Wednesday 17 April 2013

DIY : Tie-Dye Jeans.Step-By-Step.

To make this awesome pair of jeans I talked about in the first DIY project in this blog i posted last week,

You will need :

- A pair of Jeans
- Bleach ( about 1L )
- A Bucket of warm water
- Rubber-bands

First Step : Tie/Knot the jeans

Take the rubberbands and the jeans, and use them to tie the jeans making small "knots" or "balls" . Keep on tying and fasting the jeans, feel free to bind some "balls" together. The more you make, the better the result will be, but that depends on what you want.
This is what it should look like once you're done with that :



Step 2 : Bleach one side at a time .

Fill your Bucket with about 1L of the Bleach, and then about 1-2/4 of warm water ; It's important that you do put water in the bucket with the bleach, but not more than the bleach itself.
 Then, just put down your tied-up Jeans in the bucket and leave them there for about 1hour, depends on how bleached you want them to be. Then, come back after that time and turn them around so that the bleach can act on the other side, and leave it that way for about 40 minutes. It's better if you don't leave them as long as you did for the first side, like 20minutes less.

Wear Gloves !

1st Side : I left the first side for about 1h30 hour. 
 
2nd Side : This is what it looks like when you turn them around to leave the other side. I left it for 45-55 minutes.

As you can see, the bleach has done its work very well and is going dark in the bucket. That's totally normal ;-)

Step 3 : Rince with cold water & Take off the rubberbands.

Once you're done bleaching them, take them carefully in your shower/bathroom/whatever and rince with cold water. It's important you really do it well, and wring the jeans to get the rest of the water/bleach out of them.



Step 4 : Allow to dry .

Leave them to dry ( in preference outside ). You can leave them for the night or even more if you want. I left mine from the end of the afternoon to the next day, they dried both night and day.



TADAM ! Once they're dry, put them on and go out to rock the world with your new unique Tie-Dye jeans !

I'll soon post a photo of me wearing mine . I am absolutely in love with them, they turned out even better than I thought ! They are soo gorgeous.. I can't wait to wear them !

Hope you liked it ! please comment :D



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