You may have heard of removing an ink stain with hair spray before. I never had until I was faced with the dilemma of removing a large ink stain from a brand new shirt! Normally I would have trashed but since this was the first time she’d ever worn it and I had adorable pants to match it, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try and remove it.

I am no stain removal expert by any means! But I was told by many family and friends that hairspray would eventually remove it.

Original Stain

original stain

First Wash
For the first wash I used regular hairspray that I had around the house. Expensive hairspray too, although I’ve heard the cheaper the better.

first wash

You can obviously still see plenty of ink!

Second Wash
For the second wash, I used hairspray again. I didn’t have much left to start with so I ran out of hairspray during this step. The majority of my hairspray was used on the right sleeve (bottom) so I also used some Resolve Spray-n-Wash on the other (top).

second wash

You can see a significant difference between the sleeve that had hairspray (bottom) and the one did not (top).

Third Wash
Since I was out of hairspray I decided to use Spray-n-Wash AND Shout Advanced Ultra Gel (recommend by my mother-in-law) which has a built-in brush to loosen up the stain and seems to work better than the spray-in-wash.

third wash

Fourth Wash and Final Result after dried.
For the final wash I used only the Shout Advanced. I let it and used the built-in brush to loosen the ink stain.

finished stain

 Not bad considering the initial stain. I probably could have wash it one more time and maybe gotten rid of the stain completely but I was happy with the end result.

BEFORE and AFTER

before-after

*All washes were ran on normal cycle using my regular laundry detergent

Disclaimer: This is NOT a sponsored post. Just my own personal test I wanted to share. The links to the stain removal products are simply for reference purposes.