Soft cat eye makeup is the perfect everyday look. While the classic cat eye is more dramatic with a strong wing, a soft cat eye is more delicate and demure. The cat eye creates the illusion of an eye lift, making your eyes look bigger and brighter. It’s an understated look for everyday, perfect for heading into the office, going for weekend brunch, or even date night. If you’ve been getting bored with your eye makeup routine, try the everyday soft cat eye for a subdued yet gorgeous look.
8 Everyday Soft Cat Eye Makeup Tips & Tutorials
1. Prime Your Eyes
Like most eye looks, you’ll want to start with a primer. Make sure your eyes are clean and then apply a primer like the Elizabeth Mott Thank Me Later Primer to your lids. Another way to prime your eyes is with concealer and translucent powder. If you don’t have an eyeshadow primer, apply your concealer of choice then place translucent powder in the crease and up to your eyebrows. Priming your eyes will help improve the longevity of your eye makeup.
2. Create Your Shadow Base
A key part of the soft cat eye look is a smokey shadow. Use a neutral eye shadow palette with shades of pink, browns and/or creams and use a blending eye brush to shade your crease and the outer corner of your eye. A good trick is to apply your shadow up higher so that it almost reaches your brows. This will lift your eyes and add to the cat eye effect. Make sure that you blend well- it should look super soft and blurred out.
3. Perfect The Soft Cat Eye Flick
While the classic cat eye is sharper and more bold, the soft cat eye has a more delicate flick. It’s softer and smokier, often created by a pencil, rather than a liquid liner. Start around the inner half of your eye and move outwards with your eye pencil. This will add some lift to your eyes. You can play around with how far you pull the cat eye out depending on your eye shape and how you want it to look.
4. Blend it Out
Once you’re happy with how your eyeliner is placed, use a brown eyeshadow to blend and soften the liner. Push the shadow on top of the pencil liner, against the base of your upper lashes. This will also help make your lashes look fuller. Then lightly brush the shadow over the top of the wing to make it softer. Blend everything to your liking- the whole look should come together in a graceful way.
5. The Soft Cat Eye Look with Isabel Tan @prettyfrowns | BEAUBIT
For an effortless soft cat eye look, take a look at this tutorial. She creates a stunning soft look with the help of the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Instant Eye Palette using soft pinks and browns. She creates a gorgeous winged cat eye with the shadow itself, which is a great way to create a smoked out effect. She then goes in with a brown pencil liner to add a bit more definition to the cat eye before blending it out. She finishes off the eye look with the Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara, and voila, you have the perfect elevated everyday look.
6. Easy Everyday Soft Winged Liner and Cat Eye for Beginners | Melissa Alatorre
Follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to do the perfect soft cat eye. She shows you her best technique for creating an understated soft wing, and uses products like the Makeup Forever Aqua Resist Eye Pencil in Ebony, the M.A.C Studio Fix Fluid and an icy golden eye shadow. She also shows you how to clean up the winged liner when you’re done to create a seamless look.
7. My Signature Cat Eye Look | Giorgina Juanita
This cat eye look is soft and smokey, using brown tones and a smudged out wing to create the delicate aesthetic. She uses the Urban Decay Naked Reloaded Eye Palette for her shadow and shows you exactly where to put it to lift your eyes. She creates a smokey, feathered out shadow look that pairs perfectly with the soft cat eye. To create the subtle wing, she uses a small angled brush, and also applies the same colour on the end of the bottom lash line. She adds false lashes to finish off the look, but you could also just apply a swipe of mascara for a more subdued everyday look.
8. Everyday Sultry Soft Cat Eye Makeup | Hung Vanngo
If you want a super in-depth tutorial for a soft cat eye, you’ve come to this right place. In fact, in this video they show you how to create a whole face of sultry makeup, including a soft cat eye. They use products like an eye shadow primer, a pencil eyeliner and a liquid eyeliner. Even using the liquid liner, he emphasizes not losing the smokiness you get from the pencil. This tutorial is full of tips and tricks so make sure to watch and learn!
Soft cat eye makeup is perfect if you want to elevate your everyday look without something too glam. We hope you take note of these tips and tutorials!
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