Nothin' but Nail Guides Mani & Tutorial

How bad is it that as you're putting on one color of polish you're thinking of the different things you can do to it? I sometimes wonder if having so many polishes keeps me from truly appreciating the individual polishes. Umm...Ok, done philosophizing, lets move onto the polish. :)

As I was putting on OPI's Rising Star I was contemplating how I could turn it into another more glamorous Halloween look, I wanted to fit just one more in. Ug, can you believe this month is over!??

Anyway, here's what I came up with, and since my last tutorial was a hit, and this look is really simple and can be used with a variety of color combos, I figured I'd do another one.

Without embellishment

With embellishment

I must admit that I wish I'd left the jewels off, they just don't go with the look like I'd hoped.

Moving onto the tutorial!

Step 1: Apply your base coat and base color, (OPI Rising Star.) Make sure it's completely dry and apply french nail guides as shown.
Step 2: Apply a darker color (Orly Out of This World) to the area above the guides. Carefully remove the guides and apply a quicky drying top coat (Seche Vite) and let dry completely.
Step 3: Your nails will look like this, now you're going to take a fresh set of guides and using the diagram shown place them on your nails. The guide edge placement is important to achieve the crescent shape.
Step 3 cont.: Once your guides are in place, take your final color (OPI Take the Stage) and paint the area below the guides.
Step 4: Remove the guides, your nails will look like the pic above. Apply another top coat to smooth things out, you can also add embellishments if you like. Now sit back and enjoy.

OPI Rising Star

Oooo La La! Check out this glowing goodness!

This is OPI's Rising Star and isn't it just lovely! Although the plan was to use my usual two coats, I dinged up the middle and pinky so put an extra coat on all around to try and smooth out the damage. It's still noticeable but since I'd already done one mess up removal and repair I decided to live with it. (Pardon my in need of a fill nails)

The first two pictures were taken outside with cloudy conditions but the sun came out for the last two and look at how brilliant this becomes. I love the little glints of gold.
I'm loving this color for fall, it's a nice warm orangy copper that doesn't fall into the "orange" rut.
So off nail topic, check out the winter wonderland that Mother Nature sent my way. Isn't it pretty?
Are you ready for winter? I know I'm not. I have a friend that lives in New Zealand. It's going on Spring there. If I could I'd go spend the cold months here, there.

I hope you have a lovely day and until next time, ciao!