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Kevin Noriega

Fire shine shoes/boots

Introduction

Introduction: Those dress shoes sitting in your the back of your closet might benefitfrom a good shine before the party or interview you plan on going to. Or maybe you’regetting ready to head to boot camp and want to learn how to properly shine your shoesbefore you go. Whatever your reason is for wanting to learn to shine your shoes thistutorial is here to help. In this step by step tutorial we will go through the process of “fireshining” those boots or shoes, that way you can impress a couple ladies at the party,gain a bit of a confidence to help nail that interview, or just make everyone in yourplatoon jealous. Feel free to read this tutorial completely before you start or shine asyou read.

Stuff you’ll need

1. Shoe shine (black,brown, or white)2. Cotton balls3. Lighter4. Cup with water5. Shoe shining brush or a cloth/rag

Lets begin

1. Open your shoe polish, take your polish brush/cloth and rub some polish onto it. Be careful not to over do it.

2. Now, rub the brush/rag onto your shoes in small circles. Make sure you take your time and completely cover the area you would like to polish. The area should be smooth and a matte black color with a very slight shine to it by the time you’re done

3. Once you have a finished rubbing the polish onto the shoe you can go ahead and grab your lighter. Use the lighter to go over all the places that have shoe polish. Make sure you are not burning your shoes, keep the flames moving from place to place on theshoes surface. Give the shoes a few good passes with lighter before moving to the next step.

4. Next, grab a your cotton balls and a cup of water. Wet the cotton ball and begin to rub the polished area in small circles. As you do this the shoes should appear to clear up into a mirror shine

5. Finally, you can go ahead and gently dry them off with a cloth. Rub some more shoe polish on your brush or rag and brush the sides of the soles of the shoes to give them a nice dark finish to go with the shine (Optional)