I was ‘assaulted by my eyeliner’ — my eye turned black

A woman filming a makeup tutorial ended up with a black eye.

A woman has documented the horrific moment her eyeliner turned her entire eye black — then started to seep out of her nose.

TikToker Holly was making a get-ready-with-me video, better known as a GRWM, when she went to apply the eye makeup, ending up with a more dramatic look than she originally intended.

“I was doing my makeup and making get ready with me vids for my friend when my eye was [literally] assaulted by my eyeliner,” she wrote over the clip, which has been viewed over 5.8 million times.

In the video, Holly says she “doesn’t love” the feeling of the eyeliner, noting there was a lump-like sensation when it had been applied.

However, when the creator blinked, the inky-black coloring spread under her eyelid and around her iris — essentially turning her entire eyeball black.


Screenshot TikToker with black eye.
Holly was horrified when her eyeliner spread over her entire eyeball.
@hollisaur TikTok

Woman showing whites of eye with black ink in it.
Her entire eye was covered in black ink.
@hollisaur TikTok

“Oh my God,” she says frantically as her eye gets blacker and blacker. “I’ve got to take my contact out.” 

The saga takes an even more traumatic turn when Holly starts sniffing, wiping her finger under her nose only to find jet-black ink dripping out.

“Is it coming out of my nose? Or is that from my finger?” she says agitatedly, before saying, “What the f – – k?” and blowing her nose.

“Like is it in my eyeball? Did it come out?” she continues desperately.

The video then jumps ahead, showing Holly having removed most of the black ink, wiping the last dregs away before pulling down her lower eyelid to show some of it still in the whites of her eye.

“Like it [literally] just kept goin’,” she said perplexedly, using her finger to remove another black tendril.

Holly ended her at-home horror film by giving the camera a thumbs up.

“Guess we’re good! Guess we’re good,” she says, adding any residual black ink in her orifices’ could could come in handy.

“If someone bothers me, I’ll just go [blows air out of nose] and a bunch of black s – – t comes out,” she joked. “Manifesting.”

TikTok viewers couldn’t believe how calmly the TikToker handled the situation.

“That would be a panic attack for me. Dr Google would tell me I’m dying and have seconds left to live lmao,” one user joked.

“New fear unlocked,” wrote another, while another simply commented, “emotional damage.”

Some users speculated the ink explosion could have ended up dripping out her nose through her nasolacrimal — or tear — duct, which runs from the corner of your eye nearest your nose and underneath the skin, connecting the facial bones and nose.

“Excess fluid drains through the tear ducts into the nose,” WebMD notes.

Holly has taken note of the experience and her accidental human biology lesson.

“I know what the nasolacrimal duct is,” she wrote in her TikTok page bio.