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Painting The TownDineh Mohajer and her partners found unexpected success right at their polished fingertips.

ByGayle Sato Stodder

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In the day Dineh Mohajer painted her toenails baby blue and wentout shoe shopping, starting a business was the last thing on hermind. Mohajer, then 22 years old, was just your basic University ofSouthern California premed student escaping to Beverly Hills for amindless summer afternoon of retail therapy with her sisterPooneh.

She wasn't looking for new challenges.Au contraire,says Mohajer, "I had decided that summer [in 1995] to bloweverything off and do a very unpremed-like thing and just relaxbefore I had to go off to medical school and never have anotherchance to be a kid."

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