I use a simple Q-tip swab to wipe my excess mascara off.  Adding a little moisturizer to helps to keep your makeup looking fresh (despite your little accident). 

Another possible solution that I use is to hold an old credit card/gift card (you can cut it to fit your eye if you want) behind my lashes while I apply to aviod getting mascara on my eyelid in the first place (:

Why not just hold a tissue uner your eye when applying mascara? That is a good tip though!

Not a bad idea, but it seems like it might be a little painful. I know someone else already mentioned it, but I just take a q-tip with some moisturizer and dab it away.

hi... I learned this one when I was get my hair colored. The make-up artist was applying mascara when she was bumped by a passing dresser. WOW!!!,,,, She got out an eraser... yeap!!!,  it was one of those pointy ones you put on your pencil; she just gently wiped it and it took the mascara off. 

      So.. of course.. I was hooked from that day on. 

I've found that if I scrape it off right away (instead of waiting til its dry), it's easier to get off.

I use a damp q-tip, it's precise and it takes it right off. There is no smearing, no waiting and no fuss.

I just use my finger dipped in Clinque's makeup remover. Works great!

Let it dry first, like what you said, but use a q-tip. its so much softer on skin and it still comes right off.

<3 Tiffany

i put a tiny amount of primer on a q tip and very gently sweep it away or if the mascara is dry you can usually flick the flecks off

much love

claire

xoxo