# What colour are my eyes(photos inside)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 8, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475 "2006-02-08T00:13:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/1 "2006-02-08T00:13:29Z")
My wife and I frequently discuss my eye colour, as it can’t quite seem to be pin-pointed. I have always stated “hazel” as my colour, but it really isn’t we think. I have posted a few photos of my eye, but I don’t have a great camera. I took the photos with the best lighting possible. I also have noticed a minor red splotch in the right(if you are looking at it) side of the pupil. Weird? [My Right Eye](http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/7829/seye3it.jpg) [My Right Eye Without Flash(blurry)](http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/3426/seye19ei.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/2 "2006-02-08T00:14:41Z")
I’m an idiot by the way. It’s obviously my LEFT eye. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/3 "2006-02-08T00:15:23Z")
EXTREME CLOSE-UP! EXTREME CLOSE-UP!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/4 "2006-02-08T00:19:42Z")
You have a lot of colors going on there. It looks to me like you have a blue base with yellow in varying intensities laid over it. That leads to a very small amount of blue, about half greenish and half yellow. There is really no one color that can accurately describe it if you ask me but I suspect the further you are away the closer they look to greenish. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/5 "2006-02-08T00:19:45Z")
Hm. Hazel is light brown, like a hazel nut. I can’t really classify the colour of your eyes. Yellow-grey? ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/6 "2006-02-08T00:27:53Z")
They look like they’re brown in the middle with a green ring around them, and that’s hazel in my book, pardner. ---
**Author:** ![jawdirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jawdirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jawdirk)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/7 "2006-02-08T00:32:59Z")
Hazel. ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/8 "2006-02-08T00:34:00Z")
My eyes are virtually identical to yours (in terms of colour, at least), and I’ve always described them, and had them described, as “hazel”. There’s really too much yellow in them for “green”, and too much green for “brown”. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/9 "2006-02-08T00:57:37Z")
greeny-brown. Or, if you go in for that sort of thing, browny-green. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/10 "2006-02-08T01:49:43Z")
Well, After taking 7 large samples of your iris, I lined them up in photoshop, and averaged the color into this strip: [Average Eyecolor](http://sourceorigin.com/sdmb/eye_average.jpg) Then, after bringing up the color in the colorpicker, we get this data: [Mahaloth’s Eye Color](http://sourceorigin.com/sdmb/eye_color.jpg) That’s about as objective as I can get. But if you were to ask me, I’d say it’s a lovely shade of mung. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/11 "2006-02-08T01:56:34Z")
where I come from this colour would be called “miel” … thats “honey-colored” cheers alfred ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/12 "2006-02-08T02:08:32Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [My Right Eye Without Flash(blurry)](http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/3426/seye19ei.jpg) You know, if I stare at your eye in this picture for a little while, it looks like your pupil is dilating. Like, whoa, dude. I say your eye color is green. OK it’s got a bit of yellow (“gold”) in it but that’s probably just 'cause you’re turning into a werewolf, albeit possibly very slowly over the course of your life, which will end in a hairy, howling disaster involving silver. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/13 "2006-02-08T02:14:26Z")
Thanks for the feedback. Here are some more photos, including the other eye and both together. [Right Eye Cropped](http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4349/othereye2jj.jpg) [Left Eye Cropped](http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1117/seye9lz.jpg) [Both Eyes Together(slightly creepy)](http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1831/seyes8zm.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/14 "2006-02-08T03:06:41Z")
I forced to choose a single color I would pick the color of olives. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/15 "2006-02-08T03:10:11Z")
And what is this red patch? I circled it in this photo: [Red Storm of Jupiter](http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=seye7bn.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/16 "2006-02-08T03:29:48Z")
Okay! Okay! I’ll give you the damn ring, just stop staring at me! ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/17 "2006-02-08T04:00:13Z")
I have to admit – you have fascinating eyes! I’ve never really looked that closely at eyeballs until this thread. I vote for greenish-brown. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/18 "2006-02-08T04:05:56Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Okay! Okay! I’ll give you the damn ring, just stop staring at me! [Monty Burns] Excellent…[/Monty Burns] ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/19 "2006-02-08T05:04:52Z")
[My eyes](http://awldune.smugmug.com/photos/8401882-M.jpg) are basically the same. People have told me they are green, brown, or hazel. I’m colorblind myself, so I couldn’t say. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/20 "2006-02-08T05:11:03Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > And what is this red patch? > > I circled it in this photo: > > [Red Storm of Jupiter](http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=seye7bn.jpg) could be as simple as a burst blood vessel. Those don’t “heal” but neither do they cause harm. If you’re really concerned about it - see an optomotrist [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475.md?page=2)