I got a 6 inch bong but I have a problem, with the lighter's flame burning my face.

OK so this thing is tiny and im a really big noob to bongs so help me out. Ok well since this thing is so small the mouth peice is close to the bowl. So whenever I strike the lighter (I dont even think I hold it right) and try to suck the flame into the bowl, the head radiation of the flame heats up my face, so what should I do?

 

put your free hand over your face? i dunno...try to light the lighter right next to the bowl so you can suck the flame away from you faster.

 

yeah, be suck-ready for when you are about to flick... or hold it at a different angle to the bowl?

 

buy a bigger bong=problem solved

 

Light the bowl to the side
dont hold the lighter so close- Light it away from bowl bring it in and inhale

 

Make the flame from the lighter really small. I have a really small bong, too, and at first it burned me a lot, but it doesn't anymore. I think all I did was to make the flame smaller.

 

I have that problem with my small bowl. What it is really [or in my case] you're lighter is probably hitting part of the bong and when it does that like the flame goes up [happens with my little bowl] and yeah what I do is I'm extra careful when I light it making sure it goes directly onto the weed and like not the outer glass side of the bowl I hope this works. Or make sense for that matter lol!

 

haha maybe add an extension to the mouthpiece? like take an empty cardboard paper towel roll, stick it on top and squeeze the bottom of the roll closed around the top of the bong with your hand so you don't have to get as close to the flame.. i dunno it might work out

 

This is a suggestion, not a proven method. I have a 2 footer so I do not have a problem. Strike the lighter away from your face, start inhaling without a flame, then move the lighter in quick so as soon as it's close enough to the bowl the flame will turn in.

I know your wasting breath that way but clearing a 6 inch bong shouldn't take much anyway.

 

buy a windproof lighter. not zippo style, the other kind, torch style