So…I did laundry today, a full load including smokey clothes from last night and clothes Zander threw up on this morning (that's not fun to deal with hungover, let me tell you).

I pulled the clothes out of the dryer and out falls the top of a lipstick tube   

The top of the lipstick    that I left in my pants last night  (which I didn't even use,  I might add).   

Every single article of clothing has my Avon shimmery, transfer-resistant sunset rose lipstick on it.   

I was going to eat lunch and watch some TV while I folded clothes.  So I left the clothes on the floor and told myself I would deal with it AFTER I eat.  Chili with lots of cheese and sour cream – I need comfort food. 

After lunch, I googled "lipstick laundry" and found a plethora of helpful hints.    I combined two methods…

Use non-ultra Dawn in hot water as a solvent.   This makes sense to me, since this a common method for stripping cloth diapers.

Use aerosol hairspray as a pre-treatment solvent. Tried and true for ink pen stains, why not lipstick?

So the load is in there now, and after 10 minutes of washing, I check to see if its working. 

It is!    

It's working best on cotton items, not as good on others, but it does seem to be working.     If I have just a few articles that still have lipstick on them after this, that's WAY better than an entire load.  Crisis averted!  Yippee!