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

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

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

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

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!

I always felt different and it was because I was Middle Eastern. Where most people were very fair, light-skinned, and had blue eyes, I was hairy with dark hair and dark skin.

I'm hairy.

I have had my fair share of nights out.

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

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

I love seeing people being more daring with their makeup.

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.

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.

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.

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

I fell in love with Instagram.

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!

Sometimes, you really need to trust your gut.

This is how I feel about cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery. If people want to do it for themselves - it's fine. If people want to do it for the outside world, that's when it's not necessarily a healthy thing.

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.

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

I try to take breaks from makeup on the weekends. I try to not to wear any on Fridays and Saturdays. It's good to let your skin breathe and it's good not to depend on makeup, to feel comfortable in our skin.

I grew up in Tennessee, where no one was really hairy, and with sisters who were so beautiful - my little sister was a pageant girl. But me, I was this weird-looking hairy child. I had more than just a unibrow; I feel like I had a mustache, a goatee.

Long-lasting makeup is all in the setting! I always bake in areas where I am prone to shininess and I find it really helps for keeping my skin looking great all evening.

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

I always felt like a misfit.

We think big and we dream big.

I've been put in multiple boxes as blogging and as an influencer and not really perceived as a businesswoman, and that's something that I've really had to grow into.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can understand getting compared to the Kardashians.

We didn't grow up superwealthy.

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

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 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.

Fun gets people going; fun gets people excited.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.