Living in Tennessee, Kattan was known as ‘Heidi’ while her younger sister Mona was called ‘Monica.’ “I wanted to go by Huda, but people thought it was so weird. But when we moved to Massachusetts, people were like, ‘That’s such a cool name! They would even tell me, ‘You’re from Iraq; wow, that’s so cool!’”
Kattan met her now-husband, Chris Goncalo, at the University of Michigan-Dearborn where she studied finance. The couple moved to Dubai in 2006, and welcomed their first child, Nour Gisele, shortly after.
A lifelong passion for beauty had led Huda to enrol at a prestigious make-up training school in Los Angeles, cultivating a roster of clientele including A-list celebrities and a royal family. Soon after, Huda set up her beauty blog HudaBeauty.com.
Named one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet by TIME Magazine and Digital Innovator of the Year by Women’s Wear Daily, Huda Kattan is founder of Huda Beauty, one of the fastest growing beauty brands in the world and in the UK Huda Beauty can be found in all branches of Selfridges.
Kattan refuses to sit on the sidelines of progress and uses her far-reaching platform to raise awareness and generously spreads her success to enact social justice.
“We know in order for things to change there needs to be disruption,” she confided to Vogue Arabia. “We want to support everyone as much as we possibly can and make as much impact as we possibly can. We want to be change-makers.”
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