# What colour are your eyes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260 "2012-02-09T01:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/41 "2012-02-09T17:48:18Z")
Yellow. The part that’s supposed to be white, anyway. My irises are brown. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/42 "2012-02-09T17:50:07Z")
Paul Newman blue. I’ve always been surprised when a woman swoons over eye color. It really doesn’t get more superficial than that. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/43 "2012-02-09T18:53:47Z")
Mine are a very bright, clear olive green. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/44 "2012-02-09T18:59:33Z")
Mine are medium blue with those yellow rings around the pupils. I’m not sure what you call them; they’re not super-prominent, but it seems sometimes they’re more evident than others because every so often people who have known me for a while will comment on it. Not, like, Mary Sue-in-fanfic-about-elves obvious, at any rate. 🙂 I’m perfectly happy with them. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/45 "2012-02-09T19:04:12Z")
> [@ryan](#): > > Hazel-green, more green than brown…says green on my IDs. Same here. They were really green when I was younger (and got my driver’s license), but I’ve got some gold in the middle now. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/46 "2012-02-09T19:28:12Z")
Listed as “blue” on my driver’s license, but more like a steel blue / blue-gray. So, I voted for both “blue” and “gray”. (Now that I type that, it makes me sound like I couldn’t decide on which army to support in a Civil War re-enactment. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/47 "2012-02-09T19:29:06Z")
Mine are this color, mostly, with an inner rim that is sort of this color. I don’t know what to call it. In photos my eyes tend to look olive drab or even brown, which is darker than they really are. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/48 "2012-02-09T19:36:37Z")
Seems like they change between gray & blue. Gonna go with gray. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/49 "2012-02-09T22:22:16Z")
Mine appear green when it’s bright, and brown when it’s dark, so I just say hazel. P.S. Do they spell it “colour” in Irvine? ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/50 "2012-02-09T22:28:30Z")
Very dark brown, almost black here, with very small pupils. When I get very angry or emotional, my eyes turn black…if I did not control my temper, the person upsetting me would have black eyes too 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 9, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/51 "2012-02-09T22:33:44Z")
I have Amber eyes. While most of the time they are bit darker, more similar to the “honey eyes”, they range far into the gold/yellow range depending on sunlight and mood. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/52 "2012-02-09T22:43:27Z")
Definitely green, with gold flecks and a dark grey-blue ring. Pretty close to one of the examples on the wikipedia page. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/53 "2012-02-10T00:12:35Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > To be honest, I have no idea what color my eyes are. > > My daughter just said they’re “greenish-blueish”, so whatever color that is, there you go. Yeah, this is me also. I ticked blue and green but they’re either bluey-green or greeny-blue. I wouldn’t mind having violet eyes like Elizabeth Taylor. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/54 "2012-02-10T02:45:11Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > By the way, I made it multiple choice in case [you want to claim heterochromia](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1254/is-it-possible-to-have-eyes-of-two-different-colors). I will so claim! My eyes are very similar to [this picture](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Humaniris.jpg/120px-Humaniris.jpg) from the wiki article, so grey with an amber/light brown centre. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/55 "2012-02-10T03:02:44Z")
I went with grey. Some people say they’re blue but my Dad has piercing bright blue eyes and that’s the only kind of blue eyes I recognise. Mine are pretty mixed really, a light bluey grey with a nice yellow ring around the iris. Stare at them long enough and you’ll see turquoise 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/56 "2012-02-10T03:07:31Z")
Mine are the colour described as blue-green-grey: [File:Blue-Green-Grey eye.JPG - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue-Green-Grey_eye.JPG) (perhaps the gold in the centre is a bit darker. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/57 "2012-02-10T03:32:11Z")
Ridiculously blue. Like, the blue of our own SDMB blue bars. Mary Sue Blue. I have no idea what to say when people compliment me on my eyes. I had absolutely nothing to do with it. “Thanks,” feels utterly bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/58 "2012-02-10T03:45:23Z")
Light brown a.k.a. honey-colored. > [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > Related question: do you like your eye colour? Would you want to change? Love it! But if I were to choose another color, it would be dark brown. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/59 "2012-02-10T03:49:05Z")
Interesting question. It depends on how the light hits them, I think, **Arnold**. In sunlight, a piercing blue, but with artificial lighting, I’ve been told they’re gray. Q ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/60 "2012-02-10T07:06:38Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > Wait wait wait. Are there more white people with blue eyes than brown eyes? From the Wiki article in the OP “A 2002 study found that the prevalence of blue eye color among Caucasians in the United States to be 33.8 percent for those born from 1936 through 1951 compared with 57.4 percent for those born from 1899 through 1905.[12] Blue eyes are continuing to become less common among American children, with only one out of every six or 16.6% of the total population, and 22.3% of the white population having blue eyes.[36][37] Worldwide, only 150 million people (some 2.2%) have blue eyes.” I’m undecided about my colour, need to consult a mirror. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260.md?page=4)