Cheat Sheet on Writing Character Descriptions (Eyes)
Big dark eyes looked out at me beneath thick lashes
Cat-calm eyes
Her blue eyes look gray in the pale light of the bathroom
Blackbird eyes
In those violet depths (eyes)
Eyes bruised with sickness
Agate-eyed
His eyes burned a brilliant blue
Limpid (of a person’s eyes; unclouded, clear)
His bloodshot whites/blues
Watery blue eyes
Shoe-button eyes
Gray eyes
Eyes large and liquid
“Eyes that were blue in the middle and pink everywhere else.”
“Her eyes were the frosty silver of winter clouds.”
“Transferred her green gaze to the man”
“Swept him with her long lashes”
Pale eyes
Bright-blue eyes
Eyes like wet stones (behind mask)
Circles under eyes
Deep-sunken eyes
Dark-rimmed (eyes)
“His eyes heavily pouched”
“His eyes sat in dark hollows”
“Gazed after him from under lowering brows”
“[Sulla’s eyes were] horrifying patches punched out of a doomsday sky.” (Collen McCullough)
“light-colored eyelashes” (sun-bleached)
“His eyes were huge. They gleamed like black olives soaked in oil.” (Collen McCullough)
“eyes a little too wide apart”
“The dark liner about his eyes accentuated their piercing greenness, giving him something of a feline look.” (Richard Ford)
“his eyes… They were an unusual color: brown in certain lights, green in others and, at the moment in this slanting morning sun, amber.”
Sunken eyes
Eyes ringed with fatigue
“white-ringed eyes”
“half-moons under her eyes…”)
Yellow eyes (lupus but also connotes evil)
“How those silvery eyes made me shiver.”
Cataracts (are what make eyes white; “eyes were white with cataracts”)
Deep-set eyes
Close-set eyes (stupidity connotation)
Cross-eyed
“Blue eyes, the irises ringed with blood.
“faint blue eyes”
Stark-eyed
__-irised (Iyokus = red-irised)
Good eye (for one-eyed characters)
Bright blue eyes (Fatima’s eyes)
“sharp black eyes”
“the bluest of eyes”
Blue eyes like lotus petals
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