This tale of a tragic sneeze will make you throw away your eyelash curler

Please learn from this.
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Chloe Bryan
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Please, eyelash curler enthusiasts: learn from this woman's pain.

Redditor Aub3912 shared a tale Tuesday of perhaps the worst thing that can happen to someone while their lashes are clamped in a curler — she sneezed.

The result is just as tragic as you'd expect.


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"I really thought I ripped my eyelid in half," she wrote. Luckily, that wasn't the case, but her right eye does have about half the usual number of eyelashes.

Remember, one cannot trust a cruel machine.

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And yes, the eyelashes will grow back. In time.

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Chloe Bryan

Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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