DIY: What say you OMBRÉ?

What do I say about OMBRÉ?  I like it! 

Here is my take on a OMBRÉ dress.

The Before! 

Simple little dress I found for $4.50 at my local thrift store,

 that I wanted to make into a fitted dress.

I took in the darts that were already in the dress and added some in the back. 

I was thinking about changing the buttons but there was 

like 3,000 on this dress so I decided against that.

OK so maybe not 3,000 but there were a lot of damn buttons.

The OMBRÉ  process:

Section your garment with rubber bands. 

I am only going to bleach two sections for this dress.

You can use Dye to make your  OMBRÉ  garment but 

I am going to use bleach on my dress. 

I used three parts bleach and three parts water

Put garment in to process the first section 

which will be lighter that the original color

**You don't want to go past the first rubber 

band closest to the original color

You determine how light you want the first section to be 

and now you will pull out the garment until 

you reach the next rubber band as seen below.

Squeeze out the excess bleach on the part 

that you are pulling out of the mixture.

Let the last part sit is the mixture 

as longer to get closest to white.

I'm all done! Now check out your design.

 

Rinse the entire garment with cold 

water to get the excess bleach out.

Wash the garment in the washing machine, 

dry and press and get your  OMBRÉ   on!

Throw in a scarf?

That's all folks it's getting dark!

Below are some videos that I found when searching for OMBRÉ styles.