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What color are my eyes?
Reads the color of your iris from one photo, corrected for the light in the room using the white of your eye, and names the closest match: brown, hazel, amber, green, blue or gray. The photo never leaves your device.
CostFree
TimeUnder 1 min
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DataStays on device
478-point landmark map
Step 1 of 2 · your photo
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Face the camera straight on, hair off the face, even light, no tilt.
How it works
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Camera or upload — either works.
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478 landmarks, entirely on your device.
Your measured result
Numbers and lines drawn on your photo.
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478 landmarks
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The science
How this reads eye color, and why photos lie about it
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The face model finds the edge and center of each iris. The tool samples the colored ring between the pupil and the edge, skips the top of the iris where the eyelid and lashes usually cover it, and discards the darkest and brightest pixels, which are pupil, lashes and reflections. What remains is converted to Lab color, the same color space used in color science, and compared with reference colors for brown, hazel, amber, green, blue and gray.
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Room light shifts eye color more than anything else. Warm indoor bulbs push every iris toward brown and amber; cool daylight pushes it toward gray and blue. To reduce that, the tool also samples the white of each eye and uses it to correct the color cast before matching. It reads the ring near the pupil and the outer ring separately too, because hazel eyes are defined by that difference: warmer at the center, greener or golder at the edge.
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The result names the closest reference color and, when two are close, both. Hazel and light brown, and gray and blue, are the pairs that most often swap between photos. For the most reliable reading, face a window in daylight, turn off the flash, hold the phone close enough that your eyes fill a good part of the frame, and keep your eyes fully open.
FAQ
Common questions
What color are my eyes?+
Take a front-facing photo by a window in daylight, without flash, and run it through the detector. It names the closest color and shows the inner and outer ring separately. In person, look at the ring around your pupil and the outer edge of the iris in a mirror in daylight: if they are different colors, you likely have hazel or central heterochromia.
Why do my eyes look like a different color in photos?+
Lighting color, camera white balance, clothing color reflected into the eye, and pupil size all change how an iris looks. Eyes with little pigment, such as blue, gray, green and hazel, change the most. Brown eyes change the least because the pigment absorbs most of the light.
Is this eye color test accurate?+
It is consistent for the photo it is given, and it corrects for the light using the white of your eye, but no photo tool can guarantee a true reading. The most common disagreements are hazel versus light brown and gray versus blue, which is why the tool shows the next closest color too.
Can eye color change?+
In babies, yes: many are born with lighter eyes that darken over the first year or two. In adults, eyes appear to shift with light and pupil size but the pigment stays the same. A real change in an adult, especially in one eye, is a reason to see an eye doctor promptly.