You can also use paint effects there is a brush that's called eyelash i believe.
You can also use the create polygon tool to "draw" over the eye lid then apply only hair on it select the eye lid brush in the visor and then in the hair submenu select use brush as haircolor(orsomething like that).

You can also if all else fails use alpha hair -->just extrude the edges around the eyelid, move some points and then in photoshop paint eyelashes and the surrounding white(=transparent in maya) and apply it on the transparency channel in maya.

Good luck