How to paint heels on boots at home?

Roads in modern megacities in most cases cannot be called good, since the fair sex is constantly faced with breaking and spoiling heels on your favorite shoes, falling into holes and bumps. Even a week after the purchase, the shoes become outwardly unpresentable and shabby. High-quality restoration of heels is often beyond the power of even workshop specialists. Yes, and such a repair is not cheap, so you can try to restore the shoes yourself, and for this you need to familiarize yourself with the technique of doing such work. In this article, we will consider how to paint heels on boots at home.

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How to restore heels on your favorite boots?

To do the job correctly and without errors, you must initially purchase in the store or prepare such materials and equipment:

• Spray can with car paint.
• Sponge.
• Solvent.
• Plastic bag.

Stages of painting heels on boots at home:

1. We wrap the boot in a plastic bag to protect it from accidental contact with paint. In principle, if the shoes and heels are black, then you can not do this.
2. Wipe the heel with solvent to degrease the surface.
3. Paint the heel. Moreover, this procedure is recommended to be done outdoors.

Important! Finding a paint of the right color is not a problem, since it is sold in a huge assortment in any car shop. When choosing how to paint the heel on boots, stop on acrylic paint, because it lays down evenly and dries quickly enough. One such spray can suffice for painting several dozen heels.

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How to repair heels completely spoiled?

Often there are situations when our shoes deteriorate, not only due to the influence of some external factors, but also for other reasons. For example, a dog or a cat can gnaw it. But do not throw it away in such a case. The situation, of course, is deplorable, but quite fixable. Repair in this case looks like this:

1. Tear off the insole completely.
2. We turn off the visible self-tapping screws.
3. Disconnect the heels.
4. Tear off the heels.
5. We clean the old skin.
6. We cover all damage from teeth or claws on the heel with epoxy paint.
7. We grind the surface thoroughly and apply glue with a thin layer.
8. The skin for covering with glue directly on the heels, we return them to their place and put new heels.

So simply and quickly you can breathe life into your seemingly permanently spoiled boots that collided in an unequal battle with your beloved pet.

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We paint plastic heels at home

You recently bought beautiful black boots with plastic heels, but they quickly fell into disrepair? Unfortunately, this situation is familiar to many, because over time, the black coating peels off and the white plastic base begins to be visible. But the shoes themselves are whole and it is a pity to throw them away.

At home, you can use paint in the form of a spray or regular. Let's consider several options for how and how to color the heels on boots at home in black correctly:

1. First option.We buy a small can of black acrylic paint and a brush, with which we apply paint on heels.
2. The second option. We take the nail polish is also black. First, degrease the surface, then apply varnish with a brush. To clean the base, you can use the usual cologne or alcohol.
3. The third option. If the hairpin is very high, it is better not to paint it, but to cover it with leather.

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How to repair paper covered heels?

Unfortunately, many modern manufacturers, trying to save on the production of multi-colored plastic, fit shoe heels with paper. Of course, not ordinary, but special.

This material cannot be called quality, of course. Such heels clothe and deteriorate much faster than their plastic counterparts.

But it turned out that dyeing heels on shoes can help in such a situation, the main thing is to have a desire. How to update the heel on boots, if he peeled off:

1. Take paint, hair dryer, solvent, a piece of soft, lint-free cloth and an old nail file.
2. Heat the surface of the heel with a hairdryer and remove the paper.
3. Wipe it with solvent and a soft cloth to remove any glue.
4. Paint on top. It is better to impose it in several layers.

Within a few hours in these shoes you can safely go out.

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Thanks to the information in this article, you learned various ways to repair damaged shoe heels. Now you can easily cope with this task, and a new unscheduled purchase of shoes is postponed until the moment when you yourself want to go shopping.