Analysis of Images Produced by Smoky Makeup Using a Color Image Scale for Female Eyes

Abstract

Purpose: In order to analyze the images to be produced by tone variations in the smoky makeup, according to the forms of eyes, this study evaluated them by applying adjective image scales as the tool for quantitative assessment.Methods: By categorizing female eyes into seven forms, we examined images in which the tones of smoky makeup changed across five stages, ranging from the highest to the lowest brightness. We varied the positions of the eyes on the image map.Results: The eyes without makeup have different images, depending on the forms of eyes: standard eyes with folded eyelids and large eyes have dynamic and soft images, while drooping eyes have static and stiff images. The positions of eyes were varied on the image map. Although the standard eyes which were evaluated as having the most soft images could express very various images, by changing the tones of the smoky makeup, those which could be expressed by drooping eyes were very restricted, even though the tones of the smoky makeup were changed.Conclusion: It is consequently found that there are large variations in image areas to be produced by makeup, and that the image map is a tool useful for systematically analyzing the dynamic characteristics of variations in eyes’ images, as the tones of makeup are changed.