Write an article based on this "Put on base makeup. Outline your upper eyelid. Apply eye shadow. Finish your eye. Prepare your lashes. Paint your nose. Draw your whiskers. Finish off the look. Add additional flare."
To start off your cat makeup, you need to put on the foundation and powder that you wear on a day to day basis. This will set the tone of you skin and make your face even and receptive to your cat makeup. If you want to take your makeup one step further, you can cover your face in the color that matches the kind of cat you want to be. For instance, if you want to be a black cat, try painting the main part of your face white and the area on the outside of your face black. The white area will allow you to paint on the cat features better and the black adds dynamic color changes in your makeup. Once you have on your base makeup, you need to start your cat eyes. Get your favorite brand of liquid black eyeliner. Starting from the inside of your eye, line your upper lash line with the black eyeliner. Once you get to the outer edge, make a small wing out to give you a cat eye shape. Repeat on your other eye. This will be the base of the bottom eye makeup, so it can be as dramatic or as subtle as you want, depending on how you want your eyes to look. Make sure the wings you draw are as even as possible. You don't want your face to appear uneven. If you don't have a liquid eyeliner pencil, you can use a normal eyeliner pencil. Make sure you sharpen it well so it will give you the same thin, crisp line as the liquid eyeliner. On your upper lid, pick a subtle color that is complementary to your skin tone. Cover your lid with the color you choose, applying it high enough that you can see it when your eyes are closed and out as far as the wing of your eyeliner. Repeat on the opposite lid. Gold, bronze, brown, light purple, beige, or a shimmering white are good complimentary colors that will contour your eyes and add depth to the cat eye effect. Now it's time to finish the cat eye shape around your lids. Start from the edge of the line you made on your top lid. Draw a small line down just past your lower lid along your nose, following the angle of your eye. Next, connect the end of this line to the edge of your lower lash line, making a small triangle shape. Then, line your lower lid close to your lashes, drawing a wing downward on the outer edge to match your upper lid. You can also connect the lower wing to the one on your upper lid. This gives you a more angular cat eye. You can also add some darker eye shadow below your lower lash line to give you a smoky eye. You can also accomplish this by making your lower lash line thicker and then smudging the edges of your eye liner. Using an eyelash curler, curl both your eyelashes. Apply a generous layer of mascara to both your top and bottom lashes. Repeat on your other eye. This gives you that mischievous, sneaky look that cats have. If you want, you can also skip this step and use fake eyelashes instead. Apply them like normal, making sure to not mess up your other makeup. Now that you have the cat eyes, you need to make your cat nose. Using waterproof eyeliner, fill in the skin around your nostrils on the underside of your nose. Following the contours of your nostrils, color around the upper edge of your nostrils. Once you're done filling your nose in, draw a small, straight line down to your lips from the middle of your nose. Make sure you keep the slight dip in your nose as you draw along the top edge. This makes it look more natural. If you don't want to fill in all of your nose, you can make a slight handlebar along the outer edge below your nostrils, which will give the hint of a cat nose without the excessive use of makeup. You can also go traditional and draw a simple triangle on your nose. It's not as elaborate as the other nose but it does create a cute, simplistic look. Now that you have the cat eyes and nose, you need to finish the look off with whiskers. In the area under your lip, draw small dots on both sides with your black eyeliner pencil. You can draw as many or as few as you think looks best. Once you've drawn as many as you want, draw whiskers out from the dots on the edge of your lip area. You should draw at least three, but you can draw more if you want. The top ones should point up the contours of your face, the middle whiskers should go straight out sideways, and the bottom ones should point slightly down. If you are going for a more refined look, you can leave off the whiskers and just draw the dots, insinuating the whiskers without actually drawing them. All you have left to complete is your lips. You can put on your favorite color of lipstick as your base. Pink and red go well with the dark cat makeup. On top of that, take your black eyeliner and draw a line along the top of your lip. This gives the illusion of cat lips. You can also outline your entire mouth with black eyeliner, giving you a slightly more defined mouth. If you want to be a particular kind of cat, such as a calico cat or even a cheetah, you can add some additional flare to your makeup to make you look more like these cats. You can add cheetah spots in black around your face or paint on black and orange stripes to add an extra layer to your costume.