Eye make-up and /or Contact lenses

monster · 01-06-2011, 09:14 PM

If you wear either, do you do both eyes with your dominant hand or your left eye with your left hand and right with right?

Bullitt · 01-06-2011, 09:52 PM

Both eyes dominant hand, but different places on my finger for each lens to aid in insertion.

monster · 01-06-2011, 10:12 PM

I guess I shoulda done a poll rather than making people post. I do each eye with each hand. for both. But I'm getting the feeling I'm odd. again.

monster · 01-06-2011, 10:13 PM

.... if you do put mascara on both eyes with the same hand, how do you avoid the nose stripe? Or do you just wipe it off before it dries? i think that's why i started doing such things the way i do....

Pico and ME · 01-06-2011, 10:16 PM

I do left eye/left hand and right eye/right hand for mascara for that very reason. Its just too awkward otherwise. I cant recall if I do the same with eye shadow though. Prolly. So I don't think your odd. However, I use the same hand to put in eye drops.

bluecuracao · 01-06-2011, 10:36 PM

I do each eye with corresponding hand for both contacts and makeup. I wasn't 100% sure about the makeup, so I had to go look in the mirror and pretend to put on eyeliner. Heh.

Clodfobble · 01-06-2011, 10:37 PM

My contacts go in both eyes with the same hand. I don't do eye makeup myself, but it seems to me the best way to avoid the nose-stripe from the mascara wand would be to rotate your hand around to the other side of your face, so your palm is facing in.

monster · 01-06-2011, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

it seems to me the best way to avoid the nose-stripe from the mascara wand would be to rotate your hand around to the other side of your face, so your palm is facing in.

ouch! my forehand with the left hand is definitely better than my backhand with the right in this case.. But i have seen people do this

Juniper · 01-07-2011, 01:06 AM

Both eyes right hand for contacts. Mascara too. But I don't wear makeup very often. My nose doesn't really get in the way. Wish I had a reason to wear make up more than once a month or so. Damn my life is boring.

DanaC · 01-07-2011, 03:51 AM

I rarely wear make-up. When I do, I apply with my right hand to both eyes. I am pretty flexible, so I can quite happily twist my hand around to do the left eye, and I don;t recall ever getting a nose stripe :P

monster · 01-07-2011, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Juniper

Both eyes right hand for contacts. Mascara too. But I don't wear makeup very often. My nose doesn't really get in the way. Wish I had a reason to wear make up more than once a month or so. Damn my life is boring.

ya know, I was wearing makeup maybe twice a year. towards the end of last year I put it on a couple of times "just because'. Stops people in their tracks. I suggest you put some on for fun/no reason at all. Might help with the blues, albeit temporarily.

Shawnee123 · 01-07-2011, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

ya know, I was wearing makeup maybe twice a year. towards the end of last year I put it on a couple of times "just because'. Stops people in their tracks. I suggest you put some on for fun/no reason at all. Might help with the blues, albeit temporarily.

I don't wear makeup much anymore, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't use my left hand to do my left eye.

I agree about wearing makeup though. I just can't be bothered most of the time, but when I do wear it I think people notice. It brings out my eyeballs, which are my best feature (best of mediocre is still best.) One day I came to work with my hair done nicely, makeup on, and my black suit. A lady in another office said "I didn't recognize you, you look so nice."

monster · 01-07-2011, 09:33 AM

That's exactly what they say to me. Do people not realize what that implies?

Shawnee123 · 01-07-2011, 09:38 AM

People are idgits.

Like the song "You Are So Beautiful To Me" should be finished with "I don't care if everyone else thinks you're as ugly as a mud fence."

It occurs to me though, when I apply mascara to my left eye, I reverse my hand, like Clod said.

glatt · 01-07-2011, 09:43 AM

If you don't wear makeup, and then you get all gussied up, it's easy to look like another person. And the default compliment for somebody all dressed up is to say they look nice.

When my wife and I were planning our wedding, I asked her to please not put on so much makeup I wouldn't recognize her. She rarely wears make up, and I had been to other weddings where the brides were so made up, I honestly had a hard time seeing the person I knew in there under all the fancy dress.

So I asked her to be recognizable. She was.

01-06-2011, 09:14 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Eye make-up and /or Contact lenses If you wear either, do you do both eyes with your dominant hand or your left eye with your left hand and right with right? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-06-2011, 09:52 PM	#2
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Both eyes dominant hand, but different places on my finger for each lens to aid in insertion. __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

01-06-2011, 10:12 PM	#3
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I guess I shoulda done a poll rather than making people post. I do each eye with each hand. for both. But I'm getting the feeling I'm odd. again. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-06-2011, 10:13 PM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	.... if you do put mascara on both eyes with the same hand, how do you avoid the nose stripe? Or do you just wipe it off before it dries? i think that's why i started doing such things the way i do.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-06-2011, 10:37 PM	#7
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	My contacts go in both eyes with the same hand. I don't do eye makeup myself, but it seems to me the best way to avoid the nose-stripe from the mascara wand would be to rotate your hand around to the other side of your face, so your palm is facing in. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

01-06-2011, 10:16 PM	#5
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	I do left eye/left hand and right eye/right hand for mascara for that very reason. Its just too awkward otherwise. I cant recall if I do the same with eye shadow though. Prolly. So I don't think your odd. However, I use the same hand to put in eye drops.

01-06-2011, 10:36 PM	#6
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	I do each eye with corresponding hand for both contacts and makeup. I wasn't 100% sure about the makeup, so I had to go look in the mirror and pretend to put on eyeliner. Heh.

01-07-2011, 01:06 AM	#9
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	Both eyes right hand for contacts. Mascara too. But I don't wear makeup very often. My nose doesn't really get in the way. Wish I had a reason to wear make up more than once a month or so. Damn my life is boring.

01-07-2011, 09:33 AM	#13
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	That's exactly what they say to me. Do people not realize what that implies? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-07-2011, 09:38 AM	#14
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	People are idgits. Like the song "You Are So Beautiful To Me" should be finished with "I don't care if everyone else thinks you're as ugly as a mud fence." It occurs to me though, when I apply mascara to my left eye, I reverse my hand, like Clod said. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-07-2011, 09:43 AM	#15
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	If you don't wear makeup, and then you get all gussied up, it's easy to look like another person. And the default compliment for somebody all dressed up is to say they look nice. When my wife and I were planning our wedding, I asked her to please not put on so much makeup I wouldn't recognize her. She rarely wears make up, and I had been to other weddings where the brides were so made up, I honestly had a hard time seeing the person I knew in there under all the fancy dress. So I asked her to be recognizable. She was.

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