Toddlers and makeup are historically a terrible mix.
One woman found this out in the most devastating of ways after her little one attacked her cream sofa with a bright red lipstick.
Describing the aftermath as a ‘crime scene’, Jessica, who lives in Australia, shared pictures of her destroyed sofa after leaving her three-year-old in a room on his own for five minutes while she did household chores.
But there is a silver-lining to this awful situation – in attempting to remove the stains, Jessica discovered that simple dishwashing liquid was an incredibly effective tool – and she was able to get all of the lipstick of the couch.
She took to Facebook to describe the unfortunate sequence of events and share her useful cleaning hack with her friends.
‘Just as I thought to myself, “he’s gone quiet”, he walks into the kitchen looking like a vampire that’s had a great feast,’ wrote Jessica.
‘At first I couldn’t process what he was covered in? It’s not blood. It’s not a texta, not crayon, maybe it’s my daughter’s play make up… as I followed this trail of red, I was met with the horrific scene. A complete massacre.
‘Frantically trying to keep the crime scene contained, I start taking photos for evidence, googling “three year old military school”, wait I mean “help my toddler is trying to give me a heart attack”, aka “how do I bloody get red lip stick off furniture”.’
She used Morning Fresh dishwashing liquid – rubbing it directly into the couch – and astonishingly, the lipstick stains lifted.
‘I’ll have you know it’s actually quite simple and I’m sure if I was a cheating spouse that had to cover up a wayward red lipstick pash mark on the couch I would be feeling super thrilled,’ she continued.
‘I on the other hand had an entire Sephora aisle of mess to deal with. But I did deal with, I rubbed in that dishwashing liquid like a good little off the grid cleaner.
‘I fought through the cramping, soldiered on through the muscle spasms and listened to beautiful sound of my children playing with their father off into the distance. Surely he’s got bigger finger tips than me I ponder?
‘It now looks like nothing ever happened. All evidence has been destroyed and everything back to the way it was. I guess I’ll be rocking a nude lip until my son moves out.’
In an extra bid to prevent a repeat occurrence, Jessica says that she has moved the contents of her makeup bag to make it harder for her son to find.
Lets hope he doesn’t get his hands on her foundation next.
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