DIY Weekend! (Saturday)

For my second DIY project of the weekend, I distressed my own jeans. It really is pointless to buy a pair with holes already in them. Get a few years of use out of a nice pair and then make your own cuts.
I combined lots of different tutorials into the inspiration for this project because I wanted the rips done a certain way to my own liking. All of the links to the different references can be found on my Pinterest under the DIY board. (http://www.pinterest.com/madiburke/diy/)

Here's the before. Notice you can actually see natural lighting coming from the window as opposed to the artificial lighting from the after picture... This took all day.

The finished product came out exactly how I wanted it (pretty good for a first attempt, am I right?). Here are some examples of the different types of cuts I made and where.

The key is to make straight, horizontal cuts after trying them on and marking the lines with a pen (with still wearing the jeans). Then, you should pull out each of the vertical strings (Verticals are blue/horizontals are white).
Yes, you pull each blue string out one-by-one... hence "all day").

The first picture at the top of this post features the finished product modeled by moi.

DIY Weekend! (Friday)

On Friday, during a fit of stretching in AP Psychology, I started playing with my hair. It dawned on me that I had not had a haircut since maybe August. I asked my friend sitting next to me if she had a pair of sharp scissors. I was determined to cut my hair right then and there in the middle of story time about split-brains. She fortunately did not have any scissors in her possession. When I got home that afternoon, I actually educated myself in the art of self-trimming. I used this video as guidance because it was the best, most legitimate, well-explained tutorial I could find with hair similar to mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um1hqXh7-cc

I'm actually really impressed with myself and how my hair turned out. I freshened and reshaped my fringe, trimmed the very ends and went through a few layers. As of now, I don't plan on ever paying to get a trim ever again now that I know how to do it myself.

It's become quite a fad amongst my friends (and now me) to trim our own or each other's hair. I know that sometimes trimming your own (or a friend's) hair can be scary and intimidating, but once you know what you are doing and you are calm about the situation, it can leave you with nice, healthy-looking hair (when done correctly).