TULIP Fabric Dye 37934 Fdy Lg Mermaid 5-Color 4Oz Kit, Detailed

Its been 5 months and we still have some of the shirts and the color definitely holds up and you get to make a lot of shirts and still have some left and you have 24 hours to finish the ink before it goes bad I highly recommend

Set includes everything you need and when used on 100% cotton items (shirts, pillowcases) resulted in beautiful dark vivid colors. However the colors do not look like the pictures on the box, they were much much darker. Also, bottles are small, so the entire bottle is used on one item/shirt. You are given powder to make two bottles of each color.

Nice colors, and good kit with instructions. Bought this for dying onesies at an outdoor baby shower, and it was a hit!

Works good but when I opened pkg some color was loose, turned my fingers blue. Wear gloves opening pkg!

I bought this kit as one of my COVID-19 stay at home projects. Half the dye powder comes in the bottles and the other half is in packets. I used first half to dye the shirts pictured (4 adult tees, 2 adult tanks, and 2 kids’ tees) and will be giving the rest to my sister. I probably could have stretched it further but I applied generous amounts of dye to ensure the colors were vibrant (and they are!). As recommended by others I purchased a pound of soda ash separately and soaked the shirts in it for 20 minutes before dying. I also let the dye set overnight instead of the 6-8 hours instructed. My technique could use some work but I’m pretty happy with the results!

I’m impressed at how easy these dyes were to use. Even more impressed as the brightness of the colors. Liked them so much I bought refills and am waiting for more t shirts so I can dye more.

Our shirts came out great and the dye was super easy to use. Even our 3 year old had fun making her own shirt.

These are super easy to use. The colors are pretty fun. The lavender and the Aegean sea one dont show up super well next to the other colors though. Maybe if you let them soak longer than overnight. Otherwise these are good.

I thought these colors meshed really well together. For some reason the lavender looks gray in my pictures but in person, it is just a very pale lavender with no gray undertones. These colors worked because they didn’t blend and get muddy like the other Tulip kits I’ve purchased. I’m not sure if that’s the colors or just me being careful not to oversaturate or mix colors. The Aegean Sea color that looks gray in the stock photos is actually a lovely sea green color. It’s like if army green and teal got together and had a baby, that baby would be named Aegean Sea. I am pleased with this kit. I only left the dye on for one hour because I heard that it makes the colors look more pastel. And I wanted a softer tie dye. Honestly I can’t tell a difference in that strategy. The turquoise and purple are as vibrant as the turquoise and purple I’ve left on for 12-24 hours in previous tie dye projects. I’ve been tie dying shirts all summer going through this craze with my kids, and one recommendation I have is that you treat your fabric with soda ash prior to dying. Buy a pound of it on Amazon for about $8, put the whole pound in a bucket of mop bucket water, and let your shirts sit in it for 30 minutes. Take shirts out and wring them out completely, then dye fabric immediately while damp. I swear the soda ash makes the colors so much more vibrant! My first tie dye project I did not do the soda ash and my colors were very dull. Almost like a tie dye shirt you’ve owned for 15 years. Just kinda bland. The soda ash really works and I’m honestly not sure how but it makes a noticeable difference. I also have been letting the shirts soak in vinegar after dying and rinsing, but vinegar doesn’t do anything to make the colors set or stay. It’s a wasted step. My shirts come out vibrant and stay that way for many washings regardless if I “set” the final product with vinegar or not! Have fun! Swirl pattern is the easiest. Crumple is cool but you have to be careful to not really mix the colors as you’re applying the dye all over. I strategically placed the dye all over but was careful not to overlap colors. Overlapping a bit is ok but too much makes the final product a big ole blob of mixed colors. Sounds cool except the colors will not be the colors you bought. Fuchsia and green will somehow make a dark muddy violet. Turquoise and purple will make a murky navy violet. It’s best to try the swirl or some sort of stripe pattern where the colors stay separate.

My little sister wanted tie dye clothes for her birthday and was bummed we couldnt go anywhere. We had a tie dye party at home and it worked great! We just used the powders to ice dye and everything turned out great! The colors are vibrant and the pattern looks great too. Ice dyeing definitely uses more dye per item, but none of us needed a ton of stuff so it was great for our purposes. We soaked our items in a dye fixative after which I think helped with keeping the colors bright & defined.