DIY: How to Make a Tie-Dyed Top and Hippy Party

Today, my post is not an outfit of the day as usual. I am going to share with you guys how I tie-dyed the top from yesterday's post and my hippy party! The pictures that were taken were quite sporadic, so I'll try to make it as clear as possible, but in cases like this, YouTube and Google are your best friend for more details.
How to make a super cool tie-dye top
STEP 1: Buy supplies
You'll need salt, water, dye (I used Dylon hand dyes), 100% cotton shirts, rubber bands, plastic gloves, apron, buckets and stirring utensils.
STEP 2: Prepare the dyes

STEP 3: Do the tying

YouTube has a wealth of tutorials showing how to tie up the shirt

STEP 4: Do the dying

STEP 5: Reveal and finish!

My hippy/tie-dye party
I did all this tie-dying as part of my birthday celebrations. I feel like this party really exemplifies who I am at the moment (a wannabe free spirit) and it was very fun. I got everyone to dress up in a hippy style and everyone looked great!. Here is my outfit - I did not actually take any proper outfit post images, so here are just some pictures that I cropped out from some of my friend's images.

I did my hair by doing two French plaits when my hair was wet. Then I removed the plait at the bottom of the hair and pinned the top.

Earrings - Xmas market, necklace - China, top - DIY, skirt - mum's

All in all, I recommend everyone to do some tie-dying or have a tie dye party to spruce up so old clothes as it's really quite a cheap hobby, fun to do with friends and creates some very effective results

PEACE!

Rebecca x
P.S. I moved this to this PeaaBrained blog as I thought it was more fitting.
P.S.S. Here are some bonus pictures that I converted into GIFs from the party because its fun to do that.

Fluffy Bunny Challenge!

From this I have deciphered that I have an abnormally small mouth! This was fun to film, I hope that it is fun to watch too. Enjoy!

Rebecca  x
P.S. It looks like I'm constantly flashing my pants, but infact that's just the bottom of my top tucked into my skirt, honest!

Birthday Wishlist

This post is a bit cheeky, but some of my friends have asked me to do this - here is a birthday wishlist.
Big Presents (*cough cough rents or sibling with well paid job*)

1. Hair straighteners 
1. This is so I can curl my hair, obviously
2. American Apparel Disco Pants 
1. Sort of steep, but this is my ultimate dream birthday present, in black size S. With them, I can be like Sandy from Grease.

Smaller Presents

1. Nail strengthener polish/base coat 
2. Some cool socks
3. The "www.scatterrbrained.com" domain 
1. or £10 for me to do that - I will love you forever 
4. Cool posters
5. A cool DVD 
1. I haven't watched many films so don't worry about me already owning it because I probably don't
6. A cool album
1. Such as "The Invitation to the Voyage" by Eugene McGuiness!!!!!!!!!! - this album isn't even released yet (release date 06/08/12), but if you guys pre-order it he will sign it personally eeeeeeek! 
2. or "Loveblood" by King Charles
7. A cool lunch box or water bottle 
1. Preferably a tin one with some sort of Marvel superhero on the front
8. An exciting set of coloured gel pens
9. A (challenging) paint by numbers kit
1. I got a paint by numbers kit when I was 9 or something, and I was so close to completion, but the paints ran out. 

Don't get me...

1. Gift cards
1. I asked for this last year and consequently have still not yet spent them as I find it hard to depart with money, as I always think I can find a better deal when I can't, so I end up building up a collection of them that expire.
2. Bath stuff
1. I don't take baths.

Pretty please!

Rebecca  x