Words matter. These are the best Huda Kattan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m either full-glam or no makeup at all.
I’m not on my phone when I eat.
In the Middle East, I can’t walk down the street without being recognized. In the States, I’m totally fine going out.
I’ve had cystic acne; I’ve had it all.
I definitely understand a lot of what I want and what I don’t want. I’m very clear on that, and I think that’s been very beneficial.
Long-lasting makeup is all in the setting! I always bake in areas where I am prone to shininess and I find it really helps for keeping my skin looking great all evening.
When you think you’ve made it, you need to keep pushing because the person next to you or your competitor is also getting better, and you need to be able to stay ahead.
The eyes are so telling. That’s how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.
I’m a Sephora girl.
Personally I’ve always given people make-up advice and talked about beauty products because that’s what I’m passionate about.
Being women behind a massively growing business is not an easy task, and the journey to find the right investors and to secure true partners has proven that.
With Huda Beauty Angels, we’re investing a portion of our personal family wealth to women-led brands that we believe in!
I think a lot of people overthink things.
This is how I feel about cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery. If people want to do it for themselves – it’s fine. If people want to do it for the outside world, that’s when it’s not necessarily a healthy thing.
I spend the majority of my time in the office and I usually wear a casual bandage dress and flip-flops or slippers.
I drink bullet coffee, and I make it myself because I hate coffee. I get a shot of raw coffee, mix it with butter from grass-fed cows and coconut milk. It’s amazing!
What can I say? I’m a Southern girl.
One of my favorite drugstore brands is NYX.
The more focused you are, the more powerful you will be in the long run.
This sounds really weird, but I feel like God has given me so many beauty dilemmas so I can help people.
I feel like I’ve mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.
I love a full face of contour, lashes, lip liner – everything!
A lot of beauty brands, they’ll really infiltrate the States. But going out of the States, they struggle.
I’ve always been obsessed with beauty, but never realized I could actually make a career out of it.
I love red laser therapy or red light therapy and you can do it at your home and it’s really convenient. Kim Kardashian used it to get rid of her psoriasis and I’ve been using it for years.
I wake up at 6 A.M. and start with yoga. I’m by no means a morning person, but I’ve trained myself to become one. My husband wakes up at 4:30 A.M., so he makes me feel like a loser. When you wake up and no one is in the bed, it kind of gets you up.
We are more than one part of ourselves.
I really don’t like monkeys.
To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.
The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.
Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.
As long as I can be physically healthy, I don’t mind being curvy.
My makeup will stay on from morning until late and people are always like, ‘How? What do you do?’ It comes down to – and I know this is going to sound so bad – but really layering lots of makeup properly. That’s the key if you’re partying, working, or a mom or whatever – this is foolproof.
I always felt different and it was because I was Middle Eastern. Where most people were very fair, light-skinned, and had blue eyes, I was hairy with dark hair and dark skin.
I’m hairy.
If I’m asking people to spend money on Huda Beauty products, I have to genuinely believe we have created the best.
Going to school and formal education wasn’t all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.
I grew up in Tennessee. I loved to wear full glam. I used to want to wear flash lashes every single day. I remember wearing them once and someone was like, ‘Are you wearing false lashes?’ I felt embarrassed. In the U.S., it’s perceived as though you’re trying too hard.
I was born in Oklahoma.
The power of cosmetics and the effect they can have on one’s happiness and confidence is very real.
You need to constantly out-do yourself and constantly improve yourself.
That was honestly one of the biggest learnings for us: to stay true to the value we believe our company offers, and to not allow people to undercut us just because we’re women.
I try to take breaks from makeup on the weekends. I try to not to wear any on Fridays and Saturdays. It’s good to let your skin breathe and it’s good not to depend on makeup, to feel comfortable in our skin.
I have to buy three of everything. It doesn’t make any sense, but I have to. I’m worried I might lose it, and if I lose it, then I have a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.
Fun gets people going; fun gets people excited.
I get Botox and fillers; I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.
I feel the same way about makeup that I do about food – I don’t want the big companies to give me my food. I want the niche mom and pops who care about their food making it. I don’t want the Kraft cheese, I want the niche cheese.
Huda Beauty is doing so well, we’ve grown like crazy.
The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things – even hard things – happen.
I need to love what I do, because I’m going to give 110 percent. I’m going to be working from 6 in the morning until 10 P.M., so I need to make sure I like it.
I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.
To start my makeup, I like to put a nice amount of foundation on, and it’s really important that it’s not oily so it actually sticks to the skin.
I like things on my desk that are pretty and make a statement. It’s important that whatever is on my desk inspires me because that’s where I spend a lot of my time working and creating things.
In Dubai, people respect you if you wear lashes to the grocery store. I’ve been at the gym at 5 in the morning and seen full glam, which, I think working out with your full makeup is just crazy.
As a kid, I never felt attractive at all.