Need some technical/creative help

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I need an actor to bleed from the nose. 

Starting with a clean face, I want one small line of blood from one nostril, as if a valve opened in his sinuses to let a bit of blood through.  It would be ideal if there could be several seconds of clean face before the blood appears...maybe even a word or two of dialog.

Naturally, I don't want my actor to aspirate the stuff, and I don't have the wherewithal to create a fake head.

Ideas?

p.s. Yeah, it's a weird request.  Get used to it.

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[joegoda.livejournal.com]

thoughts on this: When a vessel first pops in the nose, or sinus', there is a bit of a tickle. Is is possible for the actor to reach up with a squib and manually insert the red stuff into his nostril, much as a nasal spray would be, under the guise of scratching his nose?

For that matter, red colored nasal spray would actually take a few moments before it leaked out of the nostril. Having used the stuff (non colored), it might just work, as I generally have to blow my nose afterwards to get it to quit dripping onto my lip.

It's a possibility.