i m huda beauty. sometimes, ifeel like huda ugly! yeah! you have this beautiful, sculpted, ultra glamorous look. guys, this feels so good. oh, my god! i m not mad at it at all. i think it s so pretty. huda kattan is one of the biggest names in beauty, with a business worth over $1 billion. we ask her what it means to be beautiful. join me, nouran sallam, for a special bbc 100 women conversation with huda kattan on bbc news. huda, welcome. thank you forjoining us. oh, i m so honoured to be here. thank you so much for having me. so, you re in paris right now to celebrate ten years since the launch of huda beauty. yeah. congratulations. thank you so much. it s surreal. did you think at the start that ten years on, you d be in this place? when we launched the brand, i don t know what i was
me her life story and, you know, she had been through some pretty tough things. and we were at a nars counter and i bought her a product and we put it on her. and, you know, i saw her transform right in front of me. you know, we were going up these escalators, we were somewhere in asia, and she took her hair down and shejust like. you know? you could see the transformation right in front of you. this woman, all of a sudden, just felt a little bit better about herself. doesn t matter that it was a lipstick or a blush that made her feel better but it was something that she put on that brought something within her out. that, for me, is what make up is to me. i realise there s a lot ofjudgement. people do see it on the outside, but it doesn t really matter. it s the personal thing that people experience that, for me, is the reason why i fell in love with make up. huda, you have a huge platform, obviously with millions of followers. how do you use your influence? do you feel an obligation t
my whole thing is i just want people to know that there s nothing holding them back, you know? it s just themselves that might be holding them back. but, um but, yeah, social scares me, though. i m like, social media is the way to get yourself out there, but now it s also scary, so it is it s a bit of a tough world also right now. i think influencers and people who are starting nowadays also have to get over that hurdle. they need to take care of themselves mentally, you know? they need to have a strong foundation. that s really important. huda kattan, thank you for speaking with us today and thank you for being one of this year s bbc 100 women. thank you so much. i m honoured. thank you so much. thank you. hello there. flooding still, of course, a concern for many, although the rain has now largely eased and the number of flood warnings is continuing to steadily drop. but there are still plenty of them in place.
here i am going out to the public. i m huda beauty. sometimes, ifeel like huda ugly! yeah! you have this beautiful, sculpted, ultra glamorous look. guys, this feels so good. oh, my god! i m not mad at it at all. i think it s so pretty. huda kattan is one of the biggest names in beauty, with a business worth over $1 billion. we ask her what it means to be beautiful. join me, nouran sallam, for a special bbc 100 women conversation with huda kattan on bbc news. huda, welcome. thank you forjoining us. oh, i m so honoured to be here. thank you so much for having me. so, you re in paris right now to celebrate ten years since the launch of huda beauty. yeah. congratulations. thank you so much. it s surreal. did you think at the start that ten years on, you d be in this place? when we launched the brand, i don t know what i was