# How common are two-tone eyes?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 18, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-two-tone-eyes/143650 "2002-12-18T21:07:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-two-tone-eyes/143650/21 "2017-06-21T18:45:53Z")

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Mine don’t match. And the left eye has two-tonedness going on all by itself, as well.

([http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/Upload\_Download/Left%20Eye.JPG](http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/Upload_Download/Left%20Eye.JPG))  
[Right](http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/Upload_Download/Right%20Eye.JPG)

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**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-two-tone-eyes/143650/22 "2017-06-21T19:26:19Z")

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> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> I’ve been told that my eyes change color. I always thought that they were green, but I’ve been told that they change from green to grey to gold. Seems to have irritated most of my girlfriends for some reason. (I remember one of them saying, “What the hell color are your eyes anyway?”) Nearly everyone in my family has brown eyes.

Chameleon eyes  
No one has ever been able to explain it to me either  
And they don’t always stay in sync color wise  
It would be no big deal if other people wouldnt make it annoying

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**Author:** ![Warm\_blood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Warm\_blood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Warm_blood)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-two-tone-eyes/143650/23 "2017-06-21T21:49:34Z")

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Aren’t hazel eyed people most likely to have two tone eyes? Hazel eyes tend to look like a combination of brown and green eyes, sometimes with flecks of gold.

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**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-two-tone-eyes/143650/24 "2017-06-21T21:54:14Z")

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Not to mention that eye color changes as we age. My eyes were deep chocolate when I was a kid. I am old now and they are much paler and more tending to hazel.

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**Author:** ![albino\_manatee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/albino_manatee/32/2_2.png) [@albino\_manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/albino_manatee)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-two-tone-eyes/143650/25 "2017-06-23T12:54:58Z")

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being second in family … i’m the only one who’s eyes change color. normal is grayish-blue … occasionally, based upon certain emotions, changes to a bright opalescent/iridescent blue. as for age … still remains this paradoxy even though i am in my 60’s.

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