T440 external wearing off

Unbelievable! After 1 day of usage (about 3 hours) , I found the external edges of body completely discolored. Looking the locations, it sounds like the wearing off has been due to the palms of my hands but I have never experienced something like that and I am thinking what can be happened. Probably, in the evening, I smeared my hand and arms with one oh those anti mosquitoes spary to reject those annoying mosquitoes and soon after I set to work with this laptop. But I am not sure... I do not belive the spray can be the culprit but really, I do not know what to think about... this accident is so odd. Anyway, please  do you haveome ideas to repaint those areas? What product can I use for a similar job? Just to improve a little bit those unaesthetic areas.
Thanks 
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Auato
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this is probably due to the chemicals in the mosquito repellant reacting with the surface coating on the ThinkPad.
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Jin Li
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