I spent a lot of time looking up tutorials on how to distress jeans online, but most of them involve just cutting them and rubbing them with sand paper. I don’t like the look of just having holes in the pants, or the look of straight distinct lines going across. I honestly couldn’t find the ‘look’ that I was going for until I learned this easy trick. Follow these three easy steps to achieve the same style of distressed jeans that you see in stores!
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: 2/5
What you’ll need:
-An old, faded pair of jeans or shorts
-Scissors
-A pair of tweezers
-Nail file
What to do:
First, throw on the jeans and mark where you’d like them to be distressed.
Next, go in a cut two parallel lines into the pants about an inch or an inch and a half apart.
Using your tweezers and pull our the exposed vertical threads that come out at the top and bottom of the area you cut. Continue doing this until you’ve removed all of the blue threads from the area that you designated.
This step is optional, but you can take a nail file and rub it along the edges of the parallel cuts to rough it up a bit and make them look even more distressed.
Voila! An old 11$ pair of jeans distressed and redesigned to look like those 40$ pairs you see at the mall!
