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While most 15-year-old girls are applying eye shadow and mascara, sophomore Anna Yellin is a doing a different kind of makeup. She uses cosmetics to imitate gory and bloody injuries with special effects makeup.

She began with watercolor paint to illustrate bruises onto any friend or family member who would allow it, but she became further fascinat-ed by special effects makeup when she ordered a makeup kit online. Her seemingly authentic injuries can be seen from across campus on hands, faces, arms, legs, and just about every-where else. Yellin would also often convince a friend to let her make them up during lunch.

“I was watching a TV show and they were using special effects to make people look to-

tally different, and I thought it was really cool. So, I went onto YouTube, and I didn’t see what I was expecting to see. Instead I saw injury effects,” Yellin said. Thus began her fascina-tion of transforming normal human skin into something atypical.

Yellin enjoys special effects makeup, al-though she believes she has not been doing it long enough to really get into it.

After going on to YouTube, she began re-searching effects makeup brands and found a brand called “Ben-Nye.” It’s professional, and cheap. “I’ve always been fascinated by bruises and used to make them out of paints, and I knew I was good at it. I thought I might be good at special effects as well,” Yellin said.

This Halloween, Yellin made up a friend as a zombie during lunch. Using common tools and makeup, she painted blood and flesh dripping

from the mouth, and sunken, dark eyes.

She has con-sidered taking classes to fur-ther expand her cosmetic abili-ties, and might someday, but for now does not think it will be a big part of her future and career.

“Well, I don’t really think that I would pursue it as a career yet because I don’t think I’m quite good enough. It’s just a hobby on the side.”

FACE PAINTING: Yellin paints the back of her friend’s neck to look like a zombie. Painting fake injuries is her specialty.

~Courtesy of Anna Yellin

Located in the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East, Dubai is notable for its grand architecture and stunning beach-es. Senior Bilal Syed’s junior year was spent in this desert city, where he had the oppurtunity to harness a seemingly out-of-place sport: snowboarding.

Syed traveled to Dubai with his family and stayed with rela-tives for nine months.

In addition to studying at Cambridge Private School during this time, Syed spent a lot of time practicing his snowboarding skills.

Dubai has an indoor snowboarding facility where Syed and his cousins would pass time.

“He was always begging us to go down to the facility. We

would get bored of it, but he seemed to enjoy it more than anyone,” Syed’s cousin Benjamin Hassan said.

Shortly after returning to the United States, Syed was ap-proached by Forum Snowboarding, who offered to sponsor him.

“I saw him snowboarding in Big Bear, he was doing a rail and he did 180 on, tailslided all the way through and 360’d off, which amazed me,” Forum Snowboarding Sponsor Steven Reynolds said.

The sponsorship Syed received is a “flow level” sponsorship, for upcoming talents and possible future pros. This entitles Syed to free clothing every month, discounts on snowboards and occasionally free binding. In return, Syed is required to par-ticipate in competitions and track his progress.

“I have to submit a video every three to four months,” Syed said.

Forum sponsors 100-200 youth every few years and even fewer adults, according to Reynolds.

Syed and his family often go on vacations to Big Bear and Mammoth where Syed originally learned how to snowboard about seven years ago.

While his favorite part of snowboarding is going down mountains, he also does many rails, boxes and tricks.

“He is great at grinding and seems to have a unique skill set. I could never beat him in trick contests. Except when he sprained his ankle,” Hassan said.

Although snowboarding is a great way to pass time for Syed, he says he doesn’t want to take it to the next level.

“It’s just a hobby or whatnot,” Syed said.In the future Syed wants to go into civil engineering with a

focus in computer-aided design. He is currently in the process of searching for colleges, but he wants to stay in California.

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