Help, ball python with dry snoot

[Bogertophis]

I can't take a fresh new pic by taking him out of his hide cause i don't want to stress him out too much, but i'll send a close up of a photo i took earlier today when i was handling him. I know the quality isn't good, but it should be visible enough. Also i am sure it's not stuck shed, cause after his last shed i took him out and checked if he had any stuck skin anywhere, and didn't see anything like that. Though about nose rubbing.. That's really possible, cause he tried to escape for a long time rubbing his nose until i fixed what was bothering him, and i didn't handle him for a couple of weeks already so i didn't check his snout up close..

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Best I can tell, that looks like he failed to shed that part of his face, & it's easy to miss when a snake freshly sheds, BECAUSE their body secretes some moisture (between the old skin & new) to facilitate the shed, and just like you can see thru (or at least part-way) some kinds of paper when it gets wet, the part of the shed he missed was moist & harder to see than it is now.

Maybe the reason he's been rubbing his nose has nothing to do with getting out, but it's for getting the old annoying skin off his nose...ever think of that? Learn to check that snake sheds are truly complete, otherwise someday your snake might have really stuck old eye-caps, or lose his tail tip when the tissue dies from the constriction of just that tiny bit of skin you didn't see for a shed or two. It matters a lot (to pay close attention) when keeping a pet snake.