Cat Halloween Makeup

Hello dolls!

I realize that I don't really write that often lately. Sorry. Schoolwork is really eating away at me and it takes up most of my time. When I have a moment to spare, I like to watch an episode of two of tv or read a book. Also, it really does take a lot of time to prepare a post, time that I don't really have anymore  :(

So it was Halloween a couple weeks ago. I dressed up as a kitty. Unfortunately I thought it would be a good idea to not take any pictures until after I put in some false lashes. I suck balls at putting on false lashes. I managed to get glue seeping into my eyes and it hurt so bad. I ended up ruining the eye makeup. So I only have a few crappy photos I took on my iPhone but I guess it's better than nothing. So again, really sorry that I don't have many photos. For the eye look, I've done countless smokey eye tutorials so I will link some that I have done. I know the makeup isn't theatrical or anything, I just added some cat qualities to beauty makeup. I also didn't have very much time to do this so I realize it isn't the best, but I figured it was better than nothing at all.

Here is a very old post using the Too Faced Smokey Eye Palette

I know Halloween was over a long time ago but I thought it would be fun nonetheless. Hopefully it'll inspire you for next year's costume!

For the costume, and I forget what they're called but they're not headbands exactly. Like it's curved and you stick it in your hair? Anyways they have ears with little bits of feathery fluff. The material is faux-leather. The tail is also made out of the same material and the tip of the tail has some of that black feathery fluff. It has a loop at the end of the tail so I just put a skinny belt through it. In previous years I took a safety pin and clipped it to my clothes so it would stay in place but it always pulled at my clothes and made a whole. With the belt, it moves around a little but at least I didn't ruin my dress. The dress I bought is dark grey with black leopard spots. I bought it at Dynamite very recently. It has long sleeves and is more of a winter dress (it's not revealing at all). I wore black leggings with it since it was cold that day and I wore my Aldo boots. It's not the world's most creative costume but I liked it.




Cat Halloween Makeup

The Eyes:

Start by priming your eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance. Now using the Too Faced Smokey Eye palette, take a tapered crease brush (Sephora Pro Crease Brush) and lightly apply White Lie all over the eye, from lash to brow. Then take a medium shadow brush (MAC 239 Shadow Brush) and pat down Nice Ash onto the lid. Take a blending brush (MAC 217 Blending Brush) and apply Smokin Hot to the crease and blend into the outer V. Now take a liner brush (Stila Smudge Brush) and apply MAC Fluidline to the top lashline. You want to make an exaggerated cat eye, so don't be afraid to wing it way out. Also, you want to apply a bit of liner in the inner corners and really define the inner corners of your eyes. This also deepens the cat eye effect. For the bottom lid, I took MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline and I smudged it on my bottom lid. I also tightlined top and bottom lash lines. I made sure that the Fluidline went from the bottom inner corner and blended into the Feline smudged part and that the bottom liner connected to the winged out top liner. If you know what I mean. I applied Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara. Then I filled in my brows using Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium, but you can fill them in much darker and draw in some cat hairs coming out of the brows if you want. I took my MAC Chromagraphic Pencil in Pure White and I accentuated my brow arch by highlighting it ever so lightly under the arch. I also lined around the inner corners of my eyes to draw more attention to the cat-like eyes.

The Face:

I started off by doing my usual face routine. I primed my face with Too Faced Primed and Poreless. Then I concealed my under eye circles using MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20 with a concealer brush (Sephora Pro Concealer Brush). Then I applied my MUFE HD Foundation in 110 using a stippling brush (Sephora Pro Stippling Brush). I covered any blemishes with my MAC Conceal and Correct Palette in NW20. Then I powdered my face using MUFE HD Powder and my kabuki brush (MUFE HD Kabuki Brush). I picked a darker bronzer than I usually wear to contour with since we really want to exaggerate the cat-like appearance. By contouring, we are making our cheeks look thinner, just like a cat's face. So, using Too Faced Chocolate Soleil and a contour brush (MAC 168 Large Angled Contour Brush) I sucked in my cheekbones and contoured there. I also contoured the perimeter of the face, the temples, the sides of my nose, etc. I wanted to add the tiniest touch of color to my cheeks (and I really mean the tiniest bit of color) so I used Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph and I applied that extremely lightly using my blush brush (Too Faced Powder Pouf Brush). I also highlighted using Too Faced Candlelight and that same blush brush. All that's left now is the cat detailing.

So to draw on the cat features, you only need one main tool. Any good jet black gel liner is perfect. I used MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack and it was more than amazing. Start off by filling in the nose. Remember that a cat's nose is sort of like an upside down triangle. The top part of the nose isn't a straight line, it's more like a very wide parabola shape. It curves up a bit and then back down the sides of my nose. Make sure to fill in the underneath of your nose and around the nostrils. Draw a line going down from the middle of nose and you're going to make a triangle from it, down to your lips. Take a white liner, like MAC Chromagraphic Pencil in Pure White and fill in that triangle above your lips. Then make three dots on each side of the triangle. Those are going to be the whiskers. Take your black gel liner and fill in the middle of the white dots. It helps to do this before the next step, it helped me to see where exactly the mouth part of the cat should be. This next part doesn't need to be dark and thick in color. Just lightly outline the muzzle part of the cat's mouth. Start at the edge of your nose and draw a round circle ending at the outer edge of your lip. Do the same on the other side. Now draw in the whiskers from the black dots. Tah-dah you are done! I took a concealer brush and MAC Concealer in W10 and I cleaned up some of the black edges, especially around the nose and lips. I also highlighted the under eye area a bit using a mix of W10 and NW20. Once you're done, spray Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray to hold your makeup in place, especially if you're going out partying.

For the lips, start by lining them with MAC Lip Liner in Cherry. Then fill them in with MAC Ruby Woo Lipstick. If you want a glossy effect, dab on a bit of MAC Lipglass in Clear.

Eyes:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Too Faced Smokey Eye Palette

• White Lie
• Nice Ash
• Smokin Hot

MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline
MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack
MAC Chromagraphic Pencil in Pure White
Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara

Brows

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium

Face:

Too Faced Primed and Poreless
MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MAC Studio Conceal and Correct Palette in Light: W10, NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MUFE HD Powder
Too Faced Chocolate Soleil
Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph
MAC X Antonio Lopez Pink Face Palette: luminizer
Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray

For the cat designs:

MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack
MAC Chromagraphic Pencil in Pure White
MAC Studio Conceal and Correct Palette in W10, NW20

Lips:

MAC Lip Liner in Cherry
MAC Lipstick in Ruby Woo
MAC Lipglass in Clear




Products Used:

Too Faced Smokey Eye palette

Too Faced Smokey Eye palette - 45$CAD

MAC Chromagraphic Pencil in Pure White - 19$CAD

MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline - 19$CAD

MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack

MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack - 19$CAD

Too Faced Better Than Sex - 30$CAD

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium - 25$CAD

MAC Studio Conceal and Correct Palette in Light

MAC Studio Conceal and Correct Palette in Light - 48$CAD
NC15, W10
NC20, NW20
Pale Yellow, Pale Pink

MAC X Antonio Lopez Pink Face Set

MAC X Antonio Lopez Pink Face Set

Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph

Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph - 26$CAD

Too Faced <3 Sephora 15 Years of Beauty Palette

Too Faced <3 Sephora 15 Years of Beauty Palette - 62$CAD, on sale for 47$CAD
Chocolate Soleil bronzer

MAC Lip Pencil in Cherry - 18$CAD

MAC Lipstick in Ruby Woo - 18$CAD

MAC Lipglass in Clear - 18$CAD

The lovely MUA at MAC drew this out for me to help me get inspired!!

Thanks for reading. I hope this wasn't too pointless, as I know none of you will be dressing up for the next 12 months until the next Halloween. I would have liked to have more time to perfect this look and to really go deeper into theatrical makeup. This look was more of a beauty cat look than a theatrical one, so you don't need to tell me that it isn't very realistic. I know it's not my best work but I still like it and that's all that matters.

I'd like to see all of your Halloween costumes and makeup, especially fellow kitties!

I'll try to starting posting more regularly. I've gotten a bunch of new stuff to play with but I haven't had a chance to do a tutorial or a review yet. Target just opened so I finally bought my first NYX products and it's actually pretty good. I already know some of the things I'm getting for Christmas and I can't wait to play with it all! So I promise to start posting more regularly. I'll also try to catch up on all the posts I said I'd do but didn't.

Steph xo.

Exotic Teal Eyes using MAC

Hello my glamsters!!

I don't know what's wrong with me lately, but I keep having this serious love affair with the color green. I can't help it. I'm just so addicted to it. The color green makes me so happy! Today's look is more of a teal than a green, but still counts as a green in my book. I know you're probably all fed up of green and thinking "Jesus, can't this girl do something else other than green?" Well I can. And I will. Just not today. Procrastination rules!!

Since I've been buying a ton of eyeshadow lately, I've been trying to try everything out. It might take a while with the amount of stuff I've got going on. I'll try to wrap it up with the greens for a little while so I can get onto my purples and neutrals. I've pretty much finished my neutral, green, and purple palettes. Well I'd say they are mostly finished. These are my personal colors, meaning the colors that suit me the best. Now, I'm trying to move on and get colors that don't necessarily suit me into my kit so I can seriously do makeup on other people. I've really been thinking about this lately a lot and I really do want to pursue makeup as a part time job. I hear all the time from MUAs that I'd be perfect for it. And the best thing for me, not having a makeup education, would be to work at a makeup counter, or a store like Sephora. I'm trying to expand my kit to include colors I don't have, like blues, reds, oranges, yellows, pinks, yellow- and orange-toned neutrals, etc. I also need to get a whole range of foundation and concealer colors. Ahhh! So much stuff that I need.

So about the look, I tried to use a variety of colors that I haven't used before. I used MAC Paint Pot in Painterly for the first time ever. I didn't find that it did much for this look. I thought it kind of dulled out the color compared to how I normally do my eyes, especially now that I'm looking at it at the end of the day. I use Too Faced Shadow Insurance to prime my eyes normally and then I apply the eyeshadow. But today I wanted to try out the paint pot so I used that instead of the Shadow Insurance and I don't find that the color is as bright and pigmented on my eyes, especially at the end of the day. I literally see patches. This isn't normal. I feel like I can see through the shadow. I'll definitely have to play around withPainterly a bit more to find out how to use it to its full potential. On my lid, I used a color called Shimmermoss which is now discontinued. I find the color resembles Aquadisiac but Aquadisiac is more and it is also close to Steamy, though Steamy is more green. All 3 colors are very close to one another. Plumage is a very nice dark green color. It has some blue in it. It's really nice, you have to see it. On my lips I used a lipstick from the Archie Collection and a lipglass called The Wee Coquette. I looked it up after I prepared the post and photos and it is a LE shade. However, it is still available for sale on MAC's website. It's a really nice light pink.

Exotic Teal Eyes using MAC

Start off by priming your eyes using a base such as MAC Paint Pot in Painterly. Apply it all over the eye area using a large shadow brush (Sephora PRO Large Shadow Brush). You can blend out any harsh lines. Next take MAC Shimmermoss (disc.) and a medium shadow brush (Sephora PRO Medium Shadow Brush) and apply it to the lid. Now take MAC Plumage and a crease or blending brush (MAC 217) and apply it to the crease and outer V. Take it in about 2/3 of the way in. Take an angled liner brush (Sephora PRO Angled Liner Brush) and take Plumage and make a line in your crease. Keep going until you get to the end of your crease color and use it to make sure that it blends outward nicely. You want it to have a nice precise starting point. Now take MAC Shroom and a blending brush (MAC 217) and apply it above Shimmermoss and Plumage as a highlight. You can even blend into Plumage and down towards the inner eye. Now take MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in So There Jade and line the top lid. Also line the inner corner of the bottom lid. Take MAC Pearlglide Intense Eye Liner in Undercurrent and line the bottom lid and waterline. Take Shimmermoss and go over the bottom lid where So There Jade was applied. Do the same with Plumage and go over Undercurrent. This locks in the eyeliner and blends the color nicely. Take MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved and line the upper waterline. Apply MAC Zoomlash Mascara in Zoomblack to your top lashes. Draw in your brows ever so lightly using Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium. Your eyes are done now! Let's do the rest of the face.

Apply a primer like Too Faced Primed and Poreless to your whole face. Apply MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer to hide your under eye circles using a concealer brush (Sephora PRO Concealer Brush). Then apply a foundation like MUFE HD Foundation to your whole face using a stippling brush (Sephora PRO Stippling Brush) or your method of choice. If there are any pimples or redness showing, apply MAC Studio Finish Concealer over them with your fingers. Use MUFE HD Powder and a kabuki brush (MUFE HD Kabuki) to set the foundation and concealer all over your face. Now it's time to contour your face using Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless and a contour brush or a powder brush that's been squished down to form a line (Sephora Collection Powder Brush). Yes I know I need a contour brush. You want to apply the bronzer to the perimeter of the face, suck in your cheeks as a guide and follow the line from the top/middle of your ear and follow it down towards your upper lip. Also apply to your temples and if you want to thin your nose, down the sides of it. Next apply Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph to your cheeks and blend outward and down into the contour. I skipped luminizer today. Now apply MAC Lipstick in Girl Next Door (LE) and put MAC Lipglass in The Wee Coquette on top. Now the look is done and you look fabulous!

Eyes:

MAC Paint Pot in Painterly
MAC Eyeshadow in Shimmermoss (discontinued)
MAC Eyeshadow in Plumage
MAC Eyeshadow in Shroom
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in So There Jade
MAC Pearlglide Intense Eye Liner in Undercurrent
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved
MAC Zoomlash in Zoomblack

Brows

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium

Face:

Too Faced Primed and Poreless
MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MUFE HD Powder
Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Lips:

MAC Lipstick in Girl Next Door (LE)
MAC Lipglass in The Wee Coquette (LE)

Products Used:

MAC Paint Pot in Painterly

MAC Paint Pot in Painterly - 22$CAD

MAC Eyeshadows (14.50$CAD each for palette refill) in:
Shroom
Shimmermoss (disc.)
Plumage

MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in So There Jade - 19$CAD

MAC Pearlglide Intense Eye Liner in Undercurrent - 19$CAD

MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved - 19$CAD

MAC Zoomlash in Zoomblack - mini shown, fullsize is 19$CAD

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium - 25$CAD

Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph

Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph - 26$CAD

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

MAC Lipstick in Girl Next Door (LE) - 18$CAD

MAC Lipglass in The Wee Coquette (LE) - 18$CAD

From left to right:
MAC Paint Pot in Painterly
MAC Eyeshadow in Shroom
MAC Eyeshadow in Shimmermoss (disc.)
MAC Eyeshadow in Plumage
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in So There Jade
MAC Pearlglide Instant Eye Liner in Undercurrent
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved
Illamasqua Powder Blush in Nymph
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
MAC Lipstick in Girl Next Door (LE)
MAC Lipglass in The Wee Coquette (LE)

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed today's post!! I promise to be done with the greens/teals for a little while. I really liked Shimmermoss, though I am a fan of teals. It is similar to Aquadisiac and Steamy so I guess I can see why it's been discontinued, though they each have something special to them. Plumage is such a killer green and it's too bad it didn't appear as vibrant as it should. Maybe I put too much Painterly on?? I really wasn't impressed with it, I have to say. It crumbled after 8 hours of wear and earlier. I found that the shadow kept fading throughout the day and this has never been an issue for me before. On the other hand, when I wear Blackground Paint Pot with a Mineralize Eyeshadow it really helps the color and sparkles to adhere and I get no fading problems with it. So maybe Painterly would work better with a glitter shade. I'm still going to try to find a use for it and figure it out. Hopefully Bare Study will give me less problems.

I really do like all the eyeliners I used. I find MAC has such an incredible range of good colors. I really need to check out all their different types of liner. The Illamasqua blush in Nymph is a gorgeous pink and it's super pigmented. I love it. I also keep falling more and more in love with Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless. I used to love Pink Leopard but I'm really loving Bronzed and Poreless to give me a summer glow. And finally the MAC lipstick and lipgloss are each lovely colors. They're both light pink with blue undertones. Get these if you still can.

So I want to leave you with a few questions. Do you like MAC Paint Pots? Which is your favorite one and why? Which is your most favorite MAC Eyeshadow that has been discontinued that you would want in your hands?

Steph xo.