Jarred Alcala makes a living indulging his childhood passion for the special-effects side of spooky. “I get to wake up every day and come here and make Halloween masks, make monsters and create and ...

“We pull from nature all the time. We’re pulling from pictures of animals and insects and sometimes crime scenes. You know, cadaver photos. Just to get the most realistic paint schemes that we can do.

I’m not going to lie: There are a lot of things I don’t enjoy about sheet masks. They’re messy, they’re sticky, they never fit on my face or feel comfortable, and worst of all, they seem incredibly ...