"If you never stop trying, you cannot fail. I wanted to translate my dreams into reality, and I determined to emerge from a sheltered life and venture into a totally different world.", says #PadmaShri #ShahnazHusain.
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She was the one who built one of India's biggest skincare brands.
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Shahnaz was married at 15, and by the time she was 16, she had become a mother. With Rs 35,000 borrowed from her father in the early '70s, she started her business from a small room in her Delhi flat.
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Shahnaz was married at 15, and by the time she was 16, she had become a mother. With Rs 35,000 borrowed from her father in the early '70s, she started her business from a small room in her Delhi flat.
Simultaneously, she travelled across the country studying traditional beauty treatments.
"The demand was picking up then," Shahnaz recalls. "Indian women were getting interested in looking beautiful."
"The demand was picking up then," Shahnaz recalls. "Indian women were getting interested in looking beautiful."
Today, her company sells products in 100+ countries, and her turnover is in crores.
Looking back, she says, "I was so young, and at that time, it looked as if there was nothing more to do in life. So I was determined to prove that I am somebody, and I never gave up."
Looking back, she says, "I was so young, and at that time, it looked as if there was nothing more to do in life. So I was determined to prove that I am somebody, and I never gave up."
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