Comparing Pinterest and Project: Pearl String Bangle

I usually get my blog ideas from posts on Pinterest, but I like to change it up a bit and make my projects more original.  I've decided to do a "Comparing Pinterest and Project" blog post that will assess whether these Pinterest pins are as easy as they appear, and if I can replicate them.  I will do these comparisons posts once in a while to shake things up a bit.
I pinned this simple, four step bead/pearl stringed bangle because the results looked really interesting, and the pictures made the process seem like it was twenty minutes, tops...that is where I went wrong.
I was planning on using the cheap, silver bead necklaces you get on holidays, (Mardi Gras) or at games, but, neither Walmart nor Micheal's had anything like it. So I settled for a string of pearl-looking plastic beads that seem to be about the same size as the beads in the tutorial.  At Wa

lmart I found twenty silver bangles for five dollars, which seemed to be the same type of bangle in the tutorial pictures. 
With a hot glue gun I glued down the first pearl to a thin, flat bangle, and continued to glue down the pearls every three beads or so, which seemed like how it was done on Pinterest. I was a bit weary that the beads in between two glued down beads would slip off the bracelet, or move too easily. I decided that the string would probably do the job of securing the beads for me, so I didn't worry.

Once I had beads covering the entire bangle, (which only took about five minutes), I had some trouble with connecting the last bead to the first, it wasn't too much of a problem, but now the two beads are closer than any of the other beads on the bangle.
In the tutorial from Pinterest the amount of string they use seems to be pretty limitted, only a little ball of string appears to be used. I didn't think that this would be enough for my bracelet so instead I waited to cut the string from the bundle until the very end.
To start the string wrapping I hot glued the start of the string to the bottom of the bangle.  Then I wrapped as far to the left of the bead as I could, and moved like this to the middle, then to the right until I seemed to have a little triangle forming that covered the whole inside of the bangle.  After completing the space between the first to beads I once again moved to the far left of the next bead and repeated the process.  This part got a little annoying, I continually had to put all of my yarn through the bangle at least four times for each bead.  If I waited two or three wraps around the bangle to put the rest of my string through, the results often turned out haphazardly tangled. 
I was a bit misled by the four simple pictures of a tutorial that I found on Pinterest, my own project took about forty minutes, double the time I originally thought, but I do love how the bangle turned out.  It is very similar to the Pinterest model and I think that the white, pearly beads in exchange for the silvery ones make it look better!