Jenn Harper, Retail Council Canada’s 2025 Independent Independent Retail Ambassador of the Year on Taking Cheekbone Beauty from Startup Dream to Indigenous Beauty Revolution

Meet Jen Harper, founder of Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics and RCC’s 2025 Independent Retail Ambassador of the Year, who shares her incredible journey to building a nationally recognized indigenous beauty brand. From a vivid dream in 2015 to overcoming addiction, personal tragedy, and countless entrepreneurial challenges, Harper has created a sustainable cosmetics line pioneering the “indigenous beauty” category and much, much more.