Hi Kirby. Hi Sarah. Welcome to Los Angeles. Welcome glamgelinos. We hope you stay a while.

Friends, just a reminder, Sarah is back for Tuesday episodes only for the next couple of weeks.

We want to give her some more time with precious baby Cade. She will be Sarah is back for Tuesday episodes only for the next couple of weeks.

We want to give her some more time with precious baby Cade.

She will be back full time sooner than later, but I definitely want her to just have some time to decompress.

She is on maternity leave for the next couple of months.

I didn't want her to have to jump right back into work.

So our compromise was that she would come back't want her to have to jump right back into work. So our compromise

was that she would come back on Tuesdays to have some banter with yours truly as my workwife.

And she will be back on Tuesday. In the meantime, I'm thrilled because we have a very special

guest today, somebody that Sarah and I both adore and someone who just has

incredible business acumen and really understands the beauty industry has been doing this

an incredibly long time. We have Mona Katan. Mona is the global president of Huda Beauty.

She co-founded Huda Beauty alongside her sisters, Huda, of course, and her other sister, Alia.

And they are driving force behind Huda Beauty as a brand.

These sisters really kick ass in this community.

Mona saw potential when Huda, who is a makeup artist, started designing her own faux lashes and encouraged her to create a product line.

Then, fast forward to 2013, they launch a line of faux eyelashes at Sephora, and the debut collection sold out almost immediately.

Today, they have grown the company to a valuation of $1 billion with a line of groundbreaking products,

including everything from body foundation to lip contouring pencils, melted eye shadow to 3D

highlighters, all of which are globally distributed at leading retailers, including

Sephora, Herod's, Netta Porte, and many, many others. As the president of Huda Beauty,

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