How to DIY the Half Bleached Jeans TikTok Trend at Home

Tools and materials:

• Jeans
• Tape
• Rubber bands or hair ties
• Bleach
• Plastic bag
• Plastic gloves

1. Tape your pants

Tape down the center of the jeans to keep the bleach from bleeding to the other side.

2. Roll & scrunch one jean leg

I was aiming for a tie-dye look on my half bleached jeans. So, I scrunched the pant leg I was bleaching into a ball and tied it off with a rubber band.

I didn't have rubber bands, so I used old hair ties and they worked just fine. Roll, scrunch, and tie the leg up all the way to the thigh.

3. Bleach the jeans

Place the leg you don’t want bleached in a plastic bag and place the jeans in your bathtub.

Make sure you put on your gloves.

Once that’s done, saturate the leg you are bleaching in bleach and leave the jeans in the bathtub for about two hours. 

4. Bleach the other leg

Once the two hours are up, place the jeans in the washing machine on cold and then dry them.

This is when the project should be finished, however, as you can see in the image above, the bleach bled onto the wrong leg.

To fix the pants I decided to go bleach the second leg as well, so I will have one tie-dye leg and one completely bleached leg. It still makes half bleached jeans, right?

This time, I chose to use gel bleach to give me a little bit more control. I grabbed a sponge and rubbed the bleach into the pants to make sure they really turned white. 

5. Rinse the jeans

To finish the jeans, rinse off the bleach, place them back in the wash, dry them off and try them on! 

Half bleached jeans tutorial

I think I managed to save these DIY half bleached jeans, but they definitely ended up being more work than I expected. Overall though, this is a fun project and a unique way to bleach your jeans. 

What do you think of this tutorial and the final result? Let me know in the comments below.