"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.
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."⁠
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."⁠

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