Help - stains and washing disasters

To get us going on this one can anyone please help me out - my Lawrence Watson Run DMC T-shirt has come out of the wash with some blue ink stains - don't know how it happened as nothing else seems to have been effected. Have tried Vanish spray no sign of it moving. Any Kim and Aggie types out there please advise on best way to remove - would prefer not to use chemicals, but am desperate. Cheers.

I'm scared, it says:

"Ink Stain Removal from Clothing and Carpets

When removing ink stains from your clothes, read all of the labels first to make sure they’re washable, otherwise bring them to the dry cleaners.
Saturate the stain with an alcohol-based hair spray
Place some paper towels underneath the garment and dab (don’t rub) it dry with paper towels. The ink should start wicking into the towels.
Repeat the last two steps until the stain is gone, or it is no longer fading.
If the ink stain persists, repeat steps 1 and 2 using an alcohol-based nail polish remover in place of the hairspray.
If the ink stain still persists, soak the garment overnight in whole-fat milk, then launder normally. Don’t put it in the dryer until the stain is gone, or you’ll make it harder to remove.
If after completing the above steps you still have ugly ink stains, bring the garment to your local dry cleaners."

I don't own a bottle of hairspray (horrible stuff) so I am going have to buy one.. tempted to do the last resort thing first ie go to Sparrow, my local reliable dry cleaners ???

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I would take it to the dry cleaners, they'll have plenty of experience of doing this kind of thing - it's not going to cost a fortune, and if they damage it in any way you'll feel so much better with someone to blame other than yourself

merl knows what he's talking about when it comes to stains

You are probably right - I am heading to the professionals.. why this T-shirt for gawds sake, had a Bosch load of other stuff that is completely fine.

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the dry cleaners will cuss you for washing it first.

I killed a Kenzo shirt some years ago by machine washing following bathing it in red wine. Dry cleaner said he'd have got better results by taking it to him first.

Ruined.

Hope you have better luck.

if you know what stain it is, then try the 'stain devil' products
i have used them on a couple of different stains now, and have worked wonders

on ebay, their is a shop called the scratchdoctor which sells them all

i dont know whether this link will work
http://search.stores.ebay.co.uk/thescratchdoctor_stain-devil_W0QQfciZQ2d1QQfclZ4QQfsnZthescratchdoctorQQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsaselZ358705047QQsofpZ0

Used the same here. Woke up one morning after getting hammered, picked up the light coloured jacket I was wearing to check for marks, thought I was OK til I turned it round and there was what looked like a whole pint of snakebit black down the back of it. Took three bottles of stain devil to get rid, but it eventually did get rid

You may as well try the stain devil first

3rd option, add more blue dots all over

old age.

if it's a favourite, dye it - if its special professionaly dye it.