Huda Kattan to Receive the Icon Award at Beautyworld Dubai 2026

Beautyworld Dubai will present the Beautyworld Icon Award to Huda Kattan, founder of Huda Beauty and a defining entrepreneur of the modern beauty era.

The Beautyworld Icon Award honors individuals whose work has left a lasting mark on the global beauty industry. 

Presenting it to Huda Kattan reflects both her personal achievement and the wider story of a region increasingly helping to shape the direction of global beauty.

Huda Kattan, Founder of Huda Beauty, said:

“I’m so honored to receive the Beautyworld Icon Award. What started as a passion for beauty has grown into something bigger than I ever imagined and I am grateful to the region for being my home and the place where I was able to make a change in the beauty space, and I’m so proud of the journey we’ve been on. I’m incredibly grateful to our Huda Beauty team, our amazing community, and Beautyworld for this recognition.”

As one of the first creators to turn an online following into a serious global business, Kattan helped write the playbook much of the industry now follows. And she did it from Dubai, at a time when few expected a global beauty brand to come from this part of the world. 

At its core, that is what the award recognizes: Kattan showed the city and the wider region could export beauty, not just import it.

Ravi Ramchandani, Event Director, Beautyworld Dubai, commented:

“Huda proved a global beauty brand could be built from Dubai. That changed how the industry sees this region, and how the region sees itself. Every founder who walks our halls this October is building on the path she opened. That’s what this award is about.”

The award will be presented during the Beautyworld Dubai Awards gala on 7 October 2026 at Le Méridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre, celebrating Kattan’s influence on the global beauty industry and the path she has charted from Dubai to the world.