How to color jeans?

Today, bright, stylish and tidy jeans are needed by almost every modern person, regardless of age and gender. Comfortable, simple, durable, different colors and styles, narrowed or flared - this is perhaps the only piece of clothing in which it will be equally appropriate to look at the premiere at the opera house and in the country garden.

But, unfortunately, in our world there is nothing eternal. Even jeans come in. To extend the life of such things, you can use the simplest method - color recovery. And here you just need to know how to color jeans at home correctly. This is the question we will try to reveal in this article.

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The easiest ways

Together with classical methods and folk remedies, we have at our disposal more exotic options for how to dye jeans. Sometimes the exotic is dictated by the lack of the dyes we need in the nearest store, sometimes by a personal creative impulse.

If you are looking for an original idea, you can use one of the following:

• Acrylic paints. An option in which the artist’s soul can go wild. In fact, this method cannot be called staining, drawing sounds more appropriate.
• Hair dye. You may be surprised, but yes, you can also dye your jeans with hair dye. As with blue, jeans are not boiled, but simply soaked for an hour and a half.
• Aniline paints. The most versatile way to dye fabrics. Having correctly selected the shade of the product, you can easily paint the jeans in black, blue, red and any other color.
• Spray paint. An even more enjoyable and easy way to paint your own jeans. Here you will not need a basin, or clothes pegs, or an iron. You can make a stencil with which you will get a very interesting result - put mesh stockings or tights on top of jeans and spray a spray can of paint directly on top of them.
• Bluing (powder or solution) is one of the most affordable, simple and common means to dye jeans or any other fabric at home. In addition, this substance is quite safe and proven by more than one generation.

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Choose the right paint

In order to protect you from a little unplanned transformations, let's go over the main principles of selection and types of colors to color black jeans.

Tip 1

Modern manufacturers take this into account and produce dyes that are designed for different purposes. It is considered that:

• Liquid dyes are better suited for modest plans to restore the shade at least a couple of washings back. If you are a lazy and undemanding person, then the choice in favor of a ready-made liquid remedy is obvious to you.
• For a cardinal color change or adding new shades, it is better to choose powder paint.

Tip 2

At first glance, a clear staining procedure has many subtle nuances, which are not surprising to get confused in. How not to make a mistake with a shade?

In choosing the right shade, a color table will help you, which is sometimes provided with instructions for the dye. Here you can see how saturated colors can be obtained at different concentrations of the substance.

Important! If you use aniline paints, salt is a must when painting jeans.

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Choose a method of coloring

Today, technological progress has provided us with a very large palette of all kinds of synthetic dyes, so you can easily give jeans any color. You can easily return your wardrobe to its former color brightness or go a bold experiment, trying yourself as a designer, going against the boring blue-gray-black gamut of urban everyday life. It is only up to you.

The first two main questions that should be decided in advance in order to properly color the jeans are:

1. Dye and color.
2. Hand-painted or with a washing machine.

Important! In order to dye jeans with uneven shades and with color spots, manual dyeing is better.

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We paint jeans in the washing machine

Today, a washing machine is a mandatory item of household appliances in almost every city apartment. And if you want to change the color of jeans or just refresh it, the washer in this case is your indispensable assistant.

Important! High-quality dye for jeans does not harm the typewriter - light colored stains can only remain on rubber pads, and they can be easily removed with a rubber sponge.

General rules:

1. Before dyeing black jeans at home, they must be well washed and dried. Any stains on them or a dirty stain is a trace of a foreign substance that changes the structure of the fabric, which means that the paint will be unevenly distributed at this place.
2. Read the instructions carefully - both on the paint package and on the machine itself. Do not be lazy and thoroughly study the labels on the jeans, the description of washing modes and a list of requirements for using paint. Otherwise, there is a risk of mutilating clothes and even ruining the car. Here you can experiment with color, but absolutely not with household appliances.
3. Of course, it is impossible to demand the impossible from household appliances, especially if you plan to dye jeans blue at home with its use. A small amount of colored water will still remain in the drum of the device after you pull out the trousers from there. Therefore, after the completion of staining, it is necessary to start the machine once again idle - so the dye droplets will be completely removed from the system. If you intend to wash light things after painting the jeans, you should help the appliance by pouring chlorine bleach into its tank.

Important! Paint for such purposes can be presented in the form of a powder or liquid. Transparent gloves, as well as a color fixer, can come with the coloring agent. The proportions and general requirements are sometimes somewhat different, so do not be lazy and carefully read the instructions.

Painting Technology:

• Prepare the paint. If you want a stable and even color, you should make sure that the dye does not form any clots or lumps that, after processing, will bloom in the most prominent place of your jeans with alien colors. To prevent this from happening, it is advisable to strain the paint through cheesecloth as many times as needed to form a homogeneous consistency.

Important! It should be noted that this requirement applies not only to powder dyes, but also to liquid ones.

• To dispel the last doubts, and at the same time to adjust the tone, the dye should be diluted with enough hot water, but not in boiling water.
• Pour the diluted paint directly into the drum unit. It is in the drum, and not in the cuvette, because your goal is to completely immerse the jeans in the paint.
• When the drum of the machine begins to fill with water, the dye will begin to cover the fabric centimeter by centimeter.
• Take a look at the instructions again - do you need to mix a little more soda or salt with the paint? If so, then put them in the same place, in the drum.
• Immerse your pants. For reliability, it is better to run the most delicate mode to color the jeans at home with high quality.

Important! Do not forget that the best is the enemy of the good.In other words, you do not need to mix anything other than what is indicated in the instructions. Especially, under no circumstances should air conditioning be added.

• While the washer does its blue, black or colorful business, prepare a solution of a liter of water and a couple of spoons of 9% table vinegar.

Important! Vinegar is the simplest and most effective color fixer. For example, if you are not lucky to properly color your jeans at home, and the product began to fade after the first wear, you can reverse the process by soaking the “long-suffering” pants in vinegar.

• When the apparatus reaches, pull out the pants for 15 minutes and put in a vinegar solution.
• In conclusion, put the jeans back in the machine, just wash them in the most delicate mode with a temperature of no higher than 40 degrees.

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We paint jeans manually

You can guess that the essence of manually painting jeans is to most accurately reproduce all the same actions that a washing machine can perform.

The algorithm of your actions to dye jeans blue at home will look like this:

1. Take an enameled container of such a size that it fits 6-8 liters of water and a solution of paint.
2. Prepare the paint for jeans. In the same way as in the above method, strain through gauze and dissolve the dye in warm water. Prepare the water too - it should be hot, but not cool boiling water.
3. Add salt to the basin with water, dip your pants there and pour the dissolved paint on top. With this method of painting, jeans should be completely immersed in water and not float.
4. Cooking should be from forty minutes to an hour in order to qualitatively color the jeans at home. Toward the end of cooking do not forget to prepare the vinegar solution.
5. After digestion, rinse the jeans first in warm and then in cool running water.
6. Soak the jeans in a vinegar solution.
7. Wash dyed jeans with regular detergent.

Important! It is unlikely that it will be possible to get an interesting pattern on jeans during machine painting. The game of colors and tones on jeans, unfortunately, too. Hand painting is another matter. Here you not only observe, but also at any time can make your own adjustments.

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Use, try and just have fun. And do not forget the golden rule: if after painting as a result it turned out to be somewhat different from what you would like, just tell yourself and all the curious that everything was exactly as planned and you wanted to paint the jeans in that color.