Cup your hands, catch some water in them, and splash into open eyes. It is okay to blink when the water touches your eye. Repeat several times if necessary until the eyelash is gone.
Pour water into a large bowl. Slowly lower your face, with open eyes, into the water until the liquid touches your eyes. If you feel the urge to blink when your eyes touch the water, do so. All that matters is that the liquid touches your eye. The eyelash should then wash out into the bowl. Repeat several times if necessary until the eyelash is gone.
Take an eyedropper and fill it with saline solution. While keeping your eyes open, pour a few drops directly into the open eye. Hopefully, the eyelash washes right out. Repeat if necessary. Many saline solutions come in small bottles with a squirt head. If this is the case, you don’t have to use an eyedropper. Simply lift the bottle and pour a few drops into your eye. Blink and if necessary, repeat several times until the eyelash is washed out.
Look in a mirror to see where in your eye the lash is located. You should use your fingers or a Q-Tip to remove only if the eyelash is on the white part and not the colored part of the eye. The colored part is more sensitive and you may want to see an eye doctor instead if the eyelash is there. [4] X Research source Wash your hands. Use soap, and dry your hands completely. Washing your hands removes bacteria that you could otherwise get into your eye.
Moisten a Q-Tip by immersing the tip in saline solution. [5] X Research source Saline solution will not hurt the eye. To get the Q-Tip wet, you can either unscrew the lid of a saline bottle solution, and dip the Q-Tip in, or pour a little into a bowl, and dip the Q-Tip into that. Touch the Q-Tip gently to the eyelash. Keep your eye open while doing so. You may want to hold your eyelids open with the fingers of one hand while holding the Q-Tip with the other. Remove the eyelash. Ideally, the eyelash sticks to the Q-Tip and is removed safely and easily. Simply pull the Q-tip directly backward, taking the eyelash with it.
Swipe the eyelash with one finger. You may want to hold the eyelids of the affected eye open with the fingers of your non-dominant hand. With one finger of the other hand, gently swipe the eyelash in a light sliding motion. Try not to blink. The eyelash should be dislodged from the eye by the motion of your finger. Pull the eyelash with two fingers. If a simple swipe doesn’t dislodge it, try gently pinning it between two fingers. Your fingers should rest gently on your eye as you pin the eyelash between them. Do not use this method if you have very long fingernails, as you may scratch your eye. Once you have the eyelash caught between two fingers, pull it gently directly outward.
