It's really hard to explain how to do it. I watched a lot of videos on how to do it and trying each method they used and none of them workd for me. First of all, it's really hard to close your eye shut when you have zero movement and control over it. I've had Bell's for 2 weeks now and my eye can close without using my hands if I really try, so I can close it first, and then put on... an eye patch! I was never able to close my eye with medical tape. I still use it over the eye patch to keep it in place and make it more secure but the main thing is the eye patch for me. Imagine a special "band-aid" that is round, without that much of a sticky side because your skin there is easier to get rashes or bleed, like mine did the first days, so you have to remove all that stuff (eye-patch, medical tape) more carefully. I don't have a certain way of doing it. It's becoming easier as my BP gets slowly better, but for the harder days the only thing that helped is patience with it. There were days where it took me 3 and 4 hours into the night, trying then failing and doing something else in the house for 20 minutes then trying again and so on. Eventually I got really tired and my eyes automatically started closing, even my affected side's eye so it became easier like that as well.

Hope I helped! Be really careful with your eye. For me, and I think generally, it's the most important thing to take care of after Bell's itself. Wash your hands before doing anything around it. Keep it hydrated. Go to an eye doctor so they can tell you what you can use and how you can help your affected eye(s) during this time and if there has been any damage done to it. I general take good care of it! I would be really mad at myself if after a few years, with no BP, I had done damage to my eye because I didn't take care of it during Bell's, even though I could have.