The light from the dying Sun streamed into the room, and illuminated everywhere. It was a marvelous sight, as tendrils of light snuck around and touched every corner tentatively. Yet, the glorious sight was unseen and unoticed as an infuriated girl paced up and down the small length of her room, hurling every existant profanity as she glared at the pair of matte boots sitting innocently on her study desk. The laces were askew, and the newspaper about to fall off the table but she didn't notice. Oh no. Only the disgustingly dark colour of the boots mattered and it seemed like the things were laughing at her displeasure. Plonking herself down onto the roller chair next to the desk, she blew a puff of air in irritation. Why could she not achieve a shine that some people said was parallel to a black mirror? How come she could not do such a thing?! Inferiority blazed in her heart as she began to search for a method on the Internet. Punching the words "Youtube" into the search bar, she begun to violate the scroller button on the mouse, eagerly trying to find an easy but efficient method of brightening up the dark boots. And she found it, of course. A beautiful link with amazing methods. Quick. Simple. Easy, and no need at all for flames which would cause the boots to crack and crumble after use. She begun to gather things that were needed.
- A pair of matte coloured boots.
- A kiwi shoe polish, filled to the brim or otherwise with BLACK polish.
- The kiwi shoe polish lid, filled with approximately 10 drops of water.
- Several cotton pads (or a non-fuzzy cloth)
- Newspaper
- OPTIONAL: A shoe brush.
TUTORIAL BEGINS HEREEE
You might want to watch TV or start youtube videos to pass the time. It gets boring. I'm watching AFV, since I have nothing better to do.
Lay newspaper on the table to prevent it from becoming littered with black crusts and becoming a warzone when your parents realise the disgustingness of your table/floor.
After that, place your shoe on the newspaper like so:
Take your cotton pad, and take half of it to make it really thin. And then divide it in half again, to get a quarter. Then scrunch it up to a tiny little flat ball.
Take the lid, which is filled with water and dip it in! Squeeeeeeze the water out until the cotton pad is DAMP but not dripping with water. (People with shoe brushes, just use the brush to brush your shoes) The reason for doing this step is to CLEAN THE SHOE OF DIRT.
Take your shoe, and face the toe end to youuu.
Take a cotton pad (or half, if you're stingy like me.)
Dip it gently in the water (on the two droplets in the water.) Do not even ATTEMPT to dip it into a large dip of water (as seen on the left of the picture). You don't want a lot of water, thus the quantity of about 10 droplets in your lid.
Swathe it in the kiwi shoe polish. DO NOT dip your finger in and fill the entire thing with polish. Instead, tap the tip of your finger lightly into the polish box and then gently bring a quarter of the entire circle to get JUST enough polish onto your cotton pad.
You should have something like this, for the perfect amount:
In this photo, I have too much. I'll show you how to solve it at the bottom.
I like to work from the top and centre of the boot. It gives me a lot of space. Begin like so:
Draw small, concentrated circles from where you begin. It should, hopefully, look like this:
Then you begin to continue, drawing the circles out and out and out. Due to the oil in the polish, it will sort of "melt" and turn your boot glossier than it was. It should look like this:
Continue on until you cannot see the circles you have made on the boot. After one time of doing this step, I achieved this result.
Repeat until pleased.
NOTE: In the occasion you do have too much polish on your boot, spread it evenly along the boot to get this:
After which, you continue drawing circles on the boots, it will turn glossy eventually. Be patient.
The boot on your left (I did before the tutorial boot which is on the right), has about 20+ swathes of polish around it. The tutorial boot has about 10+.
This is my final product. How I grade, whether it's good enough or not, is by making sure I can see bright colours clearly (the red thing.) and if the light or reflection of myself is stable, and clear, and does not look blurry at all.
This is how I shine my boots, I hope it helps you!
P.S - random story beginning because I'm bored and all the other posts look boring. :)
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