# What color are your eyes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696 "2010-04-20T01:06:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/1 "2010-04-20T01:06:09Z")
[From Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color). Early birds to the thread, please don’t jump the gun as this will take several minutes to set up. Poll is public, expiration date set for 6 months. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/2 "2010-04-20T01:15:18Z")
Amber. Depending on the light, my mood, or level of agitation they can be anywhere from a golden brown,(normal resting state) to nearly completely gold, (extremely excited or agitated). ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/3 "2010-04-20T01:24:33Z")
[Green.](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v731/trublmakr/?action=view¤t=Picture55.jpg&newest=1) ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/4 "2010-04-20T01:26:15Z")
Posting problems! ---
**Author:** ![Not\_a\_Platypus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/5 "2010-04-20T01:41:24Z")
They’re mostly grey, but kind of blue and sometimes change with my mood to be more blue. They also have little yellow spots! ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/6 "2010-04-20T01:47:16Z")
I don’t actually know, but my best guess is blue. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/7 "2010-04-20T01:47:44Z")
Mine don’t match. Not quite as spectacularly as those kitty cats with one yellow eye and one blue eye, but same basic situation. [Left eye](http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/Upload_Download/Left%20Eye.JPG) is dark brown and has one “texture”, [right eye](http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/Upload_Download/Right%20Eye.JPG) is hazel-green and has a different visual “texture” (looks like you’re looking way down into it, like the colors are at the bottom of a transparent glass object). Left eye also has a little “window” of inconsistent coloration that looks like it wanted to resemble the right eye. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/8 "2010-04-20T01:55:34Z")
My eyes are blue but they tend to run from a gray/blue to aqua depending on what I am wearing or something… ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/9 "2010-04-20T01:56:49Z")
I’ve been told my eyes are blue, but I wouldn’t know from first hand knowledge. I just don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/10 "2010-04-20T02:15:45Z")
How do you not know what color your eyes are? ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/11 "2010-04-20T02:17:55Z")
I covet green eyes. Mine are brown. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/12 "2010-04-20T02:22:04Z")
My brown eyes are borderline hazel, but nobody believes me (they just look brown with my dark lashes). ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/13 "2010-04-20T02:29:28Z")
Heterochromia, within one individual eye (partial). My right eye is blue, my left eye is 2/3 brown and 1/3 blue. It is very pronounced and I get a lot of comments. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/14 "2010-04-20T02:31:37Z")
Blue. Mine are quite similar to [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Iris_JD052007.jpg), but mine are a lighter blue and turn more yellow closer to the pupil. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/15 "2010-04-20T02:33:57Z")
> [@Terraplane](#): > > How do you not know what color your eyes are? “I don’t know” = “Can’t remember and don’t care enough to go and look” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/16 "2010-04-20T02:34:26Z")
Lots of us baby blues here. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/17 "2010-04-20T02:35:46Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > I covet green eyes. Mine are brown. I have green eyes and I love brown. I bought some colored contact lenses so I can be brown whenever I want! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/18 "2010-04-20T02:37:36Z")
Blue. The shade changes but is usually around the shade of the uncovered one [in this photo](http://www.flickr.com/photos/28949748@N06/2975450644/). ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/19 "2010-04-20T02:39:05Z")
A dark chocolate brown, but I love green in others. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/20 "2010-04-20T02:40:17Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Early birds to the thread, please don’t jump the gun as this will take several minutes to set up. I am really curious now about whatever social experiment you’re planning to use this for. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696.md?page=2)