Saturday, October 18, 2008

Make Up Games: Becoming a Kitty Cat!


One of the most enjoyable Halloween costumes you can wear is a cat suit. You can be a cat just by wearing a leotard, tights, ears and safety pinning a tail to your hind end. Of course, your cat suit won’t be complete without a suitable cat face.

You can make your cat face authentic by gluing on whiskers, but for our simple kitty cat face, we’ll go with the drawn on variety.

After applying base, use a heavy black eyeliner to outline the top and bottom of your eyes. Stretch the outside of the eye up and out by making a sweeping stroke out to the side of each eye. This gives you the upturned eyes of a cat. Apply false eyelashes if you have some and then apply a few heavy coats of mascara.

Take a black face paint or pencil and color in a triangle nose – the wide part of the triangle should be on the bottom. A delicate nose is best, but your nose can be as wide as you’d like.

Once your nose is in place, draw two curving lines down from the nose (between your nostrils) to be your mouth. Finally draw in a few whiskers on either side of your painted nose – if you have costume whiskers, you’d glue them on with eyelash glue.

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