Shoe Polish and Leather Care Blog

It can feel tragic when you break your beautiful mirror shine on your leather dress shoes. Especially after you spent so long building and perfecting it, all the way up from the base leather. However, there are some shortcuts to fixing it, that take much less time than the initial process that's required for the build-up. 

In this video, Andy demonstrates one of those techniques, using the fresh underlying layer of solvent on a tin of High Shine Paste/Wax Polish. 

Polishing grain leather is not an easy thing. Caring for the leather care be quite straight forward – keep it conditioned with Conditioner, protected with Cream, and add some scuff protection on the toes and heels with Paste/Wax Polish. But, getting that magic mirror shine or even a nice quality high shine, can sometimes be elusive.

Grain leather has more texture, it's grainy (by definition), and rubbing stiff waxes across grain can be challenging.

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11-minute video where Andy shows how to apply Paste/Wax Polish to the toes and heels of your leather shoes and boots. Andy gives descriptions of the "how's" and "why's" of using Wax versus Cream, where and why to apply it, and the different application techniques.

8 minute how-to video going in-depth on routine shoe shine and care for black men's dress shoes, using Pure Polish Black Cream Polish on some vintage Crockett & Jones two-eyelet derbies. Descriptions of why you do each step, what to look for, and what to avoid.

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Pure Polish Black Cream and High Shine is all you need to make your mirror shine

Walking home from DaKine café in Bend, Andy considers recent tips he’s been giving on mirror polishing and how to avoid buildup of too much wax.

Pure Polish Andy enjoys a cappuccino at DaKine Grindz Cafe in Bend.