Exclusive Interview with
Najla Al-Fardan
Her Journey
From within, outward.
Najla Al-Fardan is a certified nutritionist, international skincare consultant, co-owner of Orangetheory Fitness in Qatar, and the founder and CEO of Qiyorro, a conscious beauty platform built to help people feel confident in their own skin.
Her path into wellness was personal before it was professional. She struggled with obesity at a young age, dealt with digestive disorders and mild acne, and found that conventional approaches only addressed the surface. It was through that search for something deeper that she arrived at the principle that would define her work: health, wellness, and beauty are not separate concerns. They are one conversation.
“Nothing exists outside of that which you choose to entertain, and everything begins within you.”
Najla Al-Fardan, Life in 3D
Life in 3D
Mind. Body. Soul.
Najla’s book, Life in 3D, is a guide to holistic living rooted in Eastern wisdom and Ayurvedic philosophy. It moves across three dimensions: the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual. Her belief is that true wellness is achieved when all three are acknowledged and nurtured in balance.
The mind offers clarity and self-awareness. The body asks for nourishment, rest, and rhythm. The soul speaks through intuition when the other two are still enough to listen. By nourishing each layer, we awaken calm, vitality, and clarity. We come to know what it means to be fully alive.
On Character
Self-love is self-discipline.
What are your greatest strengths?
Discipline. I quote Will Smith often on this: self-love is self-discipline, the ability to forgo instant gratification for a long-term benefit. That is the thought that comes into my head when I am deciding between fries or mixed veggies, going out or finishing my work.
What are your weaknesses?
I tend to take things personally and consume other people’s emotions. I have worked on this by becoming a more objective observer, looking at situations from a bird’s eye view to understand where behavior is coming from rather than internalising it.
What makes you lose your temper?
When someone repeats the same problem over and over again.
On Life
Stay curious. Keep trying.
What is the most courageous thing you have done?
Opening two businesses during a global pandemic. When Covid arrived mid-process, I wasn’t sure what to do. We opened anyway, and I am grateful for that experience.
On Life
Who inspires you?
My five sisters. All totally different from each other, yet all sharing the same drive, resilience, and ambition. Witnessing that as a young girl shaped everything.
What advice would you give your younger self?
Stay curious. Try things out and keep trying until you find your true purpose. And know that you are so much more beautiful than what is externally shown. Beauty lives in the kindness of your heart and how you treat yourself.
What motivates you most?
It has never been about quantity. When one person tells me I helped them improve their life in any way, even slightly, that is everything to me. It confirms I am doing my job right.
On Style
8 hours of sleep and Vitamin Sea.
Your best beauty tip?
8 hours of sleep and some Vitamin Sea. Go for a swim in the ocean.
Fashion trends you don’t understand?
Anything neon. My style is quite basic and simple.
3 things always in your purse?
Digestive enzymes, a bold lipstick, and an eyeliner.
Daily Rituals
Lemon water, movement, and fifteen minutes of sun.
3 things you must do every day?
Drink lemon water first thing in the morning. Some form of workout or movement. Walk in the sun for at least 15 minutes.
Your hobbies?
Working out, reading self-improvement books, and recently getting deep into understanding human behavior and the science of Ayurveda.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I change every year. What is constant is that I will always have a love and passion for helping others. The form may change, but the intention never does.
For Boujeez
Wellness as a way of being.
What makes Najla Al-Fardan interesting to Boujeez is not the credentials, impressive as they are. It is the coherence. She has built her work, her businesses, and now her writing around a single idea: that health, beauty, and wellness are not three separate pursuits but one conversation, happening across the mind, the body, and the soul simultaneously.
Life in 3D is the natural extension of that, and for the Gulf audience that has watched Qiyorro take shape, it is a reminder that the most useful thing any wellness voice can offer is not a product, but a perspective.