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Huda Kattan and Huda Beauty
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- 0:00She quit finance to post makeup tips
- 0:01online.
- 0:02>> [music]
- 0:02>> Then she built a beauty empire, sold a
- 0:04piece of it, and bought it back. Huda
- 0:07Kattan was born in Oklahoma to Iraqi
- 0:08parents and moved to Dubai. In 2010, she
- 0:11started a beauty [music] blog.
- 0:13Tutorials, tricks, honest reviews. Her
- 0:15followers wanted lashes that didn't
- 0:17exist yet,
- 0:18>> [music]
- 0:18>> so she made them with a $6,000 loan from
- 0:20her sister. In 2013, the lashes arrived
- 0:23at Sephora in Dubai Mall. They sold out
- 0:26in a day. Then foundation,
- 0:28>> [music]
- 0:28>> palettes, lipsticks, tens of millions of
- 0:31followers. In 2017, investors bought a
- 0:33minority stake [music] valuing Huda
- 0:35Beauty at $1.2 billion.
- 0:38In June 2025, she bought that stake
- 0:40back. [music]
- 0:41Now she owns all of it again. Follow
- 0:44Vibeconomics for more.
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Original YouTube title: “From a beauty blog to $1.2B, then she bought it back”. The original title may contain claims not confirmed by this companion.
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