DIY Jeans!

Hey Blog Readers!

I know I haven't been great for blogging lately-I just haven't had very much time but this is a quick blog on creating your own ripped jeans!            Old-to-New!

Personally I love the ripped jeans look!!-I know it's not for everyone and some people prefer to keep their style clean and tidy-but for me I love a bit of 'Funky' and the ripped jeans are very funky and you can see this style on a number of celebrities at the moment! My style doesn't fit a niche at all: it just depends on my mood really and I'm willing to try almost anything-therefore my style icons range from Kim Kardashian who always sports the sleek feminine look to Rihanna who's a lot edgier and lately I'm loving Rita Ora's style. When MTV's 'The Hills' was on I used to love Audrina Patridge's sense of style-which included a lot of rocky Tshirts etc...

 

 

 

I have another pair of ripped jeans that I brought awhile back but they're not really as ripped and crazy as I wanted... It's actually quite hard to find a pair of ripped jeans on the high street so last night I got the idea to make my own :)

It does take some time to do so I recommend starting the quest when you have a free evening and you can sit down on the couch and pull apart your jeans of choice.

All You Need:

• A Scissor
• A Tweezer

Note:

Although you can't tell by just looking at jeans they are actually made with two strands of material/elastic: One that goes horizontally across and one that goes vertically up and down the leg of the jean. For this reason there are normally two different colour elastics and once you put a tear in the jean you can see this: in the case of blue jeans often one elastic is blue and the other is white (this is how you can see a frayed look if your jeans tear in time from being too long at the bottom) with white jeans both elastics that are used are white which makes them a little difficult to determine which ones which-Basically to make it easier on yourself try to start your jean-cutting experience with blue jeans ans not white :)

Steps:

1. I recommend trying your jeans on first to figure out where you want the holes and how many holes you want: Once you've decided you can take a pen and mark where you want to cut. 
2. Take the jeans off again and make your cuts in the jeans using the scissor: The easiest way to do this is to fold the jeans down the center of the leg so the side seem is now in the front and middle of the material. 
3. If you simply want holes in your jeans takes the edge of the scissor and fray the material by using a back and forth motion on the perimeter of the hole you created.

In this picture I am not cutting I'm simply fraying the material by using the edges of the scissor.

4. However if you would prefer a look as pictured below-then it will take a bit longer...

-This is where the tweezer comes in: As you can see from the picture below the material going horizontally is white while the material going vertically is blue-you need to find the edge of the blue material and pull it out using the tweezer-once the first few are pulled out and the white is exposed it gets easier and quicker. 

-To do this you need to have loosened the material first-as the blue elastic wont pull apart unless two cuts are made: this will determine how thick the section of exposed white elastic will be (Cut an incision at the bottom and top of where you want this section to be). 

In the above picture my hand is going completely through the hole I created and the material you see is how thick I want the section of white elastic to be: once I pull the blue elastic out ;)

Pull the blue elastics out until you reach your desired effect (on some of mine I left some blue to give a stripped effect).

 


I am delighted that I decided to give it a go because its meant that I've taken a pair of jeans-which were old and cheap (from NewLook) and that were hardly ever out of the cupboard!and I've created a pair of jeans which are completely different and that I love-all for FREE!-Giving my old jeans a new lease of LIFE!! :)

Do you think you'll try this home DIYing for yourself? ;)

Lots of Love

Shahira Xo

Behind The Scenes in Wexford

Hello :)

I've been meaning to do this blog post since last week when I shot with Richie Buttle and Amy MGuire in Wexford but the BTS (behind the scenes) pictures etc... were taken on my friends phone and I just got them myself yesterday.

As you probably know if you live in Ireland (-unless you were living under a rock haha) last week the weather was amazing-you would think the island of Ireland had drifted down to Spain (we wish). I was dying to get out and do an outdoor shoot: Richie had said to me before if I ever wanted to come down to shoot with him I could but I always thought it was just so far away that it wouldn't end up happening: however when I tweeted I wanted to hit a beach for a shoot with the lovely weather he tweeted me saying to come down and so I decided that it would be a nice road trip in the sun-I had never been to Wexford and it would be something different and fun :) plus I love Richie's work and had wanted to work with him for awhile.
My friend Julian came for the spin and the drive down was funny: singing along to backing tracks in my car-lol.

We arrived at about 2ish and got straight into organising which clothes I'd wear and Amy started on make-up while Julian did my hair.

Make-up Look1:

I loved the first make-up look: It was definitely different to what I normally have: as I normally go for a smokey eye and not such a vibrant lip colour but I like mixing it up a little and trying new things. The theme was kind of 'bohoo' for the first look so I think it matched that perfectly! The foundation was fresh and glowey and the emphasis was all on the pinky-purple lip and the turquoise eye liner which brought out the colour of my eyes. 

We headed down to the beach and did a few shots in the above outfit and then I changed into a bikini for another couple of shots before changing the make-up again.

The beach was Gorgeous... :)

Amy changed my make-up in the van and Julain changed my hair :)

We did some more bikini stuff with the 2nd Make-up look:

In my dressing gown carrying equipment :P

More on the beach-each :)

We headed back to the studio and took some final snaps before me an ju headed on the longgggg journey back home:

All the above pictures were taken by Julian on his phone-cant wait to have the professional ones.. here's a video Julian took at the very end of the long day :)

It was a fun day spent in the company of good people xo

Lots of Love

Shahira Xo