Is this a ticked mackerel?

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I have a kitten that looks like a blue mackerel to me, except in certain angles she looks blue ticked. When she was a baby it almost looked like she had cream on her face too but I don’t see it anymore. Her fur looks sort of sparkly too. Since she has stripes on the side, I’m wondering if maybe she’s a mixed ticked and mackerel?
 

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Blue mackerel tabby. She’s got a lot of ticking in the base colour — that’s doesn’t make her ticked tabby, just low contrast mackerel :)
A cat can’t be phenotypically both ticked and mackerel. One copy of the ticked gene removes all the stripes from the body, leaving stripes only on the extremities.
 
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got it, thanks!
 
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