A Margaret in Fabulous
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The references are helpful! She will switch a couple of the prong-set gems on her tiara to bezel and channel settings, and string an impossibly-carved piece of sapphire on each of her bracelets, interfacing with the woven rings. Is she doing this right?

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The magic thinks so!

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Excellent! "My horns are looking a little bare, now, know any good horn adornments?" 

(Blue opal horns are arguably only 'bare' by magical girl standards, but that's what matters.)

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"Hmm. Have you tried anything on them before?"

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"I tried a loose wire-wrapping thing and that was bad; I could do silver tips?" She does silver tips.

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That helps! "The contour you've got going on there is gorgeous, I think you wanna work with the contour and not introduce contrasting lines. You could have little horn collars at the base?"

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Horn collars! Little silver ropes made of two pieces wrapped around each other? Little silver three-part braids? Miniature copies of her bracelets? Simple silver bands? Bands of flush-set sapphires?

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Bracelet copies is best, braids is second best.

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Bracelet-copies it is! And maybe a single thin vein of silver going up the inside of each horn, following the curve?

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Slightly worse.

"That's a promising angle - how'd it like this version?"

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"The horn collars are good but the lines are actually a bit of a step back. Maybe they don't mesh with the tips?" She turns the silver horn-tips off and on to check.

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That's not it; the magic misses the tips.

"I think they might be overstated. Maybe taper them faster than the horn tapers?"

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The magic can have its tips back; she misses them too. "Could work . . . " Faster taper?

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Now the line is neutral.

"Thinner, maybe? On a different side of the horn? It seems implausible there's nothing you can do with this at all."

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"Yeah, I mean I really like them, and this version is at least neutral . . . " Even thinner? Front of the horns? Outside of the horns? Both inside and outside?

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Even thinner helps. It's worse when there's two; front is worse, outside is better.

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She'll go with outside-only, then. What if instead of a single line it's an ultra-thin 2D replica of the chain pattern from her bracelets and horn collars? 

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That is slightly worse.

"I don't see your feedback directly, you know," Nelson remarks.

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"Yes, of course, sorry," she says. "The faster taper helped, moving them to the outside helped but moving them to the front and doing both inside and outside were both worse, that pattern I had up for a second was a bit worse too. The way I have it now is the best I've found so far."

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"Okay. We have another seven minutes, what else do you want to focus on?"

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"Should I be wearing rings? I think I should be wearing rings."

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"It's very likely that you should! Anecdotally I see best results from ring and index fingers, symmetrical across hands, if you want more than one."

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She'll start with a pair on her index fingers, round opals with smaller sapphires on each side, set flush into silver bands.

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The magic approves!

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"Rings are a yes!" How about a pair of signet-style rings on her ring fingers, with opals on top of the bezels and little clusters of sapphires, what was that term, pavé-set on each shank?

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