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Supplies to sparkle your old shoes, or maybe a new to you pair. You may want to lay down a garbage bag, old sheet or some news paper to protect your work space. As well as an old shirt!
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I am using some cheap crayola paint brushes. I used 3 throughout this. One for the glitter glue mix, one for the edges and a dry one to dust stray glitters off the shoes.
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Clean bottom of your heels very good, I used alcohol to finish off (and let that dry). As you can see mine are well worn. Magic erasers, dish soap are also good to use here.
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If using a paintbrush; Gently bend or flex paintbrush to make sure it isn't stiff at all. I am using latex gloves since my nails are marvellous.
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Alternatively you can use a sponge brush. Some people may find this easier to be able to evenly distribute everything.
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Mod podge in a dish. Try to use something you can throw out later or that isn't too important, it can prove difficult to clean. This is a dish already dedicated to crafting
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You can use a plate, paper plate or dish, tupperware container, pallet, cup, plastic cup, really anything you wish so long as you can mix!
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Pour in glitter and mix
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Glittery mix. It's up to you how much you want to mix. Too "thin" won't have as much of a solid coverage while very glitter heavy will be more difficult to spread and work with.
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Paint!
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And then glitter on top of that (just straight up glitter). You can see the difference between the glitter mix and mix with glitter on top here.
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I found doing the back of the heel first the easiest
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Shake and tap your heel to get off the excess glitter, onto a paper, you can rebottle and keep using it
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I painted the edge, you could also tape around (this was bloody tedious)
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Glitter on to mod podge glitter mix
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All covered & now to thoroughly dry. I left them over night
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Day 2 - lay on a layer of mod podge and again leave to dry well. You can also even out or fix spots that maybe aren't glitterfied enough. You can also purchase a spray "seal"
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I redid the little edge it looks a lot better than the first time around
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If you find yet another layer necessary just make sure that each coat is entirely dry before adding another. Before wearing rub the bottoms or scuff on a sidewalk a little. Go make your world shine!
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Enjoy your awesome new glitter <3
