How to Determine Your Eye Shape

Determining the shape of your eyes can make choosing the correct way to apply eye makeup much easier. There are many different techniques to applying eye makeup, but not all of them look nice on every eye shape. With just a few simple steps, you can discover the shape of your eyes so you will know which styles and techniques work best.

Examine Your Eyes

Using a mirror and a well-lit room, look at your eyes closely. To zoom in on your eyes, you may want to use a magnifying mirror.

Focus on the Space Between the Eyes

Look at the width of the space between the inside of the eyes. If this area is the same width of one eye, your eyes are wide-set. If it is shorter than the width of one eye, you have close-set eyes.

Locate Your Brow Bone

Close one eye, and feel for your brow bone. It is located halfway across your eye, just above the crease of your eye. Open your eye and pay attention to the amount of your eyelid you can see clearly between the lash line and the brow bone.

Determine Your Eyelid Type

If you cannot see your eyelid between the lash line and the brow bone, you have hooded eyelids. If you can see a portion of the eyelid on the outside corners, but it narrows towards the inside corners, you have deep-set eyelids. If you see an even length of your eyelid all the way across, you have standard eyelids.

Determine Your Eye Shape

Now that you have examined the space between your eyes and your eyelids, you can easily determine the shape of your eye. The width can be either wide-set or close-set with hooded, deep-set or standard eyelids. The shape can be in any combination of these characteristics. Examples may be wide-set, hooded shaped eyes, close-set, standard shaped eyes, wide-set, deep-set shaped eyes or etc.