DIY: How To Step Up Your Shoe Game
Ayishat Amoo is passionate about sharing the Good news of…
Some of us have plain shoes that we would like to improve their looks to make them look more stylish. For such people, this article is for you.
Even those who are just looking for a way to improve the look of an old shoe, this article will give you tips for that.
For most of the tips in this article, you will need a good glue, scissors, and materials you will add to your shoe.
And so, here are some ways you can improve the look of your shoe.
1. Add Embellishments
You can add embellishments to the body of your shoes to make them look stylish and give them a different look. You can add embellishments such as appliques, embroideries, etc. to your shoe.
2. Add studs to shoe
You can also add studs to parts of your shoe or the whole of your shoe with studs. You can get gold studs or silver studs; depending on the colour of the shore.
3. Add a bow to your sandals
You can make a ribbon into a bow and add to your sandals. It will give your sandals a cute look!
4. Add cute buttons
You can also fasten colourful buttons to your plain shoe. You can get buttons in different colours and sizes and fasten them to the body of your shoe. It is advisable to do this on shoes made with fabric.
5. Add glitters
You can also add glitters to your shoes. Note that when adding glitters to your shoes, you will need to have lots of glitters handy so as to ensure all parts of the shoes are covered with glitters after you have applied glue to the body of the shoe.
6. Wrap sandals with beautiful silk fabric
You can wrap some parts of your sandal like the sides or part of the body of the sandals with a beautiful silk fabric. However, make sure that the fabric is not too much that it will be too heavy for the sandals.
7. Paint some parts of your shoes
You can also get paint that can be used on shoes to use in spraying your shoe. You can decide to spray some parts of your shoe or the whole body of your shoe.
8. Dye your shoe
You can also dye your shoe to give it a new look. For instance, you can dye a white shoe that is already fading into a coloured shoe like orange or blue. However, it is advisable to dye shoes made with fabrics.
9. Attach a brooch to your shoe
You can also get a lightweight brooch and pin it to a corner on your shoe. This will immediately add details to your shoe and also give your shoe a stylish look.
10. Wrap your shoe with African prints
You can also get African prints like ‘ankara’, ‘adire’, ‘kente’, etc. to use in wrapping the body of your shoe.
11. Wrap your shoe with lace
You can get a cute lace to use in wrapping your shoe. You can give a shoe designer to help you carefully do this so your shoe or the lace won’t cut in the process. However, if you can do it yourself, you should.
Do you know other ways one can easily improve the look of a pair of shoe? Kindly share with us by commenting below.
In addition, don’t forget to share this article! Thank you.
What's Your Reaction?
Ayishat Amoo is passionate about sharing the Good news of Christ. She is a writer and digital marketer who loves good content, transferring knowledge to others. She is the founder of Corporately Lucid; a Content writing company for entrepreneurs, and she blogs at www.ayishatamoo.com. Find her on Instagram @ayishat and on Twitter @ayishat_a
You can also add cut out laces .eg. French lace etc
Faith! Thanks for the tip (*By the way, Faith is an expert in all things shoe).