The Studio

Moai Face, formerly known as Beauty by Ming and Moai Beauty, was born in 2016 out of a simple but radical idea: that permanent makeup, done right, should be completely invisible.

Not invisible as in hidden. Invisible as in - nobody should be able to tell you had anything done. They should just think you woke up like that.

Ming left a career at Yahoo in 2015 with one goal in mind: to do what makes me genuinely happy, specifically embracing the idea to "look your best potential self". Then Ming spent a year obsessively learning the craft, taking classes from Asia to LA, and started Beauty by Ming with nothing but precision, a deep respect for facial structure, and zero tolerance for work that looked like work.

Nine years later - five of them leading a team of four artists - Ming has trained over 100 PMU artists globally and been featured in the Wall Street Journal, built entirely through word of mouth. No ads. No gimmicks. Just results that speak loudly by saying nothing at all. Today Ming works as a solo artist again, because she always knew: her most precise, most expressive work happens when it's just her, the client, and nothing in between.

Ming's precision with faces eventually led her somewhere unexpected - to the patterns underneath them. She now simultaneously runs a separate practice, Moai Fate, offering clarity sessions that decode personality, behavior, and timing for people who want to understand themselves as accurately as she reads a face. Two different disciplines. The same obsessive attention to what's actually there.