Celebrities With Hazel Eyes
Hazel eyes can look greener, browner, or more golden as the light changes. These famous examples show why hazel works better as a mixed eye-color category than as one flat shade.
Which celebrities have hazel eyes?
Hailey Bieber, Gigi Hadid, Ana de Armas, Erykah Badu, Julia Roberts, Florence Pugh, Lucy Hale, Rihanna, Sofia Richie Grainge, and Amber Tamblyn have had their eyes described as hazel in direct statements or established publications.
The strongest example is Bieber, who has described her own eyes as hazel and mentioned the small glimmer of green within them. Tamblyn has similarly noted that photographs often flatten the green flecks in her hazel eyes toward brown.
Famous people often described as having hazel eyes
Each entry links to the source behind the eye-color description. Hazel often overlaps with green and brown, so the cards keep that uncertainty where the source does.
Hailey Bieber
Model and beauty founderBieber has directly described her eyes as hazel and noted the small glimmer of green she sees in them. That mix of brown, gold, and green is typical of hazel eyes.
Gigi Hadid
ModelVogue has described Hadid’s eyes as hazel. They often look warm and golden, but green tones can become more noticeable in cooler light.
Ana de Armas
ActorAllure described de Armas as having hazel eyes when explaining why she wore blue contacts for a film role. Other coverage notes green irises with brown centers, which may also be described as central heterochromia.
Erykah Badu
Singer, songwriter, and actorVogue has described Badu’s eyes as hazel. Warm rust and gold colors around the eyes can emphasize the amber and brown portions of a hazel iris.
Julia Roberts
ActorAllure has described Roberts as having hazel eyes. Copper and auburn hair colors can make the green and gold elements look more obvious.
Florence Pugh
ActorAllure has referred to Pugh’s eyes as hazel. Rose-gold and warm neutral makeup can pull forward the golden and green parts of the iris.
Lucy Hale
Actor and singerAllure has described Hale as having large hazel eyes. In some photos they may read brown first, while brighter light reveals more green or gold.
Rihanna
Singer, actor, and entrepreneurVogue has described Rihanna’s eyes as hazel. Their warm, reflective appearance is a good example of why hazel can look different from one photograph to another.
Sofia Richie Grainge
Model and creative directorVogue has described Richie Grainge as having hazel eyes. Soft neutral makeup can leave the mixed green and brown tones visible without making the color look artificially brighter.
Amber Tamblyn
Actor, writer, and directorTamblyn has described the green flecks in her hazel eyes and noted that photographs often flatten them toward brown. That is a common challenge when identifying hazel eyes online.
What hazel eyes look like in famous examples
Hazel eyes usually contain more than one visible color. Some look brown around the pupil and green toward the edge. Others have gold, amber, or olive tones spread through the iris.
The balance can shift with pupil size and lighting. When the pupil widens, the surrounding brown or gold area may occupy more of what you notice. Bright natural light can reveal green and amber details that disappear in indoor photographs.
Hazel eyes and central heterochromia can overlap
Ana de Armas is a useful example of overlapping labels. Allure described her eyes as hazel, while People has described green eyes with brown centers and called the pattern central heterochromia.
Both descriptions can communicate something true. Hazel is an overall color label, while central heterochromia describes the arrangement of a different-colored ring around the pupil. A person can reasonably use both when the pattern fits.
Why hazel eyes change so much in photos
Hazel is especially sensitive to its surroundings. Green clothing, cool daylight, and purple makeup may emphasize green. Copper hair, warm bulbs, or golden makeup may emphasize brown and amber.
This doesn’t mean the natural eye color changes. The same pigment pattern is reflecting and scattering light differently, while the camera processes the scene with its own color balance.
How to compare your eyes with famous hazel eyes
Check whether your iris contains a visible mixture rather than one dominant, even color. Hazel is more likely when green, brown, gold, or amber all contribute to the overall impression.
Use the green-vs-hazel comparison if your eyes look mostly green, or the hazel-vs-amber guide if they look strongly golden or coppery.
A note about hazel-eye descriptions
Famous hazel eyes demonstrate that hazel is a family of mixed patterns rather than a single paint-chip shade. Some examples lean green, some lean brown, and others show strong gold or amber.
The best label for your own eyes is the one that describes the full iris in neutral daylight, not the color produced by one photograph or one outfit.
How these hazel-eye descriptions were checked
The source on each card is the basis for the label shown here. It’s normal for another publication to use green, brown, or hazel for the same mixed iris.
We don’t label a celebrity’s natural eye color from a photograph alone. These are sourced descriptions, not medical diagnoses.