Hunter eyes test: do you have hunter eyes or prey eyes?
Upload a front photo and get your hunter eyes verdict from four eye measurements, placed on a scale from prey to hunter, with every number shown.
- Hunter: corners tilt up, brow close to the lashes, lid over the iris.
- Prey: corners level, brow high, the lid barely covers the iris.
- Most eyes land between the two ends. Each eye is scored on its own.
Upload a photo to test for hunter eyes
Front-facing photo, even light, hair off the forehead
What each verdict looks like
- Hunter+7.0° · 0.32 · 0.1985
- Leans hunter+5.0° · 0.38 · 0.1561
- In between+4.0° · 0.41 · 0.1450
- Leans prey+3.0° · 0.44 · 0.1136
- Prey+0.0° · 0.50 · 0.067
Drawn from the numbers shown: tilt · brow to lash line · lid over iris. Reference eyes, not real people.
Hunter eyes vs prey eyes, trait by trait
Hunter eyes and prey eyes are two ends of one spectrum, not two boxes. The table gives the end of each trait as this test draws it, and how the trait is measured. The numbers in the middle columns are the ends of our scale, so a real eye will usually sit somewhere between them.
| Trait | Hunter end | Prey end | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corner tilt | Outer corner above the inner one, +8.0° or more | Outer corner level with or below the inner one, +0.0° or less | Angle of the inner to outer corner line, head lean undone |
| Brow to lash line | Brow sits close, 0.29 eye widths or less | Brow sits high, 0.54 eye widths or more | Lower edge of the brow to the middle of the upper lash line |
| Upper lid and iris | Lid covers 0.22 of the iris height or more | Lid covers 0.05 or less of the iris | How far the lash line sits below the top of the iris |
| Eye opening | Narrower, 0.27 of the eye's width tall or less | Wider, 0.41 of the eye's width tall or more | Height of the opening over the width of the eye |
| Overall impression | Focused, intense, sometimes called stern | Open, soft, sometimes called alert or wide | Not measured: this is how the four traits read together |
Best for reading a result: the tilt and the lid over the iris, which a front photo measures well. Not ideal for a verdict on its own: the eye opening, because a smile or a squint can move it noticeably.
Where the two words come from
The labels borrow from animals. In general, predators carry their eyes on the front of the head, pointed the same way, and many prey animals carry them at the sides. Face-aesthetics communities took that picture and applied it to human eyes: a hunter eye looks narrowed and directed, a prey eye looks wide and open. It is a metaphor for a look, and it says nothing about anyone's character.
Because it is a look and not a diagnosis, there is no official measurement, and two guides can disagree about the same face. That is why the test states its convention in full below: which four things it measures, where each scale starts and stops, and how much each one counts. If you disagree with a choice, the eye builder lets you see what moves the verdict.
Hunter
Prey
How this test measures each eye
The photo is read on your device by a face model that places 478 landmark points. Head lean and turn are undone from the pose the model reports, then each eye is measured on its own: the two corners, the middle of the upper and lower lid, the iris outline and the lower edge of the brow. Each of four lengths or angles is turned into a score from 0 (prey end) to 100 (hunter end), the four scores are weighted, and the eye's position is their weighted sum.
| Measurement | Scores 0 at | Scores 100 at | Weight | Why that end |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corner tilt | 0.0° | +8.0° | 35% | 0° is the line between negative and neutral in one 2020 clinical paper; 8° is close to that group's mean (8.4°). Those were Korean surgical patients, so it is a convention, not a norm. |
| Brow to lash line | 0.54 | 0.29 | 30% | Set near the 10th and 90th percentile of the 32 eyes (16 AI faces) we measured, except the brow-gap prey end, which sits at the most extreme eye in that set. |
| Lid over iris | 0.05 | 0.22 | 20% | Set near the 10th and 90th percentile of the 32 eyes (16 AI faces) we measured, except the brow-gap prey end, which sits at the most extreme eye in that set. |
| Eye opening | 0.41 | 0.27 | 15% | Set near the 10th and 90th percentile of the 32 eyes (16 AI faces) we measured, except the brow-gap prey end, which sits at the most extreme eye in that set. |
The weights are our judgment. We know of no labelled set of eyes to fit them to. Tilt is weighted most because it is the trait hunter eyes descriptions lean on and the only one with a published reference. The ± beside your number is how much the index would move if each landmark were off by this photo's own noise, so a 3 point gap between two photos is not a difference.
| Verdict | Index | In plain words |
|---|---|---|
| Hunter | 70 to 100 | Upturned corners, a close brow and a lid that sits over the iris |
| Leans hunter | 55 to 70 | Most of the hunter markers, one or two nearer the middle |
| In between | 45 to 55 | Markers split evenly, or all near the middle of the scale |
| Leans prey | 30 to 45 | Most of the prey markers, one or two nearer the middle |
| Prey | 0 to 30 | Level or downturned corners, a higher brow and a lid that barely covers the iris |
What each verdict looks like, drawn from its numbers
Each drawing below is built from the four readings printed under it, then scored by the same function that scores your photo. They are reference eyes, not photographs of anyone. Compare the gap between brow and lid, how much of the iris the lid covers and the angle of the dashed corner line.
Hunter
Index 85
- Tilt
- +7.0°
- Brow gap
- 0.32
- Lid on iris
- 0.19
- Opening
- 0.30
Leans hunter
Index 61
- Tilt
- +5.0°
- Brow gap
- 0.38
- Lid on iris
- 0.15
- Opening
- 0.33
In between
Index 50
- Tilt
- +4.0°
- Brow gap
- 0.41
- Lid on iris
- 0.14
- Opening
- 0.35
Leans prey
Index 36
- Tilt
- +3.0°
- Brow gap
- 0.44
- Lid on iris
- 0.11
- Opening
- 0.37
Prey
Index 7
- Tilt
- +0.0°
- Brow gap
- 0.50
- Lid on iris
- 0.06
- Opening
- 0.40
Build an eye and watch the verdict move
Move one slider at a time. You will find that no single trait decides the result: an eye with a strong upward tilt can still lean prey if the brow sits high and the opening is wide. The starting point is a leans-hunter reference eye.
Leans hunter
61 / 100
Sample faces placed on the scale
These are the 16 AI generated faces we measure the other tools against, run through this test. Tap one to run it above. Counts here update from the same measurement: 1 land in hunter, 9 leans hunter, 4 in between, 2 leans prey and 0 prey.
Hunter
70 to 100 · 1 of 16
Leans hunter
55 to 70 · 9 of 16
In between
45 to 55 · 4 of 16
Leans prey
30 to 45 · 2 of 16
Prey
0 to 30 · 0 of 16
None of our 16 sample faces lands here.
Read the spread as a description of these 16 images, not of people. Their tilts run from about 2° to 12°, with a median near 5°, and none of them reaches the prey band. The brow-gap, lid-over-iris and opening ends were set from these same faces, so this set will look better fitted to the scale than an unrelated set of photos may. The upturned-eye example has the steepest tilt of the 16 and still scores 35, because its brow gap, lid over iris and opening all sit at the prey end.
What a front photo cannot tell you about your eyes
Hunter eyes is often described with words that need a different view or a clinician: deep-set, hooded, heavy-lidded. This test does not pretend to measure them. It also says nothing about health. It is a description of proportions in one photo, taken on one day, in one expression.
| Trait or photo factor | Why the test misses it | What would show it |
|---|---|---|
| Deep-set eyes | Depth is not visible in a front photo, and it is often bundled into the hunter eyes idea | A side photo or an in-person look |
| Lid crease and hooding | MediaPipe has no landmark that reliably tracks the lid crease, so lid skin folding over the lash line is not measured | A close-up, with the eye open and relaxed |
| Monolid and lid type | The label depends on the crease, which is not measured here | Not this test |
| Expression | Raised brows, squinting and a smile all move the brow gap and the opening | A relaxed face, retaken |
| Head turn and camera height | A turned head foreshortens one eye; a low camera lifts the brow gap | Square to the lens, at eye level |
Anything that changes how your lids or brows sit, such as makeup, eyeshadow, tiredness or a new brow shape, will change the reading. For the corner angle on its own, with published bands and a per-eye precision, use the canthal tilt test. To see how an eye type differs by opening, try the eye shape detector.
Common questions
What are hunter eyes?
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Hunter eyes is an internet aesthetic label, not a medical or anatomical term. It describes an eye with corners that tilt up, a brow that sits close to the lash line, and an upper lid that overlaps the top of the iris, so the eye looks narrower and more focused. Because nobody defines it formally, this page sets out a convention: four measurements taken from a front photo, each placed between a hunter end and a prey end. Your result is a position between 0 and 100 with the numbers shown, so you can see what pushed it.
What is the difference between hunter eyes and prey eyes?
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Prey eyes are the other end of the same scale: corners level or turned down, a higher brow with more space above the lashes, and a wider opening that can show white above the iris. Neither is better by default. In this test the difference is four numbers: the angle from the inner to the outer corner, the gap from brow to lash line, how far the lid covers the iris, and the height of the opening. Most eyes land between the two ends, and one eye can sit in a different band from the other.
How do I know if I have hunter eyes?
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Take a photo straight on, at eye level, with a relaxed face and no eyeliner, and upload it to the test at the top of this page. It measures each eye and places it on the scale, and it stays in your browser. By hand, look at three things: whether the outer corner sits higher than the inner one, whether there is little space between your brow and lashes, and whether your upper lid touches the top of the iris rather than leaving white above it. The more of those three you see, the closer the eye sits to what this test calls the hunter end.
Are hunter eyes attractive?
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This page does not rate attractiveness and does not show that either end of the scale is preferred. Hunter eyes is a style word used in aesthetics communities, and what people find appealing varies with culture, era and the rest of the face. A 60 on this scale is not a better score than a 40. It tells you where the measured eye shape sits between two descriptions, nothing more. If you want a broader read of the whole face, the attractiveness test on this site states its weights and its limits.
Can you change prey eyes into hunter eyes?
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Makeup changes how an eye reads without moving the corner, the lash line or the brow. A winged liner draws the eye outward, a darker lower lash line narrows the opening, and a shaped brow changes the space above it, so a photo of the same face can score differently with and without them. Take makeup off before you test. We have not measured any non-surgical way to change the underlying angle, and lid or brow changes that come on suddenly or on one side are worth asking a doctor about.
Is a prey eyes result a problem?
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No. It is a description of proportions, not a health finding, and it is not a diagnosis of anything. The test cannot see the things a clinician looks at, such as how well the lid closes, how the lower lid sits against the eye, or whether the lid margin is drooping. A very open or very narrow reading also comes from expression: raised brows, a startled look, tiredness and squinting all move the numbers. Retake the photo relaxed before you read anything into a result.
Hunter and prey are aesthetic descriptions, not medical terms, and nothing on this page is a diagnosis. Sample statistics measured 2026-09-16 from AI generated faces.