We had a girls party at my mom's house a couple days ago when my niece Aubree was visiting. I took all my kids fingernail polish with us for the little girls to use. They had so much fun watching Hannah Montana, painting nails, and, of course, dancing and singing together.
We got home late and I didn't unpack my diaper bag. The next morning while I was busy feeding Paxton, my little snooper Brynlee found the fingernail polish. And of course I didn't realize this until she came to show me how she had painted her own fingernails and toenails. I looked back to see not only a trail of blue across my carpet, but also an upturned bottle. This was in my living room. Right in front of the entry way. Where any visitor couldn't help but see it. Yep, I seriously wanted to cry when I saw that blue puddle that was about 3 inches wide.
Not knowing what to do I decided to try fingernail polish remover first. It gets fingernail polish off of my nails, perhaps it will work on my carpet. NOPE! The color did not go away, instead it smeared. So, at this point my carpet had about a 6 inch bright blue circle.
Still having no idea of what to do at this point, I searched frantically in my cupboards for ANYTHING that might help me. And lo and behold in the back of one of the shelves was a cleaner that I had gotten at Don Asletts the last time Taylee had a stomach bug and had thrown-up red kool-aid. It was called Juice Out---for food, drink, and COSMETIC DYES.
As quick as I could, I threw that stuff all over that Smurf Turf, followed the directions (which included using a wet towel and steam iron!), and crossed my fingers that it would at least help.
When the time was up, I lifted back the towel, and all of the blue fingernail polish was gone! Hallelujah! Sean couldn't even find the spot when he got home that night.
So, for any mother who has adventurous, mischievious children who may dump fingernail polish all over your carpet, remember Juice Out!
Sorry that there are no pictures, I was a bit preoccupied during the whole fiasco :-)
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Oh no! Fingernail polish and carpet are not a good mix! I'm glad you had that Juice Out...and I'm glad I'll know what to do if that every happens to me!
Cute, but brand new carpet oh I feel your pain. Glad it all came out. Love that little girl. You think she is a handful now just give her a few years when she really knows what she is doing.
I was thinking of Don Aslett's when I started reading your post. They have great stuff!! Oh, and we must never let Brynlee and Baylie be alone for too long! There could be all sorts of trouble! Glad it came out.
That Brynlee.....you can't help but love her mischievousness. I'm glad it all worked out and you don't have to buy an area rug. :-)
oh the bryn babes! Gotta love that little girl! she is SOOO funny! Brad and I were laughing when we read that post! We are glad that it came out...but a little boise state pride never hurt anyone right!?
I would have probably cried my eyes out if I lived in your nice house. I'm glad you got it out.
That good to know about the Juice Out stuff. I will keep that in mind. It least you were on your toes and found it.
wow. that's awesome the juice out completely got rid of the smurf puddle. where's a don aslett's in michigan???
Thank heavens for Don Asletts!!! I love that place- Good luck with future fiasco's (which are inevitable)...at least you'll have cleaner on hand:)
That is stressful... I am glad it all worked out though. Where would one get Juice out?
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