Shahnaz Husain, 

The woman who started it all in the Indian beauty segment may not still be a tour de force but don't expect her to fade into the shadows anytime soon. Last year Husain bought 440 sq. ft. in Delhi's super expensive Khan Market for Rs 17 crore. "My name has been up there for decades. It's not going to be taken down," she says. That's the spirit that keeps driving her to open more franchises. Her company launched a range of salves and tonics for cancer patients with hair and skin ravaged by chemotherapy. She is working on training underprivileged women in Bengal to get jobs in the beauty market.