Mum tries to glue dead fly to her eyelid after confusing it with her fake lashes

Judy Robbins was trying to apply her lashes without her glasses.

If you think applying false eyelashes is hard, try applying a dead fly (Image: Getty)

There's a real art to applying fake lashes.

You need a steady hand, patience, precision and good eyesight.

Good eyesight is key. You don't want to fudge it up and spend all day looking ridiculous.

Nor do you want to, you want to, say, mistake a dead fly for your falsies and spend precious time trying to glue a deceased insect to your eyelid.

It sounds far-fetched, not to mention a little nausea-inducing, what with flies having a fondness for rubbish, rotting matter and number twos .

Still, it did happen to Molly Robbins' mum, Judy.

Easy mistake to make?

It seems Judy was attempting to apply her lashes without her glasses.

Text from mum - having trouble sticking lashes on without her glasses.. turns out she was trying to glue a dead fly to her eyelid. I'm out. pic.twitter.com/2vNpcW5l5n

— Molly Robbins (@MCreativeCakes) July 29, 2017

Molly tweeted a photo of the dead critter next to her mum's lashes, writing:

"Text from mum - having trouble sticking lashes on without her glasses.. turns out she was trying to glue a dead fly to her eyelid. I'm out."

If you squint at the picture - and maybe look at it in a dark room - you can kind of see why the confusion might have arisen.

Judy's not alone in mistaking insects for beauty items. One sympathetic woman added "I honestly nearly did it with a wee centipede once..." which made us feel a bit ill.

We're not sure how long it took it to notice but in case you are considering sprucing your look up with a dead fly, you're probably going to need stronger glue.