- [Chloe] I'm worried this is too blue.
That's not what I meant to do.
Oh, there's a lot of white right there.
(upbeat electronic music)
Hey everyone, I'm Chloe,
and I've recently become obsessed with tie-dye.
I don't think I'm the only person
to become obsessed, because I've seen it everywhere.
I've seen it on my Instagram,
on clothing websites, even on celebrities.
Kylie Jenner was wearing a extremely expensive
matching tie-dye set,
but the good news is that you can tie-dye stuff yourself.
And it doesn't seem that hard, I say that now
because I haven't tried it yet.
So the cool thing that everyone
seems to be wearing right now is loungewear
because obviously, no one's really going anywhere.
So I thought, "Yes, let me give this a go myself
"and see if I can recreate a professional looking,
"matching tie-dye loungewear set."
So obviously you need white clothes to tie-dye on
because it will show up the best.
I had an issue tryin' to find white clothes
during this quarantine because delivery
is really really slow at the moment, understandably,
and unfortunately there weren't a lot of items
I could get quick enough.
So you need 100 percent cotton
for it to really work properly, like natural fibers
and I could not find a hoodie
that was 100 percent natural cotton, or a crop top.
My hoodie is a 93 or 95 percent and so is my crop top,
so there is a chance
that the tie-dye isn't gonna go on properly (groans).
So this is the outfit on.
I really love these pants, they're so cute.
They're really high waisted, just little tank, crop top.
Don't love the jacket,
but there wasn't really much I could do about it.
I wish it was cropped or just not as thin
or just more oversized.
It's kind of just in the middle, but yeah,
this is what we're working with.
So I am gonna be using this One-Step Tie-Dye Kit by Tulip.
I deliberately chose these colors
because they're a little less rainbow
and I want something a little more subtle.
This kit includes most things you need to tie-dye with,
whereas if you buy dye on its own
you then obviously have to buy rubber bands and gloves
and these bottles, but this all comes in the kit
which is really nice.
If you don't wanna use a kit and you want separate dye,
there's a brand called Rit which is apparently really good
and it comes in more sort of, cute colors to be honest,
but I wanted the kit because I am a beginner (laughs)
and I just want to be told what to do.
This is everything you need to tie-dye
apart from the items you're tie-dying.
I have a white towel to test what the color of the dye
is gonna look like on it before I put it on the clothes.
Elastic bands, your dye and your bottles
to put water and dye in.
I've decided I want these three colors
'cause these three are the colors
that I like together (laughs).
Some gloves and then you need plastic bags
for however many items you're dying,
'cause you put them in there separately afterwards.
So some websites and some videos say
to actually wash the clothes first
and then others say just to get it wet
because you're gonna put the dye on wet.
I'm just gonna get this wet.
So once your fabric is nice and wet
you wanna lay it on a tarp of some description
so that obviously, the floor doesn't get all messed up.
Yes, I am sitting on my kitchen floor,
I live in a studio apartment.
So the next thing you're gonna wanna do
is decide what technique you want.
I personally am gonna go for a crumpled technique
which is one of the easiest to do,
but I like the effect that it gives,
it's more of like a marbled all-over effect for the hoodie
and for the pants I'm gonna do marbled
and then maybe just to show you guys a different technique,
I'll do the crop top in a swirl,
which is hopefully not gonna look crazy,
'cause I do want this to be a matching set.
So we'll see.
So I ended up putting a trash bag underneath the hoodie
because to be honest, the paint from the top, here,
ended up on some of the hoodie.
So basically, you're just gathering the fabric
and try and do it uniformly
so that you're not getting big clumps and small clumps.
Mainly from the middle is what people were saying
and like, come through like this.
I undid the zipper because it doesn't feel very flexible
and I feel like it would be less flexible with it done up,
but this is my first time guys, so I could be very wrong.
(upbeat electronic music)
Okay, so now that's crinkled,
you wanna put the elastic bands around it.
Let's see how this goes.
Kind of don't know how to keep it all in one lump.
Like, do I put one massive?
This band isn't even big enough.
I guess maybe.
Hmm.
(upbeat electronic music)
Yep, it all looks pretty crinkly.
Okay, on to the pants.
You take the end and you just crinkle.
(upbeat electronic music)
I'm actually gonna just put a band in right now
so this doesn't go out of shape while I do the rest.
(upbeat electronic music)
Oh you can make a little ball with it, that's smart.
Okay, I think that's good.
So I'm gonna use the colors lavender, purple and turquoise.
These already have the powder in them,
but I want it to be a little more pastel,
so I actually might tip a little bit of the powder out
because you're gonna fill this up with water
and I can't really dilute it unless I tip the powder out.
So I tipped out a little bit of dye from each.
Now we fill it up.
Whoo, oh my God that is very deep.
And then you shake it for one minute each dye.
Well, literally just shaking them did this to me.
Put the glove on, Chloe.
So I'm gonna test what this looks like
on this white towel.
This one's the lavender.
That is very very dark.
Although, it is spread out quite nicely.
Purple.
Oh God that's deep.
I guess the purple and the lavender
do need to look different, so, I'll probably leave them.
I'm gonna put a little bit more water in the blue.
It looks absolutely no different, hmm.
I think it'll be safest
to start with the lightest color first, which is lavender
and basically you just start going for it.
Ah, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God.
Just any kind of pattern you want, I believe.
Oh it's cool.
I'm leaving room for the other dyes
'cause I want three colors obviously.
Flip it over.
(upbeat jazzy music)
Let's do the blue next, (exhales).
I'm tryin' to get all the areas that I haven't got.
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I don't think this is gonna be pastel,
this blue is too bright for that,
but it's still a cool color.
So some people have literally just like,
injected it like this.
I'm worried this is too blue.
I think for this purple one
is the one I'm gonna make sure gets, like really in there.
(upbeat jazzy music)
Hopefully it's worked, I tried to get into all the crevices.
There might be some random points that are really white
which would be annoying
and I'm also worried that these colors are mixing
to be an ugly combination,
but now we put them in plastic bags and we wait.
(plastic crinkling)
So different YouTube videos and different websites
say to leave the clothes in the bags
for different amounts of time,
anywhere from an hour to 24 hours.
I think the longer you leave it in the deeper the color.
I don't really need it any deeper than it is,
so I might only leave it in a few hours,
but let's do the crop top.
So now we're gonna try the swirl technique
and I think I'm just gonna use two colors for this
'cause the blue is so dark.
Apparently you grab the middle
and then you just twist it like so
until the whole thing starts to turn.
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And then you put three bands on it.
This is a very small item I'm doing this on.
(laughs) most people have got it on like,
big T-shirts and stuff.
So it's kind of what it's supposed to look like,
just three elastic bands spread out evenly.
So to create the swirl, you are supposed to put
(sighs) Oh.
That's not what I meant to do, (beep).
It not, hmm.
Okay I think I've still done that wrong.
I'm just gonna do the whole thing,
and then I'll go over the bits I want in the darker color.
Okay, so what you're supposed to do
is do alternate triangles,
but it's hard to be specific here.
(record scratching)
Why is there only five?
Shouldn't there be six?
Where's the other?
Oh, no it moved!
Oh God, I'm just gonna make this up,
this is not gonna be right (laughs).
Oh no!
What, so you're supposed to?
Yeah this is not correct, okay.
And it's going everywhere.
Really screwed this up, sorry everyone.
Well it's all bleedin'!
So, I'm just gonna leave it, I dunno what, okay,
this is just an experiment.
Well it's going in its little bag.
So now all three things are in bags
and I guess we just wait.
Tick-tock, tick-tock.
So what you're supposed to do is rinse it with cold water.
You can take these off either before or after.
Let's see if all the color comes out.
Okay it's getting a little lighter,
which is not a bad thing, might just take these off.
Oh, there's a lot of white right there.
Oh no!
And this is, right at the front!
(Chloe laughing)
It doesn't look too bad.
I'm not super into this massive white patch.
All right, on to the hoodie.
This one I am definitely worried about
because it's a slightly different fabric from the other one
and I'm scared that it's gonna come out more.
Whoa.
This isn't even gonna be the last time I wash it,
I'm putting it in the washing machine after this.
Pretty cool!
Oh, (snorts) it's so small it falls down the plug.
The grand reveal.
Oh, uh (enunciates).
Aw it's cute!
That is kind of a spiral, you can kinda see that.
So once the water runs clear on all your items
you're gonna throw them in the washing machine.
I'm gonna do it on cold and not for very long.
Go!
Oh!
It's still colored.
It's not as crazy bright as it was, which I like.
This is actually perfect.
And my little baby one still has color on it.
Okay, now we're gonna dry and then we're finished.
See ya soon.
(upbeat electronic music)
Here is the finished product, oh my God I love it.
I can't believe how well this actually turned out,
and even the top which doesn't entirely match,
It still matches enough that it doesn't look crazy together.
It's so cute!
It's definitely lighter than it was,
but that's exactly what I wanted.
I am really surprised how well the top and bottom matched
when they weren't exactly the same fabric.
I now just wanna go and try out
a bunch of different patterns and colors.
I might just go do that.
Bye bye!
(upbeat electronic music)