HELP!! hair dye on polished floorboards?

My beautiful angels ( 3 and 21months) played fingerpainting with dark brown hair dye over the floor. the floor is polished boards.the stain left after wiping excess is dark yellowy colour. I tried Shannon Lush (queen of clean) idea of rubbing more dye on then adding shampoo it worked on the plastc chair and laminate but all it did to the floor was make the area where the stains are bigger. AAGGHH!!I sprayed hairspray on the clothes and even tried it on the floor(no luck).I also tried a little turps but did nothing. at the moment I have spread the whole area with shampoo until I hear from you guys!!

HELP!! hair dye on polished floorboards?

I'm a chemist, and I would suggest first trying full-strength Dawn dishwashing liquid. Spread it on very liberally, using a paper towel or dishcloth, and rub it in with a lot of elbow grease. Leave it for about 15 minutes, then, without removing any of the Dawn, apply more, again rubbing it in. If that seems to be working, keep doing it until the problem disappears. Then clean up the Dawn with paper towels, followed by water %26amp; paper towels. If that doesn't work, leave the Dawn on there overnight, and try more Dawn in the morning. If that still doesn't work, leave the Dawn on there ...and get some xylene from the hardware store (it's sold in like 1-qt cans...Home Depot carries it....probably about $5 for a quart.) and try soaking a rag with xylene and picking the Dawn up with the xylene-soaked rag and, hopefully, the hair dye will come up with that. If, not, try xylene alone, after picking the Dawn all up. If xylene doesn't work, take the BIG STEP and get some acetone from the hardware store (again, Home Depot carries it) and....well...acetone will remove the finish from the floor, and will almost certainly remove the dye along with the finish. If you're very, very careful, you can use a very small amount of acetone and work very delicately with, say, cotton swabs, and take off only a little finish and a lot of dye. But if you have to resort to acetone, you're probably looking at sandpaper, stain, and varnish afterward. Here's hoping the Dawn works!!!

HELP!! hair dye on polished floorboards?

Try this stuff called Goof Off. It comes in a spray bottle--spray it directly on the stain, and pray. It's taken permanent marker off sealed hardwood for me--and dried latex paint off the same hardwood as well.