Trying to re-silicone my shower enclosu

[1] remove all old silicone.

[2] apply thin bead of new silicone along junction to be sealed

[3] run wet finger or similar shaped tool along bead of new silicone
pushing excess ahead of tool.

Now what am I doing wrong? The excess builds up in front of my finger
until there is too much and it then deposits either side of the bead
like a little snow drift!

I assume that this means that there is too much silicone laid down in
the first place but if I don't put enough down I get gaps in the
smoothed bead.

All this is even worse were I'm sealing the side panels into the wall
fixings because I'm trying to seal against only a 1.5mm edge where two
panels meet rather than into a 90 deg corner.

TIA

Richard

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