Huda Kattan: $6k investment to $1 billion valuation in 5 years

We invested $6,000 in our brand Huda Beauty five years later in 2017 we got our valuation at over $1 billion. Hi, I'm Huda Kattan, founder of Huda Beauty and I'm gonna share with you guys how I made my first million selling makeup. So my first big money move when I was starting Huda Beauty, it was definitely a little bit of a risk for me but I asked my sister if I could borrow $6,000. I ended up using the $6,000 to buy lashes and I bought, you know, I think about 7,000 pairs of lashes at the time. And when I first found out about false lashes, I remember being like this is like the best kept secret, I need to tell everyone about it. And so I started blogging about it all the time and people were like where do you get your lashes and I was like I'm making them. I'm literally cutting, shaving, gluing on top of each other, I'm making them. It was totally really scrappy the way that we did it. My sisters helped me find a manufacturer, I found a printer to make packaging for me and you know that actually ended up creating our first lash that you see today. I got a meeting with one of the Sephora GM's. I definitely laid it on really thick and I sold this vision of our views and our, you know, what our blog was doing and then what our brand could be and how he could be the one to help me launch the brand and you know he took a chance on me and it paid off really well.