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I strongly suggest wearing gloves and doing this project outside so the bleach doesn’t harm your skin or smell up your home. In the video you will see I laid the jeans on my outside patio on top of two garbage bags. The wonderful thing about DIY projects is that there isn’t a formula. I wanted to create a bleach spotted look so the squirt bottles I purchased in the travel section of Target worked best for me.

This is a quick project and if you take too long, the bleach will begin to eat the jeans. I start by randomly spotting the jeans with bleach and then carefully flipping them over doing the same technique on the other side. I would take about 2-3 minutes “decorating” on each side. You will begin to see the bleach turn the denim yellow which means it’s processing and working. The length of time the bleach will take to create nice white bleach spots depends on the shade of denim. For my pair of lighter denim it only took the amount of time I used to design them, then they were ready to be rinsed. However with my darker pair of jeans I let them set, while the bleach processed for an extra 3-4 minutes after I designed them. There are so many different shades of denim, just monitor the process and make sure to get the color you want.

After the jeans are designed and have set the amount you want for the bleach to process, I like to rinse them out in the shower (keep the gloves on). I guess I do this step to immediately rinse the excess bleach out making sure it doesn’t bleach the denim anymore or too much. Then I throw them in the wash (alone) and voila!

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