Summer inspired nails

So I have gotten two manicures in my whole life. The first time I think was for prom, and the other time was for a wedding. I hated them both. But I do enjoy a pedicure every now and then. In the between time I will usually do my own nails, and am often bored with the mundane nude, red, or pink nail colors. I like to make my nails interesting, as interesting as I can with my limited ability to paint nails without painting my whole hand. I did this diagonal design once before and got a lot of compliments and questions about how I achieved such a look. *Side note story* Once high school I did my eye shadow a little funky, I put a pastel pink on the outer corners and a pastel yellow on the inner corner of the eyelid. A girl on my track team asked how I did it, and I answered, "I put one color over here (pointing the outside of my eye), and the other color over here (pointing to the inside of my eye)." She later became one of my best friends and told me that was a rather rude way to tell her about my eye shadow, so I am dedicating this "how to" to Shonda.
1) Inspiration. I found mine in summer flowers and I have been drawn to purple and green together recently, so that is where my inspiration came from.
2) I got all my supplies ready. I needed the base color, a bright green, my top color, which was a chrome purple (you remember when chrome nail polish was cool in 2001?), and I also decided to add sparkles to my nails b/c I love glitter. You will also need a top coat, and I need Q-tips and nail polish remover for my mess-ups. You will also need tape which is not pictured.
3) I paint my base coat. Wait until completely dried before moving on to the next step.
4) Put tape on nails in a diagonal direction, and then paint next color on top of base coat, using the tape to keep the edges straight.
5) My next step was to wait until the chrome purple was dried and then to apply the glitter coat, if you aren't applying a glitter coat (or something similar) then you can skip this step.
6)Wait until all polish is dried and remove tape slowly.
7)You should apply a top coat after you remove the tape.
8) Lastly, clean up your nails and fingers by dipping your Q-tip in nail polish remover and touching up as necessary.
ENJOY! You should (or could, hopefully) have beautiful nails!