Mum left with red face for two days after daughter's makeup mistake

A mortified mum was left literally red-faced for two days after her young daughter switched face paint for lip stain during a pre-Halloween makeover.

Mum-of-two Leanne Short, 35, was horrified to discover her skin had been dyed scarlet when her nine-year-old daughter Rosie coated her entire face in the long-lasting bright red lip stain.

The mum, from Yorkshire in England, claims her bathroom looked like a “murder scene” after she spent hours trying to scrub the red makeup off her face

She also left handprints all over her bath and shower.

Rosie had begged Ms Short to allow her to paint her face and the doting mum could not resist her daughter’s pleas.

Cheeky Rosie first intended to transform her mum into a clown but was so surprised at how well the red “paint” was working she changed her mind, and coloured in her whole face to make her a lobster instead.

Ms Short suspected something was wrong when her skin started to tingle and burn, and quickly realised the little girl’s error.

Despite Ms Short spending hours failing to scrub away the lip stain with water, makeup remover, baking soda and even vinegar, Rosie thought her mum’s new look was hilarious.

But the mix-up meant red-faced Ms Short spent two days having to sport her unfortunate new look in public – leaving her feeling “like a social leper”.

“It was a genuine mistake – I think,” Ms Short said.

“The other items she used are just sticks of face paint wax and she just picked up the lip stain.

“She was really proud, which is why in the selfies she’s got her thumbs up and things. I was just thinking, ‘I’m glad you’re happy’.

“I said show me that Halloween stuff you’re using. And that’s when I realised it was lip stain.”

Ms Short said when Rosie realised her mistake she felt terrible and said, “Oh mum, I’m sorry”, but the little girl was in hysterics when her mum was scrubbing and could not get the paint off.

“She thought it was hilarious. She just said, ‘You’re going to have to take me to school looking like that, I’m so embarrassed.’ But she did that to me. She thought it was so funny,” Ms Short said.

“It took hours and hours to get off. It was in my eyebrow hair, my hairline. It faded on my face after about two days.

“When I washed it, it smudged, so as I washed it off it was on my face and dripped down the skin onto my neck… It ran all down my hands. The more I was scrubbing it the worse I was making it.

“It looked like a murder scene or something because there were just red handprints everywhere. I had to use bleach [on the tiles] to scrub that off because it had all gone into the grouting.

“There were handprints on the white bath and on the shower. It spread everywhere. That would have been good for Halloween because it looked like a crime scene.”

The woman said she had to brush her hair down to cover her face for the school pick-up and drop-off, shopping and other errands, so others could not see how bad it was.

“My partner joked that he didn’t want to be seen with me. All I was trying to do was entertain the kids and I’d become a social leper instead,” Ms Short said.

The family loves Halloween and have a big party planned featuring a big dinner of gory food and plenty of costumes.

But after her ordeal earlier this year Ms Short has sworn not to let Rosie come near her with makeup again.

– Kennedy News Media