00Eye shape
Eye shape detector: what eye shape do you have?
Take or upload one front-facing selfie and the eye shape detector measures how long your eyes are against how open they are, and which way the corners tilt. You get almond, round or long, and upturned, neutral or downturned, with the lines drawn on your photo.
Full notice: what we measure, who gets it, how long we keep it
Your photo is analyzed on your device and is not uploaded.
- 1Tick two boxes to agree to how we measure your face
- 2Take or upload one front-facing selfie, eyes open as usual
- 3See your eye shape, with each eye's width and opening drawn on your photo
Example: the eye corners the eye shape detector measures from, with each eye's tilt
01What eye shape do I have? What a photo can measure
Eye shape guides list many types, but they mix two kinds of thing. Some describe the outline of the eye opening: how long it is for its height, and whether the outer corner tilts up or down. A photo can measure those, and that is what the eye shape detector does. Others describe the eyelid and how the eye sits in the face: hooded, monolid, deep-set or protruding. Those depend on folds and depth that a flat photo doesn't show reliably, so this page gives you a mirror check for them instead of guessing.
02Round, almond and long eyes
- Round eyesWidth less than 2.6 times the opening: the eye is tall for its length, and more of the iris shows.
- Almond eyesWidth between 2.6 and 3.3 times the opening: longer than tall, tapering at both corners. Most faces read this way.
- Long, narrow eyesWidth more than 3.3 times the opening: a long, narrower opening. With an upturned tilt this is the look people call hunter eyes.
03Upturned, neutral and downturned eyes
The second part of your eye shape is tilt: the angle of the line from the inner to the outer corner. Above +2° the eye is upturned, below −2° downturned, and in between neutral. The eye shape detector uses the same measurement as our canthal tilt test.
04How the eye shape detector measures
The eye shape detector runs in your browser, which finds 478 points on your face. For each eye it measures the width from the inner to the outer corner and the widest gap between the upper and lower lid, both along your face's own axes so a tilted head doesn't change them, then divides width by opening. The two eyes are averaged. The cut-offs of 2.6 and 3.3 are the ones eye shape calculators commonly use, and within 0.12 of a cut-off we say your eyes sit between two shapes. If your eyes look closed or nearly closed, the eye shape detector doesn't guess.
05Which eye shape is most common?
In 102 front-facing photos of adults measured with this eye shape detector, the middle 80% had a width-to-opening ratio between 2.59 and 3.22, with a median of 2.87. That puts most faces in almond, with about one in ten reading round and slightly fewer reading long.
06Do I have hooded eyes? A three-step mirror check
- 01Look straight into a mirror at eye level, with your face relaxed and your eyes open as usual.
- 02Find the crease of your upper eyelid. If you can see a clear band of lid between your lashes and the crease, your eyes aren't hooded.
- 03If a fold of skin from under the brow comes down over the crease and hides most of that band, your eyes are hooded. If there's no crease at all, that's a monolid.
The eye shape detector doesn't decide this for you: the points it finds follow the lash line, not the crease, so a photo can't tell a hooded lid from one that is simply relaxed.
07How to take the photo for the eye shape detector
- 01Hold the phone at eye level and look straight into the lens.
- 02Keep your eyes open as you normally would. Widening them makes them read rounder; a smile or squint lifts the lower lids and makes them read longer.
- 03Take off glasses and keep hair away from your eyes.
- 04Use even light from the front so both lids are easy to see.
08The limits of an eye shape detector
How open your eyes are changes with expression, tiredness and light, so the ratio can move by a few tenths between photos, and a result near a cut-off can land on either side. The eye shape detector describes the outline of your eyes; it isn't a score and doesn't say whether a face is attractive. Eyelid type, depth and how far apart your eyes are aren't part of this result.
09Eye shape questions
01What eye shape do I have?
Use the eye shape detector above with a straight-on selfie: it tells you whether your eyes read almond, round or long, and whether they're upturned, neutral or downturned. For hooded eyes or a monolid, use the mirror check on this page.
02What is the most common eye shape?
Almond. In our 102 reference faces the middle 80% had a width-to-opening ratio between 2.59 and 3.22, and most of them sat inside the almond range of 2.6 to 3.3.
03Do I have hooded eyes?
Look in a mirror with your face relaxed. If a fold of skin from under the brow covers most of your eyelid crease, your eyes are hooded. The eye shape detector doesn't judge this from a photo, because the points it finds follow the lash line, not the crease.
04What are almond eyes?
Almond eyes are longer than they are tall and taper towards both corners. In this eye shape detector that means a width between 2.6 and 3.3 times the opening.
05Are my eyes upturned or downturned?
Compare the outer corner with the inner one. If the outer corner sits higher, your eyes are upturned; if lower, downturned. The eye shape detector measures this for you, and the canthal tilt test shows the angle of each eye in degrees.
06How accurate is an online eye shape detector?
An eye shape detector working from a selfie is reliable when the photo is straight-on and your eyes are open as usual. How open your eyes are changes with expression and light, so try the eye shape detector on two or three photos; a result near a cut-off can read either way.
07Is my photo uploaded?
No. The eye shape detector runs entirely in your browser and never uploads your photo or the points found on your face.
10Related free tools
- Canthal tilt testYour canthal tilt in degrees from one selfie: each eye, the average and whether it reads positive, neutral or negative, with the lines drawn on your photo.
- Hunter eyes testWhat hunter eyes are, and the three parts of them a selfie can measure: canthal tilt, eye openness and brow height, each drawn on your photo.
- Face shape detectorFind your face shape (oval, round, square, heart, oblong or diamond) from one selfie, with the five ratios that decide it.