Donna Nowak of Clarkston’s ProAiir black light body art makeup is featured on national television.
This season’s Ink Masters reality show on Spike TV features the Clarkston business’ body paint in a challenge.
“The product is being fully displayed on TV ? it’s killer,” said Nowak, who has been in the body art business for the past 15 years.
She got her start as an airbrush face painter at local events, including Clarkston’s Concerts in the Park.
“I did that for years,” she said.
Now she has her own business in Independence Township, with her husband, Bruce, and five employees. The shop is filled with shelves of body paint of all types and colors.
“I remember as a kid in high school, my counselor telling me there is no money or future in art, back in 1980 ? starving artist syndrome,” she said. “So I worked as a computer programmer. I hated it, so I went back to my art and from one experience to another, following my passion with a little ingenuity, I am where I am today. No more starving artist.”
She developed her own line of waterproof, smudgeproof, skin-safe body art makeup for all purposes, from beauty to horror-movie gore.
“ProAiir is gaining a lot of attention of the industry of fantasy makeup/special effects,” she said. “It’s unique. They use alcohol-based makeup in the film industry, which day after day is hard on the skin. This has the same durability, and comes off with liquid soap.”
For more information, check www.proaiir.com.