Not much of a thing up in here... It's a frozen booger catcher... And that is not considered attractive.

Yep. Imagine a booger hanger on a -30 day. Bad enough when your mustache freezes to your beard (just condensation from your breath, not snot), I can't imagine having a piece of ice cold metal acting as a condensation point...
More often than not it is just a distraction/detraction from a face I'd see as anywhere from acceptably pleasant to downright pretty (wommenfolk) without it. For guys, I can only think what that would be in a fight...just like the whole earring thing.
To each their own, though, so long as it isn't MY face they're poking holes in.