Diy Distressed Jeans With Scissors. It's fun and easy to turn even the oldest, most unfashionable pair of jeans into distressed jeans. Pair of black jeans was getting kind of faded so i bought a new pair of them and decided to give my faded pair a more distressed look.
You need box cutter, tweezer, magazine paper, and a cheese grater for distressing. If you’re using a blade, make the cuts by placing a hard book or cardboard inside your jeans to make sure you don’t cut the back of your jeans (unless you want to). The coarse sand paper block worked the best so i stuck with that and also used a bit of bleach and scissors.
Cut off the portion with scissors and then fray the edges, or you could just remove threads with a tweezer.
The raw hem jeans trend has been popular for a couple of years now, hitting it big last summer and then actually becoming a staple in jeans from there on out. Here's a diy tutorial that shows you how to create distressed and ripped jeans or shorts on your own. It's fun and easy to turn even the oldest, most unfashionable pair of jeans into distressed jeans. I began by going to a local thrift store and buying some high waisted jeans, which only cost me about $7.