How do you paint your OWN nails?

One of the things I hear a lot when I talk to people about my obsession, hobby, addiction, whatever you want to call it, is that they don’t know how I DO IT!?  How do you paint YOUR OWN nails like that?  There are always the jokes out there about the left hand looking so great and the right hand looked like my three year old might have painted it.  Really, what it comes down to is….you guessed it, PRACTICE.  And to prove it, here is one of my older "manicures” before I really got hooked (and improved in technique).  Notice the terrible mess around my cuticles and I clearly didn't know enough about nail polish to know these glitters really don't work well to create a "French tip" effect! ;)

OPI- "Divine Swine" of the Muppets Collection

OPI- "Rainbow Connection" of the Muppets Collection