Which Eye color do you find most attractive??? (ever seen someone with 2 different eye colors? ua-cam.com/users/shorts-RTsmjDQg0Q ) Also...did you spot the spelling error? 😆
My mother was born with violet eyes and then they went a crystal green. Dending on the sky or what colour she wears, they can also look blue or more grey. I was born with grey eyes, and now they are a combination of a moss green and a russet brown in the centre (central heterochromia), and I have a turquoise ring.
Thank you! I came to the comments to see all the chronically online AH takes of “my eyes are a color no one’s even heard of…” but as someone who has very light eyes that don’t work, I say this to people all the time. Yes, they are pretty, but I’ll take normal eyes that work over these any day. I’d be disabled in any other timeline and I’m a classical artist so that’s a major issue. I’d never trade my reality but light eyes just don’t work as well.
My grandmother has yellow eyes. Her irises are more yellow than gold. Several optometrists have commented on them being very rare, and the first time her primary optometrists saw her he freaked out about her eye color and said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that he would ever see someone with her eye color.
My eyes are green, but turn yellow in the middle under certain lights. My co worker gasped one day because he had never seen yellow in someone's eyes before.
In grade school back in the 70’s (I was in about 3rd or 4th grade) we did a science class assignment where we wrote down our parents eye color and our eye color and talked about genes. My idiot teacher told me that my parents couldn’t be my parents because they both have brown eyes and I have blue eyes (not kidding, she actually was adamant to a 8-9 year old that they weren’t my parents based on her terrible understanding of the science lesson). I came home extremely upset and my parents had to go have a talk with the teacher and explain dominant/recessive alleles and of course that regardless of her faulty understanding of the science her behavior was highly inappropriate.
That's interesting. I, too, was told that it was "impossible" that I was my parents' child, even though my physical traits are a pretty good amalgam of them both. I was told this because my father has 'ice-blue' eyes, my mother has dark brown eyes, and I have 'light sea-green' eyes. Apparently, the belief is that it is genetically "impossible" for that to happen? But on my mother's side, my grandpa (Norwegian) has green eyes, and my grandma (Spaniard) has dark brown eyes...while on my father's side, my grandpa (Finn) has blue eyes, while my grandma (Finn/Swede) has dark 'sea-green' eyes. So...green eyes can also be recessive?
My father has brown eyes, mother has blue eyes and I have green and I was told that is not possible. My husband has hazel eyes and two of our children have blue eyes. What is funny is from my husband’s family out of a good 40+ people, not one of us has brown eyes.
I met a young girl, couldn’t have been more than 8 years old. She had sun-yellow eyes and was perfectly healthy. I asked her if she wore contacts and she replied no. It truly was like staring into the sun, so pretty!
I have violet eyes and for most of my life people have told me how unattractive and freaky they are. But there are a percentage of people that think albinism is the coolest thing and try and recreate the “look”. What people don’t understand is that albinism isn’t a “look” it’s a medical condition which causes loads of issues with eyes. I am legally blind and can’t open my eyes outside even when it’s dull because I have no pigment in body at all. Life is good but having albinism is hard too!
Thanks so much for sharing that! I have several patients with albinism or forms of ocular albinism. Perhaps some day I can do a dedicated video on the subject. Thanks so much for watching!!
@@DoctorEyeHealth That would be cool. It would be lovely for some of the myths surrounding albinism to be busted. It’s not just about having no/little pigment it’s about being gifted with eyes with a multitude of problems, off the scale painful photophobia and a society who don’t like difference. Most of us with albinism are fighters though - we have to be!
@@daisy9910that’s False. She had blue eyes, that in certain light made them appear violet. She was born with distichiasis, a genetic ‘disorder’ that produces an extra row of eyelashes though. Also making her eyes famous!
I have hazel eyes as well and mine do that too. There’s days it can go extremely light, and days it goes a bit darker, but the most common is the hazel color
Mine are grey. My eyes change colour according to the weather and whether I'm in a good or bad mood. I presume it is due to the amount of light being scattered by the iris.
I have central heterochromia. Green eyes with a dark outer ring and hazel/yellow in the centre. I hear the same, changes during summer and winter. It must be the hazel in the middle that changes the reflection of the lighter colour for me. Love darker eyes though!
Same as my husband. When he is sick, they tend to get darker. Like a darker brown green. But every other day, especially in nice sunny days, they are more green dominant..
Did you hate them when you were a child? I definitely hated mine, I thought they were weird/creepy 😞 As an adult, though, I'm just glad to have eyes that work 🤷🏾♀️
Mine are emerald green, but when I wear blue clothes, they turn turquoise. Tried to get the police to write emerald green eyes in my new passport, but it didn't work. (🤭) Btw, my four children have from brown, hazel, to almost amber. My eldest son has hazel/amber to green..(mother is Romanian) me Viking😁
My eyes change from grey to light blue, I'm not sure to why. But I observed it maybe have something to do with my emotions, cause usually they stay grey and when I'm angry or sad they turn blue...
@@jeoffreyghysels I read somewhere that there’s a blue variation of hazel eyes. They’re not called “hazel” but are often referred to as “blue-grey” or “chameleon” eyes. But if your eyes change color depending on your emotions, maybe you’ve got mood stones instead of eyes lol.
I have beautiful green eyes. I'm now 75 and ppl have been complimenting me all my life even now. I'm so blessed to have great eyesight. It doesn't matter what color your eyes are protect them!
Thank you for clearing up the “black eyes” condition. I remember people telling me I had black eyes as a kid and arguing that I have really dark brown eyes (not black). 🤦🏾♀️
I think there is nothing wrong with labelling them black. I have black eyes, and unless you put extreme bright light in front of them, you won't see any brown in it. Same for my hair. It's dark enough to appear black under most scenarios. It's also cultural and symbolic, we still talk about "white" and "black" people, when nobody has literally white, or black skin; it's either dark brown or pink/beige, but never actually black/white.
Same, especially when I could clearly see that they’re brown - not just because it s visible when the light hits them, but also cause the colour is different from the pupil.
As a graphic artist who has edited many photos, light blue eyes always stand out on camera. I have green eyes, did not realize how rare that is; fascinating video, Doctor!
@@totti. I read a report that said people who have dark coloured eyes are generally less likely to be perceived as trustworthy, and that people with light coloured eyes tend to have better low light vision. So it can have more impact than you might realise.
You didn't mention heterochromia, specifically central. Our inner color is sunburst orange, mid color is seafoam green, and the outer ring is midnight blue. The DMV has our eye color listed as "unknown" on our DL.
I have this also . As a kid I was told it was Hazel. But I have an amber ring, then green, then dark blue ring .I also have black dots in the green. I was told i have to go with the main colour in the middle so they're classed as green apparently
I have gray eyes. Fun fact gray eyes, similar to hazel, “shift” in color as well. My husband has amber eyes. They are so light they are almost orange in some lights. Our daughter however ended up with dark dark brown eyes. Genetics are weird (but fascinating)
I have light blue eyes with that gold ring on the pupil. Sometimes they look greenish grey because of it. My husband has Hazel eyes, with blue, green, and bright orange. Our daughter ended up with a deep blue, but also has that same gold ring that I have. My Mom has green eyes and we have brown eyed family as well, kinda fun how unpredictable eye color can be
I HAD grey eyes. When I became a teenager, I developed yellow pigment which turned my eyes green. There is no brown at all. My child was born with electric blue eyes, and when they hit puberty, they also got the yellow, but it turned their eyes an electric aqua shade. They got tired of people commenting on their eyes all the time, so they got contacts for a while. lol
I have grey eyes and I remember that as a kid I was convinced they looked more blue or green dependant on sunlight. As I got older I thought it was just my imagination but maybe there was something to it.
I have grey eyes and I'm so excited to see you telling people that yes, it's an eye color lol I get so annoyed with people telling me that they can't be grey because it's "not a real eye color". I have a lot of grey shirts and when I put one next to my iris, it's exactly the same color (light grey at least) 😅
You have to understand the confusion as gray eyes look almost identical to light blue. 2 of my friends have light blue eyes and I swear to God for the longest time I thought they were gray.
Yup, I have Grey also. I got them from my mother. I didn't find out that mom had Grey eyes until my 40s because she aways wore green contacts lenses. 😂
My optometrist once sent me to a specialist who told me, "You probably have always been told that you have brown/ hazel eyes, but they actually actually a really beautiful green." That was my best compliment ever.
I have Hazel eyes and sometimes people think I have green eyes.. but my eyes changes all the time so you never know what they’ll be..seems like my eyes have the green more often than the brown.. but sometimes they are brown and sometimes they are green with spikes of brown through them.. they also change different shades of green and probably the brown too.. sometimes they are dark and you can’t tell what color they are unless in a bright light..
@@moxymaxx5350 Same! This is because your eyes and the surrounding area are red after crying, and red is the complimentary color of green, so red brings out the green of your eyes more! That's why, if you have hazel eyes and want them to look more green, people suggest red/pink eye makeup or wearing those colors :) But for me, the best mix has been red eye makeup and a green shirt. My eyes looked like grass.
My eyes are usually various shades of blue but can change to hazel or green the odd day. The weirdest color that I have seen was an ice blue like a husky with blue eyes. That kind of freaked me out. I wonder what is behind the changing colors?
My son has grey eyes. They are pretty spectacular. When he was young I couldn’t take him anywhere without people stopping us and commenting. I have brown, his dad has blue.
I have gray eyes. My wife and kids always say my eyes take on the color of whatever I'm wearing. Pretty cool to know it's pretty rare. I personally think blue eyes are the prettiest.
I have generally lighter blue eyes. I am blinded when i walk on a big piece of concrete.sunglasses isn't even a choice, you have to get them.My entire family has blue eyes aswell.
Yeah. That is why vampires have light eyes 😮 but seriously, with light colors I do with green have very light sensitive eyes. And my father who has light blue has sensitive to light also.
I don't have blue eyes at all lol, but I have really dark brown eyes. I've also gotten lots of compliments strangely, especially when my eyes r in the sun! It's a brown eyed ppl thing, we love the sun lmao!!!
I have light green eyes with specks of gold. I get compliments on them often and feel like they're my prettiest asset. They run in the family with both parents!
I have hazel eyes and, especially in summer or bright lights, I can make them look blue or green by wearing that color shirt. My mother had the most beautiful light blue eyes with gold flecks in the center. My wife has lovely brown eyes that always melt my heart whenever she smiles.
i've got the darkest version of hazel eyes. they look brown most of the time. but if the sun hits them at a certain angle, or certain types of indoor lighting will turn them green. first time my girlfriend saw that she freaked out. she thought i had brown eyes the whole time.
My aunt has the same! Both of her eyes are a very uniform light jade color. They are beautiful and slightly intimidating. I've never met anyone else with eyes like that. My best friend has green eyes but they have a lot of shades of green, some yellow, and even a little blue, so they remind me a lot of shallow ocean water and seagrass, super pretty!
@@Punkydoodle007, not that rare in mixed raced people. I have encountered here in the UK and also in the US lots of biracial children (so not adults wearing lenses) with blue or green eyes. One (in)famous person with pale blue green eyes is Jeremy Meeks (nicknamed hot or handsome felon). He later became a model.
i've got the darkest version of hazel eyes. my whole life, i've been hearing " wait a sec, i didn't know you had green eyes, i thought they were brown"
Gray eyes here. Didn't even know it was an option until a couple years ago. I always thought they were a dull blue that looked different in different lights.
I am on the green side eyes and I love them - didn't know that they are so rare - but I recognize immediately when someone else has these green eyes too. 🥰
Same here! My husband and I both have green eyes, that's the first we noticed about eachother lol. Our son has a grey blue shade..genetics are interesting.
That’s really cool. I have blue eyes which is nice as well but the problem with blue eyes is that we are much more sensitive to sunlight I’m pretty sure.
The thumbnail for this video caught my eye. I used to have a customer at my job with heterochromia. Her right eye was BRIGHT aquamarine. Like, straight tropical waters, pale blue-green. But her left eye was BRIGHT amber. I've seen a lot of people with heterochromia (it's supposedly rare, but there were like a dozen people in my neighborhood with it??), but I have NEVER seen an eyeball that was that bright gold before. The brightness of both colors was just amazing together. Most of my customers that came in with it at that job had one regular blue, and one regular brown, or regular blue and regular hazel. But damn, were hers striking!
I have hazel eyes, according to an eye doctor. They look really blueish-greyish-green, but at the pupil there's a yellow-brownish ring around it and that's why he says they're hazel. They look more blue or more green or more grey depending on the weather and also if I'd been swimming or crying.
@@TheBOG3I believe it is-my eyes are mostly olive green, except for a brown ring around the pupil/ I’ve always been told that makes them hazel, even by my eye doctor. Hazel can be a varied mix but there’s always a brown inner ring.
That's an exact description of my eyes! Hi, eye twin! I also have a dark blue ring around the outside of my irises. I always check to see what color my eyes appear to be every day because it varies so much. Baseline, they seem to present multiple colors at once. My color changing eyes are my favorite thing about myself. :-)
@@TheBOG3 Tell that to my eye doctor who got his degree from Johns Hopkins. He's actually SEEN my eyes and can describe it better than what I can. YOU'RE just full of it.
@@HalfLatinaJoy86 No I’m not! Hazel eyes don’t have blue in them. They’re light brown with green flecks that can make eyes go from looking brown to green.
I thought I had hazel colored eyes, but this video thought me that they’re amber! They always seem different depending on what I’m wearing, my makeup or if the sun is shining that day. Awesome video!
My base eye color is amber which I usta just call baby poop I did notice at times they would darker brown with flakes of dark green making them kind of golden brown from afar, my mom always insisted I have Hazel eyes, it wasn't untill I was in my 30s something upset me, I usually don't look in a mirror when crying upset whatever that day I did and freaked me out, my mom was right, my eyes where a very bright light green. Next time something makes you cry really really sad hurt feelings sad look in a mirror than you'll know for sure Amber or Hazel ✌️😊👍
@@aleshacoats9033 weirdly enough, I totally understand what you mean. Tears just do something with the eyes.. and clothes/makeup can also really make a difference in how they appear. I love the mine have some type of golden specs/rays in them. Eyes are just so fascinating, unique and beautiful 🙏🏼🤍
I'm confused. I have greenish eyes, with some grey and blue in them. Some colours become more apparent depending on what colours of clothes I am wearing.
A treasure of a presentation, Dr. It would be good for science teachers to share with students as a way of highlighting physical differences and possibly prevent bullying based upon physical characteristics.
@@DoctorEyeHealth That happened to my child. They were born with electric blue eyes, but when they hit puberty, they turned vibrant green with no brown like your picture showed. Only yellow (family trait) and it was so bad when they changed that they wore colored lenses for a while. They learned to embrace there green/aqua eyes after a while. My eyes did the same, (which fascinated my eye doctor, as he is the one that told me they changed) but my base color is grey, so they are not nearly as vibrant.
Me too! When I was young, I wished that mine were blue, which I thought was more rare. Now I'm just happy that they still work, although age deterioration has set in.
Dr., have you ever heard of "glasz eyes"? It's the perfect balance of Green, Grey, Blue and Yellow, and the colours seem to shift in a sort of cycle in the light. It may be a very light hazel type of eye color, not sure. Absolutely beautiful blend of colors, my fav. I thought you might be able to clarify this. Thanks for all that you do to educate the public about all things eye👍
Same (though I didn't know it was called turquoise)! Depends on the environment I'm in - sometimes they look grey, sometimes they look green and sometimes they look ice blue. I always thought I had blue eyes, but then I see my sister and I realise, no -SHE has blue eyes 👀 very blue. Bit jealous 😅
I dont even know my eye colour. I've had people comment that they're green, grey, blue, hazel, brown. I grew up thinking they are hazel though. They tend to change colour depending on the light.
Most likely you do, mine are and I've been told the same thing. They are predominantly green though-at least when I look at them. People comment on them all the time but to me they're just my eyes. LOL
A friend's daughter has silver eyes and black hair. It's quite startling to see for the first time. I had a boyfriend with violet eyes like Elizabeth Taylor, and he had no albinism. Dark brown hair and olive skin. And yes, I went to school with a boy with one blue and one brown eye.
@@DoctorEyeHealthit’s false, she had blue eyes. That would/could appear violet In some lighting. But that and her being born with distichiasis, a genetic ‘disorder’ that produces an extra row of eyelashes, her eyes definitely made a statement!
I knew a guy in the army who had bright orange eyes. He was a very wild, dangerous individual who had very little to say to anybody. Everybody was afraid of him as he would attack without warning. Looking into his eyes was like looking at a lion.
It is reassuring to see Blue- green eyes ( like mine) on the monitors behind you. When I do meet people with this color they are from Northern Ireland or Scotland. My grandfather ( Scot) and Dad ( Scot/Irish)had medium blue eyes( like the host) and my mom ( 60% Scando/ 30% Irish) had medium green eyes( no other colors mixed in). I am the other one in 10 cousins and 7 grand children to have this color. ( When I am tired, they are more aqua. When stressed they become more blue. )
I don't think eye colour is necessarily due to ethnicity. That said I am Ashkenazi Jewish and have very blue eyes as do many other Jewish people. Even Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews can have blue eyes. Many Mizrahi Jews have extremely light green eyes.
I remember having a stand up argument when I got my driver's licence issued. My optician says I have green eyes and the lady behind the counter said they were hazel. Ended up with me calling the manager 😂
Funniest thing I ever witnesses, was a girl, who was getting her identity card and had dark brown eyes, but was trying to talk the ckerk into writing on the card, that her eye colour was blue, because she liked blue better. The clerk was just rolling his eyes. 😂
Thank you! You just settled my life long controversy of what color my eyes are. I always said they were a grey/green. Others say blue or even call them hazel even though my eyes are not brown. My eyes are green or green grey.
I’m often told my eyes are hazel. They are solid green, with no hint of brown, if anything they lean blue. True hazel is beautiful, I’d love to have it. I don’t love being informed by people with pushy opinions that my eyes are hazel and not green. It’s a bizarre experience.
I have gray eyes with a yellow halo around the pupil. When I've been crying a lot they will go either deeper gray or aqua blue. Im pretty light sensitive too.
So interesting! Green eyes here ! With a little bit of a goldish color ring around the pupil😍💚💚💚 you are fabulous Dr. Allen! Keep the good stuff coming! I have severe dry eye and a postmenopausal woman in my 60s. I do a pretty good job managing it through a trial and error and watching articles and seeing my ophthalmologist and optometrist. Except for the disease my eyes are pretty healthy and my prescription lenses are pretty light. 💖😍💖
I don't know what to call my eye color. It changes depending on how the light hits it. It's somewhere between green and grey, but I have met people who thought I had blue eyes (I really don't, it must've been on greyish eye color days). My mom and brother have blue eyes, and my father and my sister have green eyes, and you can clearly see mine are neither, but they're also not purely grey. Irises are weird.
Green eyes here, with parents and sister with brown eyes 🤷♀️🤷♀️. Both of my grandmothers had blue eyes. I've always gotten compliments on my green eyes 😊.
Herterozygote is the name of a mix of Brown eyes and blue eyes ( parents or grand-parents) , and it often occure to get green eyes. For instance , both of your parents have brown eyes as dominant gene, but both ( because of theirs mothers) have blue gene hidden. One of them gave you th brown, thé other gave you thé blue. Thé result in your case is a mix of both, green. My case too ( father = quiet dark green eyes, mother= brown eyes, but my grand-mother ( her mother) = grey eyes. Result for me : green eyes, clearer than my father, with grey inside.
I wished for green eyed kids! I’m blue, my mom is blue, her parents were both blue but my husbands had brown eyes with no blues anywhere in their lineage that I could find. Soooo my kids just have yucky hazels if not brown eyes 🤷🏼♀️ my dad has hazel but has some sibs with blue along w/the browns. My kids with hazel do have colors changing tho. One also has a blue almost ring around her hazel irises.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah I hope your kids never read how you think their eyes are" yucky". That's a pretty rotten thing say to your own children. What a shallow and vain attitude to have. Shame.
I've been bullied relentlessly as a child for my green eyes and called a "witch" or "demonic" for having them (yay for growing up in a sickly religious town). Now that im older i learned to love them so much! Im so proud of them. I inherited the colour from my maternal grandmother (bright emerald, almost cat-eyes looking) and great grandmother (light green with golden splodges that resembled gemstones). My eyes have a deep dark green border, splodges of gold & emerald green background. Whenever i look at them, i can see my grandmom & great grandmom in them. Its an honour to carry the memory of them with me in such a special way. 💚
Hahaha what ? Where the hell did ya grow up? I was born in Pomerania Germany where green eyes is😢 common and grew up in a religious area in North America and never experienced or heard of such a ridiculous story about green eyes
I have green eyes with a hazel ring on the inside of my pupal and I AM SO FREAKING PROUD of it! This might sound bad, but every time I look in the mirror I’m like Wow 🤩 she’s BEAUTIFUL! And I think everyone has a right to be proud of how they look
I think there's often something alluring about extremes, the palest greys & violets as well as the deepest browns stand out and bright green eyes feel almost magical.
I got on a bus here in lake worth Florida once. I forgot where to or why but I remember a young white man with the golden amber eye color of a lion. He looked homeless but it was around the time people get off work so that mighta been the case. Whichever it was I’ve never seen eyes like his or forgotten how beautiful they were. It was like they had an inner light but I don’t mean some unnatural glow or gaudiness to them. I mean a brightness that came through as natural as the sun rising in the east.
I have hazel mostly green eyes with flecks and areas of copper brown and depending upon the lighting, my eyes can look very dark brown, grey, copper brown, brilliant green and mint green 😎
my hazel eyes are so dark they look brown most of the time. but if the sun hits them at a certain angle they literally turn green. first time my GF saw that she freaked out. she thought i had brown eyes the whole time
You didn't mention colour torqouise. My irises are blue but have a very tiny amount of yellow near to my pupils which makes my irises look torqouise from a distance. But sometimes they look blue or greyish green, depending on what I wear or eye makeup.
Thank you for your very good explanation! I have relatively dark green eyes and I have also noticed several times that others perceive my eye color differently depending on the color of my eye makeup (more often as brown instead of green). To be honest, I've always found light gray eyes the most beautiful, but since my mother and some of my family also have green or green-brown eyes, I like them because they make me think of my family 🥰
Hey Dr. Allen. Wanted to ask a question about the color changing in my eyes. My eyes were hazel and lightened up to a more greenish color over time. The top portion of my irises seemed to have faded to a much lighter green (hidden by top eyelid) almost a translucent color while the bottom portion is darker. What would cause this? One optometrist said it’s related to cholesterol? I have a normal blood level of cholesterol so does this really impact eye color? Thanks for the video. It was truly interesting. My dad had sapphire blue eyes that we all were jealous of since we had hazel to dark brown eye.
As we age, higher amount of cholesterol naturally deposits on the outside of the cornea (called arcus senilis) which can cause a lighter hue to the eye color and even make it look like a white or yellow ring on the eye. Perhaps that could be causing the change, as your doctor may have suggested. Even with normal levels of cholesterol, we tend to still develop this as we get older and it’s considered normal after the age of 40.
When I was a child (maybe 8) I was startled at the grocery store by the checkout clerk, a young light-skinned African-American woman with BRIGHT topaz eyes. This was long before movie makeup contact lenses, so this was the true color of her eyes.
I remember my eyes being more blue when I was a child, but once I got into my teens they became more grey or hazel, depending on what I was wearing. I honestly have a hard time truly discerning what color they are, with progressive lenses and light bulb color temperatures... so my license just says hazel. I'm not really sure if that's technically correct. I know I'm crazy, but does anyone else not entirely sure what color their eyes actually are?
I'm also uncertain. I've been told that my eyes look blue, green and even grey... The color I see in the mirror is in between those three and they have an amber ring around the pupil. I still don't have an answer to what color my eyes are even after watching this video!
@@sofiaarrache6401 Hopefully the amber rings aren't Keyser-Fleischer rings, which can be an indicator of Wilson's Disease. It causes a buildup of copper in your body.
My son is black but was born with ice blue eyes, they eventually started to look like an ocean with different hue of blue and green and now they’re a gold color it’s amazing. Mind you his dad has more of a light brown/hazel eye color and mine are brown and even going back a few generations from Both sides nobody eyes are like my sons. It’s amazing what genetics can do. Now a few of my other kids have light brown/hazel eyes like their dad and it skipped every other child, but my oldest eyes are a mystery. I’ve also always been amazed at people who have two different eye colors.
you're the first person I've seen talk about having changing eye color. Me and my siblings were born with clear blue eyes but as we got older each of us saw a gold band appear in the middle which slowly expanded. around age 16 my eyes were distinctly blue and gold but since the colors have mixed leaving me with mostly green eyes with a little gold left in the middle. I have never met anyone else outside of my family that has seen something like it before and i haven't been able to find anything online about it either. All of us were also born blonde and our hair changed to brown as our eyes changed
Love this topic and video. Educational and trivia-style fun at the same time. Love all your videos (I'm myopic and have found your tips on contact lenses, glasses, and eye care really useful).
I have amber eyes with a distinct olive green ring around the outside. I wish the DMV would recognize amber as an eye color. I’m put into the brown eye group. It’s the government, what can you do? Great video.
Which Eye color do you find most attractive???
(ever seen someone with 2 different eye colors? ua-cam.com/users/shorts-RTsmjDQg0Q )
Also...did you spot the spelling error? 😆
What is your thought of prism glasses for computer usage? Are they safe for those people that don’t have have double vision?
Do you know if castor oil ( for lashgrow) Can change the eye colour ?
Blue!!
My mother was born with violet eyes and then they went a crystal green. Dending on the sky or what colour she wears, they can also look blue or more grey.
I was born with grey eyes, and now they are a combination of a moss green and a russet brown in the centre (central heterochromia), and I have a turquoise ring.
My son has the most beautiful steel gray eyes!
Any eye that gives vision, is the best eye in the world.
Thank you! I came to the comments to see all the chronically online AH takes of “my eyes are a color no one’s even heard of…” but as someone who has very light eyes that don’t work, I say this to people all the time. Yes, they are pretty, but I’ll take normal eyes that work over these any day. I’d be disabled in any other timeline and I’m a classical artist so that’s a major issue. I’d never trade my reality but light eyes just don’t work as well.
Love this attitude!
Must be a Brown eye!
The same thing for a nose.
@@MDMuppetBones good to love the extra stuff too 😄
I have eyes,
I'm grateful.🙏
An amazing thing to be grateful for!
I have an immature eye, so no depth perception, but I am grateful for both eyes!!!😊
Well said
Facts!
What a nice message. Made me feel appreciative of my eyes and my sight as well.
My grandmother has yellow eyes. Her irises are more yellow than gold. Several optometrists have commented on them being very rare, and the first time her primary optometrists saw her he freaked out about her eye color and said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that he would ever see someone with her eye color.
Both my grand daughters have yellow eyes. Look like cats. Beautiful
My eyes are green, but turn yellow in the middle under certain lights. My co worker gasped one day because he had never seen yellow in someone's eyes before.
I have them too!
Very rare & beautiful.💛💛
wow what colour skin, and what heritage does she have>?
I can't make up my mind about which eye color is the loveliest - they're all so beautiful!
In grade school back in the 70’s (I was in about 3rd or 4th grade) we did a science class assignment where we wrote down our parents eye color and our eye color and talked about genes. My idiot teacher told me that my parents couldn’t be my parents because they both have brown eyes and I have blue eyes (not kidding, she actually was adamant to a 8-9 year old that they weren’t my parents based on her terrible understanding of the science lesson). I came home extremely upset and my parents had to go have a talk with the teacher and explain dominant/recessive alleles and of course that regardless of her faulty understanding of the science her behavior was highly inappropriate.
Wow I can’t believe a teacher would do that. But yes, blue eyes are recessive. My father has brown eyes and my mother has green.
That's interesting. I, too, was told that it was "impossible" that I was my parents' child, even though my physical traits are a pretty good amalgam of them both. I was told this because my father has 'ice-blue' eyes, my mother has dark brown eyes, and I have 'light sea-green' eyes. Apparently, the belief is that it is genetically "impossible" for that to happen?
But on my mother's side, my grandpa (Norwegian) has green eyes, and my grandma (Spaniard) has dark brown eyes...while on my father's side, my grandpa (Finn) has blue eyes, while my grandma (Finn/Swede) has dark 'sea-green' eyes.
So...green eyes can also be recessive?
My father has brown eyes, mother has blue eyes and I have green and I was told that is not possible. My husband has hazel eyes and two of our children have blue eyes. What is funny is from my husband’s family out of a good 40+ people, not one of us has brown eyes.
Ah the 70's.....😬 NOT the good ole days.
@@farmergirl1581 Same here 🖐️ Mama's are gray/blue, Daddy's were brown. I have green eyes, my fraternal twin's are brown. It's very fascinating!
I met a young girl, couldn’t have been more than 8 years old. She had sun-yellow eyes and was perfectly healthy. I asked her if she wore contacts and she replied no. It truly was like staring into the sun, so pretty!
I had a student with golden eyes too. Extremely beautiful.
@@sephslover No way!
I have violet eyes and for most of my life people have told me how unattractive and freaky they are. But there are a percentage of people that think albinism is the coolest thing and try and recreate the “look”. What people don’t understand is that albinism isn’t a “look” it’s a medical condition which causes loads of issues with eyes. I am legally blind and can’t open my eyes outside even when it’s dull because I have no pigment in body at all. Life is good but having albinism is hard too!
Thanks so much for sharing that! I have several patients with albinism or forms of ocular albinism. Perhaps some day I can do a dedicated video on the subject.
Thanks so much for watching!!
Elizabeth Taylor was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she had violet eyes. I think they are stunning.
@@DoctorEyeHealth
That would be cool. It would be lovely for some of the myths surrounding albinism to be busted. It’s not just about having no/little pigment it’s about being gifted with eyes with a multitude of problems, off the scale painful photophobia and a society who don’t like difference. Most of us with albinism are fighters though - we have to be!
@@daisy9910that’s False. She had blue eyes, that in certain light made them appear violet. She was born with distichiasis, a genetic ‘disorder’ that produces an extra row of eyelashes though. Also making her eyes famous!
I wish I had your eye color ✨💜✨
Hazel here. I hear about my eyes changing colour. It seems to be most prevalent between sunny and overcast days, I'm told.
I have hazel eyes as well and mine do that too. There’s days it can go extremely light, and days it goes a bit darker, but the most common is the hazel color
Mine are grey. My eyes change colour according to the weather and whether I'm in a good or bad mood. I presume it is due to the amount of light being scattered by the iris.
Mine are hazel too! Unfortunately, my grand dad used to teased me that I have brown shit or diarrhea green eyes! Not funny!
I have central heterochromia. Green eyes with a dark outer ring and hazel/yellow in the centre. I hear the same, changes during summer and winter. It must be the hazel in the middle that changes the reflection of the lighter colour for me. Love darker eyes though!
Same as my husband. When he is sick, they tend to get darker. Like a darker brown green. But every other day, especially in nice sunny days, they are more green dominant..
It makes me happy to see all the people liking their eye color in here. Eyes are beautiful, and beautiful eyes come in all shades.
Olive GREEN here 💚
Agreeed!
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The internet, millions of people screaming into the void that they exist and their opinion matters.
Blue eye guy here 💙
Team green eyes here❤
Here!!
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Green eyes and red hair. I must be a Weasley wearing hammy down clothes! 😂
Did you hate them when you were a child? I definitely hated mine, I thought they were weird/creepy 😞
As an adult, though, I'm just glad to have eyes that work 🤷🏾♀️
I love my green eyes
I had a friend in primary school, her eyes were literally green as grass. Super awesome.
My highschool sweetheart had green eyes, but one was more blue. If she wore certain colors, it was quite a contrast.
Mine are emerald green, but when I wear blue clothes, they turn turquoise.
Tried to get the police to write emerald green eyes in my new passport, but it didn't work. (🤭)
Btw, my four children have from brown, hazel, to almost amber. My eldest son has hazel/amber to green..(mother is Romanian) me Viking😁
my father and sister have green eyes, i have blue
@@MrInsaint
Real Romanians (Dacians) are whiter than everyone else
@@letsdothis9063
"highschool sweetheart" cringe. get a life
My eyes are sometimes blue, sometimes green, and sometimes grey. I have a thin ring of yellow between the outer iris and the black part.
Me too, it means you have grey eyes
same, i never know what color my eyes are, green ? grey ? both ? I think it's a kind of grey
My eyes change from grey to light blue, I'm not sure to why.
But I observed it maybe have something to do with my emotions, cause usually they stay grey and when I'm angry or sad they turn blue...
@@jeoffreyghysels I read somewhere that there’s a blue variation of hazel eyes. They’re not called “hazel” but are often referred to as “blue-grey” or “chameleon” eyes. But if your eyes change color depending on your emotions, maybe you’ve got mood stones instead of eyes lol.
@@jeoffreyghysels "when I'm angry or sad they turn blue"
...Maybe that's why they call it the blues!
I have beautiful green eyes. I'm now 75 and ppl have been complimenting me all my life even now. I'm so blessed to have great eyesight. It doesn't matter what color your eyes are protect them!
Happy to hear that!
how do you protect your eyes?
me too
Same! Green eyes over here and I get a lot of compliments on my eyes.
I'm 50 and my twin and I have green eyes. Our mother did too. I'm the only one left now
Thank you for clearing up the “black eyes” condition. I remember people telling me I had black eyes as a kid and arguing that I have really dark brown eyes (not black). 🤦🏾♀️
If people call blacks “black”, when they’re probably not even as dark as your eye color, people should be able to have black eyes.
I think there is nothing wrong with labelling them black. I have black eyes, and unless you put extreme bright light in front of them, you won't see any brown in it. Same for my hair.
It's dark enough to appear black under most scenarios. It's also cultural and symbolic, we still talk about "white" and "black" people, when nobody has literally white, or black skin; it's either dark brown or pink/beige, but never actually black/white.
Same, especially when I could clearly see that they’re brown - not just because it s visible when the light hits them, but also cause the colour is different from the pupil.
@@ligeiasiren4290exactly perfectly put 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I have brown eyes, and I have siblings with blue and green eyes. I think that dark brown/black looking eyes are gorgeous!
As a graphic artist who has edited many photos, light blue eyes always stand out on camera. I have green eyes, did not realize how rare that is; fascinating video, Doctor!
Thank you! I agree that lighter colored eyes do have a more striking appearance.
I have green eyes too!😊
@@DoctorEyeHealth color is less important then brightness & how big iris is If you have a friendly face it doesnt matter at all
What about having two different coloured eyes? I have a few friends with it…
@@totti. I read a report that said people who have dark coloured eyes are generally less likely to be perceived as trustworthy, and that people with light coloured eyes tend to have better low light vision. So it can have more impact than you might realise.
You didn't mention heterochromia, specifically central. Our inner color is sunburst orange, mid color is seafoam green, and the outer ring is midnight blue. The DMV has our eye color listed as "unknown" on our DL.
I have this also . As a kid I was told it was Hazel. But I have an amber ring, then green, then dark blue ring .I also have black dots in the green. I was told i have to go with the main colour in the middle so they're classed as green apparently
Hes talking about people not mutants.
@kekistanihelpdesk8508 At least we aren't human. That would be the ultimate insult to add to injury.
@@kekistanihelpdesk8508 Nice troll channel. 🤣
I have the same color eyes and my entire life I have had people tell me my eyes are green.
I have gray eyes. Fun fact gray eyes, similar to hazel, “shift” in color as well. My husband has amber eyes. They are so light they are almost orange in some lights. Our daughter however ended up with dark dark brown eyes. Genetics are weird (but fascinating)
I have grey eyes also but they shift to blue depending on my mood, the colors I am wearing...etc.
I have light blue eyes with that gold ring on the pupil. Sometimes they look greenish grey because of it. My husband has Hazel eyes, with blue, green, and bright orange. Our daughter ended up with a deep blue, but also has that same gold ring that I have. My Mom has green eyes and we have brown eyed family as well, kinda fun how unpredictable eye color can be
@@WolfGan0178 Yay, central heterochromia team!
I HAD grey eyes. When I became a teenager, I developed yellow pigment which turned my eyes green. There is no brown at all. My child was born with electric blue eyes, and when they hit puberty, they also got the yellow, but it turned their eyes an electric aqua shade. They got tired of people commenting on their eyes all the time, so they got contacts for a while. lol
I have grey eyes and I remember that as a kid I was convinced they looked more blue or green dependant on sunlight. As I got older I thought it was just my imagination but maybe there was something to it.
I'm absolutely fascinated by eye colour . It never ceases to amaze me , especially when I see people with bright green or blue eyes .
I have grey eyes and I'm so excited to see you telling people that yes, it's an eye color lol I get so annoyed with people telling me that they can't be grey because it's "not a real eye color". I have a lot of grey shirts and when I put one next to my iris, it's exactly the same color (light grey at least) 😅
That's cool! Wish I could see it.
@@DoctorEyeHealth what about white eyes? I'm thinking specifically those referenced in the folk song "Cotton-eyed Joe".
You have to understand the confusion as gray eyes look almost identical to light blue. 2 of my friends have light blue eyes and I swear to God for the longest time I thought they were gray.
I've had that, people insisting that my eyes MUST be blue, when in fact they are dark grey. Like Paddington, I have to give them a very hard stare 😄
Yup, I have Grey also. I got them from my mother.
I didn't find out that mom had Grey eyes until my 40s because she aways wore green contacts lenses. 😂
I think blue eyes are the most fascinating. My son and my mum have grey eyes. Excellent video thank you, Julia.
My optometrist once sent me to a specialist who told me, "You probably have always been told that you have brown/ hazel eyes, but they actually actually a really beautiful green." That was my best compliment ever.
I have Hazel eyes and sometimes people think I have green eyes.. but my eyes changes all the time so you never know what they’ll be..seems like my eyes have the green more often than the brown.. but sometimes they are brown and sometimes they are green with spikes of brown through them.. they also change different shades of green and probably the brown too.. sometimes they are dark and you can’t tell what color they are unless in a bright light..
I'm also in this boat Hazel but no brown only green Bleu and Grey they change with my mood of what I wear. Always get compliments on them.
My eyes seem greener after a good cry.
@@moxymaxx5350 Same here!
@@moxymaxx5350 Same! This is because your eyes and the surrounding area are red after crying, and red is the complimentary color of green, so red brings out the green of your eyes more! That's why, if you have hazel eyes and want them to look more green, people suggest red/pink eye makeup or wearing those colors :) But for me, the best mix has been red eye makeup and a green shirt. My eyes looked like grass.
I have hazel eyes and people always said “your eyes look very green today” but I never thought much of it.
I do too but mine go more green if I've cried or my eyes have watered lol
Mine sometimes look blue depending on what I wear
@@ednamay2058 Same.
lol same but mine differ from green to yellow and brown
My eyes are usually various shades of blue but can change to hazel or green the odd day. The weirdest color that I have seen was an ice blue like a husky with blue eyes. That kind of freaked me out. I wonder what is behind the changing colors?
My son has grey eyes. They are pretty spectacular. When he was young I couldn’t take him anywhere without people stopping us and commenting. I have brown, his dad has blue.
I have gray eyes and my now 24 year old son does as well. I love our eyes. 😊 His Dad has blue eyes.
To me grey looks blue. Or like mine
send him to circus
@@rosameijering5161I have grey and you’re right. It does look blue. Or a green-blue/teal colour.
I have gray eyes, it is the only cool physical feature that we'll keep until we die.
I have gray eyes. My wife and kids always say my eyes take on the color of whatever I'm wearing. Pretty cool to know it's pretty rare. I personally think blue eyes are the prettiest.
The most interesting thing that you said was that the pigment in our eyes is to protect our eyes from the sun. I never knew that.
That’s why it’s so important for people with light colored eyes to wear sunglasses and protect their eyes
@@michelleheadley2911 I imagine black eyed people have it the worse based on this vid. They have even less protection than albino people
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I have generally lighter blue eyes. I am blinded when i walk on a big piece of concrete.sunglasses isn't even a choice, you have to get them.My entire family has blue eyes aswell.
Yeah. That is why vampires have light eyes 😮 but seriously, with light colors I do with green have very light sensitive eyes. And my father who has light blue has sensitive to light also.
My son had dark grey eyes, when he was little. They looked like the sky minutes before a storm. That was very beautiful and impressiv.
Blue eye gang here. Got a compliment from a person just the other day about my beautiful eyes.
While their color is a dull cloudy-blue, *my* eyes encourage compliments because of their expressiveness, round shape and large size.
@Fawns133 Well, the term "hazel" can encompass a wide range of blended eye colors.
I got told most people who have blue eyes are psychopaths.. They looked into my blue eyes whilst saying this. 😅😂
@@lilskipper4683 What else did these people do in your presence?
I don't have blue eyes at all lol, but I have really dark brown eyes. I've also gotten lots of compliments strangely, especially when my eyes r in the sun! It's a brown eyed ppl thing, we love the sun lmao!!!
Most beautiful are those blue / green / grey colored eyes for me. I love the nordic type so .. that’s it.
My mother's-in-law eyes are like light grey ice. Absolutely gorgeous.
I have light green eyes with specks of gold. I get compliments on them often and feel like they're my prettiest asset. They run in the family with both parents!
You’ve got them Tywin Lannister eyes, love that!
hey me too!! people often think i have green but they're definitely grey with a bit or goldy orange around the middle
Years ago I saw a beautiful woman with gold eyes. I'll never forget it. Took my breath away.
I’ve been told my eyes are a really pretty blue, green & gray. Is it possible for eyes to change color based on what I’m wearing?
I have hazel eyes and, especially in summer or bright lights, I can make them look blue or green by wearing that color shirt.
My mother had the most beautiful light blue eyes with gold flecks in the center.
My wife has lovely brown eyes that always melt my heart whenever she smiles.
i've got the darkest version of hazel eyes. they look brown most of the time. but if the sun hits them at a certain angle, or certain types of indoor lighting will turn them green. first time my girlfriend saw that she freaked out. she thought i had brown eyes the whole time.
Just love your reflection to your wife's eyes.
@@mr.chartier9256 that is so sweet your wife must be wonderful 😇
Gray eyes here. They are by far my most complimented feature
Hi fella, my eyes are grey either. Love my eye color💁♀️
I have grey eyes too and I used to get the same compliment. Not as much these days though.
Ive met someone with green Eyes before, their eyes are truly mesmerizing
My grandma had these very jade green eyes. Very uniform. Honestly I have never seen anyone with those eyes again
My mum had the most amazing light jade coloured eyes too. I've also never seen another person with that colour. They were stunning.
My husband and our daughter have very beautiful bright green eyes. People were always stunned when they saw this small babies eyes.
Moss green eyes..but they were blue when I was a baby..they changed to green 💚 when I was 18 months old !
My aunt has the same! Both of her eyes are a very uniform light jade color. They are beautiful and slightly intimidating. I've never met anyone else with eyes like that. My best friend has green eyes but they have a lot of shades of green, some yellow, and even a little blue, so they remind me a lot of shallow ocean water and seagrass, super pretty!
My grandfather has these kind of ice blue eyes that I've never seen anywhere else. They stare right into your soul when he's irritated or angry 😅
I'm always mezmerized by people with dark complexions and light blue eyes. The contrast is so striking.
Contact lenses can change the iris color.
@@Cricket2731 True but it also occurs naturally. You sometimes see it in people who are of mixed race but I think it's pretty rare.
@@Punkydoodle007it can also be Waardenburg syndrome which is a condition that causes some health issues
@@CherryJuliInteresting. I've never heard of that.
@@Punkydoodle007, not that rare in mixed raced people. I have encountered here in the UK and also in the US lots of biracial children (so not adults wearing lenses) with blue or green eyes. One (in)famous person with pale blue green eyes is Jeremy Meeks (nicknamed hot or handsome felon). He later became a model.
Team hazel here.
👍 hazel here too
Me too😊
Same 🎉
I have Hazel eyes, also.
Same
I have dark green grey only very noticeable when my pupils are small or I’m wearing green.
Luv my hazel eyes. Depending on what I am wearing, my eyes can appear brown or green with a splash of an orange/gold/blue around the pupils.
I wear purple eyeliner and my green pops! ❤
i've got the darkest version of hazel eyes. my whole life, i've been hearing " wait a sec, i didn't know you had green eyes, i thought they were brown"
Very cool video I actually always thought hazel eyes were more common!
Hey thank you! Perhaps some people confuse green for hazel and hazel for amber?
@@DoctorEyeHealth, there's no way hazel eyes can be mistaken for amber. Amber eyes are definately YELLOW (but not jaundice yellow).
I think a lot of people with hazel eyes will think they have brown eyes, so it might be underreported.
Thats the case for my family anyway.
I am often stunned by how beautiful Grey eyes are.
Gray eyes here. Didn't even know it was an option until a couple years ago. I always thought they were a dull blue that looked different in different lights.
Mine too
I am on the green side eyes and I love them - didn't know that they are so rare - but I recognize immediately when someone else has these green eyes too. 🥰
Same here! My husband and I both have green eyes, that's the first we noticed about eachother lol. Our son has a grey blue shade..genetics are interesting.
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As a green eyed girl, I think this video was pretty cool!!
That’s really cool. I have blue eyes which is nice as well but the problem with blue eyes is that we are much more sensitive to sunlight I’m pretty sure.
Aqua / green/ blue
I like green eyes too!
@@DoctorEyeHealth how about light brown ?
@@chelseajohnson8254i’m sure he likes all eye colors
Very informative video!! I have dark blue eyes with tiny brown/amber/green specks. 😊
So cool!
The thumbnail for this video caught my eye. I used to have a customer at my job with heterochromia. Her right eye was BRIGHT aquamarine. Like, straight tropical waters, pale blue-green. But her left eye was BRIGHT amber. I've seen a lot of people with heterochromia (it's supposedly rare, but there were like a dozen people in my neighborhood with it??), but I have NEVER seen an eyeball that was that bright gold before. The brightness of both colors was just amazing together. Most of my customers that came in with it at that job had one regular blue, and one regular brown, or regular blue and regular hazel. But damn, were hers striking!
The person in the thumbnail is wearing contact lenses
Someone's dad in your neighborhood was more popular than you might know.
I have hazel eyes, according to an eye doctor. They look really blueish-greyish-green, but at the pupil there's a yellow-brownish ring around it and that's why he says they're hazel. They look more blue or more green or more grey depending on the weather and also if I'd been swimming or crying.
That’s not hazel eyes.
@@TheBOG3I believe it is-my eyes are mostly olive green, except for a brown ring around the pupil/ I’ve always been told that makes them hazel, even by my eye doctor. Hazel can be a varied mix but there’s always a brown inner ring.
That's an exact description of my eyes! Hi, eye twin! I also have a dark blue ring around the outside of my irises. I always check to see what color my eyes appear to be every day because it varies so much. Baseline, they seem to present multiple colors at once. My color changing eyes are my favorite thing about myself. :-)
@@TheBOG3 Tell that to my eye doctor who got his degree from Johns Hopkins. He's actually SEEN my eyes and can describe it better than what I can. YOU'RE just full of it.
@@HalfLatinaJoy86 No I’m not! Hazel eyes don’t have blue in them. They’re light brown with green flecks that can make eyes go from looking brown to green.
I thought I had hazel colored eyes, but this video thought me that they’re amber! They always seem different depending on what I’m wearing, my makeup or if the sun is shining that day. Awesome video!
You have my favourite colour eyes!
Same! Mine are a light brown hazel, it the shift to darker brown or to golden depending on what I’m wearing or even if it’s cloudy outside!
My base eye color is amber which I usta just call baby poop I did notice at times they would darker brown with flakes of dark green making them kind of golden brown from afar, my mom always insisted I have Hazel eyes, it wasn't untill I was in my 30s something upset me, I usually don't look in a mirror when crying upset whatever that day I did and freaked me out, my mom was right, my eyes where a very bright light green. Next time something makes you cry really really sad hurt feelings sad look in a mirror than you'll know for sure Amber or Hazel ✌️😊👍
@@hejmonika1001 thank you! Blessed we have eyes to see the world 🙏🏼💓
@@aleshacoats9033 weirdly enough, I totally understand what you mean. Tears just do something with the eyes.. and clothes/makeup can also really make a difference in how they appear. I love the mine have some type of golden specs/rays in them. Eyes are just so fascinating, unique and beautiful 🙏🏼🤍
I'm confused. I have greenish eyes, with some grey and blue in them. Some colours become more apparent depending on what colours of clothes I am wearing.
A treasure of a presentation, Dr. It would be good for science teachers to share with students as a way of highlighting physical differences and possibly prevent bullying based upon physical characteristics.
I love your thought process! I think that’s a really good idea.
Wonderful idea. Keep on thinking
Sadly, I remember kids being teased in school because of their eye color. Some kids can be very cruel.
@@DoctorEyeHealth That happened to my child. They were born with electric blue eyes, but when they hit puberty, they turned vibrant green with no brown like your picture showed. Only yellow (family trait) and it was so bad when they changed that they wore colored lenses for a while. They learned to embrace there green/aqua eyes after a while. My eyes did the same, (which fascinated my eye doctor, as he is the one that told me they changed) but my base color is grey, so they are not nearly as vibrant.
Very interesting. I have gray eyes and didn't know they were so rare.
Yup! Congrats
@@DoctorEyeHealthI have thought all my life that grey eyes are so dull😂 I have grey eyes)))
Me too! When I was young, I wished that mine were blue, which I thought was more rare. Now I'm just happy that they still work, although age deterioration has set in.
@@fikanera838 I hear you! I've had one retinal detachment and two cataracts.
@@vic3531 You have the best color and think their dull 🙄
Hazel green
Dr., have you ever heard of "glasz eyes"?
It's the perfect balance of Green, Grey, Blue and Yellow, and the colours seem to shift in a sort of cycle in the light.
It may be a very light hazel type of eye color, not sure.
Absolutely beautiful blend of colors, my fav.
I thought you might be able to clarify this.
Thanks for all that you do to educate the public about all things eye👍
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I have turquoise eyes, sometimes they look gray, sometimes they look green.
Same (though I didn't know it was called turquoise)! Depends on the environment I'm in - sometimes they look grey, sometimes they look green and sometimes they look ice blue. I always thought I had blue eyes, but then I see my sister and I realise, no -SHE has blue eyes 👀 very blue. Bit jealous 😅
Same
That sounds awesome!
These are considered grey eyes. They have no melanin, so they appear different colors based on surroundings, etc. mine are the same
Also a greeny, greyey, blue girl here! Someone called me a "pale eye" once
I dont even know my eye colour. I've had people comment that they're green, grey, blue, hazel, brown. I grew up thinking they are hazel though. They tend to change colour depending on the light.
Most likely you do, mine are and I've been told the same thing. They are predominantly green though-at least when I look at them. People comment on them all the time but to me they're just my eyes. LOL
Hazel here too, but super dominant green hazel
My husband's eyes change colour too! It's really cool, they go from most usually hazel to green.
Same
I feel very lucky to have natural blonde hair and green eyes!
I have always had complaints on them
Same here 🎉🎉
I had a friend who has eyes that shifted between blue and green depending on the angle you saw them at
I have reddish brown hair and amber eyes. Not surprised to learn that it's my phaeomelanin that's responsible for both!
Yeah! That is pretty cool!
My, favorite part of the show is The Doctor. Well done.
A friend's daughter has silver eyes and black hair. It's quite startling to see for the first time. I had a boyfriend with violet eyes like Elizabeth Taylor, and he had no albinism. Dark brown hair and olive skin. And yes, I went to school with a boy with one blue and one brown eye.
I’ve heard some other people mention Elizabeth Taylor having violet eyes. I will have to look that up
@@DoctorEyeHealthit’s false, she had blue eyes. That would/could appear violet In some lighting. But that and her being born with distichiasis, a genetic ‘disorder’ that produces an extra row of eyelashes, her eyes definitely made a statement!
@@DoctorEyeHealth I have a cousin with one blue eye and one green eye. Most interesting.
I knew a guy in the army who had bright orange eyes. He was a very wild, dangerous individual who had very little to say to anybody. Everybody was afraid of him as he would attack without warning. Looking into his eyes was like looking at a lion.
Orange!! Seriously? What army ? USA??
@@user-huDa98 Yeah his name was "Chin" and he served in Germany in 1988 in the US Army.
@@MrDavePed His eyes interesting but not his attitude 😂
@@user-huDa98 He didn't have an attitude. He was FERAL.
I have blue/green eyes. I'm always told that the color changes more twords 1 of them depending on my moods...
Yes I’ve always found eye color and how it develops between two people quite fascinating.
Me too! I studied eye color in my genetics course in undergraduate college.
Still bummed I don't have permanently green eyes.
Although people around me gossip that they turn green when I'm particularly emotional.
What are your eyes colored normally then>?
@@DoctorEyeHealth Grey-ish blue, depending on lighting more blue when it's brighter.
@@lillywho it when you get envious that they turn green
@@chrisk5651 bullshit
@@lillywho it was a joke! Obviously wasted on you!
I have amber colored eyes, but I always thought of them as just light brown. 😆
My sister has amber eyes. They are stunning, as are yours I suspect 😍
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It is reassuring to see Blue- green eyes ( like mine) on the monitors behind you. When I do meet people with this color they are from Northern Ireland or Scotland.
My grandfather ( Scot) and Dad ( Scot/Irish)had medium blue eyes( like the host) and my mom ( 60% Scando/ 30% Irish) had medium green eyes( no other colors mixed in). I am the other one in 10 cousins and 7 grand children to have this color. ( When I am tired, they are more aqua. When stressed they become more blue. )
I don't think eye colour is necessarily due to ethnicity. That said I am Ashkenazi Jewish and have very blue eyes as do many other Jewish people. Even Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews can have blue eyes. Many Mizrahi Jews have extremely light green eyes.
I remember having a stand up argument when I got my driver's licence issued. My optician says I have green eyes and the lady behind the counter said they were hazel. Ended up with me calling the manager 😂
I don't bother arguing.. "what color?" "you pick.." it's been marked a few different things over the years.
Yes, same! I still don’t know which one I have lol. ☺️
@@JillianSiobhanMalI am glad I am not the only who doesn't know. 😏
Funniest thing I ever witnesses, was a girl, who was getting her identity card and had dark brown eyes, but was trying to talk the ckerk into writing on the card, that her eye colour was blue, because she liked blue better. The clerk was just rolling his eyes. 😂
My mom had hazel eyes… hers leaned more towards a light brown though. When you looked close there were rings of light brown, light green and gray.
I have fairly dark blue eyes, they even appear navy in certain light! Always commented on by optometrists and eye doctors.
Thank you! You just settled my life long controversy of what color my eyes are. I always said they were a grey/green. Others say blue or even call them hazel even though my eyes are not brown.
My eyes are green or green grey.
Mine too!
I’m often told my eyes are hazel. They are solid green, with no hint of brown, if anything they lean blue. True hazel is beautiful, I’d love to have it. I don’t love being informed by people with pushy opinions that my eyes are hazel and not green. It’s a bizarre experience.
I have gray eyes with a yellow halo around the pupil. When I've been crying a lot they will go either deeper gray or aqua blue. Im pretty light sensitive too.
I have green eyes with blue rings...thanks for the info!!
Same
neither of u has the eyes you claim
@@prehistoriccreature1800 shush
Same here
I have a mix of grey green, and depending on how much and what kind if light available, they get greener.
So interesting! Green eyes here ! With a little bit of a goldish color ring around the pupil😍💚💚💚 you are fabulous Dr. Allen! Keep the good stuff coming! I have severe dry eye and a postmenopausal woman in my 60s. I do a pretty good job managing it through a trial and error and watching articles and seeing my ophthalmologist and optometrist. Except for the disease my eyes are pretty healthy and my prescription lenses are pretty light. 💖😍💖
Yays, then you may have central heterochromia like me! :D
Me too
I don't know what to call my eye color. It changes depending on how the light hits it. It's somewhere between green and grey, but I have met people who thought I had blue eyes (I really don't, it must've been on greyish eye color days).
My mom and brother have blue eyes, and my father and my sister have green eyes, and you can clearly see mine are neither, but they're also not purely grey. Irises are weird.
Those are gray eyes. Color changes with color of clothes or depending on weather, from blue to gray to green and everything inbetween.
Green eyes here, with parents and sister with brown eyes 🤷♀️🤷♀️. Both of my grandmothers had blue eyes. I've always gotten compliments on my green eyes 😊.
Me too
My dad had dark brown eyes, my mom has hazel, and my sister has the bluest eyes you've ever seen 😂
Herterozygote is the name of a mix of Brown eyes and blue eyes ( parents or grand-parents) , and it often occure to get green eyes. For instance , both of your parents have brown eyes as dominant gene, but both ( because of theirs mothers) have blue gene hidden. One of them gave you th brown, thé other gave you thé blue. Thé result in your case is a mix of both, green. My case too ( father = quiet dark green eyes, mother= brown eyes, but my grand-mother ( her mother) = grey eyes. Result for me : green eyes, clearer than my father, with grey inside.
I wished for green eyed kids! I’m blue, my mom is blue, her parents were both blue but my husbands had brown eyes with no blues anywhere in their lineage that I could find.
Soooo my kids just have yucky hazels if not brown eyes 🤷🏼♀️ my dad has hazel but has some sibs with blue along w/the browns.
My kids with hazel do have colors changing tho. One also has a blue almost ring around her hazel irises.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah I hope your kids never read how you think their eyes are" yucky". That's a pretty rotten thing say to your own children. What a shallow and vain attitude to have. Shame.
You’re the best!! I’ve been in Optometry/Ophthalmology for 10 years and I’d do anything to work for you. MUCH respect!
I've been bullied relentlessly as a child for my green eyes and called a "witch" or "demonic" for having them (yay for growing up in a sickly religious town).
Now that im older i learned to love them so much! Im so proud of them. I inherited the colour from my maternal grandmother (bright emerald, almost cat-eyes looking) and great grandmother (light green with golden splodges that resembled gemstones).
My eyes have a deep dark green border, splodges of gold & emerald green background. Whenever i look at them, i can see my grandmom & great grandmom in them.
Its an honour to carry the memory of them with me in such a special way. 💚
Hahaha what ? Where the hell did ya grow up? I was born in Pomerania Germany where green eyes is😢 common and grew up in a religious area in North America and never experienced or heard of such a ridiculous story about green eyes
I have green eyes with a hazel ring on the inside of my pupal and I AM SO FREAKING PROUD of it!
This might sound bad, but every time I look in the mirror I’m like Wow 🤩 she’s BEAUTIFUL! And I think everyone has a right to be proud of how they look
I think there's often something alluring about extremes, the palest greys & violets as well as the deepest browns stand out and bright green eyes feel almost magical.
I have very deep brown eyes and the only way you can see the brown is if you shine a very bright light in it
One of the most rare eyes, imho, are very light colored ones. Like the actress Meg Foster. So pretty!
Yep, hers sre so light, they look white.
Her eyes remind me of sea glass. Beautiful
Another two actors who have that are Ben Browder and Travis Fimmel
I got on a bus here in lake worth Florida once. I forgot where to or why but I remember a young white man with the golden amber eye color of a lion. He looked homeless but it was around the time people get off work so that mighta been the case. Whichever it was I’ve never seen eyes like his or forgotten how beautiful they were. It was like they had an inner light but I don’t mean some unnatural glow or gaudiness to them. I mean a brightness that came through as natural as the sun rising in the east.
My son has that eye color.
Grew up with a guy in HS with cat yellow eyes, and a girl in same school with violet eyes. Never seen that yellow on anyone else.
I have hazel mostly green eyes with flecks and areas of copper brown and depending upon the lighting, my eyes can look very dark brown, grey, copper brown, brilliant green and mint green 😎
my hazel eyes are so dark they look brown most of the time. but if the sun hits them at a certain angle they literally turn green. first time my GF saw that she freaked out. she thought i had brown eyes the whole time
Dr Allen has amazing eye colour
Green eyes here, bright green in fact with a little bit of bright yellow surrounding the iris.
Oooh that’s cool. Sometimes hard to find a bright green eye
Sounds gorgeous!
You didn't mention colour torqouise. My irises are blue but have a very tiny amount of yellow near to my pupils which makes my irises look torqouise from a distance. But sometimes they look blue or greyish green, depending on what I wear or eye makeup.
Liz Taylor had deep violet eyes...Stunning!
She also had an extra set of eyelashes. Kinda analogous to Freddie Mercury's teeth. They both made a good living with them!
Thank you for your very good explanation!
I have relatively dark green eyes and I have also noticed several times that others perceive my eye color differently depending on the color of my eye makeup (more often as brown instead of green).
To be honest, I've always found light gray eyes the most beautiful, but since my mother and some of my family also have green or green-brown eyes, I like them because they make me think of my family 🥰
Hey Dr. Allen. Wanted to ask a question about the color changing in my eyes. My eyes were hazel and lightened up to a more greenish color over time. The top portion of my irises seemed to have faded to a much lighter green (hidden by top eyelid) almost a translucent color while the bottom portion is darker. What would cause this? One optometrist said it’s related to cholesterol? I have a normal blood level of cholesterol so does this really impact eye color? Thanks for the video. It was truly interesting. My dad had sapphire blue eyes that we all were jealous of since we had hazel to dark brown eye.
As we age, higher amount of cholesterol naturally deposits on the outside of the cornea (called arcus senilis) which can cause a lighter hue to the eye color and even make it look like a white or yellow ring on the eye.
Perhaps that could be causing the change, as your doctor may have suggested.
Even with normal levels of cholesterol, we tend to still develop this as we get older and it’s considered normal after the age of 40.
When I was a child (maybe 8) I was startled at the grocery store by the checkout clerk, a young light-skinned African-American woman with BRIGHT topaz eyes. This was long before movie makeup contact lenses, so this was the true color of her eyes.
I remember my eyes being more blue when I was a child, but once I got into my teens they became more grey or hazel, depending on what I was wearing. I honestly have a hard time truly discerning what color they are, with progressive lenses and light bulb color temperatures... so my license just says hazel. I'm not really sure if that's technically correct.
I know I'm crazy, but does anyone else not entirely sure what color their eyes actually are?
I'm also uncertain.
I've been told that my eyes look blue, green and even grey...
The color I see in the mirror is in between those three and they have an amber ring around the pupil. I still don't have an answer to what color my eyes are even after watching this video!
@@sofiaarrache6401 Hopefully the amber rings aren't Keyser-Fleischer rings, which can be an indicator of Wilson's Disease. It causes a buildup of copper in your body.
My son is black but was born with ice blue eyes, they eventually started to look like an ocean with different hue of blue and green and now they’re a gold color it’s amazing. Mind you his dad has more of a light brown/hazel eye color and mine are brown and even going back a few generations from
Both sides nobody eyes are like my sons. It’s amazing what genetics can do. Now a few of my other kids have light brown/hazel eyes like their dad and it skipped every other child, but my oldest eyes are a mystery. I’ve also always been amazed at people who have two different eye colors.
you're the first person I've seen talk about having changing eye color. Me and my siblings were born with clear blue eyes but as we got older each of us saw a gold band appear in the middle which slowly expanded. around age 16 my eyes were distinctly blue and gold but since the colors have mixed leaving me with mostly green eyes with a little gold left in the middle. I have never met anyone else outside of my family that has seen something like it before and i haven't been able to find anything online about it either. All of us were also born blonde and our hair changed to brown as our eyes changed
I have dark brown eyes, and I am happy that they make me look young.
I love that you love your eyes! 👀
Brown eyes are similar to puppy eyes 🐶
Love this topic and video. Educational and trivia-style fun at the same time. Love all your videos (I'm myopic and have found your tips on contact lenses, glasses, and eye care really useful).
Green is mesmerizing
I was able to change my eye color with tinted contacts
I have amber eyes with a distinct olive green ring around the outside. I wish the DMV would recognize amber as an eye color. I’m put into the brown eye group. It’s the government, what can you do? Great video.
as always, great informational video! :) @8:48 that would be your brand slogan... "keep an eye on it..." :)
haha it sort of has been for a few years (also "let's take a look")
@@DoctorEyeHealth awesome!
my hubby and I both have blue eyes. His are dark blue and stunning. Mine are kinda lighter and duller blue