Ridley Scott's Alien Inspired Nails

If it wasn't already made clear, I'm a nerd and proud of it. This includes Science Fiction. Lots of Science Fiction. Tonight my friends and I are planning on seeing Ridley Scott's Prometheus, prequel to his astounding Alien franchise, so, in true nerd fashion, a couple of my girlfriends organized an Alien marathon last night. I could only stay for one film, since I had to get up early this morning for work, but during this film, I took the time to paint my nails as a tribute this series.

I had wanted to take photos of every step of the process, by my phone died, and though a friend offered to do it for me, I didn't want to pester her during the movie. I will, however, outline the steps required and the materials used.

Steps:

• File and buff nails, apply a cuticle oil and lotion afterwards.
• Apply base coat and wait for it to dry.
• Apply glossy, opaque black nail polish. Two coats if necessary. Wait for it to dry.
• Add splatters of acidic alien blood by putting dollops of green polish on nails and spreading them out with a tooth pick or small dotting tool to all nails but the ring finger.
• On ring finger use a tooth pick or small dotting tool dipped in white to make a curve two thirds to three quarters of the way down from the nail bed. This is the base of the smooth structure of the forehead.
• Beneath the curves, use the same technique to scratchily put on the teeth. If you have the curve high enough on the nail, you may be able to pull off the famous "double mouth" of the alien. I did not.
• Once all nails are dry, apply a top coat.

Materials:

• Seacret Spa's Nail Care Collection for their file, buffer, cuticle oil and lotion.
• Sally Hansen's Complete Care Extra Moisturising 4-in-1 Nail Treatment for the base and top coats.
• Sally Hansen's Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear in Black Out and White On.
• Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri Fast Dry Nail Color in Lickety-Split Lime. (It damn near killed me to spell colour without a 'u').

And that's all you need to get yourself some nerdy Alien nails. Hopefully next time I'll be able to get photos of each step in the process.