Angelus Suede Dye - Black - 3 oz Premium Liquid Dye for Suede, Nubuck, and Nappy Leather

This suede dye works really well. The color is rich and deep, and it does a great job restoring faded or worn suede. The black dye provides strong coverage and makes older suede look refreshed again. The dye applies smoothly and absorbs nicely into the material. With proper prep and a couple light coats, the finish comes out even and natural looking instead of stiff or painted over. It’s also nice that the bottle comes with an applicator that makes it easier to control where the dye goes. Overall, this is a great product if you’re looking to restore or recolor suede. It brought new life back to my items and I would definitely use it again.

This dye breathed new life into an old pair of adidas gazelles. They were originally a nice royal blue suede but over the last 3 years they have faded into a dull gray. This product completely restored them to the most brilliant blue - better than the original. This is the blue of my DREAMS. Yes, the dye is runny - because it’s dye, not paint. If you’ve ever used an aquarelle kit, this is the same watery consistency. Gorgeous color payoff after one coat, but I followed directions and did two. The shoes looked nearly black after application but dried down to the most brilliant, beautiful cobalt blue. The toes ended up slightly darker because they were kind of dark and dirty to begin with but I’m not mad about it as I didn’t take the time to deep clean them beforehand (I did go over them with an eraser and brush out the nap though). A word of caution: THIS STUFF WILL STAIN. Despite using painters tape on the bits I didn’t want to turn blue, I ended up getting a fair amount of drips on the white stripes and the soles. I was able to soak some bits of paper napkins in bleach (scrubbing bubbles foaming bleach, to be exact) squeeze out the excess and press them onto the stains like plaster. After they dried, I peeled them off and the stains were gone. I had to repeat this on a couple of really dark stains but in the end they all came out. The foaming bleach also took out the blue stains in my white sink after I stupidly tried to rinse out the little wool applicator and inadvertently turned my sink blue. So, bleach does work on non-porous and semi-porous surfaces. However, if you drip this on clothes I don’t think any amount of bleach will save you. All in all - EXCELLENT product when used correctly. 10/10 Highly recommend.

This dye worked well. I took my time and let each coat dry 24 plus hours. It took about 3/4 bottle for 2 coats plus some touch ups. It came with a fluffy applicator which worked well for the first go 'round, but because you have to wait for 2nd coat, I washed the applicator well as described. You have to or it will just make it a hard clump. It was not as easy to use on next coats, but ok. I also used Q-tips around the edges which I had taped since I did not want dye on the stitching or soles. I would say the most difficult part was to apply a "thin coat" for 2 reasons; the dye is the consistency of water and suede absorbs the liquid very quickly so spreading the dye quicky to try and make for thin coat is a challenge. That said, I'm no pro, but accomplished what I was after. After all was dry, I used a suede protector spray so just hoping all will remain looking good. I haven't used the newly dyed booties yet, but at this point would say the quality is good. The dark brown color resulted in a deep chocolate brown which I was bit nervous about this dye providing, but the color turned out exactly as I hoped. Side note - there is embroidery on these booties which I brushed the dye over (not caring what that color outcome would be). The dye did not dye the embroidery - possibly stained it a little? That I did not document.

Talk about renewed shoes! My daughter’s Campus became old & ugly quick, sent them off for professional cleaning & they came back looking worse! Light pink was not smart for an active kid. We wanted a darker color to cover the dirt & water stains. Enter this stuff & look at that difference. It bleeds like crazy though, so beware. I used painters tape & it still bled through but I was able to find a matching flexible acrylic to cover the stains on the soles & used rubbing alcohol dipped cotton swab to lighten the stripes & logo. The color is gorgeous & vibrant! I dropped a star because it’s much darker than we wanted. Lilac is supposed to be a light purple. Still love this color though

Was nervous to try this on a pair of shoes I’ve never worn out before. Had this pair for 3 years but hated that it looked like orange red and not red, red. Google recommended this as one of the best brands to dye suede shoes. Love how the color turned out and I only used one coat. Was worried about the streaks like other reviewers had mentioned but it turned out pretty good. Used a small edge brush for the crevices. Surfaces that are plastic or shiny wipes right off so no need to worry about mistakes. I’m excited to have real RED shoes!

I'll be honest - I'm not sure what happened here. I bought the blue last month and it worked perfectly. I was super happy with it. So this month, I bought the pink for the same exact material that I also needed dyed. It was a huge MESS. I did everything the same as the blue - shook the bottle, did light layers, worked it into the material in light, small circles. I gave it 2.5 days to dry before touching, with it hanging up so it didn't touch anything and could dry evenly. When I touched it again, it was a mess. There was a white film that was invading and staining all the vinyl pieces that weren't the doe suede, and touching the fabric made the dye and white film coat my hands even though it was dry. It felt awful. I had to wash my hands, wash the vinyl as much as I could (still stained in a weird white), and then I washed and washed the fabric to get out as much of the dye as I could. I'm not sure what to do now - I used most of the bottle on the amount of fabric I was dyeing, and now I'm left with a mostly-undyed fabric, stained vinyl, and almost no dye to try again. I'm assuming whatever the white they use to make the pink wasn't blending properly into the color, despite repeatedly shaking the bottle well. It looked split when I was putting it on, but knowing it was shaken well, there wasn't much left for me to do but hope it worked. It didn't.

Excellent product, I highly recommend this dye to anyone trying to fix up their suede shoes.

Bought light grey to cover beige Reef clogs. Took several coats to get an even finish, let each coat dry for days in between but when I finally wore them, my feet had grey dye as did the hem of my jeans that touched the shoe. Went in after that with a quick spray of Kiwi suede/nubuck protector but that didn’t help the dye transfer. So my shoes look ok but I can’t deal with the dye transfer