# What's your eye color? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664 "2007-02-26T01:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/1 "2007-02-26T01:27:06Z")
Or for the non-USers, colour. [This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=409868) somehow mutated in my brain into thinking about my eyes. They’re called hazel, or if you’re feeling specific, green-brown hazel. But the real color is a lot more complicated than that. They’re really a light green with an inner radiating ring of light brown streaks, with a thick outer ring of a dark gray-blue. It’s no wonder that they seem to change color all the time. [Sorry for the horrible picture quality](http://bp1.blogger.com/_YrQtV0f_mEc/ReI14qtPWeI/AAAAAAAAABA/t7LiSkAfmQQ/s1600-h/0225071944.jpg), [I took these with my picture phone](http://bp1.blogger.com/_YrQtV0f_mEc/ReI14qtPWdI/AAAAAAAAAA4/07MRBSx74tw/s1600-h/0225071943a.jpg) [because I didn’t have my camera handy](http://bp0.blogger.com/_YrQtV0f_mEc/ReI14atPWcI/AAAAAAAAAAw/huZyk1JzqBA/s1600-h/0225071943.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/2 "2007-02-26T01:29:10Z")
Brown. Just brown. No gold flecks, no green highlights, just brown. But my boyfriend thinks they’re pretty. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/3 "2007-02-26T01:33:04Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] But my boyfriend thinks they’re pretty. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I do to. Maybe it’s because that’s how I would describe my eyes. Except they’re not pretty. They’re rugged, handsome in a dashing sort of way, causing women to swoon when cast in their general direction. Anybody who knows me in real life is laughing themselves silly about now. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/4 "2007-02-26T01:38:47Z")
Varies from light to dark grey, from rainy sky to charcoal paint. They used to be very very blue (think Paul Newman) but changed after puberty. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/5 "2007-02-26T01:39:02Z")
Mine are green but I have no pics. ---
**Author:** ![Shera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/6 "2007-02-26T01:46:35Z")
Mine are very similar to the way **Risha’s** eyes sound. I have always called them Hazel. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/7 "2007-02-26T01:48:30Z")
I’ve got brown eyes that are mostly brown, but can change underlying tone at times. I also have a freckle/birth mark in my left eye. It’s almost always a dark shade of brown. [side view-- they’re mostly brown](http://profile.ak.facebook.com/profile3/549/8/n5206241_39785.jpg) [3/4 view-- excuse the stupid facial expression](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v430/nashiitashii/FOTDs/?action=view¤t=100_4711.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/8 "2007-02-26T01:50:26Z")
Brown eyed girl here too! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/9 "2007-02-26T02:11:49Z")
Overall my eyes are pale green but on the far outside of the colored area is very, very thin quite dark green ring. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/10 "2007-02-26T02:23:06Z")
Almost completely black. I’ve never really ever been able to tell where my iris is (I have to take it on faith that I have one). Even when I shine a light right on my eye, it’s just a deep tarry pool. I feel like I got totally robbed when it comes to eyes. I envy people who actually have different colors and flecks and pretty stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/11 "2007-02-26T02:27:36Z")
Grey-green, with very light golden-brown flecks radiating from around the pupils. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/12 "2007-02-26T02:37:29Z")
I have no freakin’ idea. Kind of green, but not really _green_ green. I think they have a couple different colo(u)rs. There’s a kind of reddish/brown semi-octagonal line thing, but mostly a kind of green, I think. \ Honey, what color are my eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/13 "2007-02-26T02:37:34Z")
According to my license, they’re blue. I’m going with bluish-grey. [Cite here.](http://pics.livejournal.com/om_mani_padme_/pic/0000330b/g8) Also I have a brown star in the center, which you can never see in photos, because I have freakishly large pupils. Normally my freakishly large pupils drown out any eye color I have in photos–the above, shmaltzy picture was the only one I could find where my eye color was clearly visible. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/14 "2007-02-26T02:50:51Z")
Brown. Everybody in my family has brown hair and brown eyes. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/15 "2007-02-26T02:52:17Z")
Vibrant green, most of the time. This picture is a year or two old, but they haven’t really changed. Except now I have someone saying they look blue. I don’t see it. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/8190/8114564500_d51192c5c8.jpg "dahfisheroo") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/41983136@N00/?saved=1) ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/16 "2007-02-26T02:59:22Z")
Oh, one thing I heard, not sure if it’s true, but that your iris that has dots or more coloring, variations, is the dominant side. So, if you’re left handed, like me, your left iris will have more variations. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![nongoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@nongoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nongoog)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/17 "2007-02-26T03:07:48Z")
Mine are basically grey, that most people try to classify as a “lazy” blue- meaning kind of dull-colored blue, but they do tend to look much bluer if I’m wearing something blue, and lean towards a greener color if I’m wearing something green. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/18 "2007-02-26T03:13:17Z")
**dahfisheroo** –you have the brown star thing going on like I do! Also I’m left handed. _waggles fingers creepily_ ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/19 "2007-02-26T03:14:43Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] **dahfisheroo** –you have the brown star thing going on like I do! Also I’m left handed. _waggles fingers creepily_ [/QUOTE] Mommmmmmm, she’s creeping me out, make her stop… ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664/20 "2007-02-26T03:22:27Z")
Green. [Unmistakeably green](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/frenchified/eyecropped.jpg). And also apparently a little bloodshot today. A lot of people I meet in real life think they’re brown, because I wear glasses and they just don’t pay attention, and almost everybody else in my family has brown eyes. There’s a darker blue-green ring around the outside and a yellow ring around the pupil, because my eyes are fat, yo. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-eye-color/393664.md?page=2)