How to paint jeans?

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

But, unfortunately, in our world there is nothing eternal. His term comes even to jeans. To extend the life of such things, you can use the simplest method - color restoration. And then only need to know how to paint jeans at home properly. It is this question that we will try to disclose in this article.

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The simplest ways of

Together with classical methods and folk remedies, we have more exotic options at our disposal, like painting jeans. Sometimes the exotic is dictated by the absence in the nearest store of the required colorants, sometimes - by a personal creative impulse.

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

• Acrylic paints. Option, in which the soul of the artist can walk in full. In fact, this method can not be called coloring, drawing is more appropriate.
• Paint for hair. Perhaps you will be surprised, but yes, you can also dye your jeans with hair dye. As with blue, jeans are not cooked, but simply soaked for an hour and a half.
• Aniline paints. The most versatile way of dyeing fabrics. Correctly choosing a shade means, you can easily paint your jeans in black, blue, red and any other color.
• Paint from can. An even more pleasant and easy way to paint jeans with your own hands. Here you will not need a basin, no clothespins, no iron. You can make a stencil, with which you will get a very curious result - put on the jeans net stockings or pantyhose and directly on top of them spray the spray can.
• Blue( powder or solution) is one of the most affordable, simple and common means to color jeans or any other fabric at home. In addition, this substance is quite safe and tested not by one generation.

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Choose the right paint

To help you get a little more from unplanned reincarnations, let's go over the main principles of selection and types of colors to paint black jeans.

Tip 1

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

• Liquid dyes are better suited for modest plans to restore the hue, at least a couple of washing steps 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 the cardinal change of color or addition of new shades, it is better to choose a powder paint.

Tip 2

Clearly, at first glance, the staining procedure has a lot of subtle nuances, to get confused in no wonder. How not to be mistaken with a shade?

In the selection of the correct shade, a color chart will help you, which is sometimes provided with an instruction for the dye. Here you can see how saturated colors can be produced at different concentrations of matter.

Important! If you use aniline paints, the obligatory component when painting jeans is salt.

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Choose the coloring method

Today, technical progress has provided us with a very large palette of all sorts of synthetic dyes, so you can easily give jeans any color. You can easily return to your wardrobe the former brightness of color or go not a bold experiment, trying yourself as a designer, going against the boring blue-gray-black range of urban everyday life. It's up to you.

The first two main questions to be determined in advance in order to correctly color the jeans are:

1. Dye and color.
2. Staining by hand or using a washing machine.

Important! In order to color jeans with uneven shades and with color spots, hand painting is better.

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We paint jeans in the washing machine

Today the washing machine is an obligatory subject of household appliances of almost every city apartment. And if you want to change the color of the jeans or just refresh it, the stick in this business is your irreplaceable assistant.

Important! A quality dye for jeans will not damage the machine - light colored stains can remain only on rubber pads, and they can easily be eliminated with a rubber sponge.

General rules:

1. Before you paint your jeans in black at home, they should be well washed and dried. Any divorces 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 on this place will be distributed unevenly.
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 the washing regimes and a list of requirements for the use of paint. Otherwise, there is a risk of disfiguring clothes and even spoiling the car. Here you can experiment with color, but absolutely not with home appliances.
3. Of course, you can not demand the impossible from household appliances, especially if you plan to paint your jeans in blue at home with its use. A small amount of colored water will remain in the drum of the device after you remove the trousers from there. Therefore, after the completion of the staining, it is necessary to start the machine once again idle - so the dye drops will be removed from the system permanently. If you intend to erase light things after painting the jeans, you should help the device by pouring chlorine bleach into its tank.

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

Paint technology:

• Prepare the paint. If you want a persistent and even color, care should be taken to ensure that the dye does not form clots or lumps, which, after processing, will dissolve in the most prominent place of your jeans with alien flowers. To avoid this, it is desirable to strain the paint through the gauze as many times as necessary to form a uniform 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 correct the tone, the dye should be diluted with hot water, but not with boiling water.
• Fill the diluted paint directly into the drum unit. It's in the drum, not in the cuvette, because your goal is to completely immerse the jeans in paint.
• When the drum of the machine begins to fill with water, the dye starts centimeters to cover the fabric after a centimeter.
• Look at the instructions again - do not you need to mix some more soda or salt to the paint? If yes, then fill them in the drum.
• Immerse your pants. For reliability, it's better to run the most delicate mode to color jeans at home in a quality manner.

Important! Do not forget that the best is the enemy of the good. In other words, you do not need to mix anything except what is stated in the manual. Especially, under no circumstances can you add air conditioning.

• While the styralka is doing its blue, black or multi-colored case, prepare a solution of a liter of water and a pair of spoons of 9% table vinegar.

Important! Vinegar is the most simple and effective color fixer. For example, if you are not lucky enough to color jeans at home, and the product began to shed after the first socks, you can turn the process back, soaking the "long-suffering" pants in vinegar.

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

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We paint jeans by hand

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

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

1. Take an enameled container of this size to fit 6-8 liters of water and a solution of paint.
2. Prepare the paint for the jeans. In the same way as in the above-described method, strain through gauze and dissolve the dye in warm water. Water, too, prepare - it should be hot, but not cool boiling water.
3. Add salt to the basin of water, lower your pants there and pour in the dissolved paint. With this method of painting, jeans should be completely immersed in water and not float up.
4. Cook should be from forty minutes to an hour, to qualitatively paint jeans at home. Near the end of the cooking do not forget to prepare the vinegar solution.
5. After digestion, rinse the jeans first in a warm, and then in cool running water.
6. Soak the jeans in vinegar.
7. Wash the painted jeans with a conventional washing powder.

Important! Get an interesting drawing on jeans when machine painting is unlikely to work. The game of colors and tones on jeans, unfortunately, too. Hand painting is another matter. Here you not only observe, but at any time you can make your own corrections.

Use, try and just have fun. And do not forget the golden rule: if after painting as a result you did not get what you wanted, just tell yourself and everyone curious that everything was exactly the way you intended, and you wanted to paint your jeans in such a color.