They say that there's a bright side to any situation, and it turns out that's apparently true even if you get arrested. A 19-year-old who was apprehended for possession of marijuana (a cheeky two grams she was planning on smoking with friends later that night) might've landed herself a night in jail, but it looks like she's also landed herself a promising career path.

Former Texan university student Marshala Perkins took her time to apply her makeup before heading out to meet her friends. But while she was sitting in the car, the 19-year-old was approached by two Hunt County police officers.

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"[One officer] asked me for my handicap sticker because I was in a handicap spot," Marshala told As/Is, explaining that her mother has a disability and she often drives her around. "I gave it to him and he brought it back, said everything was clear."

But unfortunately, one of the officers had his nostrils on high alert. "It smells like weed in here," he reportedly said, before asking her to step out of the car so he could search it. Lo-and-behold, they found the little bag of devil's lettuce.

"And so I went to jail for it with my beat face," Marshala stated, referring to (wait for it)... this:

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Yup, Marshala's mugshot ended up on the internet on the rather questionable "Mugshot Baes" Twitter account. As you can see, she looks bangin', and people were very impressed to learn that her makeup skills are completely self-taught.

The picture soon went viral, and people began requesting tutorials from the 19-year-old.

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She was arrested back in February but the photo appeared on the Twitter page more recently, earning her a lot of attention.

“My phone started going crazy,” the Dallas local told the Star-Telegraph. “I was still kind of embarrassed about it because it was something I didn’t want people to know. But then when I started reading the comments I was like, besides me being in jail, people are really noticing my talent and what I can do.”

It seems the embarrassment turned into inspiration, with Marshala saying "makeup is something that I really wanted to do—I was like 'Okay!' I wasn’t feeling too bad about it."

Her Instagram follower count rose enormously once people found her public profile, and she's had countless requests for video tutorials. And it doesn't end there! Marshala said that she's also been contacted about starting her own makeup line.

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“Someone has reached out to me about starting my own makeup line. It’s crazy. My mind is blown,” she revealed. “Now it’s turned into something so positive so I’m just going to embrace it and see where it takes me.”

Marshala has made a YouTube channel with makeup-brushes featured in her profile's imagery, so it seems she is planning to upload a few tutorials. Despite the fact that she has no videos yet, she has close to 1,000 subscribers already.

We're looking forward to see what's still to come!

Why does it seem that we're always attracted to the bad boy or the bad girl? There's just something about the fantasy of a criminal that stirs a bit of passion, isn't there? Perhaps it's the Bonnie and Clyde complex, but nothing seems to get the internet more hot and bothered than a particularly attractive mugshot.

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I'm sure we all remember the incredibly hot felon, Jeremy Meeks. He was a member of the Crips and was arrested in 2014. After the police posted his mugshot online, it went viral and spawned the nickname "hot felon" as well as the hashtag #MugshotBae.

While Meeks served 27 months in prison for felony charges of possessing an illegal firearm and grand theft, due to his internet celebrity status, he became a model after he was released from jail last year. He was recently described by Vogue as a "buff bad boy" after a New York Fashion Week performance.

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However, now there's a new #MugshotBae on the block. Marshala Perkin was recently arrested for marijuana possession, but after the internet caught sight of the self-taught makeup artist's mugshot, many were demanding her release so that they could get a beauty tutorial!

Her mugshot has gotten hundreds of thousands of likes on Twitter with many comments pouring in to tell her how gorgeous she looks and others asking the felon to share her makeup secrets.

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Perkin explained to Buzzfeed exactly what happened the day she got arrested. Apparently, she had parked her car in a handicap parking space because her mother had a badge and Perkin often drives her around town to run errands.

A police officer approached her car and asked for the badge. Perkin supplied it and the officer walked away only to return a few moments later to say everything checked out. That's when the officer suddenly asked Perkin to step out of the car on account of him smelling marijuana.

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The officer found two grams of weed, which Perkin confessed she planned to smoke later that day with some friends, and at that point, she was arrested. The mugshot of discussion shortly followed along with Perkin's instant internet fame.

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Perkin admitted that she was embarrassed about the whole incident at first, but then later claimed she was pleased that everyone loved her makeup skills so much. She's definitely got talent!

The 19-year-old has now seen her career as a makeup artist take off and she has been constantly being asked to do others' makeup. Numerous requests for tips and tutorials have also been made.

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"Someone has reached out to me about starting my own makeup line. It's crazy. My mind is blown," Perkins, who is studying at A&M Univerisity, said. "Now it's turned into something so positive so I'm just going to embrace it and see where it takes me."

I'm sure plenty of us are looking forward to a potential makeup line. And, as requested, Perkins has begun recording tutorial videos to be posted online. Her legions of fans will certainly be happy about this news!

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Perkin isn't the only felon with a fanbase. Thanks to the Twitter account Mugshot Baes, plenty of criminal pretty faces have gone viral, and if Perkin and Meeks are proof of anything it's that, on occasion, getting arrested can be very good for one's career. Who would have thought that eh?!

Most of the Mugshot Bae photos get hundreds if not thousands of likes. However, if you don't want the world to know what you did, then perhaps don't do the crime. These photos also list what the person was arrested for and are shared widely.

For example, one mugshot bae is listed as having seduced a minor. Yikes! Not sure that's going to go over well for future career prospects. Marijuana possession is one thing, but not all criminal activity can be so easily overlooked.

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What do you think? Would you date a prisoner? While hearing of people having an incarcerated penpal is nothing new, websites like MeetaPrisoner.com, InmatesforYou.com, and GayPrisoners.net have made interaction with an inmate easier than ever.

So what exactly is it that attracts some people to those who have committed crimes? One woman named Georgina Rigby admitted to having previously had a relationship with a prison inmate.

"Thinking about it now, several years later, the letters allowed me to be intimate at a distance. To be my 'best self' without the physical and personal flaws that he'd encounter face to face," she admitted to the Independent. She also added that she just wanted to be "wanted and liked".

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Perhaps for others, the attraction is superficial - with beauty being the main factor attracting them to their mugshot baes. And online flirting is nothing more than a little fun at a distance, perhaps similar to that of a crush on a celebrity. After all, these viral mugshots are allowing these people to become celebrities of sorts.

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So do these mugshot baes find true love post-internet-fame? Perhaps. Jeremy Meeks, the original "hot felon", divorced his wife of a decade earlier this year. Now he's dating the ultrarich Topshop heiress Chloe Green. Is it true love? Only time will tell.

For now, let's all try to find more legal ways to become rich and famous. In the meantime, we wish Marshala Perkin the very best of luck with her career as a makeup artist. We look forward to those tutorials and a hot new beauty line soon!

While little good can come out of being arrested, the rise of so-called #MugshotBae has propelled several individuals into the spotlight. Of course, there's the "hot felon", Jeremy Meeks, who landed an international modelling contract after his mugshot started making the rounds on social media, but now a college student has gone viral after people started pointing out just how glamorous her mugshot was.

In February of this year, Marshala Perkins did her makeup ready to go out with her friends. However, before she was able to set off, the college student was approached by two Hunt County police officers at her car. "[One officer] asked me for my handicap sticker because I was in a handicap spot," Marshala told As/Is, clarifying that her mother, whom she often drives around, has a disability. "I gave it to him and he brought it back, said everything was clear."

But instead of leaving matters there, the police officer allegedly said "It smells like weed in here", and told her to exit the vehicle so that she could be searched. The officers found two grams of marijuana, which the self-taught makeup artist had planned to smoke with her friends. "And so I went to jail for it with my beat face," Marshala stated, referring to her gorgeous makeup look. 

And I mean, just take a look at her mugshot...

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Five months later, Marshala's mugshot went viral after a Twitter user reposted the image with the caption, "We need a tutorial! Free her!"

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"At first I was embarrassed because that’s not really something that you want to be broadcasted," the 19-year-old said in response to all the press attention. "But then when I saw all the support for me with my face beat—because makeup is something that I really wanted to do—I was like 'Okay!' I wasn’t feeling too bad about it.”

Marshala has never previously been arrested prior to the night of February 6th when she was charged with possession of marijuana, held overnight in jail, and ordered to pay $2,000 in court fees during the course of her six-month probation period.

The college freshman has since drawn attention to the fact that many of her fellow black students have had similar experiences. "I mean it was getting to the point where nobody that I was meeting was able to tell me, ‘Oh no, I was never arrested down here for marijuana’ or ‘I’ve never been stopped or searched or anything,'" she told the publication. 

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According to FBI data published by The Intercept, Texas police officers made more annual marijuana arrests in 2016 than law enforcement officials in any other state. In conjunction to this, a 2013 ACLU study found that while the use of marijuana is largely equal between black and white people, black people are 3.73 times more likely to arrested for possession of the drug nationwide.

"It’s been really hard trying to get a job because of my background now. A lot of people don’t want to hire people with marijuana on their background," Marshala concluded.

Normally when you see mugshots posted on news reports, letting the public know that there's a criminal on the loose, it ends up being a fairly average-looking man without any particularly unique features, which can get in the way of identifying him if you do run into the convict at some point. There have been some instances where mugshots have proven to be memorable, however. Jeremy Meeks, dubbed the "hot felon", went viral back in 2015 for a stunningly handsome mugshot that made the rounds on social media. Meeks, who was convicted of a number of crimes, some petty and some violent, has ended up becoming one of the most recognizable faces in the modeling industry in the last two years. [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/BO5gbX7BcAm/]] It was even reported that the model is earning $1 million a month, and his estranged wife Melissa was claiming he owed her spousal and child support as their divorce raged on. The former prisoner-turned-model made his debut at New York fashion week this year, and has had intermittent photoshoots since is mugshot went viral. But not all mugshots attract attention for their glamor. KTVU2 News posted an alert on their Facebook page to find a man who has recently escaped from prison. Corey Hughes, a 26-year-old man who was serving time on a weapons charge, was last seen in a work crew in Stockon, California before his escape. The photo has reached over 26,000 shares and 6,000 comments, and not for the right reasons. Just check out Corey's terrible face tattoo: Understandably, many people in the comment section of the post couldn't take it seriously. The top comment on the post asked: "Does he have any distinguishing features that might help the public recognize him?" Another user wrote: “Hi my name is Corey. I’m a 27 year old single guy. I just left my job to pursue a different career. My hobbies include tattoos, running and I especially love the outdoors. I’m sorry for the quality of the photo attached I had a friend take it for me. CHEERS!” [[facebookwidget||https://www.facebook.com/ktvu/photos/a.170555017060.132233.20980557060/10155192579142061/?type=3&theater]] And someone who shared the same name with the convict insisted he didn’t want to be associated with this fellow Corey. He said, “As a representative of the collective Coreys or Corys, we hereby revoke this particular Corey’s status and claim no affiliation within our ranks. Thank you.” You can imagine how he thought this was a good idea. A skeletal face tattoo can be pretty intimidating when done right - maybe he thought he would look more like El Diablo from Suicide Squad, but the design here is kind of a mess. On top of that, he's now easily identifiable by anyone in the state, who can easily ring up the police and tell them that "there's a dude here with a skeleton face" and he'll be back in jail in no time at all.

While the idea of documenting every moment of our lives on social media is often seen as a toxic thing to do, there are instances in which it can be beneficial. For instance, who would have thought that a selfie could be the key evidence in a homicide case? In 2015, an 18-year-old girl from Canada was found fatally injured on the side of a road. Discovered unresponsive near a landfill in the city of Saskatoon, in the province of Saskatchewan, it was eventually concluded that she had been strangled to death. Speaking to her friend, 21-year-old Cheyenne Rose Antoine, they were told that after an evening of drinking she had gone home with an unknown man, but it turned out that this was a lie. The police poked holes in Antoine's story when she told them that she and the victim, Brittney Gargol, went to the Colonial Pub and Grill. After looking over the security footage, they saw that they had never been there. Antoine also tried to throw the cops off by posting on Facebook shortly after the death, asking where she was. But the key point in the investigation that lead them to suspect Cheyenne came down to a selfie she posted on the site. They recognized that the belt she was wearing in the selfie, posted only a few hours before Gargol was found, was also at the scene of the crime. This eventually was used as key evidence in the trial, by which point a friend of Antoine's tipped them off that she had confessed to having a fight with the deceased on the night of the death. Crown prosecutor Robin Ritter said that it was "quite remarkable how the police developed this information", adding that Brittney was "far too young when she was killed". After a two-year investigation, the police charged Antoine with second-degree murder, but she pleaded guilty to manslaughter instead, earning herself seven years in prison, CBC reports. She admitted that the pair had been out drinking and had gotten into an argument, but her memory was fuzzy past this point. "No doubt this young woman has issues ... and because of those issues she is dangerous," said Ritter. "I will never forgive myself," Antoine said in a statement made through her lawyer. "Nothing I say or do will ever bring her back. I am very, very sorry. It shouldn't have ever happened". Lisa Watson, Antoine's lawyer, added: "She knows the family would like an explanation, a reason, but unfortunately she can't provide that". [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/_chamilton/status/952943001948405760]] Gargol's aunt, Jennifer Gargol, spoke about Brittney in court, saying: "Most days we can't stop thinking about Brittney, what happened that night, what she must have felt fighting for her life. You feel darkened in your own dark world... You robbed this world of someone who had a special gift." Gargol's stepmother also remarked that her daughter, Brittney's younger sister, has been shaken up by what has happened. The little girl, who was five at the time of the killing, feels guilty if a day goes by that she doesn't think of Brittney. No doubt this senseless crime will have repercussions for years to come, and our thoughts are with the family of the deceased.