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Huda Kattan’s Net Worth: The Richest Makeup Artist
By TheBlast Staff on May 18, 2021 at 2:01 PM EDT
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Huda Kattan is widely known as one of the most popular makeup artists in the world, but how much is she worth?
With 48.5 million followers on Instagram, 8.1 million followers on Facebook, and 3.8 million followers on TikTok, 37-year-old Kattan has an extensive reach. So it's not surprising that she's become the richest artist of her trade. That said, some will be shocked to find out just how wealthy Kattan, who is the founder of both Huda Beauty and Wishful Skin, is.
Huda Kattan Studied Makeup In Los Angeles
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After moving to Los Angeles from her hometown of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Kattan launched her first cosmetics line, Huda Beauty, and nabbed a client list of A-listers, including Nicole Richie and Eva Longoria.
As Celebrity Net Worth revealed, Kattan worked for Revlon as she got her company off the ground and released her first products, a line of false eyelashes, through Sephora.
In the years since, Kattan has landed in the number one spot of the 2017 Influencer Instagram Rich List by receiving a whopping $18,000 for each post of sponsored content.
Huda Kattan Was Named As One Of The 'Most Influential People On The Internet
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Also in 2017, Kattan was named as one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet by Time magazine.
During an interview with USA Today in 2018, Kattan opened up about the start of her career in the makeup industry.
"I kind of wanted to prove to my husband and my father that I really could take this leap – that it wasn’t just a hobby. I went to school in Los Angeles and then came back to Dubai and started working really aggressively right away," she recalled.
Huda Kattan Took A Break From Doing Makeup After Getting Pregnant
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As Kattan recalled, she began focusing on her career in makeup after first becoming a beauty blogger. Then, after becoming pregnant, she took a step back.
"I stopped doing makeup full time and I kept just a few clients, like the (UAE) royal family and celebrities when they would come into town," she explained. "The blog had become this marketing tool that had allowed me to get into this new wave."
Although many of her peers thought she was crazy for giving out free advice on her website, it ended up being a good thing for the young mom.
Find Out How Much Huda Kattan Is Worth
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"I was able to pick and choose (clients) and charge more money and work less and save up for what would later become our makeup brand," she noted.
Looking back at her career milestones, Kattan said that after launching her lash line in 2013, she moved on to color cosmetics.
"And, since then, our company has just exploded," she revealed.
So, how much is she worth? According to Celebrity Net Worth, Kattan has a net worth of $560 million.
Scroll on to see what Kattan's fellow makeup artist, Jeffree Star, had to say about rumors of an affair with rapper Kanye West.