Sandals + Shoe Polish

A little bit ago I bought a bag and did not have brown shoes to match. I tend to not wear brown all that often I mainly stick to black. So I went to Payless and picked up these brown sandals and did not even think to match the color with my bag. Since I already bought the shoes and liked them I thought I could just use shoe polish and change the color of the sandals.

 

Here is what the sandals looked like to start with.

I bought brown shoe polish at Walmart for about 4 dollars

I took an old rag and applied the polish to it.

You can kind of see that I started applying the polish on the left. The polish changed the thread color as well making the thread look black.

Here is the sandal after two layers of polish. The second coat did not really darken the color at all.

So the color did not get nearly dark enough as I needed to match my bag. 

Oh well, I do like how it turned out though, the color is much more rich than the original.