Eye Shape Detector

What is my eye shape? The four measurements that answer it

Eye shape gets discussed as though it were one label, and it is not. It is at least four independent things, and a face can score differently on each. How much mobile lid shows decides hooded against crease-visible. The angle from your inner corner to your outer corner decides upturned against downturned. Height against width decides round against almond. The gap between your inner corners decides wide-set against close-set.

That is why two eye shape quizzes give you two different answers for the same face. They each pick one axis, call it the shape, and drop the rest. This detector reports all four separately, with the raw numbers next to them, so you can see which of your traits is pronounced and which is borderline.

How to tell your eye shape without a quiz

Everything the detector does can be done in a mirror, and it is worth knowing how. For lid space, look straight ahead without raising your brows and see whether any mobile lid shows between your lash line and your crease. For tilt, hold a pen horizontally between your two inner corners and see whether the outer corners sit above or below it. For aperture, check whether white shows above or below your iris. For spacing, compare the gap between your inner corners against the width of one eye.

The detector's contribution is precision rather than insight: a tilt you would call roughly level reads as +3.4°, and a lid space you would call borderline gets a number you can compare against your other eye.

What an eye shape analyzer cannot measure from a photo

Two of the ten commonly listed eye shapes are not visible from the front, and every tool that reports them anyway is telling you something it does not know.

Deep-set and protruding are depth traits. The face mesh reports a depth coordinate, but it is relative to the camera and not on the same scale as the horizontal and vertical ones, so a prominence figure derived from it would be precise-looking and meaningless. Your profile in a mirror answers it in two seconds.

Monolid and hooded produce identical front-view measurements, because both hide the crease. Landmark geometry sees that no lid space is visible; it cannot see whether there is a crease under the fold. Closing your eye settles it — a hooded eye reveals a crease, a monolid does not.

Canthal tilt, measured in degrees rather than argued about

The angle between your inner and outer corners has become the single most discussed facial measurement online, largely without anyone measuring it. Most people sit between two and eight degrees positive. At or below zero is what beauty writing calls downturned and what the looksmaxing community calls a negative canthal tilt — the same measurement in two vocabularies.

The detector gives the figure to a tenth of a degree and reports each eye separately, because a two or three degree difference between sides is common and a single averaged label hides it.

Eye shape and makeup: what the measurement actually changes

The reason eye shape is searched so heavily is not curiosity, it is that eye makeup technique is written per shape and most of it contradicts itself across sites. The measurements sort that out: hooded technique works above the fold because the lid surface is not visible when the eye is open; monolid technique builds a gradient because there is no crease to place anything in; close-set technique moves everything outward and wide-set technique moves it inward.

Each of the ten shape pages carries the technique for that trait, along with the mirror test that confirms you have it.