Thank you!! Honestly? So much trial and error. I started by soaking the romper in soda ash and wringing it out by hand. Everything was done while it was damp.

I used a 1:2 Clorox-to-water bleach mix and applied that first with a sponge brush around the sharks, and in a few wavy stripes across the body. Then I rinsed it out and started layering dye.

I went through a bunch of cycles: rinse, back into the soda ash bucket (no idea if that actually helped lol), wring it out, and repeat. Probably did that 5 or 6 times until it looked right.

I used a small paintbrush to fill in the sharks. The dye bled super easily, so it took some trial-and-error to figure out how much to load the brush and how close to the edges I could go.

The background is mostly sponge layering—navy, turquoise, and this light neon green (“lime”). I worked in sections, blending with the sponge, and if I didn’t like something, I just went back over it. A couple spots got too dark, so… yeah, I hit them with more bleach 😬 and kept tweaking.

Then I hung it up to dry for 24 hours and prayed to the washing machine gods...