Dark Wash Jeans to Light Wash Jeans

In this Instructable I show you how to give you jeans a lighter wash using bleach.

In this video I show you how I bleached my denim.

Along with the video you can follow the (easy) steps below :-)

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• Get the jeans.
• Get some bleach ( I used 1 liter of the cheapest bleach I could find)
• Wear some old clothes and gloves as protection for the bleach.

Fill up the sink (or a bucket, or a bathtub, etc) with water and dissolve the bleach.
I used about 1 part bleach to 3 parts water.

The more bleach you use, the more aggressive it will be, and the faster the bleaching process will go.
I didn't use too much bleach, so it's easier to control the process (before you end up with a complete white jeans).

Now submerge your jeans into the water/bleach mixture and let it sit for a few hours.
But keep an eye on it and turn it / flip it now and then so every part is covered completely.

After 5 hours my jeans was light enough.
This depends a bit on:

• how strong the bleach is
• how dark your jeans was at the start
• and how light you like the result to be

Note: I used cheap bleach with contains only 5% of Sodium hypochlorite. That's why it took me 5 hours. If you use stronger bleach the processing time may differ.

Now wash your jeans and let it dry.
When your jeans is dry you're done.
You will also notice the jeans feels softer.

Here you see the "before" and "after"

I'm happy with the result and the process is really easy.

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