Colour Run Disaster

vic1

PUT them back through washing machine and add oxybleach to powder first then if it goen't work try soaking in oxybleach ( seperate the different colours though) if this does n't work can you dye them!!

full-time-mum

I've just done a darks wash which included my daughters brand new t-shirt top. The top was purple and white checks with a fake jacket/hood in purple.

The purple has run something chronic and anything that had a slightly paler part is now lilac.

Is there anything that I can add to the next wash which will help lift this dye out?

I've put the damaged clothes through a rinse, which is spinning now, but it doesn't look as though it has improved matters. :mad:

nesssie1702

:eek: Not so good - have you got any of the colour wash run stuff in the house. I always make sure that I've got a sachet of it in my undersink cupboard, just in case.....

Hope you get your washing sorted

full-time-mum

nesssie1702 wrote: »

:eek: Not so good - have you got any of the colour wash run stuff in the house. I always make sure that I've got a sachet of it in my undersink cupboard, just in case.....

Hope you get your washing sorted

No, just going to see if I can get hold of some. Fingers Xed.

full-time-mum

Tried the Dylon Colour run stuff and it took out some, but not all of the stains. DD is upset as both the offending top and the worst of the other ruins were birthday presents (from last week).

I feel such an idiot for not washing them separately first time but you know how it is, shove the wash in just before going to work.....

I don't know whether there is any way to fix the dye into the original top otherwise I'm going to have to hand wash everytime. Its been washed several times now, including with the colour run stuff and the water still comes out nearer black than purple!

floss2

Just to make posters smile, my DS2 has had a "naughty jumper" in his wash that's turned quite a few of his things beige.......comments have been exchanged ranging from his becoming a grown-up now he's wearing beige to enquiries about whether he listens to Terry Wogan

xellieqx

I've got an American Apparel hoodie that has the white hood lace and white zip, and because the hoodie is nacy blue, I put it in the dark wash, but now the lace and zip have gone a glowing shade of blue! Will I be able to stick one of those dye attractor things in the wash with it, or will something go disastrously wrong?! Is there any way of just getting the leakage out of the tiny bits it's affected?
Oh, 'elp!

thanks

sheilavw

Ive always bought one of them colour runs and it has always worked and restored the item to its correct colour

Pink.

Hi xellieqx,

Dylon colour run should work. There's an earlier thread with lots of tips for removing colour run so I'll add your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

jamgirl

I can't believe i've done it but i have washed my work tops with a pink t-shirt. what was i thinking!!!!
:eek:
the tops all have white on them, which have now turned a yukky shade of pink. they are not completely white tops to start with so i can't bleach them.

is there anything i can do? i can't afford to get a new wardrobe (as much as that sounds nice lol)