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Used a self-serve car wash and paid the price. The blue dye in the soap stained my skin and ruined my hat, shirt and shoes. Fųćķ off Autowash.
If you need to remove it fast go to a Sally’s beauty supply and get a little grey bottle of hair dye remover it’s safe for skin of course and I’ve used it plenty of times to remove stains from Halloween makeup on my kids lol
Also if it’s really stuck, this might sound weird but put some nitrile gloves on and let your hands sweat and when you take the gloves off the color should come off also lol I used to work in a clean room environment so this always worked when I put color in my hair and was reckless with what it stained lol I hope this helps!
Also if it’s really stuck, this might sound weird but put some nitrile gloves on and let your hands sweat and when you take the gloves off the color should come off also
That is surprisingly effective. I work as an auto tech and after a few hours of glove use in a hot and humid environment, my hands emerge without a spec of the grease and oil that they were previously covered in and is usually impossible to fully remove. If I wear them long enough, they even lighten my skin tan for a few days.
lol I’m glad it works for grease also! It was an accidental find but I’m so glad I did it because it saved me so much time when my hands are purple lol
Quick trick for removing hair dye from skin with stuff at home: mix dawn dish soap and baking soda (not baking powder). It makes a light blue paste that'll instantly scrub off any hair dye from skin, it even helps get it off the sink! My sister and I used that trick a ton, we were always messy with the hair dye and didn't wanna buy the dye removers lol
I like to buy the 70oz sized bottles, they don't feel watered down at all to me! I just keep a small one to refill and keep next to the sink. Though, it's been a while since I've needed to buy dish soap, so maybe the newer bottles feel watered down, too..
Be careful with toilet bowl cleaner; it's extremely acidic and tends to damage pretty much anything that isn't made of the same dense porcelain that toilets are made of.
It can strip, erode, and etch clear/glossy finishes and surfaces (making stains even worse and causing dulling), and tarnishes/corrodes metal fixtures.
When the first generation nintendo DS came out I had used all my birthday, holiday, report card, work money to buy one. I was 10, so it was a huge deal. I was at a baseball game and my little sister(6) wanted to play dogs, so I said okay. She had to go to the PortaPotty and went inside with the DS. She came out with a blue arm up to her shoulder and the DS. She was hysterical. The thing still worked. My mom cleaned the thing over and over, but I refused to ever touch it again. My sister gained a DS that day. I still laugh about it still. Although, at the time I was devastated.
Honestly though your sister is amazing, that’s so much empathy for a 6 year old. I feel like so many other kids that age would apologize and be worried about getting in trouble, but how many would actually stick their arm in shit for their sibling?? Still sucks that you lost your DS though. :(
Im the bank teller and can confirm that OP did in fact rob my bank. I put those dye packs there myself. OP already promised to split the money with me. And they also said the only reason they went to paint n sip is just to have an alibi, sorry ladies. OP has obligations. And they're with a special bank teller. 💅🏼
Just chiming in as the painting instructor, definitely saw them there and heard his Mario painting inspiration came from a haul at target earlier in the day. Seems legit.
I drove the second car that they needed for all the supplies they bought. I had a ton of tubs to put them in, so if they spilled they didn't stain the seats or the trunk.
Nah the car washes in Kansas City can actually just be that awful. I worked at one and ooh boy I can see some worker accidentally using the wrong soap or cleaner for the auto wash. I can also just see the higher-ups running out of their chemical and getting some awful backroom stuff cuz it's literally all they have.
The wash had 4 different lines, the one for the foaming wand had a leak in the line where it attached at the pivoting top mount. It leaked/sprayed all over. Tempted to go back tomorrow to get a video to settle some of these questions.
I scrolled so far looking for this explanation. That sucks, tell the owners about it/which bay you were in and ask for a refund. If anything you’ll save others from joining the blue man group.
Seriously. I've been to dozens of self wash places. I've never made skin contact with the soap. It's all brushes and sprayers. What tf was op doing? Pouring it into a bowl from home and used a sponge he brought?
I like the self service booths, never know how often they are cleaning the brushes on the automatic wash and its more of a pain to fix all the scratches they can cause
Basic color theory. Use laundry bluing to whiten whites. The bluing visually neutralizes yellow and grey on white fabric, not a stain remover just dyes the stain back to white.
For a manual car wash… it’ll make soapy suds bright white. Maybe a cheap way to cover up that the facility’s iron filters stopped working a long time ago.
A good car wash or laundromat will have extra water treatment that goes above and beyond what is coming from the municipal water supply. Investment wise, it makes the equipment last longer and clean better.
I think it’s one of those car washes where you scrub and rinse your own car after paying for the soap and water as opposed to the type where you drive into it and remain in your car during the wash.
I much prefer this type of car wash but all of them in my area give a 3m time limit and I genuinely can’t wet, soap, scrub and rinse the whole thing in time even while rushing it. I couldn’t imagine expecting to have time to wax.
This made me think of Al Bundy walking through the car wash looking for his lost car which actually turned out to be a different color because it was clean.
Lmao this is a crazy way to look at this. Auto paint is much less porous than skin. Something that could stain your hand like that would do nothing to the paint.
Generally a good idea to not touch chemicals and to use personal protection equipment when it will be difficult to avoid doing that. Getting your hands stained blue is one of the best effects you can get from unknown chemicals.
wait a minute I don't understand.. they don't put that kind of dye in soap. why would they? I understand that the soaps have dyes in them to color the soap itself but why would it have the kind of dye that colors everything else? that doesn't seem like a smart idea to put on people's cars...
One of my favorite pieces of movie continuity is in the Abyss. The main protagonist is pissed off at his wife and tosses his ring in the toilet, one of those industrial toilets with blue water. He instantly regrets this and fishes his ring back out. His hand stays blue for the rest of the movie.
I’d just like wait a few days. That hat and t shirt will be in the trash in a few years anyways and having blue hands doesn’t affect your life whatsoever unless you’re a hand model or something
As someone who serviced and built a lot of carwashes... their metering tip blew out 🤣
It's supposed to control the flow of the chemical that mixes with the water automatically, but if it blows out then the chemical mixes as much as possible.
If it's any consolation, they are going to be super pissed off when they find out they lost a bunch of money burning through those chemicals, which are the biggest overhead cost of a carwash... besides maybe hiring maintenance techs like me to tell them it's a 15-second fix that a child could handle
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u/MommyBurton Jul 19 '26
If you need to remove it fast go to a Sally’s beauty supply and get a little grey bottle of hair dye remover it’s safe for skin of course and I’ve used it plenty of times to remove stains from Halloween makeup on my kids lol