I used to have a lot of trouble doing convincing eyelashes, because I would put plates in (like I did for the head hair) and paint an eyelash texture on it. It just never worked.

Eventually I realized that actually modeling each individual eyelash isn't that time-consuming, because they're all pretty much the same geometry, and you end up with great looking lashes. So now I just go ahead and model every last little eyelash, and it only takes thirty minutes or so and they end up looking just the way I want.

So here I have started placing the lashes onto the right eye.