Dip Dye tips & tricks
Want to create a dip dye shirt for under fifteen quid? easy.
heres the recipe for the perfect pink dip dyed shirt :
ingredients
1 charity shop shirt (must be natural fibres or will not dye properly)
1 pink clothes dye ( dylon Flamingo pink works well)
a bottle of household bleach
rubber gloves
method
1: decide how much of your shirt you would like dip dyed, is it just the ends or going for the full bleachy look?
2: lay out your shirt in a well ventilated place where you wont mind if bleach is splashed about
3: put on your rubber gloves and squeeze the household bleach onto your shirt ends or where ever you would like the dip dye.
(you can put your bleach on neat or diluted depending how light you want your shirt to go! )
leave bleach and shirt for around 20 mins, checking at intervals to see how light the shirt is going.
4: After you have waited 20 mins and the shirt has bleached, thoroughly rinse the bottom, making sure not to rinse all together until bleach is fully out!
5: mix your dye in a washing up bowl as instructed on packet.
6: dip the end of your bleached shirt into the washing up bowl and drape upper over the outer edge of bowl, leave for amount of time instructed on packet.
7: once the bottom of your shirt is dyed, wash off, dry and enjoy looking fabulous in your one of a kind dip dye shirt!
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