All great business ideas start from somewhere — and for Mented Cosmetics co-founders and CEOs, Kristen "KJ" Miller and Amanda Johnson, it was over a spontaneous conversation. As they say, the rest is history. “When we graduated from Harvard Business School we were pretty certain we wanted to pursue an entrepreneurial venture together, so it was really a question of when not if,” the ladies shared via e-mail. “One night, Amanda mentioned she had been looking for the perfect nude lipstick for three years...can you imagine?”asks KJ.

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