LISA HANNA : THE CROWN BECOMES A COMPANY
At 50, Jamaica’s Miss World 1993 has transformed a lifetime in the public gaze into a luxury-skincare venture—and a more intelligent conversation about beauty, age and Caribbean ambition.
By Publisher Ray Carmen
Beauty gave Lisa Hanna a world stage. She has spent the three decades since proving that a stage need not become a cage.
Crowned Miss World in 1993 at just 18, Hanna became the third Jamaican woman to win the title. She later moved through broadcasting, public service and national politics, serving four terms as a Member of Parliament and as Jamaica’s Minister of Youth and Culture.
Now, after leaving representational politics, she has entered a different arena: the global beauty business.
In April 2026, she launched Lisa Hanna Beauty, a seven-product luxury-skincare collection built around the philosophy “Age Intelligently.”
It is an unusually neat full-circle moment. The woman first introduced to much of the world through beauty is no longer being judged by an industry; she is attempting to build within it.
FROM IMAGE TO OWNERSHIP
Celebrity beauty lines are plentiful. Hanna’s proposition is more interesting because her public image has never belonged to beauty alone.
Her face has carried the contrasting expectations placed upon a pageant winner, a Cabinet minister, a constituency representative, a mother, a Caribbean woman and—now—a founder.
The shift is therefore not simply from politics to skincare. It is from visibility to ownership: ownership of product, message and the meaning of ageing in public.
The crown made her recognisable. The company asks whether recognition can be converted into trust.
Her debut range comprises a cleanser, serum, moisturising cream, hydrating elixir, eye gel, fade balm and face-and-body glow.
The brand says its formulas were developed with an Italian laboratory and are designed to support renewal, balance and resilience. These are company claims rather than a substitute for independent clinical judgement, but the positioning is clear: restoration rather than aggression, consistency rather than the theatre of instant transformation.
A CARIBBEAN BEAUTY MEMORY
For Publisher Ray Carmen, the story carries a special personal and publishing history.
In 1993, during her reign as Miss World, Lisa Hanna appeared on the front cover of Ray Carmen’s multi award-winning Caribbean World Travel & Living Magazine. The memorable fashion feature followed a shoot conducted in Jamaican waters aboard Celebrity Cruises.
The cover captured a defining moment: a young Jamaican woman carrying the Miss World title while representing the beauty, confidence and international promise of the Caribbean.
It also belonged to a vibrant period in Caribbean publishing, when fashion, travel and national identity were being presented to the world with confidence from within the region.
More than three decades later, Hanna’s latest chapter gives that historic magazine appearance a new resonance. What was once a cover celebrating beauty, youth and promise can now be read as an opening frame in a much longer story about discipline, reinvention and control of one’s own narrative.
There is also something distinctly Jamaican in the trajectory.
The island’s influence on global beauty has always exceeded its size—from hair, music and movement to colour, language and attitude.
Hanna’s entry into luxury skincare extends that influence from cultural inspiration into brand ownership, where Caribbean identity is not an exotic garnish but part of the founder’s authority.
BEAUTY AFTER THE CROWN
At 50, Hanna is launching into a market that too often treats age as a flaw to be corrected.
Her language is more measured. “Age Intelligently” reframes the proposition: not a fight against time, but a disciplined relationship with change.
That distinction matters, particularly in an industry still learning how to speak to women without turning insecurity into its most dependable ingredient.
The brand’s broader purpose also reaches beyond the bathroom shelf. Lisa Hanna Beauty says five per cent of its profits will support the Lisa Hanna Foundation and its work with women, children and vulnerable communities.
Commercial success and social purpose are not automatically the same thing, but placing a measurable commitment within the business model gives W7 something concrete to watch as the company grows.
Hanna’s newest reinvention does not erase the pageant or Parliament. It gathers both histories into a more contemporary idea of power.
Beauty may have opened the first door. Public service expanded the room. Entrepreneurship now puts her name above the entrance.
WHY W7 CHOSE HER
Lisa Hanna belongs in W7 Fashion & Beauty because this is not simply a retrospective on a former beauty queen.
It is a current story about a Caribbean woman converting image into enterprise, experience into philosophy and international recognition into a beauty brand with global ambitions.
The enduring lesson is not that the crown still fits.
It is that she no longer needs it.