Make strokes
Hi,
Do you ‘make strokes’ with a mascara?
“I usually make five strokes before I’m done.”
Perhaps ‘swipe my eyelashes five times’ would work as well?
Thank you.
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"Swipe" is correct enough, but it has irrelevant connotations that make it unlikely here. Your "five strokes" is what I would expect to hear.
- "Swipe" is correct enough, but it has irrelevant connotations that make it unlikely here.
- Your "five strokes" is what I would expect to hear.
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"Swipe" is correct enough, but it has irrelevant connotations that make it unlikely here. Your "five strokes" is what I would expect to hear.
0Mascara is applied with a brush, and the verb for using a brush is "to brush", so perhaps you brush your lashes five times before you're done.
I looked online to find other appropriate verbs, and I found "pull through":
I usually pull the brush through my lashes five times before I'm done.
We are merely brushing (or pulling a brush through) the surface of my extensi
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