Scott-Vincent Borba, e.l.f Cosmetics co-founder, will be ordained a priest on May 23, 2026
Scott-Vincent Borba, e.l.f Cosmetics co-founder, will be ordained a priest on May 23, 2026, in the Diocese of Fresno, California. The internationally famous cosmetics executive, who before age 30 had spearheaded successful business campaigns for some of beauty’s biggest brands, including Neutrogena, Sebastian, Joico, Murad and Hard Candy, is now a Deacon after giving up his career for the religious life. “God called me at age 10,” he told OSV News. “I just accepted late.” Now in his pastoral year at St. Patrick’s University and Seminary in Menlo Park, Borba chuckled as he recalled how he drove a luxury car and wore an expensive black suit to his first meeting with his vocation director. “(The director) opened the door, looked at me and said, ‘I have got a lot of work to do on you,'” recalled Borba, who is studying to be a priest for the Diocese of Fresno. Besides being an internationally famous cosmetics executive which made him a household name, Borba even dev...