This N.L. makeup artist creates 31 looks of Halloween

Every day of October is Halloween for makeup artist Nicole Parrell.

For the last month, the self-taught Paradisemakeup artist has been posting one Halloween makeup tutorial per dayon her YouTube channel andInstagram and Snapchat accounts.

She's embodied horrifyingcharacters, like Stephen King's Pennywise andBilly the Puppet from Saw, and the not-so-scary likeSnow White and Dorothy from theWizard of Oz.

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N.L. makeup artist Nicole Parrell celebrates Halloween by doing scary makeup every day in October, and today, she is showing what you can do for the big night.

"It started a while back when I did my first Halloween look on YouTube and I did the NewfoundlandOld Hag and the storybehind it," Parrell said.

Her love of makeup and creating comes naturally because Parrell painted landscapes on canvas, then moved her brushes to people.

Parrell's expanded love of makeup and video tutorials came from a tragedy in her family.

When her sister diedfour years ago, Parrellfound making the videos to be a perfect escape

"Coming into this room and talking to people on the internet, it was almost therapy. That's how my makeup obsession really grew because it was my happy place. It took me out of a world of not constantly thinking of the loss to my sister."

"When you're doing a look you don't necessarily have to make it like them put your own twist on it," she said.

"It's about manipulating things and really making makeup an illusion."

She gets ideas from different horror movie characters, and thinks of how she can make them in a way that viewers can easily replicate.

For the big night, you'd thinkParrell would do her best creation yet, and perhaps it is.

"I'm going as myself," she laughed.

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