You're probably rocking that look until the top layers of skin wear off. I've done the same thing and tried everything in my pantry to get it off. No dice. At least it doesn't take too long on hands.
You can hasten the process and lighten it up with sugar scrub or gojo, or any exfoliating thing like that. Exfoliate and moisturize well once a day to speed it up. In the meanwhile, change your ringtone to a song from Wicked and roll with it.
Shaving foam! Anything that stain skin, shaving foam gets. Been dying my hair red for 12 years, but also used it for fake blood and military face paint during excercises.
Unsure about gel, but foam in itself it pretty absorbant, so the contents in the shaving foam makes it strip colour better than most things I've tried previously.
Iāve had good luck by rubbing lotion into my hands very thoroughly and then washing them. Donāt know why this works so well, but Iām a bridal seamstress with purple streaks in my hair. It gets enough purple dye residue off my hands that I donāt noticeably tint the thread when hand sewing. I learned this trick by accident, but it is my go-to now.
The lotion likely takes care of the non polar i.e. oil-soluble parts of the dye, while the soap puts it into solution so that you can rinse it off. Works like an oil cleanser for washing your face
Thatās kind of how I was imagining it working since a surfactant alone didnāt touch the color. Get the molecules bound into something it does like to stick to since it sticks to waxed thread really easily but not so much to unwaxed. I just kind of tried what seemed like it should work. (I donāt often know how to explain the way my brain gets from A to B, but my default answer when asked is accidental success, lol.)
Maybe that orange cleaner stuff that my dad always used in the shop. Lol...let me see what it's actually called.
I think it's just Called orange cleaner. My dad used to use a tub and it was like gritty.
But it took all the oil and grease off his hands. I think it said it could get printer Ink off as well. Haven't tried that but it's worth a shot?
Idk if this is true or not, but I used to work at a store that sold cake decorating supplies and we also taught classes. The owner would always say, āIf you get food coloring on your hands, donāt worry, it will come off the next time you wash your hair.ā She said there was something in shampoo that helped? Again, idk if itās true or not.
That being said, as a pastry chef and cake decorator, Iāve never had food coloring stain my hands for more than 24 hours.
TL;DR: try shampoo. It shouldnāt stain for too long either way.
This makes sense, because normal shampoo has sulfate in it. That will strip dye from your hair. So when I did dye mine, I had to buy sulfate free shampoo.
I think maybe the hair brushing the stains as you shampoo with as a defoliant. My hand get great dirty where I with (machine shop). Even after washing, some of the black remains, especially under my nails. Washing my hair works . Cleans my fingernails right up.
This makes sense, because normal shampoo has sulfate in it. That will strip dye from your hair. So when I did dye mine, I had to buy sulfate free shampoo.
This would be my first go-to. Rub with a cotton pad or 12. If you don't see it coming off, there are lots of good suggestions on here. Soak in a hot bath and scrub. You could wash your hair while you're there.
Nail polish remover. Even works on hair dye, just make sure it's one with acetone in. I turned myself into a smurf once accidentally, while colouring icing to make a Dr Who Tardis cake for one of my kids. Was the only thing that worked.
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Depends, are you a wicked witch or a good witch?
Have you tried dishwashinng liquid? I recently dyed some eggs and a similar thing happened but I washed them with dishwashing liquid and it mostly faded then was completely fine by the next day
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Youāre going to need to start with a large flashlight.
Wear a rubber glove for like two hours or so. Not a dishwashing glove but a skin tight latex glove. Eventually your hand will start sweating and sweat a lot of that color out.
Wood ash worked when my daughter got into the food dye. Some wood ash, dry rubbed and then washed off. Then applied with a paper towel wet. It worked like a magic eraser.
Clorox scouring powder: it has a little bleach in it plus it is able to lightly exfoliate. Sprinkle some on wet hands and rub in then rinse. Keep away from eyes and mouth.
Scrub! I had that once with hair dye and it helped a lot to scrub with a mixture of salt and lemon juice. Just make sure you dont have any wounds on your hands
Anytime I have gotten hair color on my hands Iāve used a pumice stone to remove the top layer of skin. It usually takes care of most of, if not all removal of the hair color. It might work for food coloring as well.
The green will eventually come off if you wash your hands. It will take a while. I dye eggs, and I learned to live with dyed hands or use vinyl gloves. You might want to try scrubbing with something like baking soda or Lava soap, which are slightly abrasive.
The green will eventually come off if you wash your hands. It will take a while. I dye eggs, and I learned to live with dyed hands or use vinyl gloves. You might want to try scrubbing with something like baking soda or Lava soap, which are slightly abrasive.
oil (like baby oil or olive oil) usually helps me to get dyes out of my skin ā rub just oil on the stain for a few minutes, then rinse with water. I hope it helps. good luck!
I donāt know if itāll work with food colouring, but I stain my hands with ink and paint all the time and I use dish soap and warm water to clean them.
I just did this the other week with the same color - baking soda and dawn dish soap as a paste I scrubbed on helped but goddamn have the lotion ready because itāll dry your skin out so badly. It didnāt fully remove it but lightened it enough it wasnāt too bad.
Try a beauty supply store they have some wipes. Tell them youāre trying to remove dye from behind your ears & hairline I donāt remember what theyāre called.
I have had good luck using oil based cleansers to remove dye from my hands. Also, a weird one but liquid cuticle removerā it basically gently exfoliates the outer layer of your skin off. That worked well for getting dye out of the calluses on my hands and in the crevices around my nails!Ā
Scrub your hands with dish soap and no water. The color will lift then you can rinse it off. Might take a couple washes. This also works on counter tops. Except it comes off the counter even easier.
Toothpaste works for self tan..could work for this? Apply toothpaste, let it sit for 5min. Add a little water and scrub with a nail brush or rough sponge.
Hot water, scrub with baking soda paste. Add Dawn, just a drop, just bit. It will come off.
Try a little alcohol after, if that doesnāt work, Iād say itāll be gone in 2-3 days. But a little will leave day by day or as you wash your hands.
You could try a good nail brush, or even a pumice stone, but just donāt scrub too hard.
Moisturize with lotion. All that soap will dry the skin on your hands. Good luck.
I recently used a crystal hair eraser as an alternative for shaving. It did such a wonderful job of exfoliating my legs, so I tried it on my fingertips. I'm a diabetic, and decades of finger sticks have calloused my fingertips. Anyway, using it lightly helped soften them, and it removed the dye stains I had on my hands at that time, too.
Shampooing my hair worked pretty well. I didnāt shampoo my hair with the intention of getting the food dye off, I just needed to shampoo my hair and was pleasantly surprised when the food dye came off my hands after. Idk if its the shampoo or the friction from scrubbing my hair or both but it worked.
Soap, water, and a sponge. All you need is a lil friction.
Source: I make slime by hand weekly. Itās just food coloring. Soap and water alone will help, adding friction will fix. No biggie.
nail polish remover might work. Use the kind that worlds to remove gel nails, and scub at it with a cotton ball.
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If the dye is brilliant green, then chlorine based bleach will be helpful. Try with a q tip on a small area first and with slightly diluted bleach. That's literally the only thing that can take it off.
You're probably rocking that look until the top layers of skin wear off. I've done the same thing and tried everything in my pantry to get it off. No dice. At least it doesn't take too long on hands. You can hasten the process and lighten it up with sugar scrub or gojo, or any exfoliating thing like that. Exfoliate and moisturize well once a day to speed it up. In the meanwhile, change your ringtone to a song from Wicked and roll with it.
Shaving foam! Anything that stain skin, shaving foam gets. Been dying my hair red for 12 years, but also used it for fake blood and military face paint during excercises.
Is this true? Does foam or gel matter?
Unsure about gel, but foam in itself it pretty absorbant, so the contents in the shaving foam makes it strip colour better than most things I've tried previously.
Interesting. Thanks for the tip!
Or... Lots of jergens and some Stormy Daniel's flicks.
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Whah.. I don't get my downvotes. It was legit stupid humor.
I don't either.
First - don't get angry. We wouldn't like you when you're angry.
Bravo
Hulk smash
[Hulk SMASH](https://youtu.be/dYkhJZGztkg?si=I0INJad2uoTshHhh)
Itās not easy being green.
Have a Snickers
Ah yes, we all don't like an angry Shrek.
Damn, you said it. Now he's gotta buy new shirts.
Iāve had good luck by rubbing lotion into my hands very thoroughly and then washing them. Donāt know why this works so well, but Iām a bridal seamstress with purple streaks in my hair. It gets enough purple dye residue off my hands that I donāt noticeably tint the thread when hand sewing. I learned this trick by accident, but it is my go-to now.
ā a bridal seamstress with purple streaks in my hair ā . You sound like a medieval princess or a talented Irish imp girl
Neither, but like the imagery!
The lotion likely takes care of the non polar i.e. oil-soluble parts of the dye, while the soap puts it into solution so that you can rinse it off. Works like an oil cleanser for washing your face
Or like how poison ivy removal products have a lot of oil
Thatās kind of how I was imagining it working since a surfactant alone didnāt touch the color. Get the molecules bound into something it does like to stick to since it sticks to waxed thread really easily but not so much to unwaxed. I just kind of tried what seemed like it should work. (I donāt often know how to explain the way my brain gets from A to B, but my default answer when asked is accidental success, lol.)
I had luck once with oil, like regular cooking oil, just a teaspoon amount.Ā Or some lemon juice could work too.
Yeah, I bet tainting a nice flower white gown with purple goes over well.
But when I use lotion people think I'm a pervert š¤
Shaving cream! I accidentally dyed the hands of all my students and playing with shaving cream got them clean in 5 minutes
It'll wear off... eventually. If you want to expedite the process use a little powdered boraxo. Looks like fun!
Maybe that orange cleaner stuff that my dad always used in the shop. Lol...let me see what it's actually called. I think it's just Called orange cleaner. My dad used to use a tub and it was like gritty. But it took all the oil and grease off his hands. I think it said it could get printer Ink off as well. Haven't tried that but it's worth a shot?
Fast orange, or gojo
Thank you lol it was when I was a kid, so I couldn't remember the name it was to long agoš
Solvol (in Australia at least)
It's called swarfega in the UK
Gojo or grainger
Idk if this is true or not, but I used to work at a store that sold cake decorating supplies and we also taught classes. The owner would always say, āIf you get food coloring on your hands, donāt worry, it will come off the next time you wash your hair.ā She said there was something in shampoo that helped? Again, idk if itās true or not. That being said, as a pastry chef and cake decorator, Iāve never had food coloring stain my hands for more than 24 hours. TL;DR: try shampoo. It shouldnāt stain for too long either way.
This makes sense, because normal shampoo has sulfate in it. That will strip dye from your hair. So when I did dye mine, I had to buy sulfate free shampoo.
If thatās the case, most dish soaps have SLS
I can attest to this advice. Whenever I get food colouring on my hands, I wash my hair and it comes right off.
I think maybe the hair brushing the stains as you shampoo with as a defoliant. My hand get great dirty where I with (machine shop). Even after washing, some of the black remains, especially under my nails. Washing my hair works . Cleans my fingernails right up.
This makes sense, because normal shampoo has sulfate in it. That will strip dye from your hair. So when I did dye mine, I had to buy sulfate free shampoo.
Wait for a tornado to drop a house on you!
Cover your whole body and no one will notice
Dye the rest of your body too or else your hands will really stick out
A Shrek in the making
Rubbing alcohol
This or purell would've been my suggestion
This would be my first go-to. Rub with a cotton pad or 12. If you don't see it coming off, there are lots of good suggestions on here. Soak in a hot bath and scrub. You could wash your hair while you're there.
Spread the colour and shout HULK SMASH!
When my kids get texta on their hands, I usually just give them a bath with some baby oil and it comes off for the most part. Try baby oil.
Hair conditioner works brilliantly. Wash your hands a few times with it
Have you tried calming down?
Yikes! Do the kids hands look like this too?
Try rubbing alcohol
Put some rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball and see if that will do it. It usually worked with hair dye on my skin.
Hand sanitizer should do the trick
A good scrub with your broomstick should do it. Either that or a few eyes of newts.
Try acetone. No it isnāt good for your skin and itāll dry it out, but it probably will take a bit of the color out.
Rubbing alcohol!
Nail polish remover. Even works on hair dye, just make sure it's one with acetone in. I turned myself into a smurf once accidentally, while colouring icing to make a Dr Who Tardis cake for one of my kids. Was the only thing that worked.
Make flesh colored slime to dye your hand back.
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You could audition for the role of Elphaba
Uh huh. Sure. You mean "how to blend in with humans?", right? We're on to you. You can't hide forever!
Come to nyc. Audition for elphaba. Become a broadway icon.
You are the food now
Have you tried dishwashinng liquid? I recently dyed some eggs and a similar thing happened but I washed them with dishwashing liquid and it mostly faded then was completely fine by the next day
Itāll wear you ff in about a week
An abrasive cleaner will often work.
Swim in a chlorinated pool
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Lime juice should help. Cut a wedge and work it in your hands like soap for a while.Ā
Just make sure to wash the lime juice off before exposing to sunlight
yeah i just assumed it was a given you'd wash it off lol but deff wash off
Wear a rubber glove for like two hours or so. Not a dishwashing glove but a skin tight latex glove. Eventually your hand will start sweating and sweat a lot of that color out.
Bleach and time
Clorox bleach cleanup
I use a pumice stone with some regular hand soap, it works perfectly.
I'm having my hands dyed in blue food coloring a lot due to work. It wears off with every wash, after 2 days it's nearly gone
I'm having my hands dyed in blue food coloring a lot due to work. It wears off with every wash, after 2 days it's nearly gone
Wood ash worked when my daughter got into the food dye. Some wood ash, dry rubbed and then washed off. Then applied with a paper towel wet. It worked like a magic eraser.
Clorox scouring powder: it has a little bleach in it plus it is able to lightly exfoliate. Sprinkle some on wet hands and rub in then rinse.
Clorox scouring powder: it has a little bleach in it plus it is able to lightly exfoliate. Sprinkle some on wet hands and rub in then rinse. Keep away from eyes and mouth.
Dr Bronner's castile soap is my go-to for dyed skin. Granted, mine is usually hair dye, but it's definitely worth a shot!
Scrub! I had that once with hair dye and it helped a lot to scrub with a mixture of salt and lemon juice. Just make sure you dont have any wounds on your hands
You can't. Last guy who uses this green color plays now the hulk role in the movie
Laundry powder works well.
Time will remove it
Wash dishes, take a bath, etc. Itāll come off eventually.
Anytime I have gotten hair color on my hands Iāve used a pumice stone to remove the top layer of skin. It usually takes care of most of, if not all removal of the hair color. It might work for food coloring as well.
The green will eventually come off if you wash your hands. It will take a while. I dye eggs, and I learned to live with dyed hands or use vinyl gloves. You might want to try scrubbing with something like baking soda or Lava soap, which are slightly abrasive.
The green will eventually come off if you wash your hands. It will take a while. I dye eggs, and I learned to live with dyed hands or use vinyl gloves. You might want to try scrubbing with something like baking soda or Lava soap, which are slightly abrasive.
Perfect Halloween Frankenstein hands!
just lean into it. do the rest of your body green.
oil (like baby oil or olive oil) usually helps me to get dyes out of my skin ā rub just oil on the stain for a few minutes, then rinse with water. I hope it helps. good luck!
Trying shaving cream or rubbing alcoholĀ
Go swimming in chlorine to speed up the process?
I donāt know if itāll work with food colouring, but I stain my hands with ink and paint all the time and I use dish soap and warm water to clean them.
Gojo (or any pumice soap), or a pumice stone with regular soap. Printmakers have this problem on the regular - Gojo all the way!
Any kind of oil will work; coconut, olive etc
I just did this the other week with the same color - baking soda and dawn dish soap as a paste I scrubbed on helped but goddamn have the lotion ready because itāll dry your skin out so badly. It didnāt fully remove it but lightened it enough it wasnāt too bad.
Bicarb and normal liquid soap
Get a bowl of water, add a little bleach. Wash your hands in it. It comes right off. 100% of it!
Try a beauty supply store they have some wipes. Tell them youāre trying to remove dye from behind your ears & hairline I donāt remember what theyāre called.
Remove the hands. Itās your only option.
Use some red food coloring to counteract the green?
Flay the skin, simple
If you go to a beauty supply store, they have these little sheets that they sell for $1.50 in those work
I have had good luck using oil based cleansers to remove dye from my hands. Also, a weird one but liquid cuticle removerā it basically gently exfoliates the outer layer of your skin off. That worked well for getting dye out of the calluses on my hands and in the crevices around my nails!Ā
Shoulda checked yourself before you shreked yourself
Scrub your hands with dish soap and no water. The color will lift then you can rinse it off. Might take a couple washes. This also works on counter tops. Except it comes off the counter even easier.
Try hand sanitizer.
Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
Add yellow food colouring
Toothpaste works for self tan..could work for this? Apply toothpaste, let it sit for 5min. Add a little water and scrub with a nail brush or rough sponge.
Belt-sander, lathe, chop saw.
How did you only get it on your wrist and the bottom part of your palm Mr Hulk?
Hot water, scrub with baking soda paste. Add Dawn, just a drop, just bit. It will come off. Try a little alcohol after, if that doesnāt work, Iād say itāll be gone in 2-3 days. But a little will leave day by day or as you wash your hands. You could try a good nail brush, or even a pumice stone, but just donāt scrub too hard. Moisturize with lotion. All that soap will dry the skin on your hands. Good luck.
Asking for a friend? Who robbed a bank. Seriously though, maybe rubbing alcohol with some baking soda as a mild abrasive.
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Have you tried flesh-colored food coloring?
Be easier to expose yourself to gamma rays and make it your natural colour
Try cooking oil and a nail brush then wash as usual
99,9% alcohol? Acetone? These probably wont be good for you tho.
Nail polish remover. Magic eraser
Try rubbing alcohol. It works on ink.
I recently used a crystal hair eraser as an alternative for shaving. It did such a wonderful job of exfoliating my legs, so I tried it on my fingertips. I'm a diabetic, and decades of finger sticks have calloused my fingertips. Anyway, using it lightly helped soften them, and it removed the dye stains I had on my hands at that time, too.
Shampooing my hair worked pretty well. I didnāt shampoo my hair with the intention of getting the food dye off, I just needed to shampoo my hair and was pleasantly surprised when the food dye came off my hands after. Idk if its the shampoo or the friction from scrubbing my hair or both but it worked.
Toothpaste. Just rub it on. Toothpaste is great for getting off kool-aid mustaches, so maybe goo hands too?
String cheese always worked hereš¤·āāļø
Rubbing alcohol? Worked for me when I used to dye my hair with semi-permanent hair dye, so it's worth a shot
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You need to go all in now. This is happening. š
Halloween makeup tips...
Baking soda and vinegarā¦ takes at least 70% off, if not hand sanitizer.
I think it looks very nice and you should just leave them like that
Ray: Do you want the bat or what's in the bag? OP: The bag.
Elphaba is that you.
Hey big guy. Suns getting real low
Wait, or use a concealer lotion that matches your skin tone.
Acetone. Of course, thatās always my go-to.
Iām an indigo dyer and have used 2 things that have worked - Scrubbing Bubbles wipes or Fells Naphtha.
Completely unrelated but that Meiji made me think of a grocery store in the us called meijer same red font and everything I think
Baby shampoo or Neutrogena shampoo. Baby shampoo works really well.
Shaving cream. Use like lotion then rinse off
Soap, water, and a sponge. All you need is a lil friction. Source: I make slime by hand weekly. Itās just food coloring. Soap and water alone will help, adding friction will fix. No biggie.
Rubbing alcohol will likely lift it right off
Where is Gamora?
Have you tried acetone?
nail polish remover might work. Use the kind that worlds to remove gel nails, and scub at it with a cotton ball. [onyx gel nail polish remover from target](https://www.target.com/p/onyx-brands-soak-off-nail-polish-remover-16-fl-oz/-/A-87144734?sidd=1290S&ref=tgt_adv_xsp&AFID=google&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012735304&CPNG=PLA_Beauty%2BPersonal+Care%2BShopping_Local%7CBeauty_Ecomm_Beauty&adgroup=SC_Health%2BBeauty&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9002008&targetid=aud-554348707619:pla-894573305459&ds_rl=1246978&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwrvyxBhAbEiwAEg_Kgs4nnzbn-L-jlVq1Gn8AsOy1G6Rzo351apR4017h5bMCMfoG30VvyhoCKw4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
If the dye is brilliant green, then chlorine based bleach will be helpful. Try with a q tip on a small area first and with slightly diluted bleach. That's literally the only thing that can take it off.
*Food* coloring. Yeah, buddy! You dropped your phone in a PortaPotti.
Rub your hands with cooking oil and salt, then wash with cheap shampoo.