Makeup How-To: Gorgeous Gilded Cat Eye

Want to switch up your usual smoky eye for something a little lighter, but still super sexy? Makeup artist Lauren Cosenza shows you how to perfectly create a golden cat eye with ease.

1. Press gold pigments onto the center of the eyelid and the inner corner of your eye. Ariel blended on Bare Escentuals True Gold Eyeshadow and MAC Cosmetics Pigment in Blonde’s Gold using a flat eyeshadow brush.

2. Dust matte brown eyeshadow into the crease of your eye and onto outer corner with a crease brush, plus run beneath lower lashline. Try NYX Cosmetics' Nude Matte Shadow in Underneath it All.

3. Add depth by subtly layering black eyeshadow onto the outer corner of your eye and blending. Ariel used a smudge brush to apply MAC Cosmetics Carbon here.

4. Sweep a matte cream eyeshadow over your browbone. Ariel used a blending brush to apply MAC Cosmetics Eyeshadow in Blanc Type.

5. Make the gold pigments that are already on your eye pop with added shimmer, using Victoria’s Secret Hypergloss Eyegloss in Golden Lights.

6. Create a cat eye. "Swipe Benefit Magic Ink Jet Black Liquid Eyeliner along your top lashline, and then up and outward for a precise winged look," Cosenza says. "Clean up with Almay Remover swabs, and then finish with black mascara on your upper and lower lashes." Ariel used L’Oréal Voluminous Million Lashes Mascara.

Done! A gorgeous golden cat eye that will light up a room in under five minutes flat!

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Griffin

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How to Get Gorgeous Eyebrows

According to a recent study, the tattooed eyebrow look is the biggest make-up faux pas women can make. Shocker (not!). It ranked No. 1 on the list of beauty blunders followed by a close second: foundation marks along the jawline. To get the scoop on how to get natural-looking brows, like Kim Kardashian's, we asked Kristie Streicher, eyebrow specialist and owner of Kristie Streicher Beauty Bar in Los Angeles and New York City, for her tricks of the trade.

"Thin brows, whether they're long or stubby, are unflattering on everyone," says Streicher. "Fuller brows, however, frame your face and eyes perfectly and help detract from dark circles and any other imperfections you may be worried about on your face."

To achieve thick, full brows, she suggests going into 'brow rehab' in order to see how much hair actually grows in. During 'brow rehab,' you leave your brows alone for six months, going in for touch-ups every six weeks instead of every two. This allows the hairs to grow in and get on one growth cycle, leaving you with a more uniform-looking eyebrow as a result.

To fake fuller brows in the meantime, Streicher suggests the following steps:

1. Use a fine-tipped brow marker, like Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Brow Color, $19.40, amazon.com, that's the same color as your brows. Its precise tip helps create natural-looking hair-like strokes easily.

2. Make the hair-like strokes you just created with the marker even more believeable by lightly tracing over them with a brow powder that's one shade lighter than your eyebrow hair. Try Anastasia Brow Powder Duo, $22, amazon.com. The powder diffuses any harsh lines from the brow marker—plus, the lighter color powder helps make the "hairs" look multi-dimensional. The result? Natural, full brows that aren't too dark (you're trying to avoid looking like Groucho Marx).

Not sure where to start drawing on your brow if you've overtweezed? Hold a pencil vertically (making sure the eraser is in line with your brow) next to the side of your nose—that's where your brows should start. Then, tilt the pencil, keeping the point at corner of your nose, just past your pupil—that's where your arch should be. Finally, line up the pencil from the corner of your nose to the outer corner of your eye and just past that is where your brow should end.

Try out these tips and let us know what you think.

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