It had been quiet for too long, so I went looking for her. As I was walking upstairs, the strong smell of fingernail polish warned me that it was NOT going to be good. She had found a stash of nail polish and painted her toes.
And her feet, and her hands, and face and clothes and the bathroom mats, which had to be thrown out as a result.
Maybe someone else knows how to get fingernail polish off skin, but it isn't soap and water. I was hesitant to use nail polish remover right on her skin, so basically we just waited for it to rub off.
Of course, I hid all the nail polish in a new spot where she will never find it until she grows a few feet. But I missed one, because later that same day, she went to work with a bottle of RED nail polish, and this time was a little more aggressive in her coverage.
Tell you what, it is TOUGH getting nail polish out of grout lines.
But thank goodness, the carpet was spared as the mess was generally contained in the bathroom.
(This girl does NOT take correction well. To be fair, though, it probably doesn't help that I confuse her by telling her "no" and taking pictures at the same time.)
5 comments:
I still have red nail polish in my bathroom grout from when Anna pulled a stunt like this. Go ahead and use polish remover on her skin. It doesn't hurt the skin around your nails - shouldn't hurt the rest of her either.
For future reference, nail polish remover would have been okay on her skin, just take your time and rub gently. As for the bathroom mats... you could have most likely saved them with rubbing alcohol... the stuff stinks to high heaven, but it dissolves and eats away at the polish instead of spreading it around like nail polish remover does... I, unfortunately, have some experience with this too... sorry for the mess, but she is one cute little stinker! :)
yep... been there, had that done to me... my 2-yr-old LOVES nail polish... LOVES> and just so you know, nail polish remover and alcohol are both evil on the cheap lamination some lunatic put in our town home... there are now three different spots that are ruined :(
but i continue to paint his toes occasionally (clear or nearly at least), because it's the only way he'll let me trim his nasty little toenails ;)
OH my goodness! Girls just wanna have fun!
Seriously though, that must have been a real pain! BUT you cannot deny the cuteness of Sydney!! Look at her adorable face (and amazing hair)!
AHHHHH! I would have cried. Yup, pretty sure I would have cried. You sound like you handled it pretty darn well. Sydney is lucky she's so darn cute!
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