is herpes spread by using make-up?

[an0n975]

When you buy make-up like mascara or liquid eyeliner, you can never be sure if someone may or may not have used the product as a tester. So my question is, will the virus survive in make-up forever or will it die after a few hours? And how big is the risk of contracting herpes from make-up?

[Life360_Dave]

If a person has ocular herpes they wont be using eye liner as is very painful. And the virus absolutly would not survive 2 day. Why are you concerned about this as ocular herpes is extremely rare in the first place.

[an0n975]

Thanks for your reply. But, what IF someone with eye herpes used the eyeliner or the eyeliner has contacted the virus in some way, how big is the chance that you will contract herpes if you use the same eyeliner one or two days later? Will the virus survive long in the eyeliner or will it die? I know there's almost no chance that something like that will happen but I just want to be sure.

[Life360_Dave]

Hi, eye herpes is mostly transmitted by hsv1 and is contracted very most often by traveling through the facial nerve by someone positive.
What your describing is really not any situation that is reasonable to happen. Maybe, just maybe if they wiped the brush on an open herpes sore with alot of liquid and instantly rubbed it into the eye there would be a chance, but from what your describing would be impossibe to transmit for the simple reason is that people who use eye mascara do not rub it on their open lip sore herpes or there genital area in full view of other customers.