
Using our Eyeshadow Palette, create an in-a-minute eye look starting by sweeping Vanilla’d Velvet over your entire eyelid. Thankfully, there are plenty of beauty tools available that can make the process easier and help you master the technique. How long you extend the wing and how thick of a line you draw will differ if you have, say, wide-set eyes versus close-set eyes. While drawing a cat eye can be a tricky makeup style to master, once you learn it, it’s the same every time, other than variances based on eye shape. Not to mention it really pops! Cat Eye Makeup Tutorial Done this way, your “cat eye” resembles more closely the eyes of a cat.

A cat eye look tends to be bolder and more dramatic, usually achieved by applying eyeliner on both the upper and lower lash lines to draw a fuller winged shape. However, people that wear a winged eye look line typically only the top of the lash line and draw the wing outward, as a way to really emphasize the difference between the top and bottom lashes. It should be noted that a cat eye can look very similar to a winged eye and sometimes the two terms are used to describe the same look. And thanks to helpful products like our Cat Eye Kit, creating the look at home is easier than ever, no makeup artist degree required.

In today’s culture, the cat eye is still a look everyone loves to push the envelope with. Of course, the look getting adopted by the likes of Sophia Lauren, Bridgette Bardot, and Audrey Hepburn certainly didn’t hurt to help cement it in the halls of makeup and fashion fame. Back then, the look was made en vogue by Josephine Baker when she combined the cat eye with lush, super dramatic lashes. You might even call it a classic, dating back all the way to the 1920s.

The cat eye is a makeup look that has withstood the test of time.
