# Your hair color/eye color combination **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 25, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344 "2010-04-25T22:58:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Troubles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Troubles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troubles)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/1 "2010-04-25T22:58:39Z")
A simple question - what is your hair color and eye color? This poll was sorta/kinda inspired by John DiFool’s recent eye color poll. It’s a fairly interesting thread, and it got me thinking about what eye color/hair color combos are most and least common. Anyway, my hair is brown, and my eyes, too, are brown. To be a bit more specific, my hair is a very dark shade of brown, while my eyes are of a more intermediate shade. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/2 "2010-04-25T23:02:08Z")
Naturally, my hair is light brown and my eyes are green. My hair is usually dyed much darker brown, black or red though. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/3 "2010-04-25T23:06:31Z")
Blonde hair/green eyes ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/4 "2010-04-25T23:48:33Z")
It was a toss up between brown hair and red hair for me - I finally settled on brown, as it certainly is that for the most part, but there’s a definite red component there and in some lights it does look quite red. The eyes are green. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/5 "2010-04-26T00:08:13Z")
Not sure if we’re supposed to vote for our natural colours or our current colours, so I haven’t actually voted yet. Naturally, brown hair and blue eyes. Currently, auburn hair (resulting from several layers of different dyes, haha) and blue eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/6 "2010-04-26T00:19:27Z")
I am quite shocked that I’m the only black/brown vote so far. Where my people of color at? ---
**Author:** ![Troubles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Troubles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troubles)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/7 "2010-04-26T00:39:39Z")
> [@rinni](#): > > Not sure if we’re supposed to vote for our natural colours or our current colours, so I haven’t actually voted yet. Naturally, brown hair and blue eyes. Currently, auburn hair (resulting from several layers of different dyes, haha) and blue eyes. Vote for your natural hair. If you had black hair but now have grey hair, or had brown hair but now have red due to dying it, vote as if you still had your natural hair color. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/8 "2010-04-26T00:43:43Z")
I naturally have that really dark blonde hair, that looks almost grey, it’s so colorless. And green eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/9 "2010-04-26T00:47:58Z")
Hey, where’s the choice for grey hair? Mine used to be brown, but not anymore so I can hardly claim that’s my situation. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/10 "2010-04-26T00:56:30Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I am quite shocked that I’m the only black/brown vote so far. Where my people of color at? I’m here, (AfAm) but I’m brown/brown. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/11 "2010-04-26T01:00:40Z")
> [@Troubles](#): > > Vote for your natural hair. If you had black hair but now have grey hair, or had brown hair but now have red due to dying it, vote as if you still had your natural hair color. Cool, done! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/12 "2010-04-26T01:00:41Z")
My kids’ dad comes from a family of redheads. His sister married a Guamanian dude. Their three kids were: black hair/brown eyes, blond hair/green eyes, and red hair/blue eyes. I always thought that was a great trick of genetics. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/13 "2010-04-26T01:03:49Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I am quite shocked that I’m the only black/brown vote so far. Where my people of color at? Maybe they have a life beyond the message board? (Unlike some of us…) ---
**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:** [April 26, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/14 "2010-04-26T01:07:24Z")
I voted Other. I’ve got Amber eyes, and hair that varies through through browns and into auburn reds. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/15 "2010-04-26T01:20:26Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Maybe they have a life beyond the message board? (Unlike some of us…) As if. 😉 ---
**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:** [April 26, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/16 "2010-04-26T02:59:56Z")
Thanks to the other thread I discovered that I have hazel eyes, not the brown that I thought I had all my life, so it’s brown/hazel for me. ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/17 "2010-04-26T03:07:03Z")
I voted brown hair / blue eyes, even though my left eye is 2/3 brown. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/18 "2010-04-26T03:17:39Z")
How about this one? I grew up with bright blond hair, and it got darker and darker over time; in my late 20s, people disagreed on whether it was brown, blond, or “wheat,” and it’s even darker now, but it still seems qualitatively different from really brown hair, and still looks wheaten with the light on it. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/19 "2010-04-26T04:41:52Z")
I’m brown and brown; the family includes black and brown (Mom); reddish brown and brown (Middlebro, who used to be asked “why do you dye your hair”, nowadays people just assume he dyes it but don’t ask); ash blonde and mutating-grey (Dad and Littlebro, both had golden hair as children); raven and black (Middlebro’s wife, Nephew and Niece). ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344/20 "2010-04-26T09:52:45Z")
Amber eyes and black hair. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hair-color-eye-color-combination/537344.md?page=2)