Hey, guys. It's Elessa here from Pursebuzz and it's Tip Thursday. So one of the big trends for 2011 is glitter shoes, glitterified shoes. Christian Louboutin had them like all over the shoes and so today I'm gonna show you how to do that to your own shoe so maybe you have like an old pair of pumps or like an old pair of shoes that you wanna refresh, you want something different. I'm gonna show you how to put some glitter on there
to sparkle it up and to have some fun. Okay, so the very first thing you're gonna do is you're gonna take your favorite pair of shoes or your shoes that you wanna put glitter on and you're gonna clean them up and I already did that with the paper towel and just a little bit of water, just to make sure all the dirt and oil are removed, and I'm actually using a pair of leather pumps. These are my favorite leather pumps. They're super comfortable and these used to be my interview shoes so now that I have moved on to different styles, I'm gonna amp this one up and make it fun and glittery, so I put some paper towels in here
because I'm gonna be doing a lot of glittering and I don't want it to be inside of the shoe, I want it to be on the outside, so once that's done, you're gonna leave that to the side and dry and you're going to take a paper plate or whatever you wanna use to put your glitter in and I'm gonna be using Gem TAC, it's my favorite glue. I just like it. I really couldn't say what's better but this one says, "bond sequins, glitter, and rhinestones to fabric," so that's what I'm gonna be using. So I'm just gonna squirt a blob--
actually this is all dried up so I'm gonna open this up and I'm going to squirt a blob. Now, depending on how fast you work, you may wanna use a smaller amount but I'm just gonna use a blob here. You can get this at Michael's. This is my favorite to use for rhinestones on shoes as well. Okay. Then you're gonna take one of these sponge things. This is mine that I've used prior for the other pair of shoes. These are like 39 at Michael's. Then you're gonna take your glitter. Now, I'm using Martha Stewart's Glitter.
This one's a little bit more pricier. I think it's like $5 because this glitter inside is really fine and I think that's what makes the shoes look really nice and if you use like chunky glitter, it really depends and that's more [unk] 'Cause I'm going for like a higher-end shoe, I wanna go for like the finer glitter. You can also mix in like those spherical sequins and stuff like that, but-- so right now I'm making my base. This is the glue and the glitter and I'm just gonna mix that up and you wanna make it so it looks kinda like what you see in the middle.
Feel free to add more glitter or glue as needed, so I'm just gonna work it in there, and don't ever feel like you're wasting glue or glitter because you can always use it on other areas of the shoe. If the glitter falls, you can just dump it right back into the bottle like when you're in grade school, so once you have a consistency like this, you're going to put it on your shoe and I'm gonna start painting on my shoe. Remember to paint over a surface area like this where I have construction paper
or if you have newspaper and I'm gonna work on the heel first and I like the smaller sponge because you can really get into the surface and you can get really into those little cracks and those little areas really nicely and so you want a smooth surface and you're gonna just smooth it out, just like that, and you wanna go in small areas because you don't want the glue to dry before you sprinkle on the glitter. And you don't need a lot of glitter or glue,
you just need a nice smooth, smooth it out as much as possible, so I'm just gonna work on 2 sides here, all the way to the heel, and upward. So I'm just gonna cover up the heel. Feel free to add a little bit more glitter glue as needed. And the reason why I'm doing glitter glue is because I want-- when this dries, I want there to be glitter on the back, just in case any pieces of glitter fall when I do the sprinkling,
there's still gonna be that background glitter and you wanna make sure it's nice and smooth. You see this little chunk right there? You're just gonna work it off, work it into the other side of the shoe, and I recommend testing a small patch first before you go crazy and just put it all over the place. All right, now that I have that, I'm gonna start sprinkling on the glitter. Now, you can use any kind of glitter. You can mix colors, whatever you wanna do. I like to keep it with the same base color.
If you have a shoe that's black or you have a shoe that's white, that's great. You can also paint your shoe with acrylics and then go from there. Since this is leather, it's a really nice, expensive pair of shoes back in the day, I'm gonna leave it as is, and I'm gonna use this like a little salt and pepper shaker and I'm just gonna sprinkle it on. You can feel free to like dust it on yourself and anything that falls in the construction paper, don't worry about it, you'll just take care of that later, and you can see, it's just a nice, even amount,
then I'm gonna work it on the backside. Shaking it up, putting it on all the areas that I have glue, and it's already looking so pretty. Okay. Then you're gonna take your pinky and just lightly tap it in, so that the glitter will really stick to the shoe.
You can see my nails, too, they're from Milani, super cool. Except that one, but, whatever. Okay, then you're gonna move on, and you shake it, and you can see all the glitter that has fallen, don't worry about it. Okay, you're gonna do the same thing with this side, just put a little bit of glue, glitter, work it right at the edge, and you can even just put this on the heel, too. Maybe you should do that first, see if you like it, maybe it's too much glitter, then you can just stop right there. Okay, right out to the edge.
And then see how it's kind of thick, smooth it out. Smooth strokes. Just like that. Then sprinkle with glitter. I think Marth Stewart Glitter is like perfect 'cause it's so fine and it's super sparkly. And Michael's coupons make it cheaper. Okay?
Then you're gonna pat that in. Very gently, that's why I recommend the pinky but if you can really gently tap that in. You don't want to push it because then it's just gonna be like your nail polish and it's gonna just get all messed up so there it is. Just a couple taps, and you have your little heel done. Okay, so now I'm going to finish up the rest of the shoe and I'll be right back.
Now that you have your lovely shoes, what I recommend doing is sealing it. You can decoupage it but I don't really recommend doing that because that totally takes it into a different style where it has that nice like patent leather to it. What you wanna do is keep it that gritty glitter if you're trying to go for like the trends that are going on right now, so what I recommend is hairspray. Okay, so this may or may not work for you depending on the glitter that you have.
My glitter is super fine so I'm just gonna take my L'Oreal Elnett and I'm gonna spray my shoe about 12 inches away. Nice, smooth, even...layer of hairspray, and that's going to work as an adhesive. Now, if you don't have hairspray or if you don't wanna use hairspray, you experience fallout because of the type of glitter you're using, then you can just get like the general purpose spraying adhesive,
but I recommend doing this first. Okay, now that it's kinda damp, I'm gonna go in with another layer of glitter all over the place because I love glitter and I wanna make sure that this is as glittery as possible. Anything that falls off, just dump it right back into the jar when you're done. And then that's it. Clean up the inside.
You can take either a piece of tape which is what I recommend doing or just kind of wiping it down. Now, just take that yucky paper towel or whatever you shoved in your shoe and you're done. Just take a little bit of tape, masking tape, and you can clean this all up. If you're really, really careful, you have lots of time, you can start with masking tape in there. I really could care less 'cause I could just clean that up and there you have it. Give it 24 hours to dry then you could check for any spots that you feel like you need more glitter,
or you want more glitter or it's kind of weird looking, you wanna add more to it. Feel free to do so and you can spray another layer of hairspray to keep it intact. I hope you guys enjoyed this Tip Thursday tutorial and coming up, I'm actually going to be doing some rhinestoning on these shoes right here. I didn't wanna do glitter for these, I wanted to do like a sparkle and I haven't decided whether or not just to do the heel or the entire shoe
so I'm holding out on that, but once I finish it, I'll definitely post something up on Pursebuzz.com and I hope you guys enjoy your glitter shoes. Thanks again for subscribing and I'll see you guys next time. Bye.
