Like all type 1 vampires, Ariana is beautiful with hard, cold white skin which sparkles in sunlight. She has dark hair and her eyes were dark when she was human, since she is of Italian origin. Her skin was also olive-toned when human. Her eyes turned golden after she joined the Guard, since she lives off animal blood in order to comply with the coven's new laws, which forbid killing humans to feed. While she was blinded after her eyes were burned out she wore fake eyes of the same colouring, but they have since been healed by Poppy.