Ever bought a new pair of shoe that are tight or half a size smaller?

Recently I bought *counting* five pairs of shoes from the recent FJ Benjamin warehouse sales and two out of the five pairs are pumps. I’ve always adore GUESS shoes although their shoes could be quite high and slim for my fatty feet :D. All along I assume imported brands is larger in size but I couldn’t even fit into my usual Size 7! Warehouse sales could be a bit troublesome to ask for shoe to try so I ended up with Size 7.5 after I fail to fit in Size 7.

Fortunately for me I accidentally came across a tutorial from Michelle Phan on how to expand or stretch new shoe so I tried it on my “zebra” pumps and it works! I thought you might want to know this trick too so here’s my version on How To Stretch Your Shoe

According to Michelle Phan, this method will be able to stretch leather shoe permanently from half a size to a full size larger. Synthetic material shoe will work just fine but you might need to repeat the process as and when needed. I’m not sure what is my shoe’s material made from. I believe I saw a label stated cow leather or something. Anyway I’m just going to assume mine is made from synthetic material lol

First, you will need two zip lock sandwich bag. I bought a box from Ikea previously. There’s two different sizes of sandwich bag in a box and I’m using the small bags. Even that also it’s too huge for my shoe.

Next, fill in with some water. Not too much. Pour away or add in to get the right amount later if needed.

Grab the corner and try gathering all the water on the other corner and stuff the edge into your new pumps. The type of pumps could be a fully covered like mine or a peep toe. It doesn’t matter. You will know which part of the shoe is tight on your feet so make sure that area is nicely covered with the bag of water.

Then, put the whole shoe in the freezer until the water in the bag is fully frozen and turned to ice :D. For this step, make sure you clean the base of the shoe before putting into the freezer for hygiene purposes. My shoe is brand new and mum is okay with it ;). What I do is I’ll put the shoe in the freezer at night. By the time I went to bed, the water has turned into ice.

Once the water has frozen into ice, take the shoe out from the freezer and let the ice thaw (unfreeze) at room temperature. As for me, I will take the shoe out right before I go to sleep. There will be some water sweat from the thawing process but don’t worry, a little water is fine.

By the time the whole bag of ice finished it’s thawing process, take the bag out and wipe the shoe down with a cloth or tissue. Then try the shoe on! You will notice that the shoe is somehow looser. I don’t agree with Michelle Phan that the shoe will expand to one size larger. It is definitely looser, maybe half a size but not as loose as one full size.

The reason why I do the freezing at night before bed and thawing in the middle of the night is because I can wear the shoe the next morning :).

There are concerns on whether the shoe will be too large or loose after using this method. Look…you only do this little trick when your shoe is too tight or too small on you. You just don’t do this when the shoe fits perfectly on you. That’s the whole purpose of this tips – to make your new shoe more comfortable. It’s not going to give you a major size change so don’t sweat about it

As for me, I like to finish it off with Scholl Leather Heel Liners. This makes the walking more comfortable without the friction at the back that is possible in causing skin peeling

Hope you enjoyed and learnt a trick or two with this simple fashion tips. It certainly works for me and I do hope it does to you too!

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Everytime I buy a new pair of heel, I always pre-prep my heel before wearing them. New heel are normally tighter and stiffer so pre-prepping the heel is very important to me otherwise I’d end up with painful blisters that will take a week to heal.

What I do is I got myself a new pair of Scholl Heel Grips. You can get this from almost everywhere but I’d normally buy it from Watsons.

Peel off one of the heel grip. It is very sticky so try holding on to a spot.

I normally hold it this way to get the equal balance side on the shoe. I don’t estimate if it balance or not. I just hold it this way.

Still holding the heel grip on the same spot, I push it towards the back of the heel like this. This is what I meant by balance on each side. By doing this you’d get a balance grip on left and right.

Align it carefully and use your index finger and push it through top to bottom. Quickly change the spot where you hold the grip so you stick it correctly. Otherwise it’d be hard to take it off.

Let go one side of the grip and carefully align it to the side and stick it on to the heel. Repeat with the other side of the grip.

Here’s how it looks like!

The direction says that we should allow 8 hours before wearing but most of the time it was just too rush. Stick it and off to work I go!

You can also use this jelly cushion for the inner insole but I find this too dirty on the side after some time so I stop using this and I go for full insole. All my shoe insole is in new condition due to full insole. Not forgetting comfortable too.

You can use any insole that you like. The best is still Scholl as the colour is light beige but need lots of washing especially if you are like me who took off the shoe when driving. Daiso’s insole will tend to be smelly and Watsons insole will melt on the downside and the whole thing will stick on the shoe that is even worse. I hope Scholl will came out with black colour insole.

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