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HAIR AND MAKE-UP DESIGNER CLAIRE WILLIAMS ON NEW LOOKS
WORDS: DARREN SCOTT
Ncuti’s Gallifreyan fingernail “tattoos”.
Tell us about the look for Ncuti’s Doctor.
◆ I had worked with Ncuti before – I did season one of Sex Education. So he was a known quantity, we’re good friends. As well as giving us a little bit of scope to be a bit more adventurous and playful in a way that’s suited to his personality, I wanted to do something a little bit more interesting. So we started looking at nail tattoos. Then I was looking at some of the symbols in the Gallifreyan alphabet.
Obviously, they’re too big to fit on a fingernail, because they’re quite elaborate and quite large. So we just took elements and adapted them and shrunk them to size. We just put them on like a normal tattoo. They’re water transfer tattoos and then we seal them with a matte nail varnish.