 Hi guys, it's Brandon, creator of Happily Dressed, the fashion blog dedicated to self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency, and welcome back to my channel! I hope you guys didn't think I was gonna leave you high and dry this week. I was just waiting for my new baby to come in the mail. I got a new camera today. I was so excited. I got the Canon 6D Mark II, and it's amazing. I love this camera so much. There's Wi-Fi, I can send pictures to my phone. But I didn't want my huge nerd freak out to interrupt my YouTube process. I've been doing so good lately, so I'm bringing you guys another video. So I wanted to show you guys the pants I created with those two jeans that I got from Goodwill in my last trip to the thrift video. I did a very fun little DIY for you guys. I'm not going to show you exactly how I did it because I used a sewing machine, and I learned actually from another video, so I'll link that video down below on how I put the jeans together. But I did want to show you how I detailed jeans, and give you three cool ways to just refresh an old pair of denim. So this pair of denim is actually both pairs of jeans. So I tried on a light wash pair, and then found these cool dark wash pairs that didn't fit me in the waist, but I love how they fit me on the ankles and below my leg. So basically what I did using the video I'm going to link below is sew both jeans together. But then I thought, you know what, I can't stop there. What else can I do to make sure that this is a special Brandon Hayden pair of denim? So I used acrylic paint to paint two parallel lines right above the knee, and I was like, you know what, I can't stop there either. It still feels bare. So what I did was add another line going down the very back of the paint, all the way down from the top to the bottom. And in here kind of are my three ways to repair, refresh, or to upcycle an old pair of denim. The first thing you can do is like add some kind of like acrylic paint design, whether you splatter paint it, acrylic paint comes in all different colors. I know I have red, blue, black, green, and white. I think I also have yellow, and they're super cheap on Amazon or in any craft store. You can just go buy you some acrylic paint, some paint brushes, and then just go to town with your denim. What I love to do the most is like use duct tape to get these defining lines so that way your lines are crisp and whatnot. The next thing you can do to upcycle some denim is to add some kind of cool distressing or fraying. These are both prime examples of how I frayed my denim to like make it look cooler. With these I thrifted them a long, long time ago. I actually need to take them in at the waist because they're a little too big. But what I did was crop the bottom and let them fray. And the easiest way to do this is literally just take a pair of scissors, chop straight through having many inches up you want to, and then instead of doing that method where you like shear with scissors or like pick at it with a tweezer, just wash your denim. When you wash it it will fray by itself and expose all the white hairs you want to without you doing all that work. This next pair is what I need to get more use out of. The only reason I don't wear them that often is because they sit right on my waist and you know I kind of like doing my pants high waist it. I could also take these in but they're just such a good pair of denim I don't want to ruin them because I am a beginner with my sewing machine. But they're so amazing and what I did was actually fray the top. So the actual waistline I just went and cut just like a small, maybe even like just a centimeter off of the waistline and I threw it in the wash and it creates this fraying effect. So fraying is super easy to do without it being time consuming and it's another way. And also you can see that I added a white acrylic stripe paint. It's kind of like what I like. But I'm going to shoot for another color the next time I like DIY some jeans. I really want to like either paint a black stripe or some kind of yellow stripe for the springtime. So my last tip to upcycling denim is one I've actually have not done yet. I might really want to with one of these pair that I have just sitting here that I don't wear. But it's at embellishments. This could be through like patches or I know like purled jeans were in at one time when I had like little mini pearls on them. But this is so easy to do. You can get sew-on patches or iron-on patches from Amazon, eBay, Etsy and whatever design you want and find a place for them on your denim and just iron it, sew it or glue it, tape it, whatever. Whatever your method of adhesive. They'll turn out great. They'll look awesome. So many brands right now are adding embellishments to jeans and things like that. So that's it for this week's video. I know this video was super quick but I wanted to stay consistent and I wanted to show you guys the cool DIY idea with those two pants that I picked up from Goodwill. Like always, I appreciate the support so much. If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up for me. And if you want to see more videos like this or just see my face, definitely hit that subscribe button and press that notification bell to know when I post. I'm getting better at this consistency thing. So excited to create some new content for you guys with this camera. Also be sure to follow my Instagram. Now that I have this new setup, I'm going to be posting a lot more outfit photos and things like that. You can follow me at theybehaden. And I will see you guys in my next video. See you guys later.