French tip with a twist

In a previous blog post I demonstrated a relatively simple method to create the popular, "french manicure", now that I am more familiar with this style I can create new designs to make it unique. In this particular blog I will use cheap, three dollar glitter to create a twist on the french manicure.
You will need a simple base coat, (I used China Glaze's "Awaken" as my base), silver glitter, (which you can get for three dollars at Walmart for a four ounce bottle), clear polish, and circular stickers, (the same kind I used in my blog "Easy French Manicure").
First I applied two coats of the China Glaze, letting my nails dry in between each coat.  To make sure that the stickers don't take off any of the nail polish I waited almost an hour before continuing.  So next up I took the circular stickers, and cut one in half.  Center the half circle on your thumb nail, and continue doing this for all of your nails.  If the first half circle doesn't completely cover your thumb nail don't worry about it!
With the clear polish paint the top of two nails, the part of the nail above the circular sticker.  Dip the first nail into your bottle of sparkles, don't go too deep submerging any part of your nail that is not the very top. Do the same thing to your second nail you put clear polish on. When you take your nails out, do so over a trash can or outside so you don't get those pesky sparkles everywhere; press down on the sparkles at the top of your nail and let it sit for a while.  After five or so minutes take the white tape off carefully, if doing this causes some of the nail polish to be taken off that means that your sticker was too sticky, and for your other nails you will want to put the sticker on your skin first before your nail to loosen it up a bit. Repeat these steps with your other nails.
When all the white tape has come off, shake your nails a bit and blow on them to get excess sparkles off. Once some extra sparkles have fallen off you can take your clear nail polish and paint one nail at time. Before you actually put nail polish on you will want to scrap off all sparkles not at the top of your nail first. Once you do that, (and it can take a while because sparkles are annoyingly sticky), you make small sweeps with clear polish, and check the brush for sparkles each time before you make any more so that you don't stick any sparkles to the bottom of the nail instead of keeping them all at the top. When you apply the clear polish to the top of your nail, put more emphasis on the top to make sure the sparkles are all "glued" in.
And there you go, you could also do this same thing without an base polish and I think it would look good!