Hiya guys! Happy Monday!
Hope you’ve all had a great weekend!
A couple weeks ago before my holiday, I
decided to try a DIY ripped jeans project, so I thought I would show you how it
turned out! I had been wanting to try
this out for ages so I was quite happy to finally get it done! It’s actually quite easy, and you can end up
with a really cool pair of ripped jeans.
Plus you can decide where you want the
torn parts to be…and…you don’t have to spend a load of pennies buying a torn up
pair of jeans!!
I actually made two pair of ripped jeans
– both with different stretchiness, thickness of material, style of jean – so I’ll
show you both!
DIY
Ripped Jeans #1
For this pair, I used high-waisted super
skinny black jeans that had lost some colour in the wash. Obviously as the jeans were streaky from
losing dye, I couldn’t really wear them unless it was just around the house - however
I thought that was a wee bit of a waste as I only got them last Halloween and
have only wore them a few times. So, I had
actually been planning to try bleaching them a little bit to cover the streaks,
until I saw a YouTube tutorial where you can DIY your own ripped pair of jeans,
so I thought I’d do that to them as well. I’ve put the link to the video, at the bottom
of the post, as usual.
What I used:
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Jeans
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Scissors
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Tweezers
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Something that
can be used to mark where you want the rips to be (which can be easily wiped
off, like chalk or pencil)
Steps:
1.
I marked where I wanted
the rips to be. I put them an inch
apart, like it said in the video, and I put quite a few so the area of the rip
would be quite a large one that would cover the whole knee area.
2.
I then cut along
the markings.
3.
To get the
stringy look, all I had to do was to pull the teeny vertical threads of material
out, using the tweezers, being careful not to pull the horizontal threads and
snap them.
4.
Once all the rips
were made and I was happy with how it looked, I started to bleach the jeans. What I originally wanted to do, before creating
the rips, was to bleach an ombre look to cover the streakiness…but after making
the rips in the jeans, I thought I would bleach the stringy threads of the rips.
This, however, didn’t really work out! What actually happened was that the outer area
of the rips were the ones that got lightened.
5.
After I realised
that this was what was happening, I decided to go back to my original plan and
do the ombre fading – and how I did this was to use a spray bottle (with bleach
and water) and spray the areas of the jeans I wanted to ombre.
(Remember,
if you are using bleach – use in a well-ventilated area and remember to wear
gloves)
Lastly,
I rinsed the jeans with cold water before putting them in the washing machine
and leaving them to dry.
DIY
Ripped Jeans #2
So, for this pair I used
low-rise/hipster/low-cut skinny slim leg jeans. I’ve had these ones for years – I bought them
when I was still at university and they have been worn hundreds of times, so
they have lasted a while!
They were one of my fave jeans to wear
back then, but they don’t really get a good wear these days. So I wanted to revamp them, so I can wear them
again…plus they will be great for summer (our lovely not very warm Scottish
summer!). They will be quite nice with
wee boots for autumn too!!
What I used:
Exactly the same as DIY Ripped Jeans #1!
1.
Like DIY Ripped
Jeans #1, I marked where I wanted the rips to be and cut along the markings.
2. In this photo you can see what the horizontal threads
look like when the vertical threads have been pulled out from the jean. I kept removing the vertical threads until all
were removed to reveal the horizontal ones!
3. I continued to put the ripped areas where I wanted
them until I was happy with the result.
So, that was it! It is a pretty easy DIY that can be done on
other pieces of denim clothing – shorts, dungarees, jackets…
It’s quite a funky thing to do if you
want to revamp an old piece of clothing! And honestly it doesn’t take too long to do! Mine took about half an hour for the amount of
rips I put in the jeans. Obviously, the
timing will vary depending on how many rips you want in the jeans and how
detailed you want them to be. And you
can do this on any style of jean – skinny, boyfriend, slim, slouch – and it can
also be done on men’s jeans too!
If you don’t want lots of threads, you
can just have one long cut at the knee area (or wherever you want) and have a
few threads pulled out around that cut. It
all depends on what you want…it’s your DIY Ripped Jeans, so you can do what you
like!
Anyway guys, I hope you enjoyed this
post! Thank you SO SO much for reading!!
Have a great day and as always, take care
and
I’ll catch you all next time!
Lin xxx
YouTube source:
DIY
Distressed Boyfriend Jeans by LaurDIY
