Pimpin' My old heels!

Hello wonderful fashions guru's! 

I was sent a sample from Shoelicks* to try out, they let me pick the design I wanted, which I chose leopard. They were really quick with delivery which was great. 

Essentially their customization stickers for your shoes, kind of like those stickers boy racers put on their cars...but for shoes.
The product comes in a small package like above with two stickers, one for each sole of the shoe and a little instruction leaflet.

How did the easy peasy three steps go for me?

Well it took several attempts at step one, and two... okay and maybe step three. I'm not very good with DIY products, but I always give them a good go.

Step one was imprint the shape of the sole onto the sticker, so hold the sticker against the sole of the shoe and press heavily and get the shape imprinted onto the back of the sticker. It took me about ten minutes to get the shapes on both stickers.

Step two didn't take as long as I thought and with my shoddy scissor work I cut the shape out. Which is essentially all step two involves, cutting around the lines.

Step three was the hardest for myself to achieve, one because I'm bad with any stickers, I can't place things perfectly and my shoddy scissor work really didn't get the full tight shape of the sole. So once I finally got the stickers on, may I add that adhesive, even if they're re-usable in a sense, was bloody tough stuff! No need to worry about loosing a sticker in the rain.

When I placed the stickers on, FINALLY, I used the scissors to cut around the edges and refine the placement. Well as refined it was going to get with my limited skills.

'Pimpin The Heels'

Verdict

I was pretty impressed with this product, I don't want to just big something up because it was sent to me, and on my blog I'm pretty honest about everything I love and what's good and bad about it.

As a versus to the previous product I tried out a few years ago, it was much better!

Pros

- The design and print was brilliant, there was no blurry imagery, which I'm always afraid of happening with any product that involves printing.

- The steps were easy enough for someone like myself who was very limited in anything like this.

- There was no over-use of packaging, it's a slim packet which can be sent through an envelope so postal isn't that expensive.

- The adhesive is super strong, so you won't loose your stickers in the rain!

-The price is affordable for such a product which is good, in my opinion I would never pay anything over 4 quid for this product, as it's basic DIY and there's no need for fancy numbers on two stickers for your shoes, so well done to Shoelicks for the affordable pricing.

Cons

- The easy removable isn't so easy, as I had to remove the stickers to replace them once or twice and that adhesive, although it's in the plus side, it has it's downfall for a shoddy DIY gal like myself.

- It's hard to get the imprint onto the sticker itself (step one), you are told to press heavily but I find if you're placing them on heels it's going to be much mpre difficult. Shoelicks do advise that placing the stickers onto flat shoes will be much easier.

Overall I give this product a 9 out of 10.

The price is worth the product. There's a range of designs to chose from and they are easy enough to apply. Just be warned that even though the adhesive is a plus, if you have limited skill it's going to be a messy few minutes trying to place the sticker and peal off, but I suppose once you've got the knack for something like this you'll be flying!

Thank you to the Shoelicks team who have been great over the past few weeks with information and discussions and sending me one of my favourite designs.

The team have also been so lovely to send me a promo code for all my readers and followers to get 33% off your first order from Shoelicks, just use the code 'pimpmyheels' and buy your first pair of Shoelicks for £2.00 (€2.73).

Shoelicks are available in selected River Island stores but for best access to the product you can find all the designs and more at Shoelicks.com.

Look out for my new pimped heels on my Social Networking sites over the next few weeks!

Lots of love,

♥ Melody ♥

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