Famaco Metallic Silver Leather Cream 397 – 50ml Creme de Beaute

Description

Famaco Metallic Silver Leather Cream 397 – 50ml Creme de Beaute, a pale silver with a faint blue cast and a bright sheen, and the one jar here whose front label reads Creme de Beaute Metallisee rather than the standard wording

The usual disaster with silver shoes involves a household cleaning wipe. The shoes pick up a mark, somebody grabs whatever is under the kitchen sink, and the alcohol in it lifts the very top of the metallic coating. The pair is spotlessly clean afterwards and completely dead, with a chalky grey cast where a bright reflective panel used to be, and no amount of rubbing will bring it back.

This jar is the correct answer to that particular accident. Its own front label carries the Metallisee wording in full and the pigment inside is a bright cool flake, so it restores the light bouncing quality that the panel has lost rather than simply laying a flat grey colour over the top of it.

A glass jar holding fifty millilitres of cool ice silver cream, priced £6.49.

Why choose this metallic silver shoe cream?

• It brings the light back. The pigment is a reflective flake rather than a solid grey, so a panel that has gone flat and chalky starts throwing light around the room again. That property is what people actually paid for when they bought the shoes, and an ordinary coloured cream cannot restore it.
• A genuinely cool silver. The tone measured directly from the jar sits on the blue side of neutral, which is precisely where ice silver and chrome finished leather live. It is not a warm pewter dressed up as a silver, and it will not quietly read as plain grey once it has dried and been buffed.
• Made for the coated leather it goes on. Metallic uppers and trims are coated, and coatings crack the moment the hide beneath them dries out. The natural wax and shea base keeps that hide flexible while the pigment gets on with the visible half of the job, which is why the two things belong in the same jar.
• Gentler than anything under the sink. There is no solvent anywhere in the formula, so it cannot lift the finish the way an alcohol wipe does. On a shoe that has already been wiped once and gone flat, this is the safe way to make a second attempt without compounding the original mistake.
• It works on trims as well as whole shoes. Silver piping, heel flashes and the small decorative panels on trainers all take the same thin coat, which is handy indeed because those little areas are exactly where the wear starts and exactly where nothing else in the cupboard will match.
• A lifetime of small repairs. You will use this in smears rather than dollops, so fifty millilitres covers years of touching up without ever going near the bottom of the jar. Metallic care is a small job, and the quantity reflects that.

How to use the Famaco Metallic Silver Leather Cream 397

Everything about this is gentle. No solvents, no scrubbing, no heavy coats, and above all no circles at all when you spread it, for the reason set out just below the steps.

1. Take the dust off with a dry soft cloth first.
2. For a real mark use a barely damp cloth, nothing stronger.
3. Load a fingertip of cream onto a piece of folded cotton.
4. Draw it across the coated leather in straight strokes.
5. Let it dry back until the surface stops looking wet.
6. Polish gently with a clean part of the cloth.

My tip as a shoe specialist

Work in one direction only, heel towards toe, and never in circles. Flake pigments line themselves up with the stroke as they dry, so a circular motion prints a set of visible swirls into the finish that only appear once the light hits them at an angle, usually well after you have put the shoes away pleased with yourself. Straight parallel strokes all running the same way give one continuous reflection instead. That is what separates a metallic repair that looks factory fresh and one that looks like a repair. It costs nothing to do.

Specifications

Specification summary

• Container: Glass jar, 50ml
• Metallic shade: Cool pale ice silver
• Label reads: Creme de Beaute Metallisee
• Consistency: Soft flake loaded
• Right for: Silver leather and piping
• Wrong for: Suede and fabric
• Use with: Straight cotton strokes
• Line: Famaco metallic colours
• Made in: France, £6.49

Frequently asked questions

My silver shoes went dull after cleaning. Can this fix them?

Usually, yes. A wipe lifts the very top of the coating rather than removing it, and a thin coat of reflective cream puts that sheen back. Work in straight strokes and give it two light passes, not one heavy one.

Is it the same as the platinum shade?

No. This is the cold bright one and platinum is the warm pewter one. If your shoes look like chrome then this is the jar; if they look like gunmetal, take the other.

Can I use it on silver trainers?

Yes, on the leather and coated panels. Keep it off any mesh or textile sections, and wipe stray cream from the rubber before it has a chance to dry.

Where can I buy the Famaco Metallic Silver Leather Cream 397 in the UK?

You can order this from Shoespecialist.co.uk. Spend more than fifty pounds and the delivery is on us, order before five on any weekday and it leaves the same day, and every purchase carries sixty days of return time.