Beauty

Makeup Artist Fiona Stiles Launched A Collection With Ulta

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March 3, 2016

Fiona Stiles, leading celebrity and fashion makeup artist, recently launched her own makeup collection with Ulta titled, Fiona Styles Beauty.

If you’re not familiar with Stiles already, she can be credited for some of Hollywood’s most gorgeous faces, such as Jessica Alba, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, and Madonna—even earning an Emmy nomination for Madonna Live: The Drowned World Tour. Her work has also been showcased in multiple titles such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Allure. Needless to say, this woman knows her stuff.

The collection features a full range of makeup products, and boasts more than 25 items that will help put your best face forward. For eyes, there’s an Invisible Eyeshadow Primer, six shades of the Radiant Aqua Eye Veil, six shades of the Artist Eyeshadow Quad, five eyeliner pencils, one liquid liner, two mascaras, and a brow pencil and wax. For lips, you can expect multiple shades of liquid lip colors, lipsticks, lip crayons, and liners as well as a super hydrating lip balm pot. For the face, there’s a face palette for illuminating and two for sculpting, multiple shades of foundation, concealer, loose powder, and blushes and bronzers.

The best part about it all? These products are selling at prices we can all afford (hallelujah!), ranging from $12 to $30. I was lucky enough to take home a portion of the collection to play with—and after playing, I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re all amazing.

The standout product from the collection is definitely the Radiant Aqua Eye Veil. These soft, shimmery eye color pots are super pigmented, but are so easy to work with—they’re buildable and blendable with a brush or your finger. My favorite shade was ‘Baltic,’ a shimmery metallic dark amethyst, which is the only product you’ll need for a super sultry smoky eye. The second runner-up here would be the Light Illusion Prism Palette. I’m not one to put anything shimmery (unless it’s for my eyes) near my face, ever, but this soft highlighting palette gave me them most subtle, gorgeous glow.

Click through to the slideshow to see eight of our favorite picks from the collection.