DIY: Frayed Hem Jeans

Good morning/afternoon or evening to all our lovely readers depending on when you read this, it's Ayesha with a simple DIY post for you today. 

Me and my sisters were in Topshop the other day and Nazma wanted to buy some frayed jeans.. If you don't know what frayed jeans are, they're basically jeans that have been ripped quite aggressively at the bottom but look surprisingly good. I think they're a love/hate thing but we personally love them. (Who knew the day would come when people would actually be paying money for ripped jeans, haha!)

I came across a video on Youtube of somebody doing it themselves to an old pair of jeans which I suggested to Nazma. We thought it'd be good to experiment, save money and make a blog post for you guys of course.

I've put together this pictorial and split them into steps, hoping that I've made it as clear as I can.. You guys should give it a go, you'll love the result if you like frayed jeans!

 Step 1 -

What you'll need:

The jeans you want to fray (these are Nazma's inexpensive jeggings from Zara that were too long for her)

Scissors 

A marker or pen

Eyebrow plucker

 Step 2 - 

Try the jeans on and ask someone to mark where you want to cut them on each leg.

 Step 3 - 

CHOP CHOP! 

Cut straight across the hem, try following the line all the way across. 

 Step 4 - 

Do this to both legs.. Should look something like above.

Step 5 - 

Grab the eyebrow plucker and start plucking away on the thread.

 Step 6 - 

Depending on how long you want the fray to be, pluck more at the thread to make the fray longer.

 Step 7 - 

It should start looking like above.. Again if you want the fray longer, pluck more, but Nazma didn't want them longer than this so we stopped here on both hems.

 Step 8 - 

The end look!

How they look on.. Cute right? 

It's as easy as that. The best thing about this is that it's supposed to look messy so don't worry if you mess up, the messier the better in my opinion. 

Hope you liked this quick DIY post, let me know if you'd like to see more DIY posts.

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Until next time..

Ayesha x