Our Lady’s prayers are so powerful!
e.l.f Cosmetics co-founder Deacon Scott Borba will be ordained a priest on May 23, 2026, in the Diocese of Fresno, California.
Deacon Borba is a former esthetician, actor, model, author, and singer who gave up his multimillion-dollar career to answer a call to the priesthood.
He spent over 20 years working in the health and beauty industry, and donated all of his wealth to charity after answering a lifelong call to the priesthood at the age of 42.
According to Angelus News, Borba said God called him to the priesthood at the age of 10, but he “accepted late.”
He also told his conversion story to yourcentralvalley.com in a 2019 interview, explaining that “God has blessed me with everything under the sun.”
Borba said he asked God to allow him to fulfill multiple dreams, to which he felt the Lord say “yes.”
“He not only blessed me with blessed me with money, and awareness, and just every business I had, he allowed me to have success with it,” Borba said. “Then I decided, you know, what is wrong with me? I was vapid. I had a perverse life.
“I went to LA, I got sucked into the Hollywood lifestyle,” he continued. “It was almost to a point where I was trying to sell my soul.”
“I was living for myself. I was idolizing myself,” he explained. “I was idolizing everything else out there that was luxury. I was a poster boy for luxury.”
Borbra said his family prayed for his conversion for many years, and people approached him about entering the priesthood “a thousand times.”
According to Angelus News, he recalled a particular moment his mother mentioned it to him at Mass when he was in the third grade.
"At Mass, she asked me to look up at the altar, and if I wanted to be the man in the robes," Borba said. "Whoever the priest was, his robes at that moment were shimmering like glitter. … And I knew God was placing on my heart to become a priest."
He eventually realized his worldly life is “not where we’re supposed to be. We’re supposed to be living for Heaven.”
“Not only did I accept the call [to the priesthood], but everything that God gave me– all my money, all of my everything I had, including the current company I have– I have given it all away.”
He especially credits the Blessed Mother’s prayers for helping him answer this call.
"I know that our Blessed Mother has brought me into this vocation because of her love for me and for her Son," he said in the Angelus News story. "I have never been happier. I have never been more full of joy.”