Now Do You Shine Metallic Shoes??

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<p>OK, not the most important thread you’ll ever read, but still –</p>

<p>I have a pair of bronze shoes that were quite nice in their day but are all scuffed up. I can’t find metallic polish at any local stores. I can find it on-line for like $4.00 – but the shipping is around $8, and I refuse to pay that much!! Any ideas??</p>

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<p>Spray paint.</p>

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<p>Gee, thanks, thumper.</p>

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<p>Wow, I was just about to say that. My D has a pair of Jessica Simpson silver wedge pumps that got all scuffed up so I stuffed them with newspaper and spray painted them out on the front porch. I waited till they dried and then just put them back in her room. She said “Thanks for cleaning my shoes.”</p>

<p>Incidentally, the reason I had silver spray paint is that she was once the Tin Man in the school play and I bought her costume shoes at Payless and then painted them myself.</p>

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<p>Really?? I thought Thumper was jazzing me.</p>

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<p>I wasn’t kidding! There are some nice metallic paints out there. They won’t last forever but they will make the shoes wearable for an evening or two.</p>

<p>The other thing to check…go to a place like Michaels…and look in their “marker” section. I have a silver permanent marker here (it might be a sharpie). Maybe you can touch the shoes up with that.</p>

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<p>I love CC.</p>

<p>Thanks, guys.</p>

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<p>^</p>

<p>I touch up shoes all the time with sharpies for scuffs on the toes or heels.</p>

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<p>I was about to suggest Vaseline–but that is for patent leather or those corafam (sp?) military shoes.</p>

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<p>i used to use windex on my military corofams! (reminds me of My Big Fat Greek Wedding!)</p>

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<p>This is one crazy place.</p>

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<p>I really did it, no joke. And the spray paint version of silver was actually prettier than the original finish. I’m not actually sure how well they held up with use. I’m going to talk to her later this evening and will try to remember to ask.</p>

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<p>my D had some ballet slippers with sparkles that she gave to me cause they looked like she used them to slow down her go cart.
I used epoxy & a tube of silver glitter & an old shoe box-
worked pretty good- now I suppose she will want them back.</p>