When I dress up or go out I like to have my shoes freshly polished and looking nice.  This means that you do it the old fashioned way using a good old fashioned shoe polish, a rag and a horse hair shoe brush.  It takes some work but you can make your shoes look like new and it helps your overall appearance when your shoes look like you care about how you present yourself.

This brush is 100% horse hair and really helps to remove the excess polish and bring out the shine.  It is big enough to hold in your hand and give you a good grip on the wooden handle to really bush the shoe but keep your hand out of the polish.  It works with both cream polishes and paste versions and if you polish your shoes often enough, sometimes just a quick brushing brings out the shine.

I actually have two brushes, one for black shoes and one for brown.  I recommend this product as being of good quality and worth the money!