Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Cat

Directions

1. Take a makeup sponge and spread a foundation much lighter than your natural skin tone over the nose, forehead center, under-eye area, along the cheeks, and onto the chin.
2. Grab a clean sponge and apply a dark orange-brown foundation to every spot not covered by the lighter shade.
3. With yet another sponge, softly blend the border where the two foundations meet.
4. Use black eyeliner to completely fill in your eyebrows.
5. Create sharp, angled peaks above the center of each eye for a dramatic effect.
6. Draw a thick line along the lower lash line and continue it sideways beyond the outer corner of the eye.
7. On the inner side, bring the line slightly downward along the side of the nose.
8. Trace the upper lash line and also line the inner corner of the eye.
9. Connect the upper line to the lower line at the outer corner.
10. Use the same pencil to cover the entire eyelid, extending the color outward past the eye.
11. Use a small flat brush to soften and smooth all the lines.
12. Paint the tip of your nose black and draw a vertical line from the nose down to the upper lip.
13. Darken your upper lip completely with black.
14. For a more intense cat-eye look, apply a black eyeshadow over the already black areas.
15. With a white cream pencil, sketch a tiny triangle just inside the black point at the inner eye.
16. Take a large brush and dust white shimmery eyeshadow over the lighter highlights across the face.
17. Trace over the existing eye lines with black liquid eyeliner to make them pop.
18. Using the same liner, add about five small dots above the lips on each side for whisker spots, and draw three whiskers extending outward from beside the nose.
19. Finish the costume by attaching fun false lashes, cat ears, a tail, and a collar.