Ombre Tie Dye Dress
So after drinking 4 cups of concentrated cold brew coffee, I needed something to keep my energy preoccupied. I decided to make a ombre tie dye dress and to my surprise, it was simple as could be. If you have no tie dye skills at all, this dye technique is for you.
What you will need:
- Tie dye kit (most cost efficient since it includes a variety of colors. Got this for $5 on sale)
- Something white
- A bucket
- Rubber gloves (unless you like walking around with pink hands)
- (Not photographed) Spray fabric dye in black and purple (Or darkest colors of your color scheme)
- (Not photographed) 2 Garbage bags
- (Not photographed) Sponge
1. Start by filling your bucket with water. I just used cold water from the hose. Since I only have one bucket, it was important for me to start with the lightest color I was going to use which was pink. Add about half of the squirt bottle dye into the bucket and mix until dissolved.
2. Dip the garment into the bucket, leaving some white to create that ombre look. Then add the second color to the bucket, which would be blue in my case. Pink + blue= Purple. Purple= my favorite color.
3. Dip about 1/3 of the garment into the bucket.
4. Mix black into the bucket, dip the tip of the garment into the black. I really like black tie dye for some reason, but this step is totally optional.
5. Hang to dry.
6. Once dry, wash in COLD water. Colors will run and dilute, so it's important to wash it alone, unless you want all your other clothes to turn pink. Dry in dryer. Note that it is normal that your garment looses some of it vibrancy.
7. Now this is where I went back and used the fabric spray paint, to achieve a more dramatic ombre effect. Lay garment flat on garbage bag so you don't make a mess. Place another garbage bag over white of garment so it doesn't get anything on it.
8. Spray with purple fabric spray paint. Smudge with wet sponge. Do the same at the bottom with the black fabric spray paint. Hang to dry. The colors will now be more potent and from my experience, the fabric spray paint doesn't loose it's vibrancy as easily as the tie dye does.
