Have a pair of jeans that you don’t really wear anymore? Recently invested in raw denim and have no use for your pleb pre washed jeans? Light wash jeans craze got you down cos you don't have your own pair? Well you’ve clicked on the right post.

How to bleach your jeans

EDIT 1:20 was probably a little too dilute. If i was to do it again I would probably do like a 1:10 or even 1:5 ratio of bleach to water. This would make the process faster and probably not result in the metal corroding.

Materials:

• Big bucket (I used a 21 litre bucket)
• Bleach (I used about 1000ml of, 5%m/v chlorine, bleach)
• Jeans (Here is a photo of the colour mine started as)
• Mixing stick
• Water

Procedure:

1. Fill your bucket with water and soak your jeans through (a pre-soak distributes the bleach more evenly)
2. Take them out add your bleach to the water (I used a 1:20 ratio of bleach to water this turned out to be extremely dilute).
3. Put your pre-soaked jeans into the dilute bleach solution. Mix around to ensure and even distribution.
4. Soak until satisfied (took me like 10 hours over 2 days because of the really dilute solution)
5. When satisfied with the colour, take out jeans and throw them in the washing machine, wash.
6. Allow the jeans to dry.

Warnings and Precautions:

• Make sure your bucket can fully cover your jeans in the solution
• Using more bleach will make the procedure faster, however it may damage the jeans
• Mix your jeans frequently, about once every 20 – 30 minutes
• Metal buttons may corrode
  
• Denim next to the rivets became white, not really noticeable.
• Practice correct safety measures (gloves)

My results.

And that's all there is to it enjoy your new jeans! If your have any questions feel free to ask them in the comments!

Here's some inspiration for your new jeans to get you started, and the accompanying thread, courtesy of /u/_beacon.

If I have made any mistakes, grammatical or otherwise, please don't hesitate to point them out.