• Start off with a pale base coat (mine was sheer blue), which I topped with a holo microglitter because everything looks good with that...  I used my favorite: China Glaze Fairy Dust
• Wait for nails to dry
• Cut small bits of green striping tape and create stems on the nails, using smaller pieces to branch off from the main stem.
• Use tape or french nail guides to tape off tips, and paint them with a green polish. Mine was China Glaze Four Leaf Clover
• Cover that green with a green glitter. I used Dare to Wear Disc Jockey because the bars made me think of grass, but it's grass-stain green base doesn't really match FLC... oh well!
• Take away the tip guides, carefully! They might try to pluck your flower stems.
• Cover everything with a thick clear coat and press clusters of white and blue flower-shape paillettes, or "spangles" into the wet polish.
• Finish the nails with lots of top coat to seal in the flowers!

    Here is a shot of the finished nails with flash.  And yes, I used just two colors of flower paillettes.  They all have a iridescent coating on them that shines pinky-purple, which works perfectly as forget-me-nots because they come in all those colors!


   I absolutely loved wearing these and I'd definitely do them again, perhaps in different color variations!  In these colors it makes for a soft and dainty look, but with bright flowers it would be a good summer manicure.





   What do you think?  Would you wear these?

   Like I said before, these were originally for a nail art contest on another blog.  I just focused on doing my nails and then took pictures of them.  Would anyone want to see a step-by-step tutorial, or is the text description above clear enough?

   Also, I will be posting an update of what went on during the big blog hiatus.  I wanted to get a nail post out before everything around here seemed to involve walls of text, though.  ;)

   Thanks for looking!