Louboutin #6 - Numero (No) Prive in Jade Patent

The Prives (Very, No, Hyper) come from the same family but are all slightly different.  No Prives are the slingback version to the Very Prives.  I'm not usually a fan of slingbacks (my skinny heel makes it difficult for slingbacks to stay up) but I absolutely love this colour and when I found a pair of shoes in jade patent in my size, I HAD to get them.

I got them from a boutique in Italy and it was the fastest postage ever.  They posted the shoes on a Monday and arrived in my hands 3 days later.  I got them TTS (35.5) and they're a perfect fit!  It made me realise I should probably be buying more shoes TTS instead of 1/2 size up.

It's quite tricky to photograph the shoes capturing the exact colour it is, as it invariably turns out too blue.  The pic that best captures the exact shade is below:

Louboutin #5 - Purple Bianca - my 'accidental' purchase

Ok I've called this my accidental purchase because in my opinion I bought them accidentally, although many others will disagree with me.

I spotted these babies on eBay for a Buy-It-Now price or Best Offer.  So I submitted my best offer.  I thought the process was that the seller would be notified of my best offer and then agree to accept it or reject it.  I did NOT know that eBay can magically automatically accept your best offer and suddenly after I clicked Submit on my best offer, it told me "Congratulations you have now purchased blah blah blah".

ANYWAY, these are a 35.5 (my TTS) and they give me major heel slippage even AFTER I put heel grips in the back.  I don't feel like they're too big as they fit perfectly in the width and length, but for some reason my heel just won't stay in there.  I might have to go down to a 35 next time and just stretch the crap out of the toebox.  The general recommendation is to go down 1/2 or 1 whole size but obviously this is difficult to do when your TTS is 35.5 and it's almost impossible to go down 1 size.

They're not the easiest to walk in because of the heel slippage.  I also find my toes a little cramped at times in the toebox.  Not sure if I would buy another pair of Biancas - I love the look of them but they just seem ill-fitting on my weird feet.

Fixing injured Louboutins for $2.80 - yes you read right

Total cost: $2.80
Total time: 10 minutes

I was SO devastated when I injured my Louboutin Biancas on their first outing.  The leather lifted off on the heel as you can see in the pictures below.  I decided I was going to try and fix it myself.  It's not a huge defect and if I got this right, I could fix all my other injured heels that I've been neglecting (sorry other non-designer shoes, I know I treat you unfairly).

I bought epoxy glue from Daiso and got to work.

I grabbed a bamboo skewer and a plastic spoon to mix the epoxy on.  I picked up glue using the skewer (a toothpick will do the same job) and dabbed it onto the leather.  I then folded the leather back onto the heel and used the Daiso plastic bag to wrap around the affected area to hold it in place, but I lifted the plastic bag every minute or so to make sure the epoxy didn't glue the plastic bag to the heel.  After about 15 minutes I tied a hair tie around the plastic bag and left it alone for half an hour.

The result is pretty good - better than I was expecting.

You can see a bit of a blemish if you look closely but overall it looks pretty good.  I'm thrilled it only cost me $2.80 and I'm even happier that I didn't ruin my shoes!

Btw  I'm not sure a normal plastic bag would work.  The Daiso shopping bag has a plastic-y, waxy feel to it so I think that may have made a difference.