Famaco Coral Red Leather Beauty Cream 536 – 50ml Creme de Beaute

Description

Famaco Coral Red Leather Beauty Cream 536 – 50ml Creme de Beaute, a warm coral leaning red with plenty of orange in it, brighter than a pillar box shade and far from the blue reds at the other end

Coral shoes are almost always treated with an ordinary red, because ordinary red is the only red that anybody actually stocks. It is a shade too deep and a shade too blue, and one coat drags a light summery coral straight into postbox territory. The shoes are still red afterwards, but they are no longer the particular colour that made somebody buy them in the first place.

This jar keeps them exactly where they were. The pigment measures as a warm coral with a strong orange component behind it, which is precisely the family that coral, geranium and flame coloured leather all sit in, so it refreshes the shade that is already on the shoe rather than quietly redirecting it somewhere else.

Fifty millilitres of warm coral cream in a screw topped jar, at £6.49.

Why choose this coral red shoe cream?

• It stays on the orange side of red. Reds divide firmly into warm and cool and the two do not substitute for one another however convenient that would be. This one measures firmly warm, so coral, salmon and flame uppers get their own colour back rather than a deeper and bluer relative of it settling permanently on top.
• Bright enough for a summer shoe. The tone reads light and lively rather than dark and serious, which is exactly what a coral sandal or a summer loafer needs from a cream. Dark reds smother that liveliness the moment they go on, and nothing brings it back afterwards.
• It covers where bright colours fade. Vivid shades lose their intensity in sunlight considerably faster than dark ones do, particularly across the vamp where the sun falls squarely. There is enough pigment in this jar to put that intensity back again rather than merely sealing over whatever is left of it.
• Feeding matters more on summer shoes. Sandals and light shoes spend their lives out in the sun and then several months shut in a box, which is a thoroughly drying regime by any standard. The wax and shea base counteracts both halves of it and keeps the hide from going brittle.
• It handles small coloured details too. Coral trims, heel wraps and the piping on otherwise neutral shoes are essentially impossible to match with anything else you are able to buy, and a single jar will cover every one of them for as long as you happen to own the shoes.
• A genuinely rare colour. Coral is not a shade that any mainstream shoe care brand bothers to produce, so this is a jar worth having on the shelf before the day you need it rather than after. When you do need it, nothing else will do at all.

How to use the Famaco Coral Red Leather Beauty Cream 536

Straightforward, but move quickly around any pale stitching for the reason given below. Clean, apply thinly, watch the thread, let it settle and then buff the whole thing up.

1. Brush the pair and wipe the smooth dyed leather clean.
2. Let them dry out of direct sunlight before starting.
3. Take a small quantity of cream on an applicator brush.
4. Lay it over the coloured panels in short and even strokes.
5. Wait a couple of minutes for it to be taken up.
6. Buff to a soft glow, then repeat on any faded areas.

My tip as a shoe specialist

Keep a dry corner of cloth in your other hand and go over the pale stitching the moment you have passed it, well before the cream has any chance to set. Bright warm pigments stain white thread far more readily than dark ones do, and once a coral smear has dried inside a seam it is there for the life of the shoe, because thread cannot be scrubbed without fraying. Wiped within a minute it lifts away completely. This is the detail that separates a tidy job on a coloured shoe from an obviously home made one.

Specifications

Product details

• Pot size: 50ml glass, metal lid
• Shade number: 536, warm coral
• Also called: Rouge Corail 536
• Waxes: Beeswax with shea
• Suits best: Coral, salmon, flame
• Not for use on: Suede and fabric
• Buffed with: Soft brush or cloth
• Range size: Over a hundred
• Made by: Famaco, Paris, £6.49

Frequently asked questions

Is coral the same as a normal red?

Swapping one for the other is the usual mistake. Coral carries a great deal of orange and sits lighter, while a standard red is deeper and leans blue, so it will pull a coral shoe several shades darker in a single coat.

Will it work on salmon or peach shoes?

On salmon, yes, and very well indeed. On a true peach it may read slightly strong, so test it somewhere hidden and consider a single thin coat rather than two.

Does bright colour transfer onto socks?

Not once buffed properly. Any cream will mark if left thick and unworked, so the answer is simply to keep buffing until no more of it lifts off.

Where can I buy the Famaco Coral Red Leather Beauty Cream 536 in the UK?

You can order this from Shoespecialist.co.uk. Fifty pounds in the basket removes the delivery cost entirely, orders confirmed by five oclock on any weekday go out immediately, and returns remain open to you for a further sixty days.