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Hi! Welcome to Make Thrift Buy, a show where

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you guys send clothes from the internet and[br]I try to recreate them.

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Today’s challenge was sent in by Jenny Pepper,[br]who suggested these melting tights from URB

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Clothing, which are handmade, latex, and retail[br]from $55 to $80. Now these tights are by an

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awesome handmade designer, and if you can[br]afford to you should totally go and support

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them, but if you’re anything like me and there’s[br]no way you can spend $55 dollars on a pair

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of tights, well…Maybe we can make these[br]for ourselves. So let’s give it a go!

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So I started out with a pair of sheer tights[br]that match my skin colour, and this three-dimensional

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fabric paint that I found on Ebay.

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[Annotation: You can get single bottles for[br]cheaper – see the links in the video description]

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As soon as I saw that there was glittery paint[br]I had to have that one, but there are non-glittery

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types if that’s not your thing. I also got[br]myself a large piece of cardboard which I

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rolled up into the approximate width of my[br]leg, and I stretched one leg of the stockings

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on over the cardboard, and I started painting.[br]I basically just did these long drips down

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the length of the tights in what I thought[br]what looked like a melting style.

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And then using a paint brush I try to blend[br]the paint at the top of the tights because,

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well that’s what the ones URB Clothing looked[br]like and I’m trying to re-create them. With

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one leg done I set this outside in the sunshine[br]to dry for a few hours. Then it was simply

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a matter of removing the tights from the—[br]Wait…

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Oh…it’s stuck. It’s totally stuck.[br]So the cardboard and the tights have dried

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together and now they won’t come apart![br]About an hour later I finally manage to release

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the tights from the cardboard, but unfortunately[br]a lot of the cardboard came with it, and I

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almost gave up at this point when I discovered[br]that scrubbing off cardboard with a wet cloth

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seemed to do the trick. So I saved them and[br]I was back on track!

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For the second leg, I was smarter, and this[br]time I put two coat hangers together like

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this. This insured that the tights would be[br]stretched, and that also that the opposite

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sides wouldn’t stick to each other. For[br]this leg I took it outside, clipped it onto

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my washing line so I wouldn’t get paint[br]everywhere, and then I did the same technique

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dripping paint technique as before. Except[br]that I didn’t blend the paint at the top

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this time, and again I let the tights dry[br]for a couple of hours.

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So this time they easily came off the clothes[br]hanger, but it was at this point I realized...mmm…this

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was probably not such a good colour for dripping[br]tights. It looks like blood, anddd I don’t

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think that having blood dripping down your[br]legs when you’re a girl is never really

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going to be a look that’s in vogue. Also[br]another massive fail was where I tried to

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blend in the paint at the top of the tights.[br]This stopped the tights from having ANY kind

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of stretch to them. So I couldn’t actually[br]get this leg onto my own leg. I’m just going

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to go quietly into the cupboard of my…other…failed[br]DIY projects.

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SO with my new knowledge of what worked and[br]what doesn’t work I tried it out again on

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a fresh pair of tights using some lilac paint[br]this time, and the coat hanger method.

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I slipped the tights onto my coat hangers,[br]one leg at a time, painted in this dripping

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kind of fashion, and I let them dry overnight,[br]and this time?

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It worked![br]Well, okay kind of. I mean…they don’t

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look anywhere near as good as the ones from[br]URB Clothing, but I mean they’re really

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not that bad, and because I stuffed up so[br]many times the price tag was getting towards

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the original price of the tights, but if you[br]didn’t stuff up as much as me, and you bought

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three-dimensional fabric paint in single bottles[br]then you could feasibly make this from the

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$10 dollars and it would be totally worth[br]it.

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So, my conclusion?[br][scissor snipping sound effect]

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Heck yeah you can make these yourself! They’re[br]not going to be as cool as the ones from URB

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Clothing, but I still think that they’re[br]pretty effective.

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So make sure to give this video a thumbs up,[br]subscribe to my channel because that really

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helps me out.[br]Happy Crafting and if you have any more suggestions

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for clothes that you see on the internet that[br]you’d like me to try out the just let me

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know by leaving me a comment below, and I’ll[br]see you all next time!