How to dye and airbrush your dance costumes with Alex from Alexice Designs

Have you always wanted to know how to get those really cool ombre effects on your dance costumes?

There are so many fab designs on Pinterest and Insta, but how do they achieve those results?

Where do you even start with finding out about what dye to use and how airbrushing works?

In this episode I interview Alex from Alexice Designs about how she works with dye in her dance costume making.

We discus the types of fabric she uses, what type of dye and where she gets them from. 

Stay tuned until the end where Alex talks us through a step by step walkthrough of how to dye a dance costume.

Tune in to discover more about how to dye and airbrush your dance costumes.

• Rit Dye More (04:25)
• Dharma Trading (05:20)
• Ombre dyeing (09:15)
• Tip - let the dye sit before adding the fabric (09:25)
• Rit website for colour mixing (11:10)
• Tip - always create samples first (14:32)
• Colour mixing (17:51)
• Tip - avoiding mess (21:10)
• Good business practice (29:16)
• Having a go - a walk through (31:07)
• Covid-19 situation (39:47)

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Today’s guest is Alexandra from Alexice Designs

https://www.facebook.com/AlexiceDesigns/

Alex mentions Dharma Trading in America as being a good place to find out about dyes. - https://www.dharmatrading.com

Colour mixing formulas for Fit Dyes can be found here - https://www.ritdye.com/color-formulas/?type=203&hue=0&collection=0&pantone=0

During the show, Alex mentions ‘additive colour mixing’ but wasn’t sure if it was additive or subtractive. I looked it up and found that additive refers to mixing light and subtractive refers to mixing pigment. Fascinating topic and you can read more here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color

I hope you have enjoyed this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it. It was a new experience for me to have a guest on the show and I look forward to doing this again in the future.

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