Bisma Khan

Early life and background

Khan says she was not privileged growing up and had never travelled by plane. She says she was never made a prefect or a council member at school, was not selected after an audition during which she had stage fright, and never got a chance to participate. She says she has had low self-confidence since school, and that she had a vision from the start that she would certainly do something. [1]

Education

Khan completed her A levels, studying business as a subject. She says she was educated at one school and then another, up to her A levels. She says she paid her own A level fees while running her business. [1]

Career

Khan started a business while she was doing her A levels, and says she was 17 years old when she started it. Her first business sold plain T-shirts that customers could have printed with their own designs. She says she chose to start a business instead of buying a new phone, so she could afford a better phone later. She says the T-shirt business ended when the shirts sold out, because she had no savings to reinvest, and that it flopped. [1]

Hair care brand

Khan started a hair care brand whose first product was hair oil. She says she started with 5000 and ordered five or six plastic bottles from Daraz, made the oil at home with ingredients bought from a store, and filled the bottles herself using a kettle. She says that at the start about seven or eight orders came in. She says people stopped her in malls to ask how she had such long hair. [1]

Khan says her hair oil is still made at home, and that only she and her mother know the recipe. She says her shampoo, conditioner and serum are made by a factory in Sialkot. She says she has launched more products in her hair care line, which she says includes shampoo, a mask and conditioner, and that she plans to launch a skin care line. [1]

Khan says she spent a lot of money on marketing and learned what works and what does not. She says she used savings from the hair business to invest in other things. She says she learned most of her business skills from experience and from people. [1]

Clothing line

Khan says that after her brand launched and she had saved some money, she decided to launch a clothing line. She named the line and had jackets made, and hand-painted each jacket with fabric paints. She says the jackets did not sell quickly, so she gave many to friends and kept the rest. [1]

Rap

Khan refers to a rap journey of her own and says she took a break from rap and was not very motivated by it. She says the rap industry is very male dominated. She says most of the hate she got came from people who listen to established rappers. [1]

Social media

Khan describes herself first as a vlogger. She says she had about 3000 followers and was a very new YouTuber when she started. She says she deleted hate comments on her early YouTube videos, and that as a YouTuber she came to see hate as a sign of popularity. [1]

Khan says people overlook the appreciation she gets and think she is showing off. She says watching YouTubers buy cars for their mothers motivated her. She says many people who only see her online do not know what she is really like. [1]

Khan says social media has hate, critique and support, and that because the hate is so much, people tend to lump critique together with it. She says she was affected by the hate at first because her expectations were high. She says that if a thing gets hate, it means the thing is working, so she let it continue. [1]

Views

Khan says she does not give up, and that her failures are part of why she is who she is today. She says people learn most when they fail and resolve to be more careful next time. She says people should not think they are superior to others, and should always listen and learn. [1]

Khan says she is not a perfect person, but does good things that can inspire others. She says she makes many mistakes and often regrets them later. She says people should not be rude to others or hurt them, and that manners matter to her, and she tries to speak politely to people. [1]

Politics and charity

Khan says she plans to enter politics in the future and is careful about what she says. She says giving back to society is her main goal. She says she wants to show her charity work so that people can vote for her to do more, and that a percentage from each product goes to charity. She says she is greatly inspired by Edhi. [1]

Personal life

Khan says her parents separated and she lived with her mother at that time. She says her mother was very supportive and trusts her a lot. She says she told her mother she wanted to rap, and that her parents came to accept her rap over time. [1]

Khan says her father enjoyed her rap when she played it for him and has been supportive. She says her mother and father agreed to her choices without much difficulty, possibly because of a privilege she had. She says her parents still worry the most about her, and that she wants to be independent of her parents as soon as she can. [1]

Khan says she has social anxiety and is quieter in real life than on social media. She says she cares a lot about her reputation. She says a lot of kids message her about their parents. [1]

Appearances

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References

1. The missing character in Midsummer Chaos . Thought Behind Things , 2021-07-05.