Above, the forewings of the male Blue Pansy are blackish-brown, with a whitish sub-apical band, some orange and blue bars, and two orange eye-spots with a black centre.

The hindwings are bright blue with a white-centered orange eye-spot in space two and a much smaller dark spot in space five.

Underneath, both sexes are the same, i.e. greyish-brown, with cryptic orange-brown markings, whilst the eye-spots are placed similarly as on the upperside.