Cat Makeup
What is it?
Since the time of Ancient Egypt, the cat has been considered a model of grace and grace. Cat makeup allows you to give a hypnotizing expressiveness of cat eyes to a female look. Its essence is to narrow and lengthen the eyes with the help of eyeliner, pencil or shadows. Such makeup is very democratic: if done correctly, it can suit any age and any eye shape, and countless variations with the color and width of the arrows make it appropriate for a romantic evening, a bright party, and a business meeting.
How to choose the color of eyeliner or shadows?
It is better for adult women to prefer classic ones - black, brown and gray. Young girls can experiment with color. Choosing the color of eyeliner or eyeshadow for makeup is a rather individual matter, you must also take into account the overall tone of the face, the shape of the eyelids, the distance from the upper eyelids to the eyebrows and ... well-being. But the basic principles still exist.
For blue-eyed
Girls with blue eyes should pay attention to "warm" colors. Perfect brown, bronze and black eyeliner. Shades of peach and light brown shades will look interesting. Plum, gray or lilac shadows can match the tone of the eyes.But here you should be more careful and take into account the saturation of the color of the iris: for light, gray-blue eyes, lighter shades are suitable than for bright blue eyes.
For brown-eyed
For beauties with brown eyes, blue, peach or lilac eyeliner is great. An option with a green or yellow tint would also be good. There are some nuances for choosing shadows: muted brown, blue, coral or peach tones are suitable for light brown eyes, while at the same time it will look quite pale on rich brown eyes - you should choose darker shades of these colors.
For the green-eyed
Owners of true cat eyes are extremely suitable for shades of “cool” colors: purple, blue, pearl gray. Also, the iris is in harmony with the peach, brown or golden solution. Eyeliner can be lilac, purple or brown. You should be careful with green and dark gray tones, they can give the look a heavy expression of fatigue.
How to make cat makeup?
In the performance of this makeup, the most important and most difficult thing to do is smooth arrows. But with a little preparation and proper practice, this skill can be quickly honed to automatism.
Shadow application technique
With such a make-up, you can go to any holiday. But you should not apply bright lipstick to it, so that your face does not look like a mask. Attention should be focused on the eyes.
- Evenly apply light shadows on the surface of the upper eyelid.
- We draw an arrow with darker (in this case, peach) shadows, starting from the outer corner of the eye towards the temple. We apply dark shadows just above the crease of the eyelid and emphasize the started arrow.
- Gently blend the borders between the shadows with a soft brush, and also highlight the area under the eyebrow.
- We bring the upper eyelid with black eyeliner or a pencil. We draw a lower eyelid with a pencil or dark shadows.
- We use false eyelashes or tint our own mascara.
Pencil technique
A pencil is a fairly simple tool, even a person who is not experienced enough in applying makeup can handle it. It's best to use waterproof makeup so that your look doesn't bleed at the most important moment.
- Before starting, the stylus should be softened a little by applying a couple of strokes in the palm of your hand.
- First, with small vertical strokes, draw an arrow on the upper eyelid. So we obscure all the "gaps" between the eyelashes.
- After we start drawing from the middle of the upper eyelid to the outer corner. The arrow can be of any width, but by the end of the corner it should be thinner.
- Next, we draw an arrow from the outer corner to the temple, its “tail” looks up.
- From the middle to the inner corner we draw a very thin stroke. Be careful not to touch the mucous membrane.
- We remove all irregularities and unwanted thickening with a moistened cotton swab.
Eyeliner application
Cat eyes with eyeliner will be much more expressive, but drawing them requires a certain skill. There are several ways to draw eyeliner arrows.
- Arrow two layers
- We subtly emphasize the upper eyelid, closing the gaps between the cilia.
- Then, slightly retreating from the outer corner, we begin to draw an arrow. You can slightly pull the upper eyelid to get a straight line.
- From the tip we lead the arrow to the inner corner, slowly thinning.
- Starting with a contour
- We draw the first stroke from the outer corner of the "mirror of the soul" up to the temple.
- From the middle of the eye we draw another thin stroke and connect it with the first one.
- We paint over the remaining space.
- In several movements
- We draw a line from the inner corner of the eye to the middle.
- With a smooth movement, draw an arrow, barely going beyond the eye.
- We connect two lines.
Tips for spectacular "cat eyes" makeup
- Use only high quality cosmetics.
- If you have bulging eyes, highlight only the upper eyelid.
- Closely spaced eyes can be corrected by emphasizing the outer corners.
- Owners of far-reaching eyes should slightly extend the arrow from the inner corner of the eye.
- Shadows must be applied before eyeliner.
- When drawing arrows, do not close your eyes.
- To bring the mucous should use a special pencil - kajal.
How to make cat eye makeup yourself, see the following video.