thinking but i definitely was thinking it was more of an experiment. you know, i had an idea to start a blog. actually, my sisters really pushed me especially my sister mona. she was like, you know, you need to be out there. you know so much about beauty. share it with the world. you re so passionate about it. and then, you know, one thing led to another, we started a beauty brand. and, no, never in my wildest dreams did i think we would be here ten years later. but i want to take you back to even before starting huda beauty, before becoming a make up artist even. so you were a child, you grew up in tennessee in the states, and your family had moved from iraq to the us. that s right. so, to a different cultural scene and to a place where not many people looked like you. yeah. what was life like? it was tough. i especially think at that time, i really struggled with my identity. i definitely struggled you know, i know it s we have a beauty brand now and we speak so
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
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
as you have already talked about this morning, regarding donald trump and the women conversation. the women that are coming out accusing him of sexual assault. the things that he has been caught saying on tape and speeches, frankly. but the times has this to say about hillary clinton and how she can or cannot, rather, combat that. though hillary clinton, it says, has stood at the center of feminist debates for more than two decades, she has at times been an imperfect messenger for the cause. that has never been more apparent than now as her old missteps and her husband s history have effectively paralyzed her during a moment of widespread outrage. in other words, mayor, it sounds as though they re saying because of her past it s very difficult for her to make a case against donald trump right now when it comes to the treatment of women. you say what? christi, i say that that s not what the numbers show. what the numbers in your polling data show is that women are coming to the