# Most unusual eye color you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 1, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648 "2005-09-01T22:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/61 "2014-04-19T22:05:47Z")
I still remember one of the East German exchange students our class housed for a few weeks back in high school. She was a moderately pretty young thing with straight, shoulder length, jet black hair, pale skin, Viking-style sapphire-blue eyes and combat boots. Those deep blues would have been striking in just about any face ; but between her haircut, hair colour and skin tone they would just swallow you whole. These days, wiser as I am to the lying ways of wymyn, I’d immediately think the black hair was artificial, which would spoil the effect for some reason. And it most probably was in retrospect. But back then, I was pretty darn smitten. [QUOTE=Kythereia] On a celebrity note, Kate Bosworth has really unusual (and cool!) eyes–you can sort of see it in this picture [here](http://www.tccandler.com/images/actresses/kate_bosworth_face.jpg), but if you’ve seen her in the recent makeup promotion she’s doing it’s a lot more apparent. She has one light bluish-grey eye and one eye that’s half-bluish-grey and half-hazel. 🆒 [/QUOTE] That is called heterochromia (greek for “of different colours”. Doctors don’t have much imagination). David Bowie is another famous one - and on top of that, one of his pupils got fucked up in a bar fight so that [one of his eyes looks normal and the other is permanently dilated.](http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/david-bowie-2013.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/62 "2014-04-19T22:55:37Z")
There was this girl in my high school who had the most beautiful blue-green eyes. I mentioned them once to my girlfriend and she informed me they were falsies. She either had blue eyes and green contacts or the other way around. Whatever way she did it, she got it right, IMHO! When my cousin was in optometry school, I asked him about mirrored contacts. After all, what could be cooler than taking off your mirrored sunglasses to reveal mirrored eyes? Sadly, he informed me it wasn’t going to happen, because metallic coatings don’t allow the eye to 'breathe". ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/63 "2014-04-20T01:58:45Z")
I once used an EM lab at work to sputter coat my hard contacts with 24K gold. I had gold mirrored eyes. Does that count? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/64 "2014-04-20T03:03:08Z")
Former US Senator Nancy Kassebaum had the most amazing eyes I’ve ever seen. There was nothing unusual about the color, but they were hypnotic – like looking over a precipice and having an irresistible urge to just fall into them. ---
**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/65 "2014-04-20T05:25:37Z")
I have seen people with black eyes ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/66 "2014-04-20T06:37:34Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > David Bowie (the rock star) has two differenc colored eyes, supposedly the result of a fight over a girl when he was young. The pupils are a different size too. > > Pretty freaky looking if you ask me. > [http://www.inception-magazine.com/spring04/art/bowieeyes.jpg](http://www.inception-magazine.com/spring04/art/bowieeyes.jpg) Actually, this is a commonly believed myth. David Bowie’s left eye is permanently dilated from a fight in his youth, so it looks darker. But when look closely, you’ll see both eyes are indeed the same color. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/67 "2014-04-20T10:46:48Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Actually, this is a commonly believed myth. David Bowie’s left eye is permanently dilated from a fight in his youth, so it looks darker. But when look closely, you’ll see both eyes are indeed the same color. [Err](http://musiceyz.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/david-bowie-2013.jpg)… (same link as before) ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/68 "2014-04-20T16:48:04Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I know a woman with those “Afghani girl” eyes. They’re blue and green and gold all at once. Pretty incredible. I agree they are striking and almost hypnotic, I don’t like to stare but I catch myself having a hard time not staring whe I see these eyes. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/69 "2014-04-20T17:10:39Z")
I once had a girlfriend whose eye color varied (among green, blue, and hazel) with the ambient light. Her driver’s license left her eye color unspecified. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/70 "2014-04-20T20:49:43Z")
I have green eyes, my husband has brown. Our daughter’s eyes are so dark brown, they are nearly black, like rich, dark chocolate. Sometimes it’s tough to see the pupil. Gorgeous eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/71 "2014-04-20T23:25:20Z")
Dad, one of my brothers and several of our relatives on Dad’s side have grey eyes that change color from bright green to blue depending on the light and their mood. Judging by the reactions they get, that’s real weird. Google images Sara Carbonero One of the other wenches of my renfaire group once brought her brother over. Real dark black dude, real light grey eyes. Apparently the brother was convinced that women did not find him attractive, his sister wanted us to explain that there is a difference between “stunned speechless”, “ohmygodhestalkingtome” and “repulsed”. Once we recovered from the initial impression, we explained that yes, she was absolutely right, excuse us, we’re still in “ohmygodhestalkingtome” mode. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/72 "2014-04-20T23:50:34Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > I once had a girlfriend whose eye color varied (among green, blue, and hazel) with the ambient light. Her driver’s license left her eye color unspecified. I have a friend with eyes like that - mostly they look green but it depends on the light - sometimes they look hazel or blue-grey. She’s not conventionally attractive but her eyes are amazing. I’m going to ask her how they’re listed on her drivers license - I had to clue that could be left “unspecified.” ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/73 "2014-04-21T13:10:38Z")
I once read a science fiction story (Ian Watson maybe?) called, I think, “The Fourth Primary”, about an expedition into (I think) some remote region of the Himalayas inspired by rumors among the natives of a new primary color. They eventually discovered it (IIRC) in the iris of the eyes of a virtually extinct species of particularly human like monkeys, that they could not bring themselves to kill or capture. My memory of the story is a bit hazy, so some of those details may be wrong, and my Google-fu is letting me down, but I am fairly certain this never before-seen color was in the eye of an animal, almost certainly a primate. (I do not think it was explicitly the Yeti, although that would fit the setting.) Does anyone else remember this? (It is **AndyL** who has an encyclopedic knowledge of science fiction, isn’t it?) Anyway, if real, that would be the most unusual possible eye color. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/74 "2014-04-21T13:40:51Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > When I lived in New Orleans, I was struck by the people who’s hair, skin and eyes were exactly the same color. I guess they’d be considered light brown, golden seemed more accurate. Can you post a pic? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/75 "2014-04-21T13:47:29Z")
There was a girl on a commercial for a Herpes treatment that had the most stunning eyes I’ve ever seen. So stunning that when I ran into another woman with the same eyes a few years later, I blurted out “Hey, she’s got Herpes eyes!” :eek: Fortunately, only my wife heard me. :relief: Unfortunately, she has never forgotten this… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/76 "2014-04-21T22:39:08Z")
I once worked with a young man who had the greenest green eyes I’ve ever seen. They were the color of mint leaves. He also had black hair, and the color combination was stunning. I hope I didn’t gape too much when I looked at him back then. ---
**Author:** ![claramorena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@claramorena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/claramorena)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/77 "2014-04-22T00:06:10Z")
Sparkling Sapphire blue eyes ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648/78 "2014-04-22T00:46:03Z")
Dated a guy once with the light-golden-brown “amber” eyes. They were very unusual, never seen anything quite like it since. He was a strawberry redhead with the pink & white, no-freckles complexion, blond eyelashes and eyebrows, very fair skin, and the amber eyes. The whole combination should have made him look washed-out but actually was very striking. He didn’t photograph well, though. My own eyes are a rather bland but hard to define mix of grey, blue, and green. They were much bluer when I was a kid, but the green has come out more in my 30s, it’s odd that they’re still changing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-eye-color-youve-seen/319648.md?page=3)