Maven Brow and Beauty

Marla Shaw’s body is her canvas: her graceful frame is generously painted in beautiful, artistic tattoos; her face expertly, inconspicuously made up to highlight her natural features – high cheekbones, heavy-lidded eyes. Even before her first tattoo, Marla’s skin was merely a tableau. “I was always drawing on myself as a kid. My mom would say, ‘You’re going to get ink poisoning.’ I loved it.”

A kinesthetic person, Marla is drawn to the tactile aspect of painting, sculpting and creating something beautiful with her hands, which is what led her to both makeup artistry and welding (which Marla pursued simultaneously). Between working as a makeup artist and salesperson for MAC Cosmetics, and achieving her journeyman ticket in welding, Marla had four children and acquired more than 12 years experience in makeup application before starting up Maven Brow and Beauty.