A 32-year-old Egyptian accountant, Marina ‘Nina’ Kamal, became a special effect artist after a photo of her Halloween look attracted the attention of hundreds of social media users. The young woman which also goes by ‘Nina’ was looking an artist to create a dramatic look for a Halloween party using face paint. Unfortunately, and fortunately for her, she could not find a special effects artist, and instead, she decided to do the look herself. Three and a half years later, Kamal has garnered more than 13 thousand followers on Facebook showcasing hundreds of looks from film characters, to visual art. “I stumbled upon several YouTubers to learn the techniques they use and I spent a long period of time following what they do. I still didn’t know how I could add my personality and touch into it,” Kamal recalls. “I was experimenting with all the subcategories of special effects until I slowly started forming an identity using body painting and decided to stick to that category and make it my niche, since there weren’t face and body painting artists in Egypt.” Because it was a very rare form of art in…
