Tie what? Tie Dye?

Got some old t-shirts you want to spruce up? Well for the sake of recycling (shout out!) why not tie dye? I actually learned a new way to tie die today using the same basic steps but without any of the dye mess. It's called reverse dye and I'm sure everyone has known how to to do this for years and I am just now catching the dye wave. Instead of using RIT dye or any other dye for that matter, pick a solid shirt and dye it using bleach.

This is what you'll need:

1. A shirt, preferably old
2. A cup
3. A bowl
4. Rubber bands
5. Buttons
6. Bleach

Then place buttons where you like them, then begin placing rubber bands around the buttons and continue the process until you get a voo-doo doll.

See, voo-doo doll.

Then soak the the shirt in bleach and let it sit until it turns the color you like. This doesn't take very long before you know it the shirt is practically white.

After soaking the shirt to your preference remove it and begin rinsing it in water. Try to remove as much bleach as you can, you will be doing this with your bear hands. No one wants bleach-damaged hands...not cool. Plus, bleach could leave one painful skin rash.

Rinse, Rinse, Rinse.

Next, begin snapping those rubber bands, but be careful those little guys got a mean bite.

After your done snapping the rubber bands ball the shirt up and rinse it one more time. Then after your final good rinse hang the shirt up to dry. It might be a good idea to place a large bowl or bucket under the shirt to catch any left over bleach that could drip.

Then turn on Fleetwood Mac, burn some incense, grab your bell bottoms, and become one with the hippie inside of you...groovy.