# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/61 "2010-04-20T18:09:50Z")
Very light blue with a circle of navy around the outside. WhenI’m sad they are violet, and when I’m angry (or out in bright sunlight) they are almost white. when we were little, my brother used to tease me mercilessly, until he would notice my eyes turning white, then he’d squeak “Hulk eyes!” ina terrified little voice and run from the room. [This is very close - Mine are a little lighter.](http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/14240576.jpg) Here’s a green with a “sunflower”[Here’s a green with a “sunflower” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/62 "2010-04-20T18:11:46Z")
Green. Hubby loves them: I’m the first green eyed person in his family. I love his just as much, and he’s the first brown-eyed person in my family. In his family, everyone has brown eyes except his mom, and hers are blue. In mine, all the ladies have green eyes and all the gentlemen have blue eyes. Our son’s eyes are green, and our daughter’s eyes are brown. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/63 "2010-04-20T18:27:43Z")
I picked blue, because that’s what color I always thought my eyes were, but now I started thinking about it and I’m not sure. So I ask you: what color are my [eyes](http://www.flickr.com/photos/74305730@N00/4538701164/)? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/64 "2010-04-20T18:54:54Z")
I picked blue as well, but gray was probably a better choice. I’ve got steel gray, ice blue, no color eyes. Sometimes they’re very striking, sometimes they aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/65 "2010-04-20T21:04:39Z")
> [@Waenara](#): > > Reading the Wikipedia article, I’d say my eyes are probably classified as gray, but I’m not sure. It varies depending on the lighting and my skin tone (winter pale or summer tanned) and clothing color. Anywhere from greyish-blue to just blue to greenish-blue (sort of aquamarine). My eyes do that too, so I guess I must have grey eyes! ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/66 "2010-04-20T21:07:02Z")
I marked hazel. My eyes are mostly light brown, but with some green near the pupil. I love dark chocolate eyes… sigh… ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/67 "2010-04-20T21:08:32Z")
Blue, with that gold halo around the pupil. I don’t think that’s really heterochromia. I can’t believe blue is kicking brown’s ass in the poll right now. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/68 "2010-04-20T21:45:46Z")
I went with hazel, but with my allergies in full swing, bloodshot is more accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Sutremaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sutremaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sutremaine)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/69 "2010-04-20T21:46:30Z")
They’re somewhere between blue and steel-grey in the Wikipedia article, and have the dark rim of the blue examples. I picked grey because they change enough in different lights to qualify. Colour varies from greenish grey under an energy bulb that’s just been switched on to a bright almost-lavender blue under certain (diffuse?) natural light. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/70 "2010-04-20T22:32:25Z")
> [@Walkabout](#): > > I picked blue, because that’s what color I always thought my eyes were, but now I started thinking about it and I’m not sure. So I ask you: what color are my [eyes](http://www.flickr.com/photos/74305730@N00/4538701164/)? Danged if I know, because my eyes look exactly the same! (though that “green with a sunflower” up above looks like them, too). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/71 "2010-04-20T23:04:38Z")
I once worked with a guy that had cat eyes. That yellow-gold weird color. Women loved it. ---
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/72 "2010-04-20T23:23:36Z")
Huh, according to that article I think I actually have hazel eyes - they’re green around the edge and brown around my pupils. I always thought I had brown eyes! ---
**Author:** ![toodlepip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@toodlepip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toodlepip)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/73 "2010-04-20T23:43:22Z")
Green. Although according to wikipedia, I have central heterochromia, going from grey to green to yellow to brown. And since the outer ring is grey, that’s apparently my true iris colour. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/74 "2010-04-21T00:50:10Z")
Mine are green, with a dark slate blue rim and some gold flecks. They’re probably my best feature. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/75 "2010-04-21T01:08:54Z")
Mine are brown. ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Kapowzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Super\_Kapowzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Kapowzler)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/76 "2010-04-21T01:28:31Z")
The color of my EYES? Are you shittin’ me? They’re the color of another bleary-red sunrise. Another morning of runnin’. They’re the color of the sand caking in the corners, the color of a posse’s determined justice. They’re the color of sweat and dissapointment and lost treasures and missed opportunities. Word. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/77 "2010-04-21T01:31:33Z")
I grew up with everyone I knew, except for my mom and me, having blue eyes. So of course I’m attracted to anything NOT blue. Mine are hazel. I’m not going to go look, because every time I do, or take a picture, people look and go ‘ummmmm’…so, hazel, heavier on the mud-green than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/78 "2010-04-21T02:41:04Z")
> [@Walkabout](#): > > I picked blue, because that’s what color I always thought my eyes were, but now I started thinking about it and I’m not sure. So I ask you: what color are my [eyes](http://www.flickr.com/photos/74305730@N00/4538701164/)? They’re blue. I’m surprised there isn’t a cite request for the “gray” section of that wiki article given that gray is often considered to be a shade of blue, at least gentically. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/79 "2010-04-21T03:04:46Z")
I have green eyes. My daughter has eyes that sometimes look blue and sometimes look [grey.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/10086811@N06/4489585117/in/set-72157623643448669/) Here’s an interesting [link](http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html/) about what color eyes your children will probably have. Ugh. Can’t get link to work in that format. Try here: [http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html](http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html) ---
**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 21, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696/80 "2010-04-21T03:17:22Z")
> [@Super\_Kapowzler](#): > > The color of my EYES? > Are you shittin’ me? > > They’re the color of another bleary-red sunrise. Another morning of runnin’. > They’re the color of the sand caking in the corners, the color of a posse’s determined justice. > They’re the color of sweat and dissapointment and lost treasures and missed opportunities. > > Word. I want to change my answer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-your-eyes/536696.md?page=5)