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

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Early life and education

Mariah grew up in

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and frequently travelled to

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. When she was 17 years old, Mariah amputated her leg due to a staph infection after corrective surgery from a birth defect. 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

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. She grew a following by tattooing fashion influencers and became more well known after tattooing

with a worker bee tattoo in remembrance of the victims lost in the

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. 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 includ
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References

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