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[Katwilks]

You could try dying them - I dyed a pair of black pants a while back and it worked fine.  RIT dye is fairly inexpensive.  The sharpies are a good idea, but I doubt you will be able to get a dark enough result.

[Q4u]

I forgot to add that the type of material is important as well.

If it's a cotton, it will absorb the ink and you may have to reapply a few times.

If it's a synthetic (rayon, poly, etc) it may not absorb deeply but it will take the ink and it'll

look darker.

If it's a knit, same thing, if it's cotton, it'll absorb the ink, and if the knit is synthetic, you'll notice the application is darker.  Make sue it dries between applications if more are needed.

[itiswhatitis]

Sorry, but the bleach stain is there to stay. Even dyeing the color black again won't do it. If the bleach stain is that minimal, just where them and forget about the bleach.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@hoosieroriginal wrote:

You need to get some of that "splashless" bleach!  It's thick like a gel - Clorox.

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I don't even use bleach anymore, but that's a good idea.

[Azcowgirl]

I know the feeling, I had a suitcase catch on fire...I put the fire out quickly but my favorite white pants had a couple little holes burned into them. I was so determined to save them, that I made tiny patches out of scraps of white fabric

and sewed them over the burn holes and actually wore them. They were cargos that had enough going on that the little patches weren't very noticeable. 

Good luck, I hope you can fix the bleach spot on your black pants.

[qualitygal]

Black felt laundry marker.

[Judaline]

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@Katwilks wrote:

You could try dying them - I dyed a pair of black pants a while back and it worked fine.  RIT dye is fairly inexpensive.  The sharpies are a good idea, but I doubt you will be able to get a dark enough result.

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You would never notice-not with black.

[jlkz]

Don't know if this will work on your black pants (depends on the fabric and where the bleach spot is).

I got a few bleach spots on the top part of a Denim & Co maxi tank dress:  ironed on several different little butterfly patches in an asymmetrical pattern.  Launders beautifully.  

Later on, got a big bleach splash back on a copper jersey-like fabric.  Found a large Monarch butterfly patch to iron on...it is stil looking good after many years !

Found the patches in the sewing goods department at WalMart.      HTH.

[shoekitty]

I use laundry marker pens on bleach spots.  It has to reapplied every several washings

 but works.  I have also used magic markers on some colored tops that got spots.  But I am a pretty boring when it comes to clothes colors. I wear black, black,off black, and more black with a smattering of charcoal or medium gray, teal, peacock blue, royal blue and once in I a while coral.  I don,t wear prints either, which might be an easier solution to bleach stains

i have gotten  bleach spots many times.  But it seems last few years it is always oil, or food stains on my tops.  How do you get oils stains out?  Since I wear mostly cotton and cotton bleNods, the grease shows,,,  I have found nothing that gets them out

[Ifeelwicked]

All the suggestions are great and chances are you will be the only one that will know the difference. Good luck!