Tulip One-Step Tie-Dye Kit 15-Color Party Kit, Standard, Rainbow

This is a great tie dye supply set. Its complete and has everything you need with the exception of shirts or other items you wish to tie dye and plastic bags for the items to sit in while the dye sets (gallon sized ziplocs). This was our first time doing tie dye, so I took my time looking up suggestions and tips. Following some basic tips went a long way in guaranteeing not only that this wasnt a completely messy disaster, but also that the shirts turned out vibrant and continue to last wash after wash: 1. Choose items that are 100% cotton and wash them before using the dye to remove any manufacturing chemicals, etc. 2. Start the process with damp materials. I took ours right out of the washing machine. They shouldnt be sopping wet, simply damp. 3. Use a kitchen cooling rack for dying. This allows extra dye to pool under the item where it wont mess up the patterns attempted. We also used this over a sheet pan so it collected the dye and was easy to dump! For patterns we wanted to be specific, we rinsed the pan/cooling rack/our gloves with the hose between each tee. 4. Use a lot of dye! Damp material helps the dye go further, but you still need to soak each color section well. Pour into fabric folks as well to make sure you get full coverage. With this set, we vibrantly dyed 11 tee shirts (2 adult L, 1 Adult 2XL, 1 Adult M, 1 Adult SM, 1 Child L, 3 Child M, 2 Child SM) 5. GO OUTSIDE! No matter how cleanly you think this can be done, it cannot. Take it outside for everyones sanity and for the benefit of your homes interior. 6. WEAR. THE. GLOVES. And wear clothes you dont care about. Even filling bottles, you will find the powder magically appears on your gloves (its evil like glitter!) and any drops of water mean instant dye. Take it outside and wear clothes that are black or clothes you dont care about messing up. 7. Once done with an item, do not unravel it. Place it in its own ziploc bag (I suggest gallon size) for at least 24 hours. 8. After 24 hours, take each item out of its bag separately, remove any rubber bands and rinse with the hose outside. Rinse until the water comes out fairly clear. Dont panic if the item starts to look grey as you rinse. That is normal! 9. Wash each item SEPARATELY in HOT water and then hang dry. This is the only time you need to wash them separately. (You can get away with washing like colors together if you arent afraid of any dye swapping in the wash). Hang dry. 10. For the next THREE washes, wash the tie dyed materials together with no other items. Wash on HOT and hang dry. 11. From the 4th wash on, cold water is great and they can be washed as normal. To keep vibrant, always hang dry. Bonus Tip -- YouTube is an excellent resource for patterns! Especially the videos provided by the manufacturer. It seems like a lot, but it really is easy! And this is a no-fail way to make sure you love your items and they last a long, long time!

Weve done 10 shirts so far and still have another 7 bottles of color to try out for our next project!

Got for a gift and they seem to like it a lot.

Was fairly easy to do and clean up and you really cant mess anything up!

I bought a set of these after watching a youtube video. I had done some tie dying in my youth but mainly one color using standard dye and a bucket. The Tulip dyes are super easy to use, and the kit includes gloves and rubber bands. The dye is already in the squirt bottles ready to be activated with water, just shake and squirt. I used the classic twist method for 3 shirts (grab in the middle and twist into a tight puck, then rubber band into pie-like sections). It was very easy to direct the dye into the sections. Once the puck was completed, I turned over and repeated on the back side, then put them in plastic bags to proof for 24 hours. A quick rinse, wash, and they turned out great. The colors are very vibrant and looked amazing when they were done. I have washed the shirts 4-5 times and they have held up pretty well, faded only slightly. The only thing I might improve on this kit is to include extra dye. There is really only enough color in one bottle to do one shirt (I used 3 colors per shirt and used the entire bottle of each color on that one shirt, front and back). In other words, you can generally only use a particular color on one shirt if you are really looking to get good color and penetration. Fun kit for the kids, just make sure to protect surfaces as this can stain.

A m a z i n g!!!! Tie dye is the quarantine summer trend and thing to do as well, I bought this as a gift for my daughter’s 7th birthday and she loves it... and so do I! We’ve been having lots of fun tie dying different shirts, the colors are bright and very pigmented, we have done several styles and they all look great. We’ve done 5 shirts already and we still have a ton of color left, well worth the money, and I know it says the colors should be used quickly once prepared but we chose a few each time and even the ones prepared before are still going strong! I want to buy one for myself too

I had a tie dye party and invited a bunch of friends, all in our mid to late twenties. So much fun! I will say that the for five thing is inaccurate - all together, we dyed four t-shirts, a tank top, an apron (mine - pic attached), a canvas bag, and TWELVE bandanas, and still had plenty of dye left.

I liked all the color options. I didnt like the mess.

Made beautiful shirts but not as many as it said. I noticed that I used more dye than I expected on each shirt so I had to be careful that I’d have enough dye to make all of them.

This an excellent set of tie dyes with various colors. Easy to use with well written instructions and diffrent ideas of how to tye dye. There was lot of diffrent shades of pink and reds , but only 1 green, 1 yellow and no gray or orther earth tones. This was a great for a bunch of us ( 6) to have fun and tie dye. I wanted to do more so i ordered Rit dye in diffrent colora so i could chose the colors I iike. Kit comes with rubber bands and a few sets of plastic gloves.