For as long as I can remember I've always been obsessed with all things horror. My addiction to the macabre was only fed and embraced by my mother, who is also a horror aficionado. I couldn't get enough of the stuff and began to run to the video store almost every weekend to pick up a horror title.

 

I remember falling in love with Stan Winston's work in Pumpkinhead when I was young, as well as Rob Bottin's creations in The Thing and the gruesome finale of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, orchestrated by the master of gore, Tom Savini. I knew then that I wanted to persue a career in special make-up effects.

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I began studying the art. Online tutorials, articles in Fangoria magazine, and mask making handbooks, whatever I could get my hands on. 

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In 2015 I graduated Tom Savini's Special Make-Up Effects Program at the Douglas Education Center, with an Associate's Degree in Specialized Business.