‘My parents said if you want something, work for it so when I was 11, I got a job in a fish factory to buy a horse’

Brendan McDowell is the founder of BPerfect Cosmetics and co-founder of Voduz Hair. He started BPerfect in 2012, selling eyebrow stencils with his mother, Ann. She, with his sister Leanne, remain part of the business, which has stores in the UK and Ireland. He lives in Belfast with his partner, Tony.