Still Need a Halloween Costume? Try Ashley Feasel’s Cat Makeup Tutorial

October 28, 2019

By: Samantha Holender | Makeup.com by L'Oréal

Forget the goblins, ghosts and ding-dong-ditches, catching yourself unprepared with a sub-par Halloween costume is terrifying. Scrambling for what to be at the last-minute? Fear not. Beauty influencer Ashley Feasel is here to solve your spooky szn crisis. She’s created a fierce feline look that any beauty-lover can easily whip up minutes before heading out. So calm your nerves, grab your makeup bag (or in our case, Caboodle), and read on for a simple step-by-step Halloween cat makeup tutorial.

Cat Halloween Makeup Step #1: Create Your Base
Before Feasel dives in to the actual costume portion of the tutorial, she creates a solid canvas using Urban Decay complexion products. Pick up your shade of the Stay Naked Liquid Foundation and apply it all over with a makeup sponge. Don’t forget to bounce the product on, instead of wiping it. Once you’ve evened out your skin tone, go back in with the Naked Skin Weightless Full Coverage Concealer. Apply it under your eyes, along your nose and on your chin and forehead. Set areas that tend to pick up shine with the All Nighter Setting Powder, so your makeup look doesn’t budge throughout the day or night.

Cat Halloween Makeup Step #2: Now, Add Some Color
Armed with Urban Decay Afterglow 8-Hour Blush in both Paranoid (a medium bronze hue with gold shimmer) and Obsessed (a poppy pink), Feasel brings a little color to her complexion. Using Paranoid, she defines her cheekbones and chin — don’t forget to blend the bronzer shades down your neck. Then, using the lighter color, the makeup guru pops some pink blush onto the apples of her cheeks. For a tad more glow, she dips into Urban Decay Naked Illuminated Shimmering Skin Powder, applies it down the slope of her nose and then diffuses the product across her forehead.

Cat Halloween Makeup Step #3: Smoke Out Your Shadow
Now onto the fun stuff: Feasel grabs the Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion in Caffeine and applies it to the base of her lid. You don’t need a ton of product — it blends out easily. She brings the primer just above her crease to create a shimmery base. Then with the Urban Decay Born to Run Palette, Feasel dips her eyeshadow brush into the brown-nude shade Riff and blends it out in the crease for dimension.

Cat Halloween Makeup Step #4: Draw a Cat Eye — Duh
It’s finally time to create the star of this makeup look. With NYX Professional Makeup Cosmetics Epic Ink Liner, Feasel pencils the most perfect cat eye we’ve ever seen. You can do the same by drawing a thin stroke right up against your lash line. Once you hit the outer end, draw a diagonal line upwards so that it’s parallel with the end of your eyebrow. Flip the liner around and have the color land just past the center of your eyelid. Shade everything in and then switch your focus to the inner corner of your eye. Pencil a small, upside-down, downward slanting triangle from the innermost corner facing your nose. Repeat the process on the other side and you’ll be rocking a seriously intense cat eye.

Cat Halloween Makeup Step #5: Don’t Kitten Around With Glitter
With an under-eye smudge brush, Feasel packs a little bit of the Jet black shade (from the Born to Run palette) underneath her lash line. Connect it to the rest of the liner. Then she takes Giorgio Armani Eye Tint Liquid Shadow in the smoky peacock blue shade Midnight Cruise from her outer corner to the center of the lower lash line. Using an angled brush, she then blends the shimmery shade in with the liner and coats her lashes with Urban Decay Perversion Mascara.

Cat Halloween Makeup Step #6: Turn Up Your Nose
While we love a good eye, a Halloween costume it does not make. To make this face beat party ready, our cat-eye expert sets out to create a feline snout. She heads back for the Born to Run palette and blends shades Riff and the deep brown Good as Gone on her brush. Feasel focuses the pigment on the downturn of her nose, between the nostrils. She blends some color up to the tip and along the sides of her nose’s slope like a contour.

Cat Halloween Makeup Step #7: Pencil On Whiskers or Bust
You can’t pull off a basic cat costume without whiskers. For delicate strokes, you can use NYX Epic Ink Liner like Feasel. Dab three dots in a semi circle shape — starting below the nostril — and then flick a line outward. To make the inner part thicker, simply apply more pressure.

Cat Halloween Makeup Step #8: Apply the Purr-fect Pout
Make your feline look fierce AF with NYX Liquid Suede Lipstick in Stone Fox. A black lip is sure to turn heads — in the best way possible. Plus, the easy-to-use applicator will make sure your pout is perfectly lined and smudge free.

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