How To: Create a "Sex and the City 2" Arabic nail look

Saturated blues plucked from the sultry night sky, warm jewel-toned aureolins that pick up the hues of the desert, and sparkling fuchsias like the colorful wraps and semiprecious jewelry worn by the exotic women of Morocco.

The Morocco scenes in "Sex and the City 2" gave lead stylist Patricia Fields a whole lot of inspiration to work with, and she had a ball making Samantha Jones' fingernails glimmer with these lurid hues.

While this nail tutorial does not replicate Samantha's nail design, it takes inspiration from the Middle East and still looks hypnotic and sensual.