Hydrogen peroxide neutralizes bleach. Thanks for the tips!

Yeah the only thing you missed was neutralizing the bleach that could eat a hole in the shirt after Time goes by

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Agree

Do you dye it bleach in the wrong side

When do you add it?

This is good to know! I’ve been struggling with shirt’s getting holes

I agree. I would like to see more videos, as he is very detailed in explaining the step-by-step process.

Wow so Kind! I appreciate it! Learned most everything from other creators here on KZfaq that take their time to share information for free, just wanted to pass my own tips and tricks along as well :)

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Ayyy thanks man, glad I could help. Feel free to comment if you have any questions

You're so welcome!

Hi, Tammy! Happy belated! I would suggest picking two or more colors on the color wheel. I've had a lot of success with pink and magenta. Rainbow is always cool too!

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Good luck!!

Thanks they're my mom's... I'll let her know 😂

Thank you! Hope your shirt comes out great

So glad to help!!!

I added it after rinsing because I did not want the bleach to negate the effects of the soda ash. Worth a shot but my guess would be the results are not as saturated. I tried washing the shirt after bleach then soaking in soda ash and dyeing but re-spiraling the shirt meant the dye didn't saturate the bleached parts as well.

Hey thank you Majik! From my experience I've had issues with muddy colors after soaking the shirt in both the peroxide and soda ash mixture and found this way works best for me. Although I've been hearing this comment a lot so I may have to try again!

Was going to say the same

Was your sweatshirt 100% cotton?

Thank you! Very kind words

Great tip!

You need to neutralise the bleach or you will get holes in the shirt at a later date, I know this as it has happened to me when I first started doing reverse dyes a few years ago, I thought it was because I was using cheap t shirts, now Know it was the bleach that caused them.

Thanks Garlic Wing! Hope you make a rad shirt 🤙😎

Go white!!

So glad to hear it! I've done plenty of white shirts but never pastel colors. I would start by mixing the dye to 1/4 strength and see if that gets you what you're looking for

So can I use this process just without the bleaching?

Forgot to add... On a white t-shirt to use the same process without the bleaching?

@@TFJ70 Yep, one thing to note is that the dye will bleed significantly on a white shirt so you can't afford to be as generous with the dye, ESPECIALLY if you want to keep white spaces. If you don't want any white and you don't mind colors bleeding, go crazy, but still be cautious of the center spiral because it can easily get muddy.

@@Levi-Salmon I appreciate your help! Where can I find some of your other tie dye videos?

So you just used blue and purple and got all of those colors?

@@cynthiaallen2420 Can't see if I replied here but the shirt I'm wearing is using blue, purple, yellow and green. It was a mirrored ice dye. The channel 'Crispy' has a really good tutorial titled "Psychedelic Mindscape"

It’s a r95 then it’s safe.

Glad I could help!

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Most people soak it, I tried that but ended up with far duller dyes. Putting it on top worked way better for me but I may have done something incorrectly with the soak 🤷

@@Levi-Salmon alright...thx I’m gonna try it

It can be helpful to check the pH to make sure there's enough soda ash in the water. I believe it's supposed to be over 11. Most people I've seen use 1-1.5 cups per gallon to get the pH up. You may need to use more than the 1 cup standard recipe if your soda ash has absorbed water or is sold with water in the ingredients (like arm & hammer washing soda is). So having pH paper can be really helpful www.pburch.net/dyeing/FAQ/ph.shtml here's a resource Burch is an authority on this. It's the fiber reactive and procion mx section for anyone who isn't familiar! And this: www.pburch.net/dyeing/FAQ/sodaash.shtml

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You're welcome, Janice! Best of luck!

Glad you enjoyed!

I didn't have the best luck doing that but many others swear it's the only correct way to do it so I'd try experimenting and see what you find!

Hey Kayla! Bathing suits will probably be a synthetic and not 100% cotton so it's important to use a dye for synthetics like DyeMore from Rit. The other challenge is dying a small surface, it may be difficult to spiral. Either take the time to carefully spiral or try a different fold pattern like a crumple dye!

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Arm n hammers washing soda works in a pinch if you don't have soda ash. Pool supply stores can source cheap soda ash too

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Hot water as per Synthrapol instructions!

Also confused on this

The smallest size is plenty to get started, you can get 10+ shirts from it and try out different colors. Once you find you’re using that color a lot then upgrade to the bigger sizes!

@@Levi-Salmon thank you!

Yeah that would be a great solution. No need to worry about the screened logos they won't pick up dye.

@@Levi-Salmon more so concerned with how everything else around it might be blocked by the bleach.

@@damurphy717 You could go light on the bleach so the contrast is still there or you could section off the logo and the area around it and avoid bleaching there altogether

This is an awesome tip

just regular clorox bleach

Yeah I have had better luck thoroughly rinsing but I would experiment and see what works best!

I was thinking the same thing you did a great job. Trying this soon for my son and I, he can look sweet too :)

I have heard a few people mention this, I had better luck with the water!

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All the tips here should work just fine on a sweatshirt as well.

I've had this happen as well! Not an issue with the bleach, most likely that the hoodie is not 100% cotton. The synthetic fibers won't bleach the same way cotton does. You can still try dying on top of the gray color!

@@Levi-Salmon so I went and got the normal gallon I guess I had concentrate before testing it on junk shirts seems to be working better

@@kylemoney01 nice! Make sure to dilute it with at least 1/3 water. It will still bleach the shirt enough but less risk of burning a hole right through the shirt

Yep! The colors will blend and give a lot of variety!

There is not such thing as white dye, bleach is as close as you're gonna get. In this scenario you definitely want to dye a white shirt black

Their site has great instructions under the "Techniques" Section www.dharmatrading.com/techniques/tiedye/tie-dye-instructions.html

Overall, yes. Although hoodies act up sometimes in unpredictable ways so you may have to experiment with different brands

Everything I mention can be purchased at dharmatrading.com

Sometimes certain shirts will just do that... I would try a different brand

The only difference you will see is that the royal blue is still able to absorb dye so it's more difficult to predict what the final color will be. Definitely go for it, might be really cool.

They likely arent rinsing the bleach out enough, some people say to neutralize it with peroxide.