Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Huda Kattan

I fell in love with Instagram.

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

I need to love what I do, because I'm going to give 110 percent. I'm going to be working from 6 in the morning until 10 P.M., so I need to make sure I like it.

I always felt like a misfit.

Being women behind a massively growing business is not an easy task, and the journey to find the right investors and to secure true partners has proven that.

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.

To start my makeup, I like to put a nice amount of foundation on, and it's really important that it's not oily so it actually sticks to the skin.

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 drink bullet coffee, and I make it myself because I hate coffee. I get a shot of raw coffee, mix it with butter from grass-fed cows and coconut milk. It's amazing!

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

A lot of people don't always know how successful our brand is and we don't ever talk about it. But it's exciting to see the brand resonate so well with people.

I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.

The more focused you are, the more powerful you will be in the long run.

I've worn pretty much every hat in the beauty industry, from blogger to makeup artist to YouTube influencer to Instagram influencer to journalist.

With Huda Beauty Angels, we're investing a portion of our personal family wealth to women-led brands that we believe in!

I feel like I've mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.

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

I feel the same way about makeup that I do about food - I don't want the big companies to give me my food. I want the niche mom and pops who care about their food making it. I don't want the Kraft cheese, I want the niche cheese.

Kids used to tell me I was weird all the time. When I got older, I wanted to embrace my name and I put it on everything. And I also wanted to embrace being weird.

I can understand getting compared to the Kardashians.

I was born in Oklahoma.

I wake up at 6 A.M. and start with yoga. I'm by no means a morning person, but I've trained myself to become one. My husband wakes up at 4:30 A.M., so he makes me feel like a loser. When you wake up and no one is in the bed, it kind of gets you up.

Makeup and beauty is essentially art so I really can't say that I dislike any trend. I love seeing innovation and creativity. It feeds my soul!

There's something sexy about a lip with a hint of red in it.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

We didn't grow up superwealthy.

I have to buy three of everything. It doesn't make any sense, but I have to. I'm worried I might lose it, and if I lose it, then I have a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.

I don't think I knew what 'Vogue' was as a child. I grew up in a little town in Tennessee, so that wasn't something we ever would think of.

It's hard being in the public eye.

I love a full face of contour, lashes, lip liner - everything!

I grew up in Tennessee. I loved to wear full glam. I used to want to wear flash lashes every single day. I remember wearing them once and someone was like, 'Are you wearing false lashes?' I felt embarrassed. In the U.S., it's perceived as though you're trying too hard.

I get Botox and fillers; I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

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

I basically shop in my sleep!

I would never buy skin care from a makeup brand - full transparency. It feels like the opposite of makeup.

I'm hairy.

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'm not on my phone when I eat.

I like things on my desk that are pretty and make a statement. It's important that whatever is on my desk inspires me because that's where I spend a lot of my time working and creating things.

Although we represent this almost drag-like beauty at Huda Beauty, I'm not only this person who is made up and always likes to wear their hair flawless and their makeup flawless.

Women just never think their lips are big enough, even when they are really big. The first thing I always hear from women when they sit down with me is, 'I need to fill my lips.' It's almost crazy how many women say that to me.

We are more than one part of ourselves.

As long as I can be physically healthy, I don't mind being curvy.

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.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

That was honestly one of the biggest learnings for us: to stay true to the value we believe our company offers, and to not allow people to undercut us just because we're women.

We know now data is so powerful, and you can learn so much about yourself and creating product with data.

Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.

The power of cosmetics and the effect they can have on one's happiness and confidence is very real.

Over the years, I've really put in the time to achieve flawless skin.

Fun gets people going; fun gets people excited.

I have had my fair share of nights out.

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

In the Middle East, I can't walk down the street without being recognized. In the States, I'm totally fine going out.

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

Sometimes, you really need to trust your gut.

I realized that my purpose really is to inspire people.

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 definitely understand a lot of what I want and what I don't want. I'm very clear on that, and I think that's been very beneficial.