#920 Getting the eyelash out of your eye

Neil Pasricha

Home freeEyeballs do not want to be touched.

I mean, have you ever put fingers, algae-filled lake water, or shampoo in there? Yeah, that gets your eyes screaming in pain pretty quick, doesn’t it? Unless you’re using Johnson & Johnson’s No More Tears shampoo of course, in which case feel free to lather your eyeballs right on up, no worries.

But seriously, your eyes have their own plumbing system so they’re pretty self-sufficient. Technically they’re called tear ducts but they may as well be called Eye Toilets because they just flush your eye out. Nope, no need for any assistance folks, because your Eye Toilets have it all under control. Dust, dirt, tiny little microscopic bugs — flush, flush, flush away.

Yes, your Eye Toilets are really quite good at their job …

… unless, of course, a rogue eyelash gets in there! Yes, when a rebel lash quietly unhinges itself from the confines of your eyelid and attempts a poorly planned escape to freedom it’s not good. If you’re like me and are cursed with poorly-attached eyelashes, then your lashes just give up and die all the time, flipping down into your eyeball and annoyingly scratching and clawing you right in the cornea. The Eye Toilets start madly flushing, but to no avail — that lash is just sticking in there tight and it ain’t budging.

Now, I don’t care how many barfights you’ve been in or how many times you’ve been shot, you know as well as I do that when there’s an eyelash in your eye it’s incredibly painful, it’s incredibly annoying, and it requires a ton of focus to get through. You might even have to try one of these eyelash-removing methods:

  • The Pinch and Squeeze Method. This is where you close your eye real tight, and then pinch ‘n’ squeeze all your eyelashes outwards, hoping to grab onto a tiny piece of the rogue lash and pull it out, too. I recommend doing this one first to see what happens. You miss here, you still got plenty of options.
  • The Get Someone Else To Blow Into Your Eye Method. If you’re the blowing friend, you can either do a Surprise Blow to prevent the blowee from defensively closing their eye just before you do the deed, or you can do the real surgical technique, where you get them to lie down, hold their eye open, and line up your blow exactly at the eyelash. That last one takes trust and a very dry, stiff blow. Think mighty birthday candle blowout not warming up your hands at the bus stop in winter.
  • The Hard Winker Method. A solo sport, this is where you just keep winking your eye really, really hard and hope the lash will eventually ‘pop out.’ Not a bad technique, though sometimes the act of hard winking just forces that eyelash in there deeper. Bit of a double-edged sword.
  • The Eyelid Flapper. My friend Scott taught me this method when we were little kids. You just pinch the skin of your eyelid with your fingers and keep popping it in and out real fast until the lash gives up and lets go. This method is a little bit gross to look at and comes complete with a marvelously wet and disgusting suction sound.
  • The Wash. If nothing else works, I guess you can always just splash some water in there. Or, if possible, use one of those dusty eyewash stations hanging out in the back of the woodshop. I’ve always wanted to see someone use one of those things. They look like they’re from a 1950s version of the future.

Anyway, whatever your strategy, one thing is certain: You aren’t doing anything until that eyelash comes out. You might get the job done in five seconds, you might work at it for ten painful minutes, but whatever the case, whatever your style, it sure does feel good when that eyelash finally does get out of your eye. Suddenly the sun rises again, the weight is lifted, and your life can get back on the road and just keep on trucking.

AWESOME!

If all else fails, use the machine

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233 thoughts to “#920 Getting the eyelash out of your eye”

  2. I got something in my eye don’t know if it’s a lash or a tiny piece of mascara or dirt, lint etc…but initially when I felt it it was way up under I lid and it hurts like hell….I tried the eyewash several time the saline solution the rubbing he snapping the eyelid…the damn thing moved to the left side of the eye behind the eyelid…I tried sleeping for 2 plus hours woke up and it’s still there…I don’t know wht else to do…it’s less irritating in the left corner under lid but I can still feel it!! I wear contacts to see I have been going without the contacts becaue I don’t know if tht will make it worst….it’s also my bed time I will sleep for 8 hours…I am hoping that will get it out because I cant focus with this thing in my eye!!

  3. I couldn’t open my eye enough to try these methods. I blocked my nose, ears and mouth then blew. It worked.

  4. best idea is to just poke your eye out, then you’ll be blind so yea! it works like a charm :D

  6. Um major problem my eyelash slid down to the bottom of my eye and I can’t see it anymore but I can feel it a little am I gonna need surgery to remove it?

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  8. The first method helped me out, thank you! At first, I thought “that won’t do anything,” but I tried it anyways and was overly surprised with the result. My eye was finally able to get back to its busy defensive life.

  9. Rinsing it out with water, didn’t work for me, it just irritated my eye even more!

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  15. If u get an eyelaash in your eye right before bed don’t worry about it! Go to sleep and seriously when u wake up its gone!!!!

  17. I was literally in pain for the past two hours with something stuck beneath my eyelid. I googled and found this. Did the pinch and roll method. Came out first time. Thank goodness it did! Traveled over 8 hours to see my fiance and did not want a swollen eye. Thank you so much for the tip!

  18. Well I had an eyelash in my eye and i used the first technique and it came up but then to my surprise there was another one in there so i simply done all the methods and all of the eyelashes are gone yayyayyayayayay!!!

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  21. So apparently that no more tears stuff is actually like tears like tearing your hair (it’s hard to make sense when the words are the same but like tearing a piece of paper)

  22. something has fallen in my eye..left eye… i.think it is dirt.. i have tried everything toget it off…but nothing worked.. plz tell anything ..

  23. Sleeping did not help for me. I got one in my eye at 4:00am and it refused to come out. I work up at 6 and true these methods and now I’m free of pain

  24. I experienced having an eyelash in my eye about 4 times….and it happens usual to me. But one of the best stratagies i did was to CRY. The first time i got it in my eye, i was about 8, it was hurting me and all the other startegies didnt work. So i cried thinking i would get eye surgery (idk why) so i cried and cried until i noticed my eyelash got out on the bottom and was able to take it out with my finger. Hope crying works

  25. I have a question, I was plucking my eyebrows but one hair fell into my eye and now it’s stuck under my tear-duct. most of the methods won’t work for obvious reasons and I tried crying it out but it didn’t work (mainly because I can’t cry on command)… know any tips that could help?

  26. If you have eyelashes that grow inwards you can have electrolisis to sort it out. Painful, but not as bad as the eyelash scratching your eye ball.

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  31. I have an eyelash i my eye and it will not come out. I have had it stuck in there since 8 in the morning and it is 10:33 now! It hurts alot! Sometimes rubbing your eye with your hand in the direction you want it to come out works but in my case, nope! Do you have any tips?

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  42. well, for me i just get a pair of tweezers and pull them out when i see them. when u first do it it hurts but after u get used to doing it, then they dont hurt no more. just be sure to only pull out the rugue eyelash not ur normal/ “ok” ones lol

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  44. Easy and harmless. At home, get a Q-tip dampen it with water and locate rouge eyelash in eye and Done.

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  47. I never see where the eyelash goes when it has been flushed so I thought maybe the eyelash dissolved in the tears or somehow reabsorbed in the deep recesses of the eye’s orb…

  48. I have an eyelash in the right corner of the eye but when i try getting it out with some kitchen roll it stings so bad and is still there can someone help me

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