{"id":82868,"date":"2026-05-12T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82868"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:38:40","slug":"e-l-f-cosmetics-co-founder-gives-up-fortune-to-become-catholic-priest-i-have-never-been-happier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/e-l-f-cosmetics-co-founder-gives-up-fortune-to-become-catholic-priest-i-have-never-been-happier\/","title":{"rendered":"e.l.f. Cosmetics Co-Founder Gives Up Fortune to Become Catholic Priest: &#8216;I Have Never Been Happier&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>People<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Scott-Vincent Borba, co-founder of the makeup brand e.l.f. Cosmetics, has forged a new path in life as a Catholic priest after selling his makeup fortune.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The former makeup brand leader, 52, will be ordained as a Catholic priest in his hometown of Visalia, Calif., by the Diocese of Fresno on May 23, officially marking a new chapter years after his departure from e.l.f. Cosmetics,\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/former-elf-beauty-founder-scott-vincent-borba-preparing-become-catholic-priest\/19083729\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">ABC 7<\/a> reported.\u00a0&#8220;I have never been happier in my life,&#8221; Borba told ABC 7. &#8220;Once I started to reorient myself, recalibrate myself with God&#8217;s help to the focus to Him, the joy started coming.&#8221; &#8220;I live in a little tiny room \u2026 it&#8217;s sparse, nothing in it,&#8221; he told ABC 7. &#8220;I have a few bits of clothes and a few pairs of shoes. And my life has been culled down to the bare minimum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778575120\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"e.l.f. Cosmetics Co-Founder Gives Up Fortune to Become Catholic Priest: &#8216;I Have Never Been Happier&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From People: Scott-Vincent Borba, co-founder of the makeup brand e.l.f. Cosmetics, has forged a new path in life as a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82869,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82868\/revisions\/82869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}