Inside your purse: Those makeup crumbs can cover the bottom of a purse and everything else in it. To get them out for good, try using a toothbrush and spot treatment like OxiClean (if it's a liner that can be pulled away from the purse interior) or (if the damage is extensive) take it to be relined at a luggage or shoe repair shop. If it has a leather interior, simply wiping it out with a damp cloth (try baby wipes) can remove the majority of the powder.

On your carpet: Hey, if you can give yourself the perfect DIY manicure, you can definitely handle not spilling nail polish all over your white carpet, right? Yeah, maybe someday. When your nail polish takes a spill, here's what you should do:

Absorb as much of the polish as you can with a paper towel. Blot, don't rub, as you don't want to spread the stain around. Once most of the product is picked up, get an old towel (one you don't mind staining, obviously) and add some acetone (most nail polish remover has acetone in it) to the towel. Blot the carpet stain with the acetone remover. Once the stain is relatively saturated with acetone, take a dry section of the towel and press it over the stain -- it should extract a lot of the color. Move the towel to different dry areas and repeat. When you've noticed that the towel has stopped picking up the stain, cover the area with a carpet cleaner and continue the dry towel method until the stain is (fingers crossed!) gone.

If you spilled the whole bottle of nail polish and it's a light-colored carpet, it may be worth cutting the carpet out and patching it with a piece from inside a closet.

On your clothing: If it's a sturdy fabric (like cotton), you can try putting acetone on it and using the method above. A warning: Clothing containing acetate, triacetate or modacrylic will actually dissolve upon contact with acetone, so make sure to read the label. If it's expensive clothing that you invested in (or can't bear to take a risk on), take it to a dry cleaner.

On your clothing: Daley says that if it's a wash-and-wear item, you can usually treat it with a spot solution (like Shout!) and throw it in the wash to get the stain out. If it's an item you wouldn't normally wash (silk, wool, etc.), take it to the cleaners.

On your towels: No matter how much makeup remover I use, it seems like there's always just a tad left when I go to dry off my face. Since my preferred towel color is white, this leaves them covered in black streaks.

Helms weighs in on those stubborn, streaky mascara marks:

"Mix a tablespoon of dish soap with one cup of cold water, apply the solution to the stain, and blot with a dry cloth until clean."

On your clothes: Okay, so deodorant isn't makeup, but it's definitely a daily must and one of the most frequent stains women deal with. Sure, it'll come out in the wash, but when you need to wear your deodorant-streaked black dress right now, here's a tip a friend taught me during her tenure at Limited Too in high school: Rub the fabric against itself. Take the stained fabric and rub it against an area of fabric that isn't stained, and the product will disperse, leaving your LBD stain-free.