#52 DIY Ripped Jeans: How to Make Natural Looking Distressed Jeans

In this fashion freak era, people, especially, the girls love to try new, new attempts on their draperies. They always keep endeavoring for something innovative, whether it is to embellish their outfit or to demolish it! Flaunting exceptional is being the new trend of this epoch, and wearing ripped and distressed jeans is definitely one of the brightest attempts of them.

Updated: November 2018

Some new age fashion experts initially emerged with this kind of trend on their fashion shows and eventually, this style has been hugely appreciated by the utmost contemporary girls because of its exclusive look.

Denim naturally enriches with a classy appear and it completely flaunts super trendy while come up with these chic rips.

You may find a distressed or ripped jeans in the market easily, but girls are never pleased so easily when it’s come to the matter of their clothes! Thus, it will be more appreciable if they can craft the ripped style by themselves; as readymade distressed jeans may come with a labor-less process, but doesn’t offer much control over the rips! On the other hand, if you make the distressed style by yourself then, you can get rips whenever you want and how much you desire on your aspiring denim.

One more mentionable benefits of making the ripped style with your own hand are that this pattern proffers you this super chic trend with a fewer cost rather than its real price. As, while readymade ripped or distressed jeans cost really high tan normal jeans, but, you can buy simple jeans with just half of the cost and ripped it out with some simple tailoring components! Thus, here we are presenting you some simple ideas on how to make ripped jeans at home in a step by step methods, let’s check out the images below-

How to Make Ripped Jeans: Ways to Distress Your Jeans

Whatever be the way you choose to distress you jean, choose a thick one ( which weighs nicely). As lighter jeans won’t withstand the fray and ripped and grated parts longer.

1. Razor Method:

You will need a disposable razor, Jeans, wooden or plastic board or thick cardboard ( to place inside the jeans), Markers or pencil.
Decide where you want your jeans to be distressed, above knee, front thighs, pocket.
Use a pencil or chalk to make the marks, up to what extent you want it to be torn.
Place your jeans on a table and place the supporting board inside your jeans legs( wood or plastic), so as to avoid cuts on the other side.
Now gently shave the top layers of fabric from your jeans

2. DIY Distressed Jeans with Scissors and Razor

Things needed: Scissors, Razor, and tweezers
Decide you want holes or partially shaved life effect with strings of thread still attached to it
Similar to above process make the marks with chalk or pencil
Cut with scissors and shave off the excess and pull it off with tweezers for the final product.

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3. How to Make Professional Ripped jeans with Sandpaper

Supplies Needed: Sandpaper of 30 grit and 60 grit, scissors, tweezers
You can put on the jeans and mark the places where you want the natural distressed denim effect.
Once marked, place the jeans on a flat surface, now rub on and on with 30 grit and 60 grit.
It takes some time to rip your jeans, stop it when the denim threads are easily visible
Use your scissors to rip some thread and tweezers to pull out a few.
You can again use the sandpapers to rub until you feel you have achieved you naturally distressed look for your jeans.
Once done, proceed with a wash to get the final perfect look. optionally you can bleach the sanded area for a crisp professional finish.

4. Ripped Jeans Tutorial: How to distress your jeans professionally with the white threads still on

Things needed for a natural looking distressed ripped jeans with white threads

Mark the part above the knee of your jeans

Now use your scissors to cut lines on your jeans

Now use your tweezers to pull out the threads off from your jeans

Tada now you ripped jeans is almost ready to use

Put your ripped denim jeans in the washing machine and let it do the final touch

Final Ripped Jeans Look; Before and After DIY Ripped Jeans how to distress your jeans

Closeup view of your ripped jeans with white threads

Tutorial video at Watch how to distress your jeans

DIY Ripped Jeans: Inspiration Ideas and Step by Step Tutorial

How to Distress a Skinny Jeans

What you will need: Scissors, coarse sandpaper block, painter stripper brush, and bleach ( optional).

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Mark with chalk, Use Sandpaper and give gentle cuts on your denim with scissors and use tweezers to pull off some thread until few horizontal white threads are left.