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What colour eyes do you have?

  • 06-04-2014 09:13PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    http://youreyecolour.blogspot.ie/2013/04/green-eye-colour-rare-human-eye-colour.html

    Some interesting observations.I always thought blue eyes where the least common in Ireland at least but not so worldwide it seems.

    https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100514170531AAueXh9
    From Aya ~ {Love and peas!} Lovin' baby .shameless copy and paste ..

    The most common eye colour seems to be grayish blue, though. Not typically blue (baby blue). Baby blue is very hard to come by, as it is the complete absence of pigmentation in the iris (so albinos don't have "red" eyes, but baby blues). The less pigments you have in your iris, the lighter your eyes will be. So I assume grayish blue eyes have at least some pigmentation in the iris.


    Green eyes are quite rare as well. Rumour has it that that eye colour is caused by a "faulty" gene that adds different pigments to your iris which cause a reaction that is seen as the green in one's eyes. I don't know the exact details, but that is roughly what it comes down to. And this is genetic, so it usually turns up in certain families.


    Not to mention that the eye colour is determined by several genes, which means that it is perfectly possible for two blue-eyed people to produce a brown-eyed child if each had a minority of brown-eye genes but gave all of their brown-eye genes to the child, giving the child a majority of brown-eye genes and because brown eyes are a dominant feature... well, you know the rest :)

    So What colour eyes do you have?

    Eye Colour 499 votes

    Green
    0% 0 votes
    Blue
    19% 99 votes
    Brown
    42% 211 votes
    Grey
    14% 73 votes
    Hazel
    4% 24 votes
    Violet
    8% 43 votes
    Red
    0% 0 votes
    A mix of two colours
    0% 2 votes
    None
    9% 45 votes
    Other
    0% 2 votes


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Red.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Bloodshot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭SurferRosa


    Green.

    Just editing to add, I'm female, European, (German / Irish parents ) and they do change colour. Have been green about a year, but sometimes have one green and one blue/green


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭masti123


    Green


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bnagrrl


    green


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    None, I'm colour blind :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    Blue!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    gold.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭singledad80


    baby blue


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Hazelnut on the outer parts of the iris and green on the inner parts. Therefore, when I'm in the sun and my pupils constrict, my eyes look green.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Grayish blue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    None of what's listed on the link.

    My eyes are bluey green, with a ring of gold around the pupil, and gold flecks. There is a longname for it (genetic mmutation apparently), but I'm too tipsy to remember it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Shark Grey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,674 ✭✭✭TheBody


    I've brown eyes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    I have blue eyes with a hint of green with gold around the pupil . My dad has really pure blue eyes and my mum has really nice green eyes! Really wish I'd gotten her colour eyes. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Green. Surprised to see there's so many people with green eyes out there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    A mix of two colours

    Who is that? David Bowie are you on AH again? We told you stick to the music forums:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Jaysus you folks are really into your eye colours, I'll have to go find a mirror to find out what mine are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭hattoncracker


    Green!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    Mine are a boring mix of blue / grey / green. Completely average :P


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Cian Egan has lovely bright blue eyes I've noticed recently. Unless they're coloured contacts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    None, I'm colour blind :(

    You could still have eyes even if colour blind!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭LoveLamps


    Have blue with a yellow ring around them.

    They look green if you don't look close enough. I usually just say I have green eyes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Ace Attorney


    Hazel Green


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Given the prevalence of green eyes here, does that mean we're all mutants?


  • Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Blue. That would be them there. Whatever kinda blue that is. Looks greyish in certain lights.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Really light blue eyes. Irish descent all the way back to some form of Scottish judging my my surname.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    LoveLamps wrote: »
    Have blue with a yellow ring around them.

    They look green if you don't look close enough. I usually just say I have green eyes
    People use to always say my eyes were green when I was younger, which was odd because to me they seemed clearly blue albeit with a tiny bit of green and with a gold ring around the iris. I heard as well that green eyes are most common with people of Celtic ancestry. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭Push Pop


    Pure blue


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 Meelah


    Green usually. They were blue when I was younger. And when I'm sick, have a cold or anything, they go slate grey.


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