polishes review

Over many years I have heard many different ways to polish your shoes and loads of technique's used. Now I am going to look at the different polishes and other similar products used to see what their effects on the shine of your shoes are!!!

Most if not all use black polish and apply in small circles. I have had family buy me different black polishes, I found the top quality polishes such as Kiwi black do a great job, whereas the cheap alternatives must have other chemicals that don't allow the polish to shine up and some times leave horrible marks on the shoe.

Black kiwi

Cheap brand

I've heard fellow cadets and service personnel use other products along side the normal black.

I've heard cadets use Blue or brown polish in the past. Mostly blue as it gives the shoe a deeper shine, probably give a hint of blue as well. I don't think its worth the hassle!!!

I have personally tried using a parade gloss on my shoes, there hasn't really been a noticeable difference in the shine, if not actually made a bit of a mess with it. But you may be able to get a better result than I did.

Regimental Gloss

I have used bees wax before on my boots, about 4 years ago. they are still shiny to this day. Again its use to add a deeper shine, your meant to do 2 layers black polish then 1 layer of bees wax. If you buy the bees wax that's in a block form you may need to melt it, the queens guards have a very good technique if you look on their site I believe it has the method written. Its probably worth buying the more fluid form that is more like polish. Again I don't think its worth the hassle but from my visits to London, the guards shoes are incredible.



Another wood polish which works the same as bees wax

I also see loads of those rubbish instant wax application bottles, they are good for your school/work shoes but as soon as the polish has dried I've noticed it goes dull.



Instant wax

If you want any advice on polishing shoes, or disagree with my advice on this subject please do comment as I would like to hear from you!

New Year

My first blog of the new year I thought I had better give some advice on what to achieve this year, mainly for cadets but the can be taken in to other aspects of life.

One of my commanding offices said to me the last time I saw him was to look for new challenge make sure you take your self out your comfort zone as it will be where you enjoy life the most. As cliche as it sounds, its very true! Since he said that I have been trying to over come my fears in life and try new challenges. I have always had problems with public speaking and tried to over come them by putting myself in front of groups of people. Now I am very confident and don't get nervous in front of people.

Try and set your self goals, aims or objectives. I have heard a few cadets want to get promoted, have that as their main goal this year, if this is you think about what you need to do to achieve this, whether it is to go on a JNCO course or SNCO course. Or even have a massive improvement on your uniform standards. what ever it, have those as your objective to help you achieve your aim of getting a promotion!

If you have anything you want to achieve in cadets but not sure what you have to do please, comment I will try to answer the best I can, and give you objectives.

I wish all my readers the best for this year and let me know if any of my advice helps. There's plenty more blogs that can help, so check them out as well.

Best wishes
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