Making Your Own T-Shirt Design

Your always warned to be careful with bleach because it can stain your clothes, but it wasn't until Pinterest that I thought to use it to make my own personalized t-shirt design. The Pin didn't include any instructions, just a four pictures showing the process. Know that the color the bleach will turn your shirt depends on the color the shirt starts off as. You can't tell in the pictures but the shirt is a dark purple color, so the bleach turned it a light pink. However, any color will turn white if you leave the bleach on for long enough.
First, set out your t-shirt or tank top on a flat surface. Make sure to put a piece of cardboard or a white towel in the shirt to keep the bleach from soaking from the front of the t-shirt to the back.
Next, chose your design. I chose something simple, because of my lack of artistic abilities, yet meaningful. It's a tattoo that I've seen people with, a heart made out of the treble and bass chefs.
After that you simply have to put the design on the t-shirt. You can use straight bleach, but that's much more time consuming. If you do use bleach, make sure to wear gloves at all times and our slowly. Only attempt it if you have a lot of faith in yourself. I used a Clorox bleach pen to trace my design instead. You can make it as large as you want, with the lines as thick as you want, but keep in mind the bleach will bleed out a little bit, so if your make the lines too intricate, it will end up one big blob.
Since the tutorial didn't have any words, I didn't know how long to leave the bleach on the t-shirt. After about 10 minutes I could see the fabric around the bleach changing color so I went and rinsed it off in warm water.
  You can see the bleach hadn't had enough time to set in so the color change was too discreet to notice. I retraced the design but gave it an hour to dry this time.
 The design was much easier to see. I then let it air dry before washing it by itself in the washing machine. Make sure to wash and dry it by itself the first time so that the bleach doesn't get onto any of your other clothes.