GRACE FRAGA: So Chantelle, now we've finished painting, we've finished designing the--what we wanted to do on this T-shirt, what is the next step?
CHANTELLE TIBBS: The next step is to make sure that everything that we've added, everything that we have touched up, make sure that everything is completely and totally dry. But before we put the dryers on, we're drying the last touches, we're going to take this tweener out in the middle.
GRACE FRAGA: The famous tweener.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: So, I've got the tweener. I'm going to take this tweener out so that it dries.
GRACE FRAGA: It sounds like wiener.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: It sounds like--I don't know what the rate is--this is an X-rated show.
GRACE FRAGA: Oh, no. I'm talking about the...
CHANTELLE TIBBS: No, I was kidding...
GRACE FRAGA: ...hotdogs. What?
CHANTELLE TIBBS: Oh.
GRACE FRAGA: Wow.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: I'm sorry. My mind always--see it went to the gutter. But look at my company name.
GRACE FRAGA: Mine too. I'm just covering.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: Look at my company name, and aren't you surprised?
GRACE FRAGA: Yeah, WearMeNaked.com. Check them out.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: Dirty mind.
GRACE FRAGA: This is so cool.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: All right. So, we're going to turn the dryer on here. We're going to make sure that we dry everything. This isn't going to take as long to dry as the others.
GRACE FRAGA: All right. So we're finished drying the T-shirts with the hair dryer, and before we go I want to see what are some of the tips that you have for people when they're hand painting a T-shirt?
CHANTELLE TIBBS: Okay. This is the--the tips as I've mentioned, you're using a lot of paint. You want to make sure everything is completely and totally dry. With the situation where you're using a lot of paint, even if it's dry make sure it's dry. My advice, just hang it up for a bit. Hang it up by a window. Make sure. You can never dry it too much, because you don't want to create a problem and then it's bleeding all over the place. That's not right.
GRACE FRAGA: Exactly, it's not right or it gets on your shirt or whatever because I feel like--it's a little wet still even though you kept drying it, it still seems to be where the paint is thick.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yeah.
GRACE FRAGA: It still looks like it's wet a little bit.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yeah, it takes a little while. So, yeah, you want to make sure that it's--make sure it's 100% dry before you put it on. It's very, very, very, very important and I can't stress enough, make sure that before you do all of this drying, take your tweeners out. I've had nightmare situations with that.
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