Mary Jane Haake

[7] Her volunteer models were scared,[8] but they stood up in front of the committee while the discussion of negative spaces, kinetic movement and sculptural aspects went on around them.

During her apprenticeship with Grimm, Haake watched as he camouflaged scars and recreated hair with fine lines—techniques he learned while working on World War I soldiers who had been gassed and burned.

[16] She translated those lessons into redrawing lips lost to cancer, recoloring skin grafts to match the surrounding areas, and disguising surgery scars.

[19] Haake showed them how tattooing can restore eyebrows lost to Alopecia areata, repigment areas affected by vitiligo, or recreate nipples on mastectomy patients.

In late 1990, Haake and GJ Normand visited Pati Pavlik in Laguna Beach, California to help organize the first National Cosmetic Tattoo Association convention.

She formed Dermal Source in 2004 to continue to expand the selection of topical anesthetics for the beauty, tattoo and permanent cosmetic fields.

[27] In her book "Through My Eyes", Pati Pavlik states "Over the years MJ did much, if not all, of the real documented research and development of topical anesthetics and painkillers.

When Alfredo Gonzalez, a Latin micropigmentation instructor, decided to organize international training, Haake was usually among the teams he assembled to travel to different countries.

Her dedication brought her to the attention of Governor Barbara Roberts, who appointed Haake to Oregon's Advisory Council for Electrology, Permanent Color Technicians and Tattoo Artists[34] from 1991 to 1996.

On August 2, 2009, Haake also moderated a panel on the History of Tattoos in Portland which included Don Deaton, Jeff Johnson and Cherie Hiser.

They turned to four extraordinary female artists whose work thrived in a male-dominated trade: Pat Fish, Vyvyn Lazonga, Mary Jane Haake and Debi Kienel.