Kathleen Hou
Beauty Director
Kathleen Hou is the Beauty Director of ELLE, responsible for overseeing beauty coverage across print and digital. Previously, she held the same title at New York Magazine’s The Cut. She’s appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Vogue India, Forbes, and Allure. She was also a co-founder of Donate Beauty, a grassroots beauty donation project started during the COVID-19 crisis, which donated over 500,000 products to over 30,000 healthcare workers across 500-plus hospitals.

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