How to Customize Your Basketball Shoes
Basketball shoes are indispensable for professional basketball players and for those who play basketball for fun because it is a sport that requires agility and good mobility from your feet, and basketball shoes will be a great assistant for you to practice or play better. Nowadays, the big shoe companies have produced basketball shoes with a variety of colors, designs and materials that you can easily find the right for yourself, and buy in sport stores or even online stores.
However, if you pay attention, you will realize that basketball shoes by basketball players often have a unique design, and the color of the shoe is not the same as the shoes sold at the stores that sell sportswear. This will make you also want the creative decoration that matches your preference for that basketball shoe, but you won’t know how to get it right, so here are a few ways to help you decorate.
1. Find Tools To Paint Your Basketball Shoes
You can buy paint sprays at hardware stores, and painting with these will save you a lot of time and money, but this way the downside is the color of your basketball shoes won’t be detailed and you can only paint one color, so consider it first.
To paint the best basketball shoes, you should prepare a protective tape to prevent color spills, a baby paintbrush to be able to paint on your shoes. If you like colorful shoes, you should buy about two to three bottles of leather paint. Also, you need to prepare a cotton ball, nail polish remover or acetone so that you can clean the surface first before you start painting.
The first step is to find a large-sized newspaper or cardboard to avoid the paint splattering on the floor or wall, if you use a newspaper, you will notice because the ink from the newpaper can be melt and black smudges might get on your shoes. Once you’ve got your workspace ready, it’s time to get your basketball shoes painted. The first step is to remove the laces and soles, so they do not stick to the paint, or you can take the newspaper with tape over it, and these two ways will protect the laces and soles from paint. Next, for step two, you dip the cotton ball in acetone or nail polish remover and gently wipe through the surface layer of the shoe because if you don’t wipe it off, the transparent protective layer that the manufacturer paints on will cause the paint to crack or it will be faded in a short period of time. Once you’ve finished wiping it off, let it dry for at least 30 minutes.
The preparation step is over, now decide which parts of the basketball shoes you will paint and which you will not paint. Now that the preparations are over, you need to decide which parts of the basketball shoes you will paint and where you will not be. After you make up your mind, take the pre-prepared adhesive tape, wrap the places carefully so that no gaps can pass through, and the very long process requires patience, just to reapply to different sections after the first round of painting.
Completing the above two steps, it’s time to use your creativity to paint on your basketball shoes so colorful and eye-catching depending on your preferences, and let it dry for at least 24 hours so that you can remove the protective tape easily. However, there are layers of adhesive tape that will cause some paint to not be detailed, so take a small brush and slowly paint over the missing areas and let dry for the next 24 hours. If you still nervous about painting, you should pratice painting on old shoes.
2. Design Your Shoes And Sent It To The Manufacturer.
With today’s advanced technology, you can easily create your own models to suit yourself. Today’s major shoe manufacturers also understand consumers want to give themselves a basketball shoe with their own style, so on their websites, you can create your own shoes and buy them easily, but you will have to buy it to replace your old shoes.
Overall, i think that we can find ourselves the best solution, so you should consider it.
