Before, and After! This is genuinely my most successful DIY, I'll explain my process. The original hoodie was a black H&M hoodie my sister gave me since she no longer worn it. I decided to make it a zip-up, so I went to hobby lobby and bought a 20 inch zipper. To turn it into a zipup, I seam ripped the "V" part of the hoodie at the top to make it possible to cut it in half. After I cut it in half, I sewed on the zipper by halves. It's very important to sew the zipper inwards. I will not lie: I quickly learned that I needed to learn how to sew straight when I started sewing. I was getting away with it by doing patches in the past, but now this was very important. I was getting super frustrated with the machine because my clothing kept on drifting to the left. But I realized there was an easy fix, which is to actually put the entire garment on the damn feeder dials... If you can see on this photo below, I was not doing that, because I am retarded. But despite the stitch being so ugly on the first half, on the second half of the zipper I did wayyy better. I completely neglected to do a top stitch for the zipper which is recommended but I really just did not want to do it. Also, I don't have black thread. (just making excuses for myself, this is why I hate myself). The second thing I did was add the lace on the hood. I got the inspiration from j-fashion, especially subcul styles. I kinda just winged the sewing for that. 
Lastly, THE SCREEN PRINTING. I spent so much time on it, and I'm so happy with how it turned out. Screen printing has been one of my biggest friends and enemies. With my leftover amazon gift card balance, I bought this entire kit for screen printing from Speedball. Screen printing is basically creating an ultra detailed stencil using chemicals (photo emulsion). And it takes SOOO much trial and error. 
If you can see on the right side of the hoodie, that was my first failed attempt with the screen printing. Honestly I'm not even mad about how it looks right now, right now I just look at it and think of it as a sign of my labor.
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