Celebrity makeup artist Laney Chantal, of ‘Face Off’ fame, dead at 33

Movie star make-up artist and former actuality TV star Laney Chantal died this week of an unintentional drug overdose. She was 33.

Chantal, whose actual title is Alaina Chantal Parkhurst, died Monday in Milford, Michigan, her household confirmed in a public obituary, writing that she had “struggled with numerous psychological diseases all through her grownup life.”

A outstanding FX make-up artist and masks designer, Chantal got here into the highlight after showing on the SyFy Community’s “Face Off” competitors present in 2013 for its fifth season. She voluntarily withdrew from the fact present, about special-effects make-up artists, incomes the fifth-place spot.

Chantal labored with a number of big-name stars following her look on the present, together with Bella Thorne and Marilyn Manson. She even created the “Head FX Make-up” for rapper Lil Nas X for his controversial music video “Montero (Name Me By Your Identify)” in 2021, which received the Video of the 12 months award at MTV’s VMAs.

Fellow make-up artist Gabriella Accarino remembered Chantal as her “sister and soulmate.”

Laney Chantal
Laney Chantal appeared on “Face Off” in 2013.
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“She was a real, delicate, gifted, and exquisite soul,” Accarino wrote. “Laney’s artwork and her spirit are irreplaceable, and she or he made the world a greater place. She was actually certainly one of a form.”

In response to her household, Chantal moved from Michigan to Los Angeles after graduating highschool in 2007 to attend the Cinema Make-up Faculty, the place she earned a certification to change into a particular results make-up artist.

“Alaina put her entire self; physique, thoughts and soul into her jobs, regardless of the scale,” her obituary mentioned. “Her creative potential and visions shortly set her other than different artists in her area and her portfolio blossomed.”

Her household didn't present further particulars on her demise aside from it was on account of “an unintentional drug overdose.”

Six months earlier than her demise, Chantal posted a photograph to Instagram of a pink coffin being buried.

The Parkhurst household requested for donations to be made to The Mind & Habits Analysis Basis, noting the struggles its daughter skilled with psychological well being all through her life.

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