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About the Artist

Shameika Bowman is a premier Makeup Artist from New York. In a short time, Shameika’s career has soared and taken her life to new heights. She has shared her talents with a number of reputable magazines, television programs, and fashion shows including the Rachael Ray Show, Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, and the world's reknown New York Fashion Week.

Shameika, is a young artist on the rise. Her vision for beauty spans vastly. For as long as she can remember she has been experimenting in makeup! Her grandmother’s makeup was her first beauty playground where she would stay in the bathroom for hours at a time experimenting in lipliners, lipsticks and foundations.

Shameika honed her craft in the dorms of Hofstra University, where she did makeup for proms and weddings while working toward a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. After a short stint in education, she decided to use her passion of connecting with people in the field of beauty. ‘I believe there is healing in the hands of a makeup artist,’ Shameika says.

She created Your Face My Canvas LLC to fuse her personal and professional passion of changing lives, one face at a time. Her infectious personality & spirit shines through her work, as she transforms faces for television, events, and print work.

Shameika’s clients have included artists such as performers Ceelo, Musiq Soul Child, as well as Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn of Survivor to name a few. You can find some of her work gracing the pages of People Magazine, Intouch Weekly, and the UK international makeup magazine, FaceOn Magazine.

Television Credits includes: NBC’s The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight’s The Insider, ABC News, New York PIX 11 News, Si TV’s Model Latina Season 2.