Mai Mukaida

is a Japanese make-up artist and businesswoman.

In 2009, Mukaida started the Coffret Project, which helps women in Nepal, who have been victims of human trafficking get their life back on track. She is the CEO of the cosmetics company Lalitpur, which she founded in May 2013. Mukaida was named the in 2012, and also received the Lohas Design Award.

Biography Mukaida was born on 24 October 1982 in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. While attending Miyagi Gakuin High School, she visited Nepal, participating in an NGO for women's literacy. She then attended Keio University at the SFC, where she studied sociology under Eiji Oguma.

Starting in August 2008, Mukaida spent half a year doing NGO fieldwork in Turkey. In 2009, she began the Coffret Project, which helps women in Nepal who have been victims of human trafficking get their life back on track. The company makes cosmetics with herbs and rock salt from the Himalayas.

Mukaida released the book Live "Beautiful Moments" in 2014.

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