The purpose of this article is not to tell you how to do nails, but rather how a professional nail artist can do better nails; technique steps in applying nails that are familiar to the artist have been left out in favor of a more technical approach.
For the fourth OPI NTNA All Stars challenge, contestants were asked to create an avant garde design using OPI Powder Perfection. This is Deanna Stelmaschuk's entry. See all four entries here.