I have a pretty big nose but never seemed to have this problem. My problem though was that even if I barely got hit, the space between my nose and eyes seemed to get a little darker as if I was healing from a black eye. It was never anything serious nor very dark but it used to bother me because some people thought I was always getting beat up and there were times where I don't even think I got hit on the face and I still got them. I never figured why that happened. Another thing was (and it would happened again if I start training) that everytime I trained my faced got all red and people once again thought I had gotten beat pretty good even when I didn't spar