DIY Shoe Tricks: Get 20+ Different Looks on One Shoe Without Destroying your Shoes

These simple DIY Shoe Tricks will help you transform your shoe into many different looks for all your dresses and occasions.

Using every day simple items, you can transform a plain-coloured shoe (like this black heel here) into many looks, for every occasion and without ruining your shoes.

Every day items (threads, old earrings, shells, beads, pearls, etc.)can be easily attached and removed without any mark being left on your shoe. You can also easily add another item to make your shoe look as you want it to.

Use these DIY Shoe Tricks to Make Your Shoe Match Every Occasion and Dress

Never again have to worry that you do not have the right shoe to match your dress for an event.

All the changes are temporary and you can remove your shoe’s decorative items without leaving a mark on the shoe. You can also add as many decorative items on your shoes as you wish.

Requirements: What You Need to Decorate Your Shoe

• Your favourite shoe for which you wish to apply the DIY Shoe Tricks
• Items you can place on your shoe to decorate it: old earrings, beads, pearls, thread (different colours), ribbon (different colours), shells, paper, etc.
• Glue gun or needle and thread

DIY Shoe Tricks Procedure: How to Attach Decorative Items on your Shoe

• Clean the surface of the shoe that you want to add your decorative item
• Collect the decorative items you want to place on your shoe
• If you are using a glue gun, plug it into a power source and switch it on. Squeeze only one drop of the hot glue on your shoe and carefully place the decorative item on the shoe (on the drop of glue before it solidifies, e.g place the thread or earring or shell on the shoe.
• If you are using a thread and needle, carefully insert the needle through the inside of the surface of shoe to the outside surface of the shoe. Hook the decorative item you want on shoe and then pull the needle through the shoe surface (on the outside to the inside). Tie the thread and cut the loose threads.

DIY Shoe Tricks: How to Remove the Decorative Items from Your Shoe without Destroying the Shoe

• If you had used hot glue, just pull lightly the decorative item from the shoe. The drop of glue comes off easily too. You can lightly scratch with your finger nail the remaining part of the drop of glue if there is still one.
• If you used a needle and thread, cut the thread’s knot you had made from the inside and pull lightly to remove the thread and the decorative item.