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how-to-customize–11s Beyond the typical Angelus paint, what can do to customize your 11’s? Today we teach you three things: 1)how to make unique 11 customizations, 2) Tips on how to make a succesful pair of 11 customs and 3) Give you ideas for 11 customs. Enjoy. Below is a photo with the labels of every customizable part of your 11’s. We go over each part individually: Sole, Midsole, Patent leather, Upper, Jumpman, Laces, Third space tag, and Heel tab Artist: @Akkustomz_accessories We recommend dying the color of the sole of the 11’s. Now more than ever people have been paying attention to the soles of shoes. The most evident case is the obsession with icey soles. People constantly look at the www.jordan11concord.us translucent soles of your 11, so you better have a different color variation than the typical red , blue or yellow. For this, we recommend friends over at FBCC. Click here to visit their page. They have the best and strongest sole dye. @Guccirowkicks @Sneakerfreak101 Artist: Unknown. If you know who deserves credit for this custom, please list their name the comments below Extra: Glow the dark spray paint can make your soles glow. Rust-Oleum has excellent reviews online, a 10oz spray can costs $9. Note: The paint on the sole eventually wear off after wear and tear. But it’s a good showcasing option. This is definitely the easiest part to customize after changing the laces. All that you have to do is simply get a brush and paint it, even amateur who is doing dirty bred 11’s can paint the midsole black. For more experienced customization artists, the below might be more of a challenge. Tip: A recent popular feature of the and brand has been speckles on the midsole . I noticed that the speckles look particularly well with vibrant, candy-like colors, or themes that have to do with cookies or sweets, such as Oreos. 11 Oreo by Ramses @elcappy @Wallychamp15 Unquestionably the most difficult part to customize for 11’s. artists shy away from even attempting to customize the patent leather because they fear the paint crack when the shoe creases. Our friends over at have a paint that can withstand creasing: This video shows you how to professionally paint the patent leather of 11’s and all of the products that you’ll need. Tip: 2007, Kobe named himself the Black Mamba. Thereafter, all of his signatures shoes have acquired serpent scales snake skin. The reptile scales has transcended his signature line, and on some instances the most talented artists have implemented them their customs. The scales look particularly well the patent leather of 11’s. But I must warn you, this be a level 10 difficulty wise. 11 low galaxy by @Calikiddrew Uniform colorways are style more than ever. This has never been more evident than by the Red October colorway which shoes are red. Balenciagas have also adopted this concept and of their shoes the recent years only come uniform colors. Tip: When customizing 11’s, you notice that it looks very nice when the patent leather , upper , and laces are all the same color. The best example would be the 11 PE below: @AmazingNike @Sneakerfreak101 Great tip: Have the following three parts color match: the jumpman, the sole, and the 23 the heel tab. The photo below labels these three parts: The prime example of these three parts color matching is none other than the , where all three of these areas are red and the rest of the shoe is black. Essentially what you are doing with this three-part-color-matching method is accentuating the details and leaving the rest of the shoe a uniform color. This technique reminds me of what Iverson used to do with his Nuggets uniform. Since most sneaker artists customizers are men, the sewing machine is a foreign territory. Solution: Convince your sister, mother, or wife to give you a hand creating your own unique third space tag. Custom red tag on Supreme custom 11’s: artists prefer to customize their replica 11’s, which is fine by us. But if you use replicas, please make sure that you fix the pancake 23 with a high quality 23 fix from . Each 23 fix is ONLY $2 and they make your customs look authentic. This is how it works, watch: The following artists forgot to use a 23 fix from and look at how ugly their customs looked without it: This artists should have used the Gold 23 fix for Gamma Blue to fix his pancake 23’s and turn them into authentic 23’s. This 15 second clips shows what he should’ve done: For a unique look, you should also customize the 23 the back of your ‘s with logos.