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Do you put your mascara on your right eye on with your right hand, and your mascara on your left eye with your left hand?!

24 replies

TwoHeaded · 26/11/2018 21:01

Not the most exciting question you'll ever be asked I know but I realised just this morning, after 30 or so years of mascara wearing, that I do this! Anyone else?

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Athena51 · 26/11/2018 21:01

No, left hand for both eyes,

Shirleyphallus · 26/11/2018 21:02

No, I put mine on both eyes with my right hand

Sometimes I try and brush my teeth with my left hand and it feels like it isn’t even my own hand

halfwitpicker · 26/11/2018 21:02

Same hand both eyes

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FadedRed · 26/11/2018 21:03

No, do both eyes with dominant right hand. Rather impressed with your ambidexterity (think I just made that word up!).

HildaZelda · 26/11/2018 21:05

Yes. I'm right handed, but do right eye with right hand and left eye with left hand for mascara, but do eyeliner with right hand for both eyes!

lucysmam · 26/11/2018 21:05

Both eyes, right hand.

TwoHeaded · 26/11/2018 21:05

Snap Hilda!

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Sinead100 · 26/11/2018 21:05

Same hand(right) for both eyes...

peoplearepeople · 26/11/2018 21:06

Yes! I do this. I also do the same for my winged eyeliner. I've tried doing them both with my right hand (am right handed) but it just doesn't feel or look right. I have to use right hand for right hand side and left hand for left hand side. Smile

tinytemper66 · 26/11/2018 21:08

Snap two headed and Hilda!

Rockbird · 26/11/2018 21:16

Yes, two handed mascara-er here!

WhyAmISoCold · 26/11/2018 21:31

Same as you OP. Also same with eye liner. I find it easier than reaching over and ending up with it on my nose. And I swap when doing my hair, right hand does right side and vice versa. I'm right handed but can do most things with my left. Pretty good at catching with it.

stoplickingthetelly · 26/11/2018 21:43

I'm the same as you OP. I find it easier than reaching across. I make less mess this way.

daffodilbrain · 26/11/2018 21:48

Oh turns out I use both hands too! Who knew Shock

LavenderBush · 26/11/2018 21:51

Right hand for right eye, left hand for left eye - but I think we're in the minority (all my friends seem to use their dominant hand for both eyes).

I swap hands when cleaning my teeth as well.

I'm right-handed myself, but there's ambidexterity (is that a word?!) in my family.

BigStripeyBastard · 26/11/2018 21:54

I don't know. How can I not know? 😮

Plural · 26/11/2018 22:05

I'm two hander too

Katieroslin · 26/11/2018 22:06

Right hand for both eyes

tinselfest · 26/11/2018 22:09

Yes, I'm a two-hander as well. Funnily enough I learned how to do it when I was involved in am-dram and did stage make-up on blokes other people.

DelurkingAJ · 26/11/2018 22:12

I’d poke my eye out if I used my right hand (very left handed here) and am jealous of you coordination, OP Smile

SandraTheBee · 26/11/2018 22:15

I think both with my right hand, but i’m Not sure. Will take notice tomorrow morning 🙂

heymammy · 26/11/2018 22:20

Yes! I do this too and have often wondered if it's not the norm as all my friends use their right hand for both eyes!

TwoHeaded · 27/11/2018 09:05

I didn't know either BigStripeyBastard until I suddenly focused yesterday morning!

Delurking putting on my mascara ambidextrously is potentially the only area in which I show the slightest bit of coordination! I'm forever tripping over nothing or falling into rooms or dropping things!

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SylviaAndSidney · 27/11/2018 09:35

Right hand for both here.

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