# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/21 "2006-02-08T05:38:04Z")
You know, that’s the color I always called hazel. After reading Johnny LA’s comment though, I thought, wait now… Hazel is just light brown? So I turned to the most obvious source of confirmation I could think of: Kelly Clarkson, who has the hit “Behind These Hazel Eyes” and her eyes are indeed light brown, without a hint of the yellowish green that I associate with hazel. At any rate, they’re the same color as my ex-husband’s eyes; he also calls them hazel, yet they tend to look different based on the colors he’s wearing. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/22 "2006-02-08T05:55:59Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Hm. Hazel is light brown, like a hazel nut. I can’t really classify the colour of your eyes. Yellow-grey? No. When referring to eye color, [hazel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hazel_eyes.JPG) means greenish-brown. Not a uniform color, but usually green on the edges, shading to brown toward the pupils. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/23 "2006-02-08T06:08:04Z")
**Mahaloth** , this is such a cool thread! I feel like you are an old friend now. Your eyes are amazing! All sorts of things are going on. At first I thought that your left eye was avocado, but with an almost mosaic pattern. Or perhaps like a snakeskin. I would kill for fabric like that – not to mention eyes! I loved the sort of deep taupe suede look of the brown at the center. Then your right eye has more gray which made the green sort of an Atlantic storm-at-sea green with flecks of lightening with the yellow. Yet the two eyes seem to be the same color when seen together. If I had to pick a \*color[/i\ – ignoring the pattern – I would say “gray-green,” but I would _think_ stormy seas. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/24 "2006-02-08T06:26:59Z")
My eyes are a very similar color, and I’ve always said they’re green. They’re little too light for hazel. [This photo was the best I could do.](http://photobucket.com/albums/v630/MarleyS/Me/?action=view¤t=a5d7cc09.jpg) If I could do the kind of mega-closeup **Mahaloth** did, you’d see I’ve got a similar ‘sunburst’ kind of a pattern to what’s on display in the first photo. I also have one or two spots like that “Jupiter” thing, although mine are clearly brown and that thing might be red. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/25 "2006-02-08T09:02:59Z")
This is a cool thread. [My right eye.](http://users.wildblue.net/dragon/guseyeright.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, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/26 "2006-02-08T15:15:56Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > This is a cool thread. > > [My right eye.](http://users.wildblue.net/dragon/guseyeright.jpg) Whoa, great grey eye. Well, you have all proven what my wife and I have concluded. I have freaking weird eyes. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/27 "2006-02-08T15:18:40Z")
Hell I just want to know how you guys managed to take such great eye pics without any red eye… ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/28 "2006-02-08T15:41:53Z")
The OP eye’s match my darling Marcie’s in color; she and I can never agree as to what that color is. I’ve always said her eyes are hazel. Is that the consensus of the group as to the color of the OP’s eyes? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/29 "2006-02-08T15:48:56Z")
Another vote for “hazel.” That’s what I know as hazel, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/30 "2006-02-08T16:03:31Z")
My eyes look the same as the OPs, I’m wondering if yours do the same things mine due. While the color you’ve shown is what mine “normally” look like, I’ve had my eyes appear significantly blue as well as significantly green in the past, do yours do that also? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/31 "2006-02-08T16:21:23Z")
Green, definitely green. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/32 "2006-02-08T16:25:21Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > My eyes look the same as the OPs, I’m wondering if yours do the same things mine due. While the color you’ve shown is what mine “normally” look like, I’ve had my eyes appear significantly blue as well as significantly green in the past, do yours do that also? I’m another with eyes like the OP and Martin’s. In pictures, my eyes usually match whatever color is behind me, if taken from relatively far away. They usually seem to be blue. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/33 "2006-02-08T19:58:38Z")
Lol. I have very similar eyes. (unfortunately not a very good camera.) And people are often definitive about their color. Eg. “they’re green”, “Oh, they’re grey”, “they are bluish” etc. ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/34 "2006-02-08T21:58:05Z")
> [@David Simmons](#): > > I forced to choose a single color I would pick the color of olives. I agree - Olive was the colour that came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/35 "2006-02-09T09:26:54Z")
**Marley23** , assuming that they are a match, your eyes are _exactly_ as I have pictured them since I’ve known you. (It’s the brows.) I’m tempted to set that eye as a screen saver. **That** would wake me up when I’m nodding into my coffee! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/36 "2006-02-09T18:26:08Z")
My eyes are brown in the middle and green around the outside. The dividing line moves, based on seemingly random factors, so sometimes I look like I have brown eyes, and sometimes green eyes. This is what I’ve always heard called “hazel”: green and brown, but as two distinct colors. No, BTW, they don’t turn green when I’m angry. They do seem to change based on what I’m wearing, but that doesn’t make sense to me–I think it’s just an illusion. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/37 "2006-02-09T21:32:29Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > My eyes look the same as the OPs, I’m wondering if yours do the same things mine due. While the color you’ve shown is what mine “normally” look like, I’ve had my eyes appear significantly blue as well as significantly green in the past, do yours do that also? Mine can look bluish, grayish, greenish, or any combination thereof depending on what I am wearing. So I said “gray” on my license since it’s inconclusive and that seemed neutral enough. 'Hazel" is used as something of a catchall for variegated greenish/brownish/goldish combos so I would go with that for the OP. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475/38 "2006-02-09T22:04:04Z")
I’d have to say that your eye is mostly white. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-my-eyes-photos-inside/343475.md?page=1)