digging, scraping, and even scooping that most precious of all inner-ear natural resources, that brown-gold wax.
It all starts with the design. The hexagram shape of the pen (which helps prevent it from rolling off of your desk) needs a stronger, beefier pen cap. As a result, Bic developed a safe yet sturdy polypropylene lid to accompany the wonderful, utilitarian design.
Here's Bic's magic secret: the cap is made up of four parts- finial, cap band, inner cap, and of course, that sexy pocket clip. The clip is thin enough to hug the slim contours of the pen barrel but strong enough to withstand the raking inside of an eardrum.
But this is what makes for a perfect ear clean every time: the clip has a rounded end that makes it ideal for digging, scraping, and even scooping that most precious of all inner-ear natural resources, that brown-gold wax.
Let's not forget the small hole at the end of lid, which “the pros” use use to scrape and clean behind the tragus and around the antihelix. Careful! This move is for veterans only!
Also, it's compact design allows for a discreet cleaning even in public, fitting into the little space behind the knuckles to make it appear like you are massaging your head when you are giving yourself an "eargasm."
We wondered if their pen designers takes all of this into account when they designed the Cristal pen cap, so we contacted Bic to ask if the pen cap is purposefully designed for ear-cleaning. To date, they have not responded.
But we'll take their silence as a "yes."