Lipstick Mayhem

I love my little Adin but sometimes, I’d like to strap him in a car seat for the day so he can’t get into anything. What a morning. An easy morning. Fed the kids breakfast, was going to start the bills, set my purse on the floor, then realized I should clean up the dishes from breakfast. I then sat down in front of the computer to pay some bills and maybe do a little shopping.

I hear some giggling by Alyssa behind me so I turned to see what she was laughing at, and there he was. My eyes of innocence, Adin, with lipstick all over his face. I of course laughed a little till I stood up and noticed random squiggles all over our carpet, and glass coffee table. Alright, easy to get out, no biggie. I then noticed streaks of red on our television and the best part, an attempt to draw a smiley face on my fairly new micro fiber rocking chair and ottoman. What a great morning.

So here was the challenge. What can get lipstick off of glass, carpet, micro fiber, and baby skin without irritation or a bad reaction. First had to get it off of Adin mostly cause it had plumper stuff in it so I was thinking Ooh…that’s gotta tingle. After 20 wet wipes, makeup remover, and a short bath, he only had a hint of pink left on him.

Now for the challenge. Carpet, a carpet cleaner does NOT get everything out. Hours of wash, rinse, repeat and no results. Then a friend from facebook advised Goo Gone. BINGO! Sprayed the spots, let it set, used the carpet cleaner. Again, hint of pink but still better results.

Table and Television, lots of elbow grease and determination eventually got the oil based stain out. This was probably the easiest to clean.

Sadly, now, my poor chair. The chair that I would rock my boy to sleep at night in. The chair that was given to me as a Christmas present from my husband to rock our future babies in. I look down upon it focusing on the sad looking squiggly smiley face that was drawn with love and laughter. I glance over at my son and he looks up at me with arms raised “YAY!” coming from him mouth. He often does this when he thinks he has done good (we’re in the potty training phase). Weapon of choice for the stain stricken spot…googone! What a fantastic little formula. Faded the face without a problem…except, now I have a huge grease looking spot where the face once lied.

SO, the question is…how to you clean a product that was used to clean? Am I selfish to want so much to get rid of this grease spot though it cleaned my first worry, the lipstick face?