Megan Stone, a senior in the theater department, has a special skill that not many people know about. She has performed in several productions at Kean University, including "The Gamester" and "Macbeth," and she most recently made her directorial debut with "The Vagina Monologues"

As a theater major, one of Stone's required courses was a makeup class. In this class, she watched a documentary called "Nightmare Factory" about the famous horror makeup artist, Greg NicoteroNicoteroCarliBybelAlvillar

Stone has transformed people's faces into two-dimensional skeletons and animals, as well as given them realistic looking cuts, bruises, wounds, and scars. "Makeup isn't structured. Your pallet is infinite. You can use any medium to create art, and that's what's so fun about it," Stone said when she was going into detail about her love of the art form. "It's not always about making people prettier. It can just be about expressing yourself through transformation," she continued.

While Stone is much more intrigued by doing special effects makeup, she has also done her fair share of 'glam' makeup. Close friends of hers have asked her to do makeup for weddings and similar events, and she is always glad to help, but special effects makeup is where her true passion lies. Stone encourages anybody who is interested in makeup to watch "Nightmare Factory" and to get involved in the same way that she did. She lives by the philosophy that "once you find your passion, nothing can stop you from pursuing it."