What do Hmong people look like? Hair, eyes and skin in 25 observed portraits
Three trait families measured across 25 documented portraits of Hmong people. Each family links to its full distribution.
Catalog portraits for Hmong are AI-generated adult subjects; the measurements on this page come from documented photographs of real people, not from these images.
Hmong hair
n = 20Hmong: hair texture straight in 80% of 20; hair color black in 67% of 24.
Hmong eyes
n = 21Hmong: iris color dark brown in 100% of 21; epicanthic fold present in 100% of 22; eye shape almond in 91% of 23.
Hmong skin tone
n = 22Hmong: fitzpatrick skin type IV in 59% of 22; undertone warm in 95% of 22.
Where these numbers come from
25 publicly documented portraits of notable Hmong people were assessed by a vision model against the catalog vocabulary, one row per portrait. Values are what the photographs show, read by a model, not population measurements. Each table counts only portraits where the value could be assessed; covered, obscured and unclear portraits are reported separately.
Notable-people corpora skew older, so hair color over-represents gray and white, and image quality varies. Treat shares as a description of this sample.
The same rows are published as image_observations in the catalog dataset; see the methodology. A family page exists only when at least 10 portraits carry an assessable value.