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Through a combination of cleaning, use of care products and general wear and tear, the leather surface is polished over time and thus becomes shinier. Most new leather in cars and on furniture, as well as a lot of older leather, is matt or close to matt. Leather surfaces come in a variety of finishes, from the ultra-matt of new car leather to the high-gloss of patent leather. 2 The cleaning and care of soiled, glossy car leather.1 Degrees of gloss - degrees of dullness.Wait for it to dry and then add a little bit of clear nail polish to the spot you fixed to add shine so it matches the rest of your shoe. Then use shoe polish that matches the color of your shoe (or if you have a uniquely colored shoe use a nail polish color that matches) and dab it in the deep scratch/gouge.
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*Clean the surface with a damp wash cloth and make sure the surface is dry. *Use Windex…it’s as simple as that! Fixing a Deep Scratch or Gouge *Another method is to use a gum eraser (those big pink erasers you used to have in elementary school!). *Get a q-tip and some nail polish remover….it works like magic! But the few tricks I discovered, worked! And I figured I’d post them all in one place for any of you ladies who own patent leather and want to save your shoes or revive an older pair! Removing Color Transfer/Light Scratches I scoured the internet in hopes of finding a way to save them (I’m cheap and didn’t want all the money that I spent on those shoes to go down the drain!) and I couldn’t find a lot of info on how to save them. Ugh….I thought they were a lost cause and that I wouldn’t be able to wear them again. Well sure enough, upon walking back to the car with Mabel and my husband I realized that I had two giant scratches/color transfers on both of my heels. They never seemed like a good investment. I normally try to stay away from spending a lot on shoes but I wanted to look good when I saw him for the first time in almost half a year!īut I’ve always been weary of patent leather…the times that I’ve owned patent leather heels they’ve gotten scratched the first few times of wearing them and then they looked too horrid to wear. The other week when I went to go pick my husband up from the airport, I was wearing my beautiful new patent leather heels that I had spent a pretty penny on.
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