Made our photos look great and really protected our eyes during the event as there was coloured powder everywhere.Ī lot of participants wore a buff or bandana to cover their mouths to avoid inhaling all the colour. Color Me Rad sold some cool mirrored sunglasses at registration and on the day of the event. Sunglass are recommended – so you can see through the shower of colour. I have 3 blonde daughters and they put TONS of colour in their hair (on purpose) and it all washed out just fine. Organizers say if you have light-colored hair, or if it's a rainy day during your event you may want to add leave-in conditioner to your hair before the event. The powder is made of colored cornstarch and is designed to be 100% washable. If you want to remain white (good luck) you can steer clear of the colour bombers and soakers. Their mission is to get you as coloured as you want to get. You don't have to, but you will get into it, I promise! The colour stations are every km or so along the 5KM route and consist of volunteers on both sides of the path throwing handfuls of coloured cornstarch at you or aiming super soakers with coloured gel. You can wear what ever you like to a colour run but the before and after photos will look way more awesome if you start out white and end up a huge colourful mess! We even saw a few wedding dresses at our event, because. If you avoid the gel colour water guns, the rest of the cornstarch colour will wash out. Doesn’t really wash all off of pure white clothes that well either, but our shirts looked more awesome after the run and a wash with just a hint of colour still left in our tops. The gel colour doesn’t exactly brush off. The event runs over several hours and you can finish when ever you want. You take all the time you like to cover the 5km course and have the best time along the way. We love our active puppy and she loves a good 5km run but the colour events are not pet friendly. We saw a few kids on their scooters on the 5km course and loving every colourful minute of it. There is very little running required and many events offered kids registration for free under a certain age. Turns out you really don’t need to run in a colour run – walking is perfectly acceptable and actually is all you can do at times due to the volume of people all jammed up getting coloured! The event we did had new coloured gel – it was cold and wet and coming at us from a giant super soaker water gun. The colour is made from cornstarch and is powdery so it gets everywhere in the air, your clothes, your skin, your hair and brushes off. It's a 5km event that has a warm up dance party at the start line, lots of colour packs fill the air to get you coloured and colour stations along the 5km route get you even more coloured! Then there is usually a wrap up party after the finish with, you guessed it, more colour! So what are all these colour runs about and do you actually need to be a runner to have fun at one? We recently completed our first Colour Me Rad 5KM and not only did we love it, we are certain you will too! If it looks remotely dirty, crazy, or messy, you can be sure the kids want to sign up. There are very few activities our family won’t try at least once.
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