Ahhh the 80’s. Don’t you miss them? I know you like totally do! For sure! This is me back in 1988 when I went through about a can of hairspray a week {Aqua Net was the best, wasn’t it?}.
These days hairspray is one of those things you can always seem to find a coupon for, and if you are patient enough, get for pretty inexpensive. What do you do with all of that hairspray if you don’t really need to tame your mane, though? Turns out, tons of stuff!
Here’s my 10 favorite not-so-common uses for hairspray:
- Remove lipstick and ink stains on clothing. The alcohol in the hairspray lifts these kinds of stains better than anything else that I’ve tried. Spray the hairspray on the clothing, and gently dab out the stain. Repeat until it’s gone.
- Extend the life of your fresh wreaths. I love a fresh wreath at Christmas time, but the needles always fall off before the season is over. You can extend the wreath’s life by spraying it with hairspray.
- Preserve little Timmy’s masterpiece. You can spray your kids’ artwork with hairspray to help prevent fading and smudging {particularly if they’ve done something in chalk}.
- Stop a run in pantyhose. Just spray the run with hairspray to prevent further damage.
- Extend the life of fresh flowers. Spray the flowers to prevent fading and wilting.
- Thread a needle with ease. If you sew, you know how maddening it can be when you just can’t seem to thread a needle. Spray the end of the thread with hairspray. It will cause just enough stiffness in the thread to easily get it through the eye of the needle.
- Slippy zippers. If you have a pair of pants that the zipper constantly slides down on, spray the teeth with a healthy dose of hairspray before slipping them on. The stickiness of the hairspray should provide just enough grip to keep the zipper up where it belongs.
- Get that big, bad bug with the hairspray. Hairspray is awesome for killing bugs. Just spray as you would a bug spray and watch ‘em keel over.
- Out of tape? Need to wrap a gift. Use hairspray for an invisible hold.
- Protect drapes. Spray the bottom of drapes with hairspray, it creates an invisible barrier for dirt as the drapes get dragged along the floor each time you open them.
Do you use hairspray for anything other than your hair?
~Mavis
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icebear says
i haven’t bought or used hair spray in ages! lol
oh, there’s a cute anecdote joke about using hair spray for killing bugs….
“i found a spider in my bathroom this morning, i sprayed it with hair spray. it didn’t kill him, but his hair looks fabulous!”
Kayla says
I’ve used it on my couches when my daughter was a toddler and colored it with pen. It came right out!
Beks says
When I was in show choir, we sprayed Aquanet on the bottom of our character shoes to keep from slipping all over the place. Worked pretty well, except that time the group before us dusted the ENTIRE stage with sand to keep from tripping. Then it just caked the sand to our shoes and we were sliding EVERYWHERE!
Carole says
immobilize get rid of house pests = flies, yellow jackets & wasps
sindy says
Thanks for sharing your picture. You are a cutie. I always tease my kids and tell them the 80″s were the best. Big hair and big bands .We always hear 80’s music being played at the sporting events we go to.
Nicole says
for example, I wear long black sleeve shirts or other colored shirts under a nice shirt!! I like using it so i dint look like an idiot!!
D Lovely says
When you said “get that big, bad bug” I totally thought you were going homemade flame thrower on it!