Not to mention she stole most of her fashion line from young black creators.
They stay columbusing then whitewashing our culture. I despiced this family.
It’s crazy that there is LITERALLY proof that Kylie stole designs from a young black woman’s small online business, but yet she can still be in FORBES business women issue. Would her business have done well if she didn’t have people to steal ideas from…..But I guess this behaviors allowed when you’re White!
Apparently concentrated Kool-Aid can be used as a pretty effective leather dye.
I was making a drink while cutting the snaps off some new straps for my pauldrons and I got curious, so I tried it, thinking, “ok even if this works, it will just wash out.”
Nope.
It took the “dye” (undiluted) in about 3 seconds. After drying for about an hour and a half, it would not wash off in the hottest tap-water. It would not wash out after soaking for 30 minutes. It did not wash out until I BOILED it, and even then, only by a tiny bit and it gave it a weathered look that was kind of cool. Add some waterproofing and I’d wager it would survive even that.
That rich red is only one application too. Plus it smells great, lol.
So there you go, cheap, fruity smelling leather dye in all the colors Kool-Aid has to offer.
WELL THEN!
this may be important to some of my followers *and certainly not just getting reblogged because of my costuming and my boyfriends desire for leather armor*
When I was in middle school we used to use it to dye our hair. Potent stuff.
If you’re dying anything with kool-aid it’s best to use SUGAR-FREE ones otherwise the thing you’re dying might get all sticky
the flavor only packets where you are supposed add sugar are the best. they will dye any natural fiber: leather, wool, cotton, hair, flax, jute, silk and so forth. heat the dye water so it is more potent. let dry then rinse excess out in cold water. there’s a whole system to this.
Oh my god
This will prove very useful for any future cosplays I wanna do.
Please note, this works better for protein things than cellulose things. You’re going to get much better results on wool, silk or nylon than on cotton.
Here’s why this works – in dying fibers at least, heating most food dyes in presence of an acid causes the color to “strike” or bond to the protein fibers.
So, there’s actually a cheaper way to do this than using drink mix! You can use regular old food coloring. That’s the part of the koolaid that’s doing the dying. And you can replicate the acidity by adding a few spoonfuls of white vinegar to your dye bath. Much cheaper than koolaid! Or, I racked up a whole bunch of easter egg dye kits on sale for 25 cents each and got a ton of food-and-acid tablets super duper cheap for space dying.
I can’t speak to leather dying, but with wool or other fibers, you want all your color to stick to your fiber and none of it to be left in the bath. That’s how you know it won’t run later. If your color doesn’t all absorb, that’s how you know it never “struck”, and the color will run or wash out.
You can use mordants like alum and various metals (just throw a rusty screw in the pot!) to make these methods work better on plant-based fibers.
Nothing dyes acrylic or polyester, so don’t bother trying.
monkey d luffy as an in-universe concept is so fucking funny to me because like…
you just live peacefully on your island and you keep hearing tales of this like crazy monstrous pirate crew who will come and destroy half your island and overthrow your government and then one day they show up and it’s just some scrawny little Noodly Boy and his weird teenaged friends and you’re like oh damn he’s not threatening at all??? he just wants to be friends and eat all our food??? and then before you know it half your island is destroyed and your government is overthrown
So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?
Yes.
Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.
Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.
Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible.
The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?
There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE
No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.
I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.
Seriously.
Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.
It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.
Yeah the entire problem is that people don’t understand how large of a number one billion is.
One million seconds is 12 days. One BILLION seconds is 31.7 years.
There is such a huge difference, people can’t understand it.
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