Tie-Dye: How to

So as we know tie-dye is emerging back onto the scene, but a lot of places charge large amounts for pieces that you can just as easily replicate at home. If you want to work the look on a budget, here's a quick, easy and simple how to that takes hardly any time at all. You will need:

• A plain white tshirt in the style of your choice
• Some fabric dye (any market stall or habadashary will do this for cheap)
• Some hair ties or elastic bands
• Salt
• Hot water
• A place to dye the top (we used the sink)

Step 1

Gather everything needed together. Take your t-shirt and scrunch up the bottom adding hair ties as seen in the picture. The look works best if you're not too precise with it, so screw up bits of the top randomly and tie the bobble/band tightly round.

 Step 2
You should end up with something that looks like this...

After tying sections with the hair bands, we then used laces to wrap the t-shirts into small balls scrunched together. Again don't worry about being neat, the more random the ties, the better the t-shirt will look.

Step 3

Fill up your sink/bowl with hot water and follow the instructions on the packet. I bought this dye for around £3. Most tell you to add salt to hot water, then add the dye, stir and add your garment. After stirring for a few mimutes I left them to soak for around 30/40 minutes - again just follow what's on your packet but most will tell you similar.

Step 4
Unwrap the ties and you should have an end result that looks like this...

There you go - tie-dye! To add other colours just repeat the process again in the exact same way once the garment has dried, it's best to use the lighter colour first if you're going to use a few. 
TOP TIP: don't try doing it with a coloured t shirt, unless you are using really dark dye it probably won't show up - as you can see I also tried a green t shirt and the dye was barely noticable. 
This is just a easy and fun way to replicate the look for yourself, without having to fork out for the ever increasing prices shops are charging for the same look.

Have you tried tie-dying yourself? Let me know in the comments.