A genuine tip for Doc martens wearers of the sort of odd reddish colour.
proper DM "red" polish was/is an intermittent or expensive thing.

you will usually be given oxblood which makes scuffs look like freshly bleeding grazes and far too too dark.

You will need the 50ml kiwi oxblood some idiot has sold you, and a 50ml light tan tin. First use a small wire brush such as a suede brush to remove as much as you can of the oxblood on the scuffs. Then remove about 1 1/2 tspfls of light tan ( about 8ml), and put about the same amount of oxblood in its place.

Now, mixing.... it won`t mix easily until about 50c. 40 will do.

You can put it in a moat of water in a saucepan, or put it in a big tin can like new potatoes so there is metal and conductivity, stick it in the pan, or even better if your normal hot water is just off scald stick the can in the sink and run the hot water.

mix it as quickly as poss and take it out and lid it as it is losing oils that keep the leather supple.

I`ve been told that a sealed tin in a completely airburped jiffy reseal bag can be plunged into uncomfortable to linger hot water, for about 5 mins, shaken and allowed to cool gives perfect results and no loss of volatiles, I reckons there must be some loss of contents as the tin isn`t designed to keep liquids in!

if you still have dark remnants then apply this thickly and wipe the dark bits with a white spirit soaked cloth, not good for the leather, but it downs the colour to the new one. then polish again to repair the damage.

My first pair of steelies ended up slightly red suede, I got a load of tar on them and cleaned residuals off with carbon tet, which took all the colour out too and the leather glaze and the polish didnt work on big areas like that so i did the lot and wire brushed `em. From disaster to trendy, I got offered £75 for em in punk days, NO you can`t buy them , ANYWHERE!
(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 4:23, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You could try dubbing....
... Or however they term it nowadays.
Ah, sorry, you were worried how they looked...
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 7 Aug 2009, 19:45, Reply)

patent leather purple
i got lovely purple shiny DMs. I clean the beer and piss off mine by rubbing them on drunk people on the train home.
(a girl called harry, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 16:50, Reply)