Almond eyes
Longer than they are tall, with the lids covering a little of the iris top and bottom. The most common eye shape and the most forgiving one to work with.
What is my eye shape?
Upload one photo. The scanner finds the landmarks around each eye and measures three things: the form, the tilt, and how far apart they sit.
Three measurements, not one label
Eye shape gets talked about as if everyone falls into one of six boxes. It does not work like that. Form, tilt and spacing are independent of each other, and almost everyone sits somewhere along each scale rather than at one end of it.
Form
How wide your eye is compared with how tall it is. A long, tapered opening reads as almond. A tall, open one reads as round.
Round
Almond
Tilt
Where the outer corner sits compared with the inner corner. Lifted at the outside is upturned, dropped is downturned. Makeup artists call this the canthal tilt.
Downturned
Upturned
Spacing
The gap between your eyes measured against the width of one eye. Roughly one eye width apart is average.
Close-set
Wide-set
The six eye shapes
Four of these describe one eye on its own. The last two describe where your eyes sit on your face. The amber lines are what the scanner is actually comparing.
Round eyes
Close to as tall as they are wide, so the white shows all the way around the iris. They read as open and awake.
Upturned eyes
The outer corner sits higher than the inner corner. Sometimes called cat eyes, or a positive canthal tilt.
Downturned eyes
The outer corner sits lower than the inner corner, which softens the whole expression. Very common and easy to lift with liner.
Wide-set eyes
More than one eye width of space between them. There is plenty of lid to work with and the face reads as open.
Close-set eyes
Less than one eye width of space between them, which concentrates the gaze and makes eye contact feel more direct.
What people do with the reading
Pick eyeliner that works with your eye
A wing that flatters an upturned eye drags a downturned one further down. Knowing the tilt is the difference between the two.
Choose frames that balance your face
Frame width is judged against how far apart your eyes sit, not against your face width. Spacing is the number opticians are actually reading.
Stop guessing from tutorials
Most tutorials assume almond eyes without saying so. Once you know your own three readings you can tell in a second whether the advice applies to you.
Questions about eye shapes
How do I find out what my eye shape is?
Upload a clear, front-facing photo with both eyes open and no glasses. The scanner finds the landmarks that mark the corners and the lid edges of each eye, then measures three ratios from them: width against height, outer corner against inner corner, and the gap between your eyes against the width of one eye. Those three numbers are your eye shape.
What are the main types of eye shapes?
Six names cover almost everything you will read about: almond, round, upturned, downturned, wide-set and close-set. They are not six separate boxes though. Form, tilt and spacing are independent, so you can be an upturned almond that is also wide-set. Most people are a combination.
What are downturned eyes and how do I work with them?
Downturned eyes have an outer corner that sits below the inner corner. The fix is always the same idea: add weight and lift at the outer third. Angle the liner upwards from about two thirds along the lid, keep the shadow lighter underneath the outer corner, and curl the outer lashes hard.
Does eye shape really change how makeup looks?
Yes, mostly through the tilt. The same wing drawn at the same angle lifts an upturned eye and drags a downturned one. Form matters next: a round eye gains length from liner pulled past the outer corner, while an almond eye already has that length and gains more from depth in the crease.
Can eye shape help me choose glasses?
It helps, though frames are usually chosen against face shape first. Where eye shape matters is spacing. If your eyes are close-set, a bridge that is light in colour or sits higher makes them look further apart. If they are wide-set, a darker or lower bridge pulls them together.
Are some eye shapes more common in certain ethnicities?
Some are more frequent in some populations, monolids being the usual example, but the variation inside any group is far bigger than the difference between groups. The scanner only measures the geometry in the photo you upload. It does not guess anything about you beyond that.
Can my eye shape change over time?
The underlying structure is set by genetics and stays roughly the same. What does change is the skin and the muscle around it. Lid skin loosens with age, which can hood the crease and make the same eye read shorter or more downturned than it did twenty years earlier.
What are hooded eyes, and does the scanner detect them?
Hooded eyes have a fold of skin that covers part or all of the crease when the eye is open. Hooding is a separate property from form, tilt and spacing, so a hooded eye can also be almond and upturned. This scanner measures the three ratios and does not report hooding.
Can I have more than one eye shape at once?
That is the normal case. Form, tilt and spacing are measured independently, so a typical result is something like a wide-set upturned almond. The result page shows where you fall on each of the three scales rather than forcing you into one label.
What happens to the photo I upload?
It is sent to the server, cropped to your face and measured. The cropped image and your result are held only long enough to show you the result page, then deleted. The photo is never used for training and never shared.