Reverse Tie Dye with Bleach and Color

I just used some bleach to reverse tie-dye this black t-shirt. And I used this white t-shirt and tie-dyed it with this black ink to reverse reverse tie-dye it. And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do it, build it, or make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week we're going to put our thing down, flip it, and reverse it with some reverse tie-dye. Yep, we're going to make two black tie-dye t-shirts. One we're going to start with a black t-shirt, and one we're going to make a black t-shirt. Both of them tie-dye. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. I needed a black t-shirt, some bleach, hydrogen peroxide, some soda ash, and some tie-dye. And your gloves. Oh, and my gloves. And then for mine, I'm going to use a white t-shirt, soda ash, tie-dye, some black tie-dye ink, because we're going to try and make it a black shirt, some rubber bands, which he will need as well. I'll also need some rubber bands. And then some buckets for some water, and some trays to let it drip. And some water. And water. Good point. Yeah. That is it. Step two, it's time to spiral. We're going to make our designs. We're going to put our spiral in our shirts. Spin it, twist it, whatever you want to call it. We're going to do two different ways, though. He's going to wet his first, which I think might be better, get a tighter spiral, but I am not going to wet mine first. You're going with that loosey-goosey spiral. Loosey-goosey. Just need my shirt damp. Toss it around a little bit. I think the key to this tie-dye is to make sure that you have a tight spiral, a neat tight spiral. A tidy, tight spiral. Neither of us have ever tie-dyed before, so we have a whole lot of instruction based on theory. Yeah. Well, should we tell them that? Should we tell them that we are not tie-dye experts? We are not tie-dye experts. We are what you call in the biz, noobs. I'll put this water back in here. I should try pouring that water into a top hat. Oh, you need help. Keep this spiraled out. Go ahead and twist it. Give it a twister. All right, you got it. Don't let it go. Keep going. You want these little spirals. You want those to come in. All right. We're good. Oh, no. I'm using a vanilla color. Hmm. Your bands stink. That stink of bands. We'll see how that does. Glad that one's not mine. Not mine. All right. I got an idea, though. There's got to be a better way, that's too difficult. What if we did like... Boom. Step 3 is only for me because I'm going to bleach my shirt. Kim's got a white shirt. So I need 50% water, 50% bleach. Let me start with the water. This looks like it'll be messy. Oh, success. Now the bleach. Oh, safety first. The bleach can be bad stuff, Kim. Don't judge. He's got blue gloves. They just have butterflies and flowers on them too. My son was helping me out. He went and got me some gloves. I guess he thought this was funny. Bam. Look at that, no spillage. Wow, that was pretty impressive. Yeah, I'm impressed with myself. I'm going to do this triangle, these two. You're just going to do half of your shirt. I think that's the technique you want. I think I want these two triangles. Okay, you're just making it up as you go. Just soaking it up, suck it up. Got to get it down in there. Push the thing in there and then add liquid. Okay, I'll do it that way. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Now it's time to slip it up and flip it. You're dripping all on the other one. Oh yeah, it'll just add to the coolness. I didn't really stay inside the lines too good. Alright. Okay, this will set for five minutes is all this really needs to bleach. Taking my gloves off. Speed this jam up. Five minutes plus heat, I think we're done. So now we're going to put this in the water with a cup of hydrogen peroxide. So now he has to neutralize the bleach. We don't want it to continue to bleach the shirt. So the hydrogen peroxide will help neutralize this. So we're going to set this in one gallon of water, one cup of hydrogen peroxide for 20 minutes. That's like a cup? Yeah. And this is about a gallon. Ooh, the water turned brown. I'm very curious to see how Garrett's turns out. Me too. Alright, been 20 minutes. Time to see what we got. Wring out my shirt. I'm surprised at how... Like brown the water is? Golden the water is, yes. Ooh, look at that, more stuff is coming out. Yeah, it's really turning the water orange. Ooh, look at that. Interesting, it's all that dye, I guess. That might be all I can get out. Alright. Oh, I lied. Squeeze your tail. Alright. Step four. Now we're going to make it pop. We're going to use some soda ash, which is supposed to make the colors be more vibrant, more brilliant, brighter, poppier. So we have some soda ash. I think you need gloves for this part too. Yeah, like I don't even... Give me a cut. Why are you holding it like that? Why are you cutting it like that? I didn't think you'd cut all the way across. Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Why can't I get all the way across? I just want you to nip the corner. Just give me a nip. And then a gallon of water. Warm water. A gallon of warm water. So the soda ash dissolves. Give it a little stir. Get this out of the way. Now we're going to put both shirts in? Yes. Well, I mean, unless you want to make another tub. No. Oh, yeah. Will yours mess up? Yeah, I know. Don't be messing up my shirt now. Yours is already white. I think mine's been neutralized. Go ahead. If mine turns orange, I'm going to be so mad. You'll just use orange dye then. Here, you want this to hold them down? Yeah. Yeah, just lay it on its side. Hold it down. Hold it down. Alright, 20 more minutes. Yeah. A lot of one step and wait. One step and wait. One step and wait. So these have to sit 20 minutes to really soak up that. Get all the juices going. Sodium carbonate or whatever it is. I don't know, actually. Soda pop. Some soda ash. Alright, it's been 20 minutes. Let's take these out and see what we got. Water's a little brown. A little orange. Hope it didn't make the shirt orange. Alright, we'll squeeze these out. Do they need to be dry dry? No. Alright, cool. Just give them a good wringing? Yep. Give them a good wringing. Don't undo it now. Alright, I won't undo it. Keep my rubber bands intact. I can finally do something. I haven't been able to really do much. I guess I did this too long. Look how orange that water is. Yeah, it didn't come out on your shirt though. Got that going for me. I'll set this aside. It's a little stinky. Step five. Time to add the dye. First we have to add water in our dye. And then we put our shirts on these grates over top of these oven pans. Yeah, casserole dishes. That way the shirt's not sitting in a sloppy mess down there just in a goop and turning all gross. Try to keep our colors tight. Doing a lot of talking. Doing a lot of pouring. That's how you do it. Get a good shake on. Just going to put it in there? Yeah. Just going to drip it across? So for yours, yes, you're going to do it only in the bleached sections. You're going to add dye in the bleached areas. Should I do red and blue or red and blue and red and blue? Well, it's side by side. Red and blue and red and blue. Okay, that's what I'm doing. Alright, and for me, I've got a mess going already. Oh, you've got your black dye? Yes, so I'm going to put color dye on top. I'm doing three shades of pink. And then I'm going to put black dye on the bottom. Oh, and then black dye on the bottom? Yes. I'm going to flip it over and add black dye all over the bottom. Oh, that's where you're flipping it. Flip it and reverse it. Oh, this is messy. Yes, it is. There it is. These bottles are leaking everywhere. You're making a mess. Mine's not as leaky as yours. Mine are so leaky. Now I have my colors on top. Now I'm going to flip this whole thing over and add black all over the back of it. Now I'm going to flip it back over and then re-add the dye where the black may have gotten. Then we're going to leave this black side down. Oh, are you? Yeah, makes sense. Putting mine in the bag. Good. Stewing your own juices. It doesn't matter if it has air in it. I take care of that. Now you have to go in these baggies, seal them up nice and tight so they don't dry out. This is the hard part. You have to let it sit 24 hours. I know. I don't even know what mine looks like yet. This is like the longest project. Yeah, long haul project. We'll see you in 24 hours. 24 hours. It's been 24 agonizing hours. I still don't know what it looks like or if I did it right. But we're going to take it down to the sink and rinse it until it runs clear. And then after it runs clear, we're going to fill the sink up with some cold water, add a little Dawn dish soap, and rinse it just a little bit in that Dawn dish soap before we wash it, again to help these colors set. And then we're going to go put it on a cold wash. That's so sweet. Alright, ready? You ready for the reveal? 3, 2, 1. Mine turned out nothing like I thought it would. Like nothing. I did not have this in my head at any point during this project. Well, mine spiraled, so that's good. But it doesn't look like a black T-shirt that was tie-dyed, so that was opposite. Yeah, yours looks cool. Yours looks cool. Mine looks... I tried to tell him to spiral it. He wouldn't do it. He had a better method. I thought it was an easier way. I thought I'd get the same result easier way. Nope. Nope. So, we're going to have to try this again. Yeah, we're clearly tie-dye newbies. I have a different idea. Yeah. Big thank you to our patrons. And it looks like we're out of time, so if you're not going to join us for the patron after show, we'll see you next week when we'll do a build and make it again. And maybe I'll redo my shirt by then. Do something with it. I'll do something with it. I'll make it cool. I'll make it cool. Stop showing off, Kim.