8 oz yogurt cups are about as perfect a container for dissolving dye as I can imagine, but the 1 qt containers are cheaper to buy, which meant I put dye in some small bowls I usually use for cleaning beads. The orange dye was dissolved in the dark brown bowl, which I mistook for yellow.
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Thus I was only able to do a three color sequence: orange, red, and purple. The orange not only looks school pencil yellow in the photo, it's that color on the egg.
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The color seemed to behave better with only three, instead of the typical 4, dipping sequences, without so much peeling; though once again we used cold water dissolving tablets, this brand (paas) appeared to work a little better. I suspect the warm colors are more resistant to peeling as well. If I didn't soak each color for substantially more than the 3 minutes recommended, that would probably help as well.
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The other goof came from applying wax to a warm egg, which creates a very smeary effect, as previously noted.
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