Huda Kattan

“This transition of being a woman and a breadwinner - it took some time for my dad to get used that. It took some time for my husband. I was like, gosh, I've worked so hard to be here, and then all of a sudden I don't know if I feel comfortable being here.”

“We think big and we dream big.”

“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 realized that my purpose really is to inspire people.”

“Being a Middle Eastern girl in America with a name no one could pronounce was not easy, so I turned to make-up and cosmetics as a way to deal with my insecurities, thus creating my long-term relationship with beauty.”

“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.”

“The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.”

“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'm so in love with Chanel's perfume bottles. I grew up seeing my mom use Chanel No. 5, so it's quite sentimental to me.”

“I spend the majority of my time in the office and I usually wear a casual bandage dress and flip-flops or slippers.”

“I think a lot of people overthink things.”

“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.”

“I would die to do Meghan Markle's makeup.”

“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.”

“We are more than one part of ourselves.”

“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.”

“Anytime I think about my office, I think about creativity.”

“A lot of beauty brands, they'll really infiltrate the States. But going out of the States, they struggle.”

“Huda Beauty is doing so well, we've grown like crazy.”

“I want to shake things up, I want people to talk about it. It's really important that our brand flips the industry upside.”