The alluring feline eye. Charm by day, own the city by night. Subtly sexy, or strikingly dramatic. Genetic, maybe, but it can also easily be drawn on (yes!) by a few simple strokes of strategically applied eyeliner.
Face Basics
1. Start with a cleansed, toned and moisturized face. For a great moisturizer with SPF 30, try Peter Thomas Roth Max All Day Moisture Defense Cream.
2. Smooth a thin layer of makeup base or primer according to your skin type and wait 5 minutes before applying anything on top. Without waiting for your primer to ‘settle in’, it will end up separating your makeup from your face.
3. If you’re using a powder mineral foundation (My Beauty Bunny loves bareMinerals Matte Foundation), apply concealer first to camouflage imperfections, or after foundation if you’re using a liquid or cream.
4. Apply face powder to set your base and to allow for an easier application of eyeshadow.
5. Contour your cheeks by sucking them in and shading your blush or bronzer at an approximately 45 degree angle from where your cheeks have sunken.
6. Fill in your brows with a sharp eyebrow pencil where the natural hair is sparse, and elongate to a point towards your temples. This is a crucial step to frame your eyes and draw attention to them. Try Mindy Shear’s Eyebrow Compact or Brow Perfector kit.
Eyes for Day
7. Apply a wash of off-white eye shadow using a wide, flat eye shadow brush from the inner corner of your eye to the brow bone to light up the eye area.
8. Use a cotton bud (swiping it onto the color without turning the cotton will pick up an ideal amount to draw a line that is not too thick or thin) to outline the inner corner with an iridescent pastel pink, ideally with flecks of gold (try beauty editors’ fave Kitten by Stila). The make or break to this step is applying the color so that it points down towards the bridge your nose. Blend slightly where the color on the inner corner meets the eyelid crease.
9. Continue the line with the same color on the lower lash line; blend upwards to soften at the wing of the eye.
10. For a day look, use a thin, angled eyeliner brush (I recommend a grey, plum or navy color) and apply a short, sharp line that slopes down from the inner corner towards the bridge of your nose. Try Stila’s Smudge Pots for a smooth line.
11. Balance the eyeliner on the inner corner with an equally thin line in the same color winged outwards, on the outermost upper and lower lash line, sloping upwards. The line should look clean, fresh and well-defined.
12. Apply lashings of mascara, concentrating on the outside upper lashes.
Now for night
13. Carry this look to a night out with an eyeshadow (try burnished copper, rich iridescent plum, flirty metallic mauve or olive green) applied in a rectangular band from left to right. Blend slightly.
14. Touch up the pink eyeliner as per Step 4, focusing on the lower inner corner to brighten your eyes and balance this smokier look.
15. Go over the line in Step 6 and 7 either with the same shadow you used during the day or a sharp black pencil.
16. Using the side of a black pencil eyeliner, press and gently stroke upwards from the pupil on the lower lash line to the wing of the eye. Use a cotton bud to soften.
17. Press and gently stroke black pencil liner all along the top lash line. Smudge for a sexy bedroom eye look.
18. Capture light by using an iridescent eyeshadow or illuminator a shade or two lighter than your skin tone where the light would flatteringly shine upon your face, for example, under and above the arch of your eyebrow, and blended well along the bridge of your nose. Stila makes a great luminizer.
Guest post by the lovely Jennifer Lee, a trend huntin’, celeb-stalkin’, tree-huggin’ freelance makeup artist/hair stylist/university student hailing from Australia. Become a fan on her Facebook page.
Excellent tips
thank you
Wow! that’s a cool and helpful makeup tip to get cat eyes.