Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Refashioning shoes

Hi everyone! This weekend's refashioning project started out as a pair of fairly dingy cream shoes that I'd thrifted a while ago and not worn very much. The fit and style were good, but the color...especially with some dark smudges on it...eh, not so much. I just wasn't wearing them.


So I took a bottle of nail polish that also wasn't getting much use, protected the edges of the the soles and the scalloped trim with masking tape, carefully brushed on a couple of coats of polish, and turned these into pink shoes with cream trim.


I've been wanting more bright-colored shoes, and this refashion seems to do the trick! I wore them yesterday without any damage to the color...we'll see how long it lasts before I need to touch them up.

As always, other refashions are on my blog. Hope everyone is having a great week!

5 comments:

Jenni said...

Super Cute! I've painted shoes before, but never thought about using nail polish. Let us know how they wear!

Liz said...

What a fab idea!

Lyndel said...

WOW Nailpolish. In the 70s and 80s you used to be able to buy bottles of shoe colour to paint on, from the shoe repair shops. I always painted all my summer shoes darker colours for winter to get more wear out of them. Never thought of nail polish!!!

Unknown said...

Nail polish!! Brilliant!!

Ms Wanda said...

Nice to see shoes on here for a change. A really great idea!