A friend of mine has heterochromia. It’s extremely noticeable on her. Disconcerting, really.
Constructed from DNA found in the blood-filled stomachs of ancient mosquitoes?
You know who had really extraordinarily dark blue eyes that could be called violet? Irene Dunne. She made only one color film, in 1947, after dozens of films from 1931 on, and her eyes always looked brown in B&W films. People were surprised she didn’t have brown eyes in her first color film.
Me, I have brown eyes. They are odd, because they had gotten lighter as I have gotten older. They have green right around the pupil. I used to have eyes that were so dark they were almost black.
My mother has very dark brown eyes, and my father has hazel eyes. My brother and eye have the same eyes. Otherwise, we look nothing alike. He looks like Jeff Goldblum. Neither of us looks much like our parents, either. We could be adopted.
Mine were all brown when I was young, but now they’re just brown around the pupil and the outer irises are gray or green, depending on what I’m wearing. Don’t know why they changed.
My elder son has olive green eyes. They are quite dark, so often appear to be brown from a distance, but when you look closely, the olive hue becomes obvious. I am sure there are other folks with this eye color, but I have never met one
Since we are making eye confessions now, my own eyes, being a mixed black guy, are unremarkable. Dark brown, almost to the point of looking black. And not a normal dark brown blackish look, BLACK HOLE black, MIDNIGHT black body radiation scale black to the point where it’s almost Demonic!
I’ve come to terms with it. Can’t have it all.
I will say though, that different features are not all equally valued. In general, lighter colored eyes look prettier to me, and I am pretty sure most other people. It’s the difference between seeing the light scatter in a dark and muddy crystal vs a lighter crystal where the shimmering and colors and vibrancy is more apparent.
This will be fixed with genetic engineering, then most people will have the prettiest eyes in the world, until eventually the races will split between enhanced mankind, and some Amish/christian scientist style morlock looking creatures, slumped over with an ogrish gaze through their dull eyes.
Honestly, I don’t know what color my eyes are. Many people say they are blue, many people say they are green and many people say they are hazel. I would lean more towards hazel than anything else. Bluish-green with gold circles around the pupil.
OMG, Ambivalid, don’t tell me that IRL you’re really . . .
Actually yes, that looks a lot like mine. Those eyes seem just a tad lighter than mine though, or a bit washed out looking.
That would almost do as a description of my son’s eye color, though his are not as dark.
I have brown eyes and my husband has blue-ish grey eyes. I always say that our son’s eyes look like someone found a bucket of paint that exactly matched my eyes, and one that exactly matched my husband’s eyes, and mixed them together to get our son’s eye color. His color really does seem to be right in the middle of the two of us.
As interesting and hard-to-describe as his eyes are, the default label is “hazel,” so that’s what he puts when he needs to give his eye color.
I’m a weirdo, I am an ocular albino (there are two kinds of albinism, one is hair/skin/ eyes, one is eyes only - that’s me), my eyes have almost no color except a dark blue ring on the outside, so they reflect whatever color is nearby, they’re mostly pale green, but in bright sunshine they’re yellow. My best friend in high school and beyond would say they freaked her out when they turned yellow “devil eyes”.
I thought Afghan Girl set the bar fairly high.
Those could be my eyes, but mine only skew blue if I am wearing something blue close to my face. 99.9% of the time they are light green with a gold center ring. I, too, refer to mine as hazel, mostly because that is what the DMV lady said they were when I got my first driver’s license.
I think, like CairoCarol, that my son’s olive green eyes are a mix of my green/gold and his father’s darker brown.
I was watching a reminiscence of Lucille Ball on TCM, and I saw some pictures of her when she was young. Lord, she was a gorgeous woman. Then I googled up some “young Lucille Ball” images, and one was this image, which really shows the color of her eyes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with deep aqua (or maybe deep turquoise?) eyes before. She must have been stunning in real life, with that bright red hair and deep turquoise eyes.
By the way, the color of bluish/greenish eyes with some golden parts right around the pupil is called “glasz”.
Ermegerd, that is me. I had never heard the term, but now can’t wait to use it. I wonder if the DMV will let me use it on my next d/l renewal?
Mine too! They tend to look blue or green depending on what I wear, but my driver’s license says ‘‘blue’’ so I guess they are officially blue.
My husband calls the hazel parts ‘‘stars.’’ He says I have stars in my eyes.
Mine vary between blue and grey. Sometimes they appear green. In my case it seems to be tied to my mood(?) as much as my clothes or the ambient lighting.
(Since I’m not looking at my own eyes often I can only go by what others tell me.)
On my driver’s license my eyes are blue.
If you look at the “gray” entry on this web site it pretty much describes me.
Mine are green, and for the record, my personal favourites are my daughter’s eyes of the deep-chocolate that seem nearly black.
My husband has pretty brown eyes like that.