Mum's $3.50 fix for toddler's lipstick 'massacre'

Jessica was horrified when she found her toddler's artwork on her couch. Photo / Supplied

A Melbourne mum has shared the simple kitchen staple she used to fixed her son's disastrous lipstick art project on her beige couch.

Jessica Hay had been folding up washing when her three-year-old son Louis snuggled up to her and played on Monday afternoon.

Jessica's story has been liked by 3,000 people, many of whom can related to her ordeal. Photo / Supplied

In a post to a popular Facebook group, the mum-of-two said that her toddler appeared to be having the "time of his life", so she felt happy to leave him while she did some work in the kitchen.

But Louis isn't the kind of kid you leave unsupervised for long periods of time.

"He's a schemer, thinker, plotter, escapist, creative genius and subtle sleuth," Jessica wrote.

"On rainy days, I find him unexpectedly in the backyard because he's broken out through his sisters bedroom window."

Jessica said her son Louis often climbs out of his sister's window to play outside. Photo / Supplied

Five minutes after checking on a calm and preoccupied Louis, Jessica called out to him, worried that things were a little too quiet.

"Just as I thought to myself, 'he's gone quiet', he walks into the kitchen looking like a vampire that's had a great feast," she said.

Louis had zipped open his mum's leather handbag, picked out her two favourite lipsticks and gone to town on her "couch, recliner, wall and carpet".

Little Louis walked into the kitchen covered head to toe in his mother's red lipstick. Photo / Supplied

Speechless, Jessica took pictures of Louis, afraid that no one would believe her.

But she was about to find an even bigger mess in the next room.

"As I followed this trail of red, I was met with the horrific scene. A complete massacre," Jessica said.

The front of her suede beige couch was covered in thick, red, waxy lipstick.

Jessica frantically Googled ways to remove lipstick while her husband got to work cleaning their child.

Jessica was horrified when she found her toddler's artwork on her couch. Photo / Supplied

She found a trick online, that required a $3.50 bottle of Morning Fresh dishwashing liquid and a bit of elbow grease.

"I rubbed it into the material with my fingers and it worked, I was so shocked!" Jessica told news.com.au.

Fighting her way through cramping and muscle spasms, Jessica worked her way through the lipstick stained couch and was completely gobsmacked at the result.

Half way through the process and Jessica is feeling pretty good about her discovery. Supplied

According to Jessica, the process took about three hours.

"I already had the dishwashing liquid on hand and thankfully it worked," she said.

"Once the lipstick was gone I wiped away the suds with a damp cloth."

But the finished result looked like the couch was brand new.

"I'm still in disbelief and continue to check the couch to see if it was all an illusion," she said.

Jessica said the finished product looks like 'nothing ever happened'. Photo / Supplied

She recommended the trick to anyone else with a cheeky little artist in the family, but warned parents to "test it first".

"I was lucky that I got onto it straight away, the couch fabric was able to get wet and I just kept going until it was done," Jessica said.

"It's now looks like nothing ever happened, all evidence has been destroyed and everything back to the way it was".

Jessica and her family, who live in Melbourne. Photo / Supplied

Jessica's story was immediately popular, with 3,000 people liking her post and hundreds of people commenting on her "genius" skills and her hilarious son.

"How bloody hilarious, what a little rabbit!" one woman wrote.

Another said they would be more worried about "wasting a whole tube of lipstick than the actual stains on the couch".

As for her favourite lipsticks, Jessica has decided to rock a "nude lip until my son moves out".