Makeup Artist Scott Barnes Is Launching the Only Five Palettes You’ll Ever Need

Name a celebrity and Scott Barnes has probably worked his makeup-artist magic on her. With hundreds of magazine covers and music videos under his belt, Barnes has very likely had a direct influence on your own makeup looks without you even realizing it — unless you're a Jennifer Lopez superfan, in which case you realized it because you would know Barnes has been the A-lister's go-to makeup artist for nearly two decades. She trusts him so profoundly that she let him use his five new palettes as they were being developed. So while it's Barnes's signature on the packaging, Lopez has more or less signed off on these new blush, contour, highlighter, and eye shadow launches.

Dropping Thursday, November 21, the quintet of palettes was created to fill in the blanks Barnes has identified among the options available to beauty lovers. "I recognized that there was a real lack of affordable luxury makeup available in the market and felt compelled to create makeup that allows everyone to obtain the highest level of quality they deserve," he tells Allure. "I can definitively say these are the best palettes I've ever used. They have completely replaced most of the other makeup that I use."

That may seem like an overstatement, but Barnes's versatile and thorough new palettes really can serve as the majority of the makeup you'd use on any given day. The Chic Cheek blush palette ($58) features six vibrant blush shades — brilliant tones of orange, pink, and red — and two "amplifiers" to emphasize their color and transform their finishes. The Sculpting and Contour palette ($58) features eight shades that emphasize not so much the dark-versus-bright approach to contouring but the way the colors come together for seamless sculpting. The Glowy & Showy palette ($68) features eight highlighters in shades of pink and yellow, which Barnes chose expressly to give the user more control over hue shifts.

As ample as the options in these complexion-centric palettes may be, the two new eye shadow palettes are even more manifold. The Snatural palette ($84) features 20 shades — a combination that Barnes calls natural and "snatched" elevated colors that were carefully chosen for their beautiful color payoff on any skin tone. The Colour Bomb palette ($84), on the other hand, is made up of 20 brilliant brights specifically chosen to work perfectly in pairs and fours and directly inspired by his past editorial and celebrity looks.

Although having so many colors to choose from may seem overwhelming, Barnes wants users to experiment boldly and trust how he's methodically laid out the shades in each palette. "I rarely stick to just one color as a primary. I like to paint the face and discover those lightning-in-a-bottle looks each and every time, and customers should not be afraid to mix things up," Barnes tells Allure. "I often use palettes and colors in unconventional ways, so I spent countless years developing the best formulas to achieve the highest versatility possible and put a lot of time into designing the color placements for each. "

Those years of development included testing out the shades with various looks on Jennifer Lopez. "From inception, through development to finalization, I used all of the palettes on Jennifer," Barnes tells Allure, explaining that he made many of the final changes and small pigment adjustments during her "It's My Party" tour and while filming Hustlers. This allowed him to compare how the colors looked to the naked eye versus on-camera.

But as exciting as it was to have Lopez as a canvas during the palettes' development stages, Barnes is especially excited about the finished products and how everyone else will use them. "I have already used them on Jennifer for multiple campaigns and magazine covers, and we now use them exclusively as our automatic go-to palettes," Barnes says. "I'm so excited that everyone gets to use them now!"

The new palettes are now available on scottbarnes.com.

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