# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [February 11, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/81 "2012-02-11T06:15:23Z")
> [@Satchmo](#): > > Mine are the opposite. They were quite vivid blue when I was a child, but the older I get the lighter/grayer they seem to get. > > No desire to change. I have heard that people’s eye colour can change as they age. It seems to me like mine were darker brown when I was younger, too. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/82 "2012-02-12T04:30:40Z")
Hazel, coppery gold and green. My brother has eyes like **Taomist** , and they’re just stunning especially in bright light. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/83 "2012-02-12T06:38:09Z")
Hazel, but I had to post here a few months ago to find that out. Here’s a [cite](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3012846/DSCN0020.JPG)–they’re sort of tri-colored. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/84 "2012-02-12T09:54:29Z")
Hazel here, they’re light brown with a greenish tint that’s more obvious in sunlight. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/85 "2012-02-13T18:27:18Z")
Mine are green. I like the color, but I would rather have true gray or light blue eyes, just because I think they’re more striking looking. Green is fine, though. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/86 "2012-02-13T19:06:11Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > There are more blue eyed than brown eyed people? I’m shocked. Lotsa whitey around here. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/87 "2012-02-13T19:47:41Z")
Mainly blueish grey, with gold rings around the irises. Usually summed up as “hazel”. My daughter’s are almost exactly the same. ---
**Author:** ![Brighter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Brighter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brighter)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/88 "2012-02-13T21:35:38Z")
hazel+brown+green a little ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/89 "2012-02-13T22:28:26Z")
Mine are [blue](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/47101.html), and I wouldn’t change 'em for the world. Mostly because blue-eyed brunettes aren’t very common. My brother and I both got our Irish father’s blue eyes. I think that my Italian mom is beautiful, but frankly I’m glad that I didn’t get her brown eyes…yay, recessive genes! 😉 (That said, my left eye has a small brown spot in it: I like to think of it as being a bit of my mom.) My mom’s brown-eyed brother married a blue-eyed Irish woman: one of my cousins has brown eyes and the other has blue. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/90 "2012-02-14T07:28:25Z")
I’be always called them olive green. My mother used to say hazel but we never agreed on the color of anything anyway. I like them the way they are. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260/91 "2012-02-14T08:49:27Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > 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. I say, “Thanks! I grew them myself!” It usually gets a chuckle. For the poll, my eyes are also blue. They’re a light blue with a darker blue ring around the outside. Oh, and one eye has one strange little brown fleck right on the outside of the iris. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-colour-are-your-eyes/612260.md?page=4)