Cheetah Makeup

Applying cheetah makeup is a creative way to express yourself during Halloween or other costumed events. A cheetah motif is achievable with the use of the right brushes -- and by drawing cheetah spots on a piece of paper before experimenting on your face.                                

Instructions

1. Full Face Cheetah Makeup

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     Apply a light colored cream concealer with the foundation brush on your upper lip, under your nose from the corner of your mouth diagonally to the nostril. Extend the corner of the mouth using the concealer, making a stronger smile. Blend out the concealer upward in the direction of the extended mouth line.
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     Draw a line starting at the inner corner of the eye and pull it down diagonally across your cheek. Curve the line down so it extends slightly under the extended mouth line. Blend the line out into the cheek and cover your cheek with concealer.

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Repeat the above steps on the other side of your face. Use eyebrow wax to coat the eyebrows and make them lie flat. Cover your eyebrows and forehead with the same concealer. Apply a circle of concealer from the bottom of the chin to the center of just under the bottom lip.

4

Put a darker foundation color on the foundation brush and apply to the outer corners of the forehead, bridge of your nose and the outer corners of your mouth. Locate your cheekbones and draw a line with your dark concealer right under it. Blend the dark foundation down the cheeks to give them a hollowed look.

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Use a smaller concealer brush to lightly blend the dark forehead color in toward the rest of your forehead, bridge of your nose up toward the forehead and the corners of your mouth, out toward the dark part of your cheek.

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Add dark color to the inside of the light line you created earlier -- use the same concealer brush. Blend the top half of the dark line closest to the eye out toward the cheek and blend the bottom half along the curved part in toward your nose. Do not over blend as you still need light and dark contrast on your face.

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Apply translucent face powder all over your face, gently using a fluffy face powder brush. Use a fluffy shader blush to apply a dark powder foundation -- or similar eyeshadow color -- to areas you feel need more shading and contrast.

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Apply a frosty brown eyeshadow to the entire lid of the eye -- use an eyeshadow brush. With the same eyeshadow, extend the corner of the eye up to give it a more cat-like shape. Apply a darker brown eyeshadow to the out corner of the eye, blend in on the lid, and extend along with the previous shadow eye extension.

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With a black eyeliner pencil, extend the inner corner of the eye downward, like a cat's. Apply eyeliner to the lower water line and into the lower lash line. Curve the eyeliner up into the previous eye corner extension to give it a more cat-like shape -- and apply liner to the lash-line of the upper lid. Use a smudge brush to smudge the liner softer.

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Tap brown spots onto your forehead with an eyeshadow brush. Add a few spots above your cheekbones. Take a black liquid liner pen and use small line strokes to draw "C" shapes along the outside of the spots, making them look furry in nature.

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Draw whiskers on your upper lip -- use the liquid pen. Apply black lipstick to your lips. Use the black liner to draw on the nose in a diamond shape.

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Use the small concealer brush to apply black creme makeup to the previously drawn lines you started at the inner eye corners. Apply translucent powder to your face to finish the look.