to summarise: 1. wrap the cloth around two fingers and apply polish 2. apply more polish 2 1/2. wait for it to dry 3. apply more polish 3 1/2. wait for it to dry 4. apply more polish 4 1/2. wait for it to dry 5. wrap the cloth around a single finger, drag it across the polish once, dip it in water and then make small circular motions on the area you wish to be polished 6. apply more polish 7. repeat step 5

One thing I would add to this process for beginners is to clean/wipe down your shoes before applying any kind of shoe polish.

I'm not even in the air cadets anymore but I never properly learned how to shine my shoes. Finally a tutorial that doesn't tell me to use hairspray or cheat, thanks

Great video, very informative. One piece of unsolicited advice however: Don't say things that undermine your skill. Things like "I don't know". It takes away some of the viewer's confidence in you. You're making the video because you DO know how to shine a shoe, so be proud of your knowledge and give it as best you can. I appreciate your humility but the people here are looking for someone who DOES know how to shine shoes, so be that someone! Thanks again and cheers.

Hands down, the best mirror shining technique I’ve tried that has ACTUALLY made my shoes super shiny & smooth. I think I have a little more to go BUT YASSSS FINALLY.

Hi, I’m from Singapore and I am a scout. I watched your videos in the past and back here after graduating from scouts as I’m graduating secondary school soon. Ur video helped me a lot and I managed to teach my juniors well. I hope you are doing fine and well now

My dad showed me a method that takes 10mins for a experienced 'buller' and 30 for a not so experienced one. 1. Polish the boots and layer multiple times until a good amount of layers is applied. 2. Take a cotton ball or cloth and soak and i mean drown it do not rinse 3. Put a bit of polish on and go in circles pressing down slightly in bigish circles 4. Make sure it's soaked and go in small circles pressing really lightly 5. keep going until shiny (I'll do a vid if ppl want)

Thank you for this video! Best technique I've come across so far with amazing results 🙌

Thank you so much. i know this is an old video but i recently got new female parade shoes as i joined not so long ago, and i had no clue how to get a good shine. After watching your tutorial they are so shiny, thanks :)

Dont do it in thick layers. Create several smaller layers first

Thank You so much. I didn't know that with this method I can produce this much of shine on my shoes. I tried it and get amazing result. People often ask me "Are these new shoes???" or "Do you polish your shoes daily???". Etc. Thanks Again.

Hey there. I'm also a 14 year old female :) I have tried a lot to get my shoes to look as good as yours many different ways, and nothing has worked so far. However, this video worked miricales for me, and now my shoes look incredible, ready for my rememberance day parade tomorrow! Thank you so much for putting this video on. Much appreciated! :D

Thats one heck of a shine! Good job!

Thanks for the tips, now my boots will be just like glass for next inspections.

Get a heat gun or hair dryer on them, and then wipe off the fog with a wet towel. It will remove the bumps, uneven layering of polish and soften scratches.

This was fantastic thanks, cheers from Australia.

Just started air cadets and this is Tracy use full thanks man 🙏🙏

Thanks this was a great tutorial! Really helpful.

It worked. Great job. Thanks

Great tutorial I saw amazing results after on 3 thick coats

Good Drills, keep up the great work. 👍👍

Outstanding tutorial. I got a mirror finish and it only took a little work

Great video, thank you !

Thanks for sharing and good on you for having pride in your appearance. It will never be a negative thing only positive.

Very good beginner tutorial. Provides the basics but a little more specific instructions would help to guide thise persons that arent exactly experienced with the polishing process.

Great job!! Thank you

several smaller layers and buff, buff, and buff. Mirror shine. I have gotten many "Outstanding" comments in the elevators at work :). Trust me, people DO look at your shoes.

If you do to thicker layers it will crack so don't cake the shoe/boot in polish

This helped a lot

instructions very clear.

I can do this in a day or even a few hours use cheap polish and it will take mutch longer Use a polish like saphir mirror gloss dries instantly so no waiting for it to dry takes no time at all Also use a cream polish first protects and nourishes the leather

Would this work in covering scuffs on a black shoe ?

Great vid thanks it’s has helped

Good vid patrycja 👌 keep it going

I’m in JAFROTC and this was the first time we actually had to shine our drill shoes so yeah

Thank you!

Not gonna lie to you mate... you’ve clearly beeswaxed your second one... you can see the wax line.... good shine, but yours aren’t legitimately just polish as you’ve displayed😉 I do this for a living. Good effort tho bud!

Very Nice ,!

it is a pretty good techique however the reason why theres that massive bit in the middle of that toecap is because whoever polished it has used too much water kind of trapping the polish and stopping you from achieving a shine. if you ever get this, use a hairdryer and melt the polish off. to get the polish off use the hairdryer and use an off brush and once you got your polish off, leave it to dry for at least an hour and then you can start polishing again 👍

The legend returns.

Nice to see you're back in the game 🎮

I'm an army cadet, but it's irish guards so we need to bull parade boots, thanks for the vid!

believe it or not i actually quite like shining shoes, but if they are badly stripped i would fully strip them and then build up the layers (100) and bull for a good amount of time constantly until i can see my face. This is what i would do, but i have not done the bulling method just yet, only the brush buff. How old are you?

cover the shoe or boot in polish over night . brush off next day. use yellow duster to start to build layers on the boot with a bit of spit. keep working on t until you get a deep shine. repeat bulling with a smooth cloth to remove scratches and good to go endex

great shine

Leather is porous because it is basically skin that's been treated and tanned. The pores on the leather absorb light which makes the surface seem dull and rough. On a good set of shoes one could actually see the pores. When one adds polish to the leather each subsequent layer will fill the pores of the leather causing the light to reflect off the surface.

Very good

Apply heat to the cracked layer. It will even out the bumps and the kiwi will stick firmly to the leather and will not crack again ever, unless it is stepped on or scratched (But you can repeat the same treatment if it is stepped on or scratched). You can use lighter or candle for such purpose if you can't get a heat gun. Heat treated kiwi layer can be easily polished to mirror shine, directly with small amount of kiwi and water without having first layered it, as the older layer is melted and hardened in the pores of the leather. To improve the shine, use ice cold water. You need only a small droplets of water, placed directly on the shoes /boots if you wish, for mirror shine. You can even do that to the whole shoes/boots that even creases and folds would not break up the kiwi. They will be glassy smooth and shinny throughout unless the leather starts to crack. However, remember to heat treat a thin layer at a time before mirror-shinning it and build up the hardened kiwi layer gradually until the layer is thick enough that you only need to do mirror shine straight away.

From a Police Academy Magnet Program in Los Angeles, and honestly, this helped me with my RG boots :)

On your crazy shine video does it work with parade gloss

How long did this take you ?

Are you allowed to have or use Saphir products or just Kiwi? I grew up with Kiwi, my father was in the Navy and just handed that down to me but I just couldn't get that mirror look until i discovered Saphir Gloss Wax. So much easier then Kiwi, and lasts longer too...

OMG, thanks.

Sick advice. 1 round and my shoes look so much better.

Yo, I'm in 17th Squadron (City of Christchurch) In New Zealand. What Squadron are you in?

👏👏👏

Need some help here, no matter how many layers I do, my shoes end up being matte.. Basically they shine less then they did after putting on just shoe cream... What am I doing wrong? Is it the quality of the products I use? Do I use too much water?

Hi I'm from 23 (south elmsall) squadron I was wondering what squadron you are from also I subscribed and this video helped me get through a uniform inspection

Great help mate I am currently a Royal Navy recruit so it’s great to see a young boy with such skill keep it up👍🏻

I watched your first video where you were polishing your own shoe. I’m curious, who is the maker of your parade shoe.

My shoe creases r really bad and their like pealing off, is there like any way to fix that?

Today the liquid polishes soak I dye the leather. The wax build up transfers to the first thing it touches.

will it work with only the layering polish?? because im new to air cadets and I dont know about polishing shoes!!

how about using fire on that dried polish? would it be more shining?

Can you demonstrate on female shoes? That would be helpful. Also would you do a video on polishing you boots, as I joined not long ago and have got my uniform and am stuck on what do do for my boots. Thanks if you even read this comment

Great video, they need morello boot polish morelloman on them boots!

Not bad for the atc.you should probably mention to not use parade gloss it turns your boots slightly blue

It depends on the type of leather .

Nice

Thanks now I know. I did big circles and used too much water. Shoes look nicer now and after seeing my shiny shoes my roommate asked me to do hers. lol she said I put a hurting on her shoes cause they shiny and it was only quick few minutes. :)

what wing are you from?

I take a blow torch to my shoes after the polish has been applied. Then let it cool and buff to a glass like shine

How long does this shine last? Is this a one time in a year polish or once a month?

It DOES matter if the wax/polish is cracked in the can. It means the evaporative agent in the polish/was is evaporated and it won't soak into the leather and dry. It also gets messy with chips that fall out of the can and off the rag. Pay the extra bux for a good quality wax/ polish.

Thanks My sqn 2509 didn’t explain it that well imo

At the beginning you need to use cream for shoes if you put that much wax with no cream when you walk the wax will crack

T H I C C Layer

Great upload but What about the rest of the shoe?

Those scuff marks in the toe cap easy way to get rid of them is buy first using a shoe cream it goes right in and fills in those scuffs and scratches highly recommended.

what to do with other color like white , brown ?

whats the other video ?

Is the water warm or cold?

if you have really well polished shoes put clingfoil on them then melt the clingfoil onto the shoes and after 2 days peel of the clingfoil and you will have amazing shoes

I’m an army cadet and I’m just wondering do you have to have them shiny because we don’t we just have to have them clean but we can have them shiny if we won’t to

Which sqn u in?

You people should try fire shine

I don't think I'm supposed to but I used a brush instead and it looked okay, but I think the brush is for something else? Idk, I'm new 🤷🏻‍♂

Trust me i tried your idea in a the last minute but the idea i did is you put tiny bit of polish and its a mirror shine

I find polishing rather therapeutic I’m a second class cadet and 400 is my squadron

How long does it take you to do both shoes?

Hey don’t know If you still check messages or not, but I did this process and it did start to shine but after a few more time it started to look scratched then shiny. What do I do before it gets worse?

I slept through this video but good video

You've done a great job but either you should have cleaned the shoe back to scuare one and then start building up layers or underneath all those gunk layers there is just dead dry skin that has never been nurished... Overall very nice job. I wish I had your patience.

This vidio was so healpfull ( not sarcasum ) thanx

what comp are you with im cubec and a csm

Ditch the Kiwi. Use Lincoln. Use thinner layers. Drops of water at a time.

Works for jungle boots.

Small amounts of polish, remember your technically polishing the polish, not the leather. I also use a quality shoe cream to keep the leather supple. 👍

Which part of America are you from by the way???

What do you mean by "don't bull it"?