Mira Mariah
Mira Mariah is a fashion designer, illustrator, and tattoo artist. She is best known for her inclusive feminist tattoos and for tattooing celebrities such as Ariana Grande, Ilana Glazer, and Pete Davidson.{{Cite web |title=Mira Mariah |url=https://www.byrdie.com/mira-mariah-5119411 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Byrdie |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-04-03 |title=Two "Knew" York Girls - The Women Behind Our APOTHEKE x Girl Knew York |url=https://apothekeco.com/blogs/apotheke-journal/two-knew-york-girls-the-women-behind-our-apotheke-x-girl-knew-york-collaboration |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=APOTHEKE |language=en}}
Early life and education
Mariah grew up in Long Island and frequently travelled to New York City.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-27 |title=The 'Bridgerton' Artist Series: Mira Mariah Is in It for the Spirit |url=https://www.shondaland.com/shop-shondaland/a60010446/the-bridgerton-artist-series-mira-mariah-is-in-it-for-the-spirit/ |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Shondaland |language=en-US}} When she was 17 years old, Mariah amputated her leg due to a staph infection after corrective surgery from a birth defect.{{Cite news |last=Carmel |first=Julia |date=2020-12-10 |title=The Work Diary of Mira Mariah, Tattoo and 'Girl Culture' Expert |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/mira-mariah-tattoo.html |access-date=2024-07-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
Mariah earned a degree in fashion design from the Fashion design student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
Career
Mariah left her job as an assistant fashion designer in 2014 after she was unable to think of a tattoo artist that could represent "an expressive, modern generation of women" and began a tattoo apprenticeship that she found on Craigslist.{{Cite web |last=Francis |first=Ali |date=2019-11-04 |title=Ariana Grande's Brooklyn Tattoo Artist Is Winning at Work and Basically Everything Else |url=https://www.bonappetit.com/story/mira-mariah |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Bon Appétit |language=en-US}}
She grew a following by tattooing fashion influencers and became more well known after tattooing Ariana Grande with a worker bee tattoo in remembrance of the victims lost in the Manchester Arena bombing.{{Cite web |date=2019-02-08 |title=Get To Know Mira Mariah, Ariana Grande's Tattoo Artist |url=https://www.nylon.com/mira-mariah-ariana-grande-tattoo |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Nylon |language=en}}
Mariah has gained notoriety for fine-line, feminist tattoos that are inclusive to plus-sized women, mothers and disabled women.
Collaborations
Mariah frequently participates in partnerships and collaborations. Some of her partnerships include [https://www.meundies.com/ MeUndies], Squarespace, [https://inkbox.com/ Inkbox], Shondaland and Netflix's Bridgerton, and [https://apothekeco.com/blogs/apotheke-journal/two-knew-york-girls-the-women-behind-our-apotheke-x-girl-knew-york-collaboration Apotheke].
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Category:American tattoo artists