Scott-Vincent Borba helped build one of the most recognizable beauty brands in America, e.l.f. Cosmetics. Now, the millionaire entrepreneur is trading makeup for the Catholic priesthood.
Borba, 52, co-founded e.l.f. Cosmetics in 2004 and helped transform the affordable beauty brand into a multimillion-dollar business. But despite financial success, celebrity connections and a luxury lifestyle, Borba said he felt increasingly empty, according to interviews with CBS News and Today.
"Was I created just to work and to party and to repeat and then die?" Borba recalled asking himself during an interview with CBS News.
That question ultimately set him on a path that led away from Hollywood and the beauty industry and toward the altar. After years of wrestling with his faith, Borba was ordained as a Catholic priest by the Diocese of Fresno on May 23 in his hometown of Visalia, California, according to People and Los Angeles-based TV station ABC 7.
"We ran around with the likes of Paris Hilton, and partying with Kardashians and just doing up the Hollywood life," Borba told ABC 7 in May. "I was a poster boy for luxury living. I was not in any which way humble. I was very prideful."
Borba, 52, co-founded e.l.f. Cosmetics in 2004 and helped transform the affordable beauty brand into a multimillion-dollar business. But despite financial success, celebrity connections and a luxury lifestyle, Borba said he felt increasingly empty, according to interviews with CBS News and Today.
"Was I created just to work and to party and to repeat and then die?" Borba recalled asking himself during an interview with CBS News.
That question ultimately set him on a path that led away from Hollywood and the beauty industry and toward the altar. After years of wrestling with his faith, Borba was ordained as a Catholic priest by the Diocese of Fresno on May 23 in his hometown of Visalia, California, according to People and Los Angeles-based TV station ABC 7.
"We ran around with the likes of Paris Hilton, and partying with Kardashians and just doing up the Hollywood life," Borba told ABC 7 in May. "I was a poster boy for luxury living. I was not in any which way humble. I was very prideful."
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