Todays prompt for the 31 Day Challenge is 'A Tutorial'
This can be to make one, to follow one or...I dunno, something with a tutorial!
I had grand ideas to recreate my Glitterfish mani today with a tutorial, alot of people had asked me for one so I really wanted to do this, since Day 1 of this Challenge.
But as is the case most of the days of MY life, this goal was not meant to see fruition.
I simply don't have a memory card large enough in my camera to film a lengthy tutorial. So I decided I would try to film one on my webcam. After an hour of creating the mani and filming it, waiting for polishes to dry, etc...I replayed it and it was just a mess.
So....long story short, today I am following someone else's tutorial.
I found this on the Dazzle Dry Facebook page a few days ago and figured I'd give it a go:

http://nailingitdown.blogspot.com/2012/09/layered-sweetheart-nails-with-dazzle-dry.html

So here is my version:

For this heart chevron design, I started with a base of Catrice Steel My Soul. It s a stunning greige with  golden shimmer. Then I taped that off with reinforcement dots like in the tutorial and painted on the second color - Catrice Steel My Soul. A gorgeous taupe with blue and pink flecks. Both of the Catrice Steel polishes have a brushed metal texture - even after top coat you can still see it's texture in these photos. They were one coaters too!

Once dry, I taped my final section and painted the tips with China Glaze Midtown Magic. A reddish brown with gold and red shimmer.

Finished the manicure off with Butter London Quick Dry Topcoat.

I ADORE this color combination!

Feel free to visit the rest of the ladies participating in this challenge and see their tutorial versions:

Paint your nails with the gold until they are opaque.

Next, get your brown (you can use acrylic paint in lieu of polish if necessary) and your dotting tool. Drop some color on a piece of paper so it's easier to dip your tool into.

Make random dots of different sizes on all of your nails like so. These have a little bit of a dark outline because I started with a brown that was way too dark! Make sure you brown isn't so dark you can't tell it apart from your black!

After you have dotted all of the brown, go in with your black (paint or polish) and outline around the dots haphazardly, in C shapes, in parentheses shapes and make some extra little spots in there too where you might have some bald spaces of gold background showing through.

Lookin' good. Now you have this and you will need to clean up any bits of paint/polish around your cuticles. Take a concealer brush or paintbrush, dip it in acetone and wipe around the edges of your nail to remove the excess polish. This is my go to method for clean up, q-tips are good too but sometimes they leave cotton fibers behind.

You're all done! Wait until it is COMPLETELY dry and add your top coat. Add it on thick so it covers up the spots and lays flat, also laying it on thick will help to avoid any streaking of your art.