Jamaica Gleaner

SHANA COLE MAKING A BOLD STAMP ON THE COSMETIC INDUSTRY

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Her most popular Lippie is called Boss Chick, but Sushana Cole didn’t always have the ideal boss behaviour.

HER MOST popular Lippie is called Boss Chick, but Sushana Cole didn’t always have the ideal boss behaviour. With her hard work, she has become a beauty inspiratio­n for us all. Shana, as she is most popularly called, was born and raised on Maxfield Avenue. She passed her Common Entrance as was accepted to the St Hugh’s High School for Girls. Having a knack for sales, she used to sell candy in her first year of high school. Seeing her talent, her father gave her a box of stockings to sell. Cole managed to sell all the stockings but the profit did not make it home. Though she was focused on succeeding, she did not quite fit in the traditiona­l school system. “I was not the most well-behaved child, I had to admit. I was a bad little girl and I guess that the school thing was just not for me,” she told Flair. She was expelled in third form for poor behaviour. Her dreams of being a flight attendant were no longer in the books, but she started to work with her mother, believing that she would later venture off with her own business. Being an entreprene­ur was her ultimate goal as she knew that she did not have the personalit­y for a nine-to-five.

By the age of 23, she became a mother. Shortly after having her son, the relationsh­ip ended, leaving her unsure of her next move.

Luckily, she had gone to cosmetolog­y school with the hopes of becoming a hairdresse­r. She was, however, pushed in another

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 ?? CONTRIBUTE­D ?? Shana Cole
CONTRIBUTE­D Shana Cole

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