Question about cleaning shoes

[ganimard]

Hello,

i hope some of you can help me with an issue. I have a pair of oxfords and boots, but I always used some cheap stuff on them. In other words, i also applied that stuff in the wrong order. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I have ordered the following items:

1. Lexol cleaner
2. Lexol conditioner
3. Saphir Renovateur
4. Meltonian shoe cream
5. Kiwi wax

Well, that would be it. I also put them in this order because I guess I should use them this way, but I still am not sure how long to let the Saphir R on the shoe before applying the cream. So that is where your help comes, I hope. Anyhow, the pair of oxford shoes is brown, but,as I said I used wax and everything else in a wrong order, so I was putting dark wax to give them a bit of a "tan". While I did give them a bit of a tan, I also made one of them darker, so could you tell me how i could remove that? I hope the lexol cleaner can do that, i have tried with some ordinary soap, but to no avail. The same thing with the boots, they were kind of dark mixed with red, now they are completely dark, again from the wax.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Astaroth]

I'm confused, you say you used a darker polish to give them a "tan" but are disappointed because they ended up darker? What do you mean but a tan if not darker than their original colour? Or do you mean more of a tan than you hoped for?

If the Renovateur doesnt remove the polish then the next step up is Saphir Réno'Mat but at this point you need to start being more careful not to remove the original colour too

 

[ganimard]

Hi Astaroth,

Yes, I gave them a tan, but one shoe got darker than the other. What I'd like to do is to clean up all that excess of wax and start from new. Also, can anyone tell me how am I suppose to apply Saphir and how long do i let it on ? I assume i apply it with cotton, but I don't know if I'm suppose to let it dry out over night ?!
It would take me at least two weeks to get Saphir Réno'Mat, so I'd like to use what I have now.
By tan I mean darker than original color, which I did succeed in doing, but one shoe is pretty much darker than the other now.