How To Do Cat Makeup

Today, I'm going to show you how to do cat makeup, but on Nancy I'll do something a little bit different, and maybe I'll do it more like a big cat, say, a snow leopard. So, what we came to do is put our base down, I'm going to use a metallic white and add some silver in to give it a bit of a hint, sometimes a little bit of gold which just gives it a brown hinge to the coat as well. I'm going to shade a little bit with some grey, then when I have the spots, I'll do two-toned rosettes that we sometimes see in cats.

I'll use quite a strong pigmented black this time, so I'll start with her nose and when you're doing a leopard or a cat, it's brilliant around the nostril shape as it were unfolded, rather than a dog which would be right away across the top. So, for a cat, do this in as few strokes as you possibly can. The brush has now been flattened so now, I've got a sharp edge, so I'll go straight down with a center line as thin as you can, and form a little A-shape under there.

Sometimes, I bring this line around there to join it. Keep it nice and tidy. Then, when I do the spots on a snow leopard, I actually use my good brush as opposed to my number 6; this a round brush with a lovely point, and normally, if I'm doing dots, I would use a brush that hasn't got a good point so that I can make nice round dots.

But on a snow leopard, the dots, the markings, are sort of much more like a random shape, so that's why I like to use this. I just work quite fast, big shapes, little shapes. If you have got young children, an essential part of the design is just use a dry tissue, and lay it over the eye, and just touch down and lift it off, and it's dry in an instant.

Now, we just add some whiskers and the teeth to make those fangs stand out. I'll use once again a strong white, I've got several whites, I've got a lot which are better for putting bases on, and this white is very strongly pigmented which is best for line work. And then whiskers, try to plant them, sometimes to add more realism, so plant these whiskers roughly where they come from, so nice curved lines if you can.

This is a glitter gel, it comes with a little nozzle, and you can draw with it to make whiskers. So, then again, plant it where it should be, and you don't have to follow the same lines you've done already. So that's how to do cat makeup, snow leopard style! .