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Shocktober in Leesburg, VA is back to scare everyone who goes through their haunted house. However it takes a lot to make actors and actresses go from normal-looking citizens to terrors of the night.(Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)<p></p>

Makeup artist Autumn Mills is one of the people responsible for transforming 50-70 actors every night, but she also performs. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)<p></p>

During the daytime, Danielle Eagan is an administrator at The Arc of Loudoun, but at night she's the lead makeup artist for Shocktober. (Amanda Andrade-hoades/DC Refined)<p></p>

Danielle's face was prepped with oatmeal and liquid latex to give the appearance of abrasions. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)<p></p>

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Autumn uses Ben Nye grease paint, an airbrush machine and water paints to create a character for Danielle - the haunted house touches on a lot of scary themes though, so there's something to strike terror into every heart. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

For the finishing touches, Danielle applies grape seed oil to her hair, pigment to her teeth and airbrushes her hands to make them look dirty and decayed. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

For the finishing touches, Danielle applies grape seed oil to her hair, pigment to her teeth and airbrushes her hands to make them look dirty and decayed. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

For the finishing touches, Danielle applies grape seed oil to her hair, pigment to her teeth and airbrushes her hands to make them look dirty and decayed. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

For the finishing touches, Danielle applies grape seed oil to her hair, pigment to her teeth and airbrushes her hands to make them look dirty and decayed. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

The final look. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

Although Danielle and Autumn aren't the only makeup artists, the entire team takes just two hours to transform up to 70 people every night around Halloween. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/DC Refined)

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