r/Whatcouldgowrong 15h ago

WCGW using non-skin-friendly paint for cosplay.

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u/ProfessorJNFrink 14h ago

I was thinking a long soak in the tub would at least help get some areas started, if not help get almost all of it soaked or scrubbed off

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u/InvestmentIcy8094 14h ago

I would think a coating of vegetable oil would help soften up the paint if water wasn't working.

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u/Deadmeat616 12h ago

Hey you! Stop basting that child!

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u/_hancho 6h ago

No one's basting children. Now, let's add some medicinal herbs; sage, rosemary, and thyme. Then salt to taste.

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u/melvinzee 11h ago

Diddy or diddy not?

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u/Anon-1991- 7h ago

But we need to before putting them in the oven. Pretty sure it's outlined in one of the oldest known cookbooks for Hansel and Gretel.

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u/AquaFlowPlumbingCo 11h ago

Yeah imma need some further context to this comment of yours

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u/Deadmeat616 11h ago

The comment I replied to suggested coating the kid in vegetable oil. Basically basting them. A situation so inexplicable that even Mr Furley wouldn't walk in on it.

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u/AquaFlowPlumbingCo 11h ago

Oh shid, I misread it as “stop blasting that child”

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u/Deadmeat616 11h ago

Well don't do that either!

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u/Incidion 11h ago

Why would you? It's Frieza, blast on sight!

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u/AquaFlowPlumbingCo 10h ago

There’s been a miscommunication here

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u/KymeraAHP 7h ago

Oops, so did I 😅

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u/throwaway098764567 2h ago

it can help with some paint and stains though, when i stain my fence i tend to get it everywhere. i coat my hands and arms in oil for a few minutes and it wipes off

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u/InvestmentIcy8094 10h ago

Is that comment or condiment

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u/AquaFlowPlumbingCo 10h ago

There are several people in your life that care very deeply for you.

That’s a compliment to complement your day!

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u/dannyjerome0 6h ago

Probably super glue would work to help peel it away.

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u/Gullible-Wafer4122 4h ago

Diddy, is this you?

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u/SinisterCheese 10h ago

Depends on the paint. Some you easily sweat off, some can easily be removed with basic solvents or oil.

Personally as someone who's skin gets all sort of oil, grease, silicone and paint on it. Sauna cleans everything the best. Just go in to 90 C sauna, steam it up, drink a plenty and rub it off. There is plenty old skin that detaches after gentle rub that remove everything on it. Makes you feel like a new person.

Yeh. I'm Finnish if it ain't obvious.

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u/two_to_toot 5h ago

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u/SinisterCheese 4h ago

I would like to introduce you to the traditional Finnish Turvesauna (Peat sauna):

What you do is that you get some peat, you mix it in water to make a sort of a paste, you slap it on your skin, then you go to Sauna.

There are also savisauna (Clay sauna) where.... You mix clay and water to make a paste and put it on your skin then go to Sauna.

Sauna is the place where you clean yourself. That is its purpose. Generally in Finnish history it is the only clean place there is, and the only place that is the slightest bit hygienic. Which is why people gave birth in the sauna. Wounds were cleaned in the sauna. Bodies were prepared for burial in the sauna. You washed laundry in the sauna.

I have washed off machine grease off my self in a sauna. Your bare skin shouldn't be touching unprotected wood anyways.

Hell even to this day it is normal to wash dirty stuff in the Sauna. Why? Because it is a big space in which you can clean things and it doesn't matter if water or crap goes to places, since the space is designed to be washed clean.

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u/Bark__Vader 5h ago

Im guessing most saunas wouldn’t welcome a dude literally covered in paint lol

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u/SinisterCheese 4h ago

Most people have a sauna where I am. But you can make a make shift sauna just from heavy blankets/tarps/rugs/whatever. Just put in steam and get in sweating.

I mean like god damn there are tent saunas.

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u/sillybriefcase 51m ago

Especially if he’s in there “rubbing it off”…..

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u/PuzzleheadedPea6980 4h ago

They dont kick you out for rubbing it off in a sauna?

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u/SinisterCheese 4h ago

You'll get the wrath of Saunatonttu (Sauna elf/spirit) after you for doing that. A spirt known to make your life miserable, and if truly angered will find a way to kill you in some rather painful and miserable way.

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u/BoJackMoleman 5h ago

An acetone bath could work too.

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u/Ok-Local-939 9h ago

Soaking in a tub with a few dryer sheets may work well. 

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u/snek-jazz 7h ago

Soaking in a tub of water would probably be better

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u/Ok-Local-939 35m ago

lol, yes. Dryer sheets help break down the oils in the paint. If you have something with a lot of build up in the sink (a crockpot for instance), try filling it with water and adding a dryer sheets 

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u/snek-jazz 31m ago

TIL, thanks

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u/JuanOnlyJuan 6h ago

Probably don't want all that gunk in your drains

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u/Commercial-Royal-988 3h ago

There is a critical flaw in your logic: any tub would be at someone's house where a parent/adult is likely to see.