If you know lRIDOLOGY (diagnosis by studying the iris) you know that hazel eyes are discoloured blue eyes. There are two natural healthy coloured irises - clear blue (including light grey & - rarely, green-blue) or clear brown. In the hazel-eyed person, the digestive tract (around the pupil in the iris map) could do with a detox.
@@hamishanderson6738 No. I don't know where you got any of this, but hazel is as genetic as brown and blue. I've got them and I've always got them. That's like calling brown people "dirty and in need of washing."
I have hazel eyes. My house is painted green and I wear green often. I love green. My father's DNA was traced back to Mongolia many years ago. His very dark skinned mother had DNA with origins from Nepal and she married a blue eyed English man. My father's eyes were dark brown. My mother had very blue eyes and her ancestry was Welsh, Irish and Scottish. Two of their five children have hazel eyes. My child has hazel eyes. How lucky we are to be so unique. I am the whitest skinned of the five children but I have the very dark brows and lashes of my father. In my youth I had very wavy auburn hair similar to my father.
Well, I'm 63 and I've never known how to describe my eye colour... till today! I have the hazel sunburst centre, green above and blue/grey beneath. I always thought my eyes were just a confusing mess, now I know that this glorious variety of the spectrum is called hazel, and only 5% of the world have It. Whoopeee!🎉
Agree! I was told by my family that I have brown eyes. Yet, growing up I would notice that some days they looked green - other times green with a blue tint. I think either my family did not know about the hazel color - or they were jealous. :-) I recently realized that they ARE hazel - and started changing my driver's license information. I am 70+ years old. lol!
I have Hazel Eyes, i am from Turkey. my theory is that Hazel eyes are more frequent in populations who have mixed blue eyed and brown eyed people, as my grandfather has blue eyes and my grandmother has brown eyes, my father has hazel eyes and i got them too. both my father and i are also the only ones in the family possessing hazel eyes, the rest have brown and blue eyes.
I'm Hungarian and have reached the same conclusion. There are people in my family, both my grandfather's and my brother with blue eyes, quite many with hazel and amber eyes, and some with real brown eyes. That is the smallest percentage as most have a mixture of blue/brownish.
You are right. My mother had deep blue eyes my father light brown. Mine were hazel. But late in life after 55 they started to look more brownish. Weird eyes grow darker while the hair goes lighter . Mine is almost white😊
most likely not that rare with white people, maybe rare in the world though due to europeans being a global minority in the millions whilst africans indians, etc are in the billions each and so on
My eyes are hazel, and it is funny to hear people try and describe them. It's either green or brown, hazel isn't a word in their ocular vocabulary. The best thing about hazel eyes is that our eyes can seem to change color, it really confuses people. For example, when I got my first driver's license hazel wasn't an option in the system so they listed me as brown. A while later when I showed my license they thought my ID was fake cause my eye color was off, they said I had green eyes and wanted to know if I wore contacts.
I went through the same, each time I need to renew my passport I state that my eye color is hazel but they either write brown or green because they think they know better than I do what my eye color is. Ridiculous!
I like reading about ppl’s color of eyes, strangely.☺️ My boyfriend has hazel 👀 and they change color depending on the color of whatever shirt he’s wearing. His gaze can melt me, beautiful eyes❣️
Ha ha me too and almost same situation, then someone will say they're not green you're lying, no not lying just dumbfounded at describing my eye colour!
I am an American with 100% Norwegian heritage. My mother had green eyes. My father had blue eyes. My brother has blue eyes. I have hazel eyes. My eyes have an outer ring of dark blue. The next area is sage green. Then the inside area is golden. There are also small flecks of burgundy scattered around. The green and golden areas are about even now.
Hello all you brothers and sisters of Hazel eyes! I'm another one! My father had Hazel eyes, my mother and brother had blue. Glad I have Dad's eyes. I have a very European DNA with Ireland, Scotland, Wales, French, Denmark and Sweden thrown in for good measure. Cherri.
I have Hazel eyes... I am from Canada 🇨🇦 I noticed that my eye color changes with my mood. When I am upset they turn more greenish, as when I am joyful they are more gold. I do agree there are Spiritual aspects related to eye color, being the eyes are a mirror to the Soul 🦋
My eye color changes due to the amount of light. The emerald green outer ring & the gold color right around the pupil always stay the same. The area of pale green color between the 2 shrinks or widens depending on the size of my pupil. In bright light when my pupil is tiny they appear lighter green. When there's less light & my pupil is bigger they look more gold.
Fellow hazel-eyed Canuck here. My daughter has the same colour of eyes as I do, and hers change the same ways as mine. It's kind of freaky. My husband's eyes are a very very pale blue, almost colourless, and my son is the odd one out with brown eyes. We have no idea where they come from, as my family all have hazel eyes too, and hubby's family have blue. Tho there's a few suspects, pending genetic heritage testing to verify (Italian in hubby's case, and Canadian First Nations in mine...).
My left handed, unfreckled, ginger daughter has hazel eyes. She is a genetic wonder! The product of a blond and brunette (both right handed), she is a middle child with an older blond and younger brunet brother! She can also see more colors and taste more flavors than the rest of us. I believe that she is more angel than human! ❤
A lot of Hazel eyed people are RH negative blood types. Look into it. Spain and nortwest africa have some of the highest RH negative populations in the world.
I have Hazel Eyes, In the US Appalachian region, my primary ancestry is Scottish, Fifth Generation on my Mom's side. My Dad's side is Mulungeon, a mixed ethnicity native to the Appalachians; composed of Cherokee, Choctaw, British, Portuguese, possibly Turkish, and African ethnicities. My Dad's family has lived in the Appalachians for 400 years.
You might me interested in some fantasy books written by Alex Bledsoe. The setting is in a place like Appalachia and the first book is called the hum and the shiver. About a musically magical group of people who were the first people there. An easy read and felt good. Wish it had a musical sound track to go with it.
Hello, cousin. 🙂 I have noticed that we Appalachians have a high frequency of the hazel eyes. The Appalachian Mountains, Atlas Mountains, Scottish Highlands and Scandinavian Mountains were all once part of the same mountain range.
As a kid I had to take a train to school every day, and there was this boy (from another town) with eyes just like mine. Hazel Eyes. Which I thought odd. My Mom had them and my brother also but noone else in the family and noone else I knew. So when my grandmother told me that one of her sisters (she had 8 of them) grandsons took this train to town, also, I knew right away which one of those boys was related to me. And sure enough, upon asking him, it turned out to be so. I'm 72 now and I kind of was aware that eyes like mine were not common, but I had no idea they were this rare! Kinda' cool really. Thanks for the Video.
I grew up thinking my eyes were sort of a lighter cinnamon brown; in adulthood, my sister told me my eyes are more amber-hazel. I looked closer at my eyes in different lights... and she's right! A unique and pretty range of colors.
@bigred9428 Really? That's pretty interesting! You know, there is a commenter here that mentioned the idea of having one parent with blue eyes, and the other with brown possibly having a higher incidence of a hazel eyed offspring. That's something I never thought about; I had one blue-eyed and one brown-eyed parent! Fascinating.
I'm 65 and always thought my eye colour was boring. So happy to come across this video. I now feel very differently about my eyes. Now if only they were bigger. 😊
If I wasn't here for the content, it would definitely be for this beautiful Scottish accent of yours. I know someone whose eyes change colours with lighting, health and mood. It's so interesting.
Hi, I have hazel eyes. I am Canadian, born in Nova Scotia with Scottish heritage . I never knew my eye colour was only 5% of the population. Thanks, all the best.❤️🇨🇦
Hi. I am Cajun French. Where I come from hazel eyes are extremely common. You may have French Acadian heritage as it is, again, extremely common where I am from. And our people come from your region.
I have hazel eyes, so does my son, beautiful eyes, my daughter has green hazel eyes, my father had green eyes, his father blue eyes. My husband's mother had green eyes, her father had blue eyes. Hazel eyes are beautiful indeed.
I have hazel green eyes, both my mother and fathers family have family dating back to the 1600's in Nova Scotia. Strong Acadian blood , Scottish, MicMac and Irish.
Me too. I see now I am more rare then I thought. I'm in the USA Kansas I have native American blood plus Romanian blood in me. My mom and dad had blue eyes. I'm the ONLY one in all my family that has Hazel/green eyes.
Owner of a pair of Hazel colored eyes, and of northern European descent. My eyes do shift from more green to more golden depending on the light and color of clothing. Loved the video, thanks!
From the UK with Balkan heritage, if I wear green my eyes look green, in bright sunlight my eyes look more amber/brown my eyes are green around the edges
I'm the hazel-eyed daughter of two blue-eyed parents from Appalachia. My DNA says I'm mostly from England, Scotland, and Ireland -- with a little bit of North Africa and Native America as well.
I have 4 children. My husband and I have blue eyes. My oldest child has dark brown eyes, 2nd has green eyes, 3rd light brown eyes, 4th bright blue eyes. Go figures genetics are weird and much more complex than highschool suggests.
@@lauradon8603It’s genetically impossible for a child to have brown eyes if both of their parents have blue or green eyes. Blue and green are recessive genes, meaning both parents need to pass this gene on in order for it to be the visible trait. If someone has brown eyes they only have to have one parent pass this gene on because it is a dominant gene. So, the man you are claiming to be the dad, ain’t the dad because someone passed that brown gene on and it obviously wasn’t you.
I had brown eyes up until I was around 11. Then over the summer, my eyes turned green. My immediate family didn't even notice when I went back to school in September one of my teachers noticed over the next year they changed again and became Hazel and that's what they still are
I had dark brown eyes until I was 12/13 then went to hazel without going green...but they go from hazel to green mixed and light brown and green with a smattering of gold. No one else in my family has hazel eyes... I am unique 😊!
I had blue eyes until junior high. Nobody noticed the change until I went back to school after summer break and people asked me if I was wearing contacts. I call them silver and gold. Gold near the iris and silver around the outside. My eyes seem to shift color with the light. Brown to green to amber depending on light and who's looking.
I feel like mine showed up brown/amber in photos up til about peuberty- maybe 10 or 11, 12 at most but they shifted to be the green with orange sort of hazel. Now I'm older, just turned 40 and they're mainly a honey middle with a green/grey outter ring. Pretty neat to know lots of us had this happen!
I'm from Wales and I have hazel eyes that change colour too. When I was born I had blue eyes but after having meningitis at the age of six months my eyes changed colour.
So interesting! I have hazel eyes, one brother has bright green eyes that I always envied, and he got the lovely eyelashes too! I'm learning to be grateful for all sorts of things I didn't think about before. Thank you!
My daughter calls her eye color 'hazel' but actually they are a blue green in color, and can vary color, depending upon what she is wearing, or the weather. Outdoors, if there is snow on the ground, her eyes are vividly blue. Sometimes they are very green. Our ancestry is British Isles and German.
I've noticed some people seem to use Hazel to describe a blue or grey mix. I think they're probably describing central heterochromia, but Hazel is a mix of green and brown.
Mine are blue, but I have a gold/hazel/green corona around the pupil that expands/contracts depending on the light. Very blue in blue sky/water, hazel/grey in Seattle rain. Mom had jade green eyes and dad had ice blue eyes - but his dad had hazel. Danish mom, Russian/scots/irish/german dad.
This is a confusion I've had most of my life. My eyes are mostly blue with a ring of green in the center and a few brown "freckles" scattered about. They can appear blue, turquoise, or green depending on what I'm wearing.
If you stop eating cheese and things and eat more fruits and vegetables and take a bit of olive oil and get your self out doing a cleansing process you will have blue eyes you are truly a blue eye..
I'm also half Irish and half Native American, Crow tribe and my eyes are hazel. I like that my eyes will change color according to my emotions and the light. Nobody in my immediate family has them. I don't wear makeup very often but when I do it's fun to play up the different colors with eye shadow. Thanks for the video!
@@Moonlightpuppeteer My name is: Maryellen I am half Irish, and half Native American Indian, my tribe is Cherokee from North Carolina, nice meeting you on UA-cam
Irish, english, scottish, germatic, Scandinavian, and Cherokee. Was born with dark brown eyes. They apparently changed after being stationed at Fort Bliss texas. Did know they would change color depending on mood until at a dance club in Germany with black lights and wearing a white shirt. They would glow bright green. mostly hazel now
One of my siblings has brown eyes, the other has blue eyes, one parent had brown, the other had blue.....I always thought mine were just a messy mix of everything, now I realise Hazel isn't so bad.
I'm a California girl with hazel green eyes. I'm of Scots Irish descent on my mother's side and Swedish on my father's side (if he was telling the truth). To be honest, when I was younger I was so jealous of my mother's beautiful blue eyes...they were stunning. However, as an adult I am very proud of my hazel eyes. My husband of 25 years still says my eyes are my most devastating feature. And I'm totally cool with that! Embrace the Hazel!! 👀 😂
Same - I’m a California girl too with hazel eyes, (but just moved out-of-state) and my mom and dad had brown eyes. My dad was Irish/Scottish and my mom is Italian and Austrian. I’m a mutt ! 😊
Sixth generation Australian here, living right on top of the Tropic of Capricorn. I am of black Irish and Scots descent, with green dominant hazel eyes, as do most of my seven siblings. One brother has blue eyes.
also black Irish, in the US. hazel eyes started out as blue then turned hazel. this seems good but all the repair tissue on my body (scratches, cuts) came in white without much melanin so after about 50 my skin looks like mortadella. I have basal cell cancer that must get frozen off every 6 months, due to this genetic situation. Also, on my father's side (Irish, dutch, French) he has had all manner of eye maladies: wet eye, dry eye, macular degeneration, basal cell cancer. Keep a look out for those in the event your condition is similar.
I’m also Irish. Born and bred on the island of Ireland and the first time I heard of Black Irish was when an Australian who I meet in France described me as such. My sister’s daughter had a dna test done and was disappointed to learn she was 99% indigenous Irish. I have had Pakistani and Indian people ask me which family and place in Pakistan and India do I come from. 🤣
@@redrumrabbit she has dark brown eyes , sallow skin and as she doesn’t fit the stereotypical image of what native Irish people look like, she was hoping to find some “foreign “ heritage that would explain that. Romantic exoticism. But the DNA demonstrates that, especially in Cork and Kerry, the legacy of the Anatolian farmers maintains.
U.S.A. Female here. I’ve got hazel eyes too. Italian on my father’s side, French and Native American on my mother’s side. Throughout the years, I’ve had photographers tell me I have beautiful eyes. From the center, there is a burst of golden brown blending into yellowish green, transitioning into grayish blue, ending with a darker blue rim on the outside. When I cry, the colors appear to deepen, or they seem to shift hues. It is pretty cool!
My son was born with light brown hair and tootsie roll dark eyes. By time he was 5, his hair got darker, and his eyes lighter. By 16, he had black hair and my green based hazel eyes. Beautiful combimation.
I had never heard of this till my daughter! Her eyes were dark brown as a kid but became lighter and lighter and are hazel green. Very cool to hear of some one else with this experience as it comes from husbands side!
Mine changed a lot also. I had strawberry blond hair and blue eyes as a baby. The older I got the darker my hair got. My eyes are crazy. Blue ring on the outer and the inner has grey/brown with flakes of gold. So I never know what to check. Coworker asked me one day. I was like. I have no idea. I said really look at them. She is like those are crazy colors. I got the left overs.
@@ceceliagettemy2906 I had dark brown eyes when I was young, but sometime in the past 10 years they lightened up and began to turn a green-brown. Yep, my daddy had hazel eyes.
When I was in middle school a group of girls got in trouble for making a "Book of Bests". In essence a book that rated people and their features in our classes. I found out I won "Prettiest Eyes". I have Hazel green eyes, which often look pure green when the sun hits them. I didn't realize they were rare. Not that it really matters but it's interesting. Thanks for the vid buddy.
I'm 52 and today years old when I found out I have hazel eyes. So thanks for that. I feel special now. I knew they were lighter than brown but nowhere as light a green or amber (which is what I thought hazel was). I think there's a lot more hazel eyed people around but we report them as brown on our legal documents. I can understand how people in vastly brown eyed countries would report theirs as different and mark them as hazel. Mine are swampy green, with rust center sunflowers, and gold ribbons.
There isnt just one shade to brown eyes. Brown eyes range from light brown to really dark near black like some Asian and Sub Saharan people have. Cant even differentiate the iris from the pupil. Mine are brown but when i look in the mirror i can the pattern in my iris and theres a darker ring around the outside perimeter of my iris. But yeah i get what you mean, my ex has hazzel eyes, she reckons she has brown eyes, i thought she did too until obe day she sent me a closeup photo of her eye and her eyes are actually a blend of brown and dark green.
54 and have never seen a form with an appropriate box for my eye color...i honestly dont think green/brown hazel is that uncommon a color...its just not well documented,or more precisely it's constantly misdocumented..hazel is not a color,it's rarely on any forms or an accepted answer...and you have to choose one..but if you look,tons of people have it..but are saying they have brown or green,i've done it myself...actual full green is way less common in my experience,as is blue for that matter..but I guess that might depend on your local populations genetics
@CrashAndBurnProductions My brother has pure green eyes. I'm Spaniard. Half my family, , (aunties, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews) have either blue eyes or green. My father had amber eyes. So does my other brother.
Hazel green eyes here. From US North Carolina. Have Native American roots and others as well. Always have people commenting on them!! Glad to be part of the 5%‼️
Hello cousins! Haida and Tlingit from my grandfather's side and Apache, Cherokee, Choctaw and Blackfoot on my grandmother's. Hope you all are all well!
My mother was Italian and my father was Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English and Dutch/German. He had blue eyes that sometimes looked green. I have green hazel eyes, as I've gotten older they have become greener. My daughter has more brown hazel, her daughter started out very blue but now has very pale yellow(almost white) not gold) rays coming out from the pupils. Very beautiful. New baby has dark green almost teal green but no brown or gold. Their Dad has darker blue eyes that sometimes look green. So we will be watching to see how they change.
@@andreafong9952 Yes, true green eyes, but my hazel eyes have possibly lost melanin with age, scientifically I don't know why, but the green in my hazel eyes are now the predominant color rather than the golden brown.
@@adriennelaf5083I have had the same experience, I’m 50 and the brown ring around my pupil is much smaller than it was when I was younger. Neither of my parents nor any of my four siblings have hazel eyes 🤷♀️
I have Hazel eyes, but they were brown when I was much younger. Father had Blue eyes and is from Wales, Mother has Brown eyes and is from Yorkshire. So, mixed Celtic/Norse ancestry and have Hazel eyes, oh I'm called Hazel as well. :)
Interesting, I Also have a Celtic (Scotland) mother and a Nordic (North East England, Family name ends in "son") and I too have Hazel eyes! One of them has a freckle on the iris.
I have hazel eyes, from the USA here. I am told they change color depending on my mood, clothing, the light. I have a thick dark grey ring around the outside, green and then small amount of brown,amber around the pupils. My mother had blue eyes and my father has one brown eye and the other is almost black. Our heritage is Irish, German, English and Native American. I am the only one in my family with hazel eyes, everyone else is brown or blue.
hazel green eyes with golden flecks that definitely appear to shift hues at times ~ both my parents have blue: dad's background's irish & welsh, mom's is irish & scottish - but my grams always asserted *not* scotch irish
@@evanunez8833 scotch irish is an american term that originally refered to ulster scots who immigrated after they, although oppressed in their own right, helped colonize norn iron at the expensive of native irish folks as my grams irish family came over on coffin ships during an gorta mor aka the great hunger aka the attempted genocide whitewashed & misrepresented as "the potato famine" they weren't too keen on ulster scots my grams scottish family had also come over on coffin ships during the highland clearances so understandably didn't like being confused with the lowlanders who conspired with their enemies so basically both sides of her family had suffered horribly partly due to the actions of ulster scots therefore it was important to all of her family they not be mixed up with the ulster scots/scotch irish despite most americans not really getting how or why they were distinct i'm just an american mutt but out of respect for my late gram's insistence i always note it, lol. though i also tend to not get on the best with unionists 😬 but the craic's usually 90 with irish republicans & those who identify as norn irish
I have inherited my dad's greenish hazel eyes. Some people have said my eyes were brown, one person said my eyes were green. I can see a lot of green in my eyes. Both my mum and sister have brown eyes my brother's eyes are blue/ gray. Quite a mix up in our family
I have hazel. Dad is blue-eyed dutch, , mom's Indonesian background is actually predominantly Indian according to dna tests that a couple family members on her side took.
Very interesting! I have Hazel Eyes and from Australia…my mother is Spanish. Mine are multi coloured green with gold flecks that change colour with the weather.
My father had Hazel eyes. His mother had brown eyes and she was of Anglo/Irish background. His father was of German/Danish and English background and had blue eyes. They were both Australian born.
Hi! I have Hazel eyes with the Hazel burst and mossy green surrounding. My Mother has extremely dark brown eyes and my Dad has vivid blue like the color of the Mediterranean Sea. I am a blend of Scottish/ Spanish and Native American. Thank you for this informative video!
I have the brown sunburst also as fir the rest of my eyeballs never figured it out... at 63 no matter how I scrutinise them in the mirror can neither call it blue green grey its like a mosaic of all three.
I have hazel eyes, and neither of my parents nor my sister have had. My father had brown eyes, my mother had blue/grey eyes, and my sister has brown eyes. None of my ancestors, at least for a thousand years, came from the Iberian peninsula, North Africa, nor the Middle East, though I was born and raised in California, which is at a similar latitude. When I was young (I'm now 75) my eyes looked brown except in strong light when the green was visible. Over the years my eyes have become lighter to where now they look hazel even in low light conditions. For what it's worth, my skin tone is very pale but, before I went grey, my hair was a very dark brown, so the distribution of melanin is uneven.
Ever since childhood I was told that my eyes are yellow like a lions eyes… but maybe they are in fact hazel? Looking very closely they are a pale green in the background with golden/amber specks fanning out from the pupil. The iris has a teal coloured ring around it. I never saw anybody else with my eyecolour. My father had pale green/grey eyes, my mother hazel. Interesting story my father told: hush-hush tales of “a spanish soldier and a girl in the family” in 1808 or so.. the wars with Napoleon. I have no evidense, but my fathers mother had dark brown eyes an jet black hair, and more family members with very dark eyes and hair. I am from Denmark where blue eyes are the most common. Thank you for very interesting information😃
I once had a friend with this yellow apearing eyes, I never forgot these eyes. It is 40 years ago. Just love it because it is so very rare and very special.
My eyes are pretty close to yours, but maybe a little darker. I also have a teal ring around the outside, with orange ring inside next to the pupil and green/brown inbetween with gold flecks. Often people perceive them as light brown, until the light hits and they’re like “oh wait, that’s not brown!” 😂
My eyes have gold around the iris then light green and a darker green rim. I have only seen two other people with my exact eye color. One was a girl on the cover of National Geographic and the other on a box of hair dye. Both were very beautiful. I have been told many times how striking my eyes are. I feel blessed to have them.
Hazel eyes here....wow...so impressed at this vid popping up outta nowhere...thank you, my Guides and the Universe! As I do my soul work in this Moment....I didn't know I am in 5% of the population with these ocular resonances. Thank you! The eyes are the window to the Soul. ✨️💫💖❤️🙏
I have hazel eyes. One of my children has hazel eyes. My father had hazel eyes when I was young but his eyes have changed color. My dad is in his 80's, he's very healthy and physically fit. His eyes have slowly changed color and are now very light translucent grey blue. Our ancestry is predominately British/Scottish.
I’ve also had my eyes change color over the years. Until a few years ago I had very dark brown eyes. People have asked if I was wearing colored contacts because they were so dark. About six or seven years ago I noticed that the color was lighter and it has continued to change until today I have a light hazel color that will appear to lean towards blue depending on the color of the blouse I’m wearing.
Our family also came from Ireland(mostly). We have a lot of hazels, but more interesting is alot of aqua blue/Grey eyes. I see this in a few other families in our village and almost nowhere else. Very unusual for me to ever see that color eye anywhere else. Is this an Irish trait?
Both my half sister (my father's side) and I have hazel eyes from our father. My father's recent heritage is German and Norwegian. We are all light skin, dark brown curly to wavy thick hair. I didn't know about the term hazel eyes, and it seemed no one else was familiar with the term, because when I gave description of brown/green eye color on forms, l would just get assigned one color or the other, more often brown because the green is a dark green. My eye color is about 50/50. I would not be surprised if many people with hazel eyes were incorrectly documented over the years by busy workers who didn't care and just wanted to get their paperwork done. So good luck figuring out the statistics of eye color.
Hazel eyes here. Mom had the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen, dad's were practically black. I have what I call mood eyes. More green or brown depending on the day and what color top I'm wearing.
That happened to my daughter I have brown eye but my husband has blue eyes. her eyes grey when she was born later they became green and later on her edges of her iris still has blue or grey streaks that look more green while the center of her eye was more amber. It's definitely very pretty under light you can see the colors while indoor it's harder to see.
My older sister and I (my sister passed (R I P)) have hazel eyes. I remember her eyes usually looking kinda brown and mine looking green. As I got older, I kept being told by women about my beautiful blue eyes. It always seemed weird, cause I was used to seeing myself as green eyed. But, it did seem to change growing up and I admit if the light is from the right angle and bright (like sunlight) my eyes do look bright blue.
Funny how that works! I never realised hazel was an option until today and I'm surprised by the similarities people around the world are experiencing about this (my) eye colour. I too have always been complimented about my big blue eyes but they're grey / green with brown around the pupil 😂
Same here, I call them mood eyes haha. My eyes also change colour depending on what colours I'm wearing or how much light is hitting them. Both of my eyes are slightly different colour to eachother too, one is more brown and the other is more green
Lol.. interesting. While I was single if someone told me my eyes looked golden I'd immediately reply.. time for me to go to the house... alone. Mine change as well, no blue in that mix though.
I also refer to my hazel eyes as mood eyes. My kids could always tell what mood I was in my looking at my eyes. I rarely had to raise my voice, all I had to do was look at them, lol.
I am a green hazel-eyed daughter of two blue eyed parents from Ireland, I have six siblings all with blue eyes (with a strong resemblance to my father!) I always thought of them as boring, what fun to discover this
@@Auntiehoney217 no that's high school genetics and it's incorrect. Eye colour is a lot more complex than just recessive and dominant genes. So though rare it is possible to have non- blue eyed children from blue eyed parents. I got this information from a geneticist btw.
My mom had green eyes. My husband and I have blue eyes and our daughter has hazel eyes but she has a blue ring around the outside. My side of the family is mostly European and Iberian. My husbands family is mostly European and a 1/4 American Indian. Its interesting how our background expresss itself through our daughter
I have hazel eyes but my birth certificate says brown. Teal blue brings out the amber in them and it’s beautiful. Mine are brown in the center, yellowish amber mostly with a green outline. My mothers were hazel. Very green with gold. They almost looked like stripes. Beautiful.
My daughter has such gorgeous hazel eyes. She got them from her beautiful birth mother, who is a mix of Peruvian and Danish - that mix of blue with brown eye genes.
Hazel eyes here from the Philippines, but with Filipino, Spanish, Norwegian and Chinese ancestry. Mostly brown for me and my mother, but my cousin who is half Australian has mostly green Hazel eyes that always change colour and are amazing to look at.
United States here with hazel eyes , green and brown, I’ve been told by many people that they sometimes change to brown and blue. I finally saw it myself in a mirror after being told of this phenomenon. I still am not sure what causes the change but most of the time it was during amorous activities or times of joy.
My husband’s eye color has changed as he’s aged. At 32, his eyes were a medium ( milk chocolate) brown. Now, at 74, his eyes are hazel, with green being the dominant color.
This has happened to my son as well. He reached adulthood and his doe brown eyes change to green hazel with green being predominant. I have blue hazel eyes and that runs in my family, blue hazel is most dominant, but some green hazel. .y sons father has brown eyes, but his sister has green hazel. Blue hazel and green hazel seems to be the most dominant eye color on both sides. My oldest son has blue eyes, my second son has green hazel eyes and my youngest had brown eyes but are now green hazel. Crazy. I never thought eye color could change like that. Thank you for sharing this.
I always assumed mine were in the brown category. Mine are a darkish olive green with brown just in the centres. I didn't think they were light enough to be considered hazel! Very interesting! :)
I never would have guessed it! I might have thought you had medium- dark blue eyes. Not light(agua) like most people associate with when they think blue but dark blue.
I have hazel eyes. My dad was a blue eyed redhead (carrot top) and my mum brown eyed with dark brown hair. I was born in southern England. I have lived in subtropical Australia now for nearly 60 years and my eyes have changed colour at different times in my life. They were brown/green growing up but now they are more bluish. At one time they were mostly brown. I have always felt special having hazel eyes. Thanks for this information.
I'm from Spain and have hazel eyes. They're green underneath with a golden brown burst (they also have some reddish brown spots). Hazel eyes are a lot of fun because they change color according to light and what you wear. I'm into makeup and like to create different looks to showcase the green or the brown. Some people are surprised to suddenly see the green when they thought my eyes were brown. One of my friends told me my eyes' color was "green honey" ("verde miel"). So poetic! 😍😂
My three nephews and one niece have such interesting coloring: two are blue-eyed blondes, one has brown eyes and auburn hair, and one has Titian (red/gold) hair and bright green eyes. What an interesting mixture for one family.
My husband and I have 4 kids. He's blue eyed with almost black hair. I'm blue eyed, brown haired. My kids are brown/auburn haired and dark brown eyed, light brown haired green eyes, dark brown hair light brown eyes, very blonde with bright blue eyes. Genetics are much more complex than we're told in highschool
I think the lack of research on hazel eyes is simply because they are defined by what they are not (blue, grey, green, brown) rather than what they are. They also have a greater ability to look different in different levels of light due to iris size; so they are just more difficult to nail down. To be honest I think the difference between amber and hazel is just semantic rather than melanin relative.
No. Amber eyes are almost a vaguely orangey brown, and quite light compared to brown eyes. Hazel eyes are beautifully multicolored in a million different arrangements, including flecks or rings of amber, gold, green, blue, grey, orange, and even small bits of red, but with a lot of other variety too, and from a distance they look like they are on the darker end of the scale. The distinguishing characteristic of hazel is the multicolors, in all different kinds of arrangements. Amber does not have that. Hazel usually (almost always) contains some dark colors, like dark brown or dark green, so much so that they are often called brown or green by people who don't know about the term hazel. If those people have to choose a term for the color, they feel they need to pick something that is in that persons eyes and is common, something everyone would recognize the word for. So because the overall feel is dark, even if there are light flecks, they say the eyes are brown or green. My husband used to say his eyes were green, but I called them brown. Later we learned about hazel, and his eyes do fit that description to a T. I have seen people with amber eyes too, and it's very common among cats and horses. But many (or most?) people are not aware that the word amber can be applied to eyes, so that term doesn't often get used. Adding to the problem is the fact he mentioned (in his beautiful Scottish accent) that eye color can change a lot due to several different influences, like age, cloudy skies, sunlight, artificial light, clothing, background, etc. Sadly I have grey eyes that are as boring as heck! 😉 ✌🏼
@@cattymajiv I think I'd largely agree with you, however eyes rarely, in people who have Indo-European (I realise that this is an ethno-language term) extraction have eyes of a singular colour, even though they are called blue or brown. I think the point I was trying to make, maybe unclearly, was we generalize with our language regarding eye colour and just go with the predominant colour. Nothing wrong with grey eyes. My father had grey eyes, or was it just the dreich Scottish skies reflecting in them 😁
I may have mentioned this in one of your other eye color videos, but I do have the dual color form of hazel eyes, with a brown ring in the middle and a dark jade green on the outside, though it is not very obvious except under bright lighting conditions. I imagine most people who note such things probably think they are are brown on casual inspection.
Mine are hazel, I usually get people saying they are green or brown, but depending on lighting I get people saying they are blue on occasion, and sometimes they turn grey in photos.
I have hazel -green eyes - my mother hazel-brown and my daughter hazel -brown. My dads were brown along with my brothers. We have very mixed ancestry on both sides. Dads being English,Sri Lankan,German;Japanese; mums being French, Mid European, English, with other little bits from all over . My haplo group is a North African Berber tribe from 10,000 years ago… my eyes change to bright green when I cry or am angry - they have an olive green ring around the outside, a flared amber ring around the pupil and flecks of yellow and green between the two but with an overall look of green…. Lol 😂 Emma; UK
I have hazel eyes, green with brown. My ancestors are from England, Ireland, Wales and Italy. Generations are Texans. My parents had brown eyes. Now I know what ‘hazel’ means.
I have hazel eyes. In Canada. My northern Italian mother had green eyes, and my dark British father had brown eyes. My eyes were brown as a young child but lightened to hazel.
My father Portuguese has hazel eyes, my daughter Portuguese/mixed and mother is Mostly Native American Mexican and my daughter has hazel eyes. I have blue eyes
I have hazel eyes, mostly amber with some green. I also have a ring around the outer edge that can appear grey or brown under various conditions. On the rare occasions that I wear makeup, I tend to wear a green eyeshadow to bring out the greens. Also, I have a mix of Celtic (Scots), French, and English backgrounds.
Interesting video! I am Black Canadian, born of Jamaican parentage. My maternal grandmother's father was of mixed heritage (European and Black). My grandmother had many siblings. All have brown eyes with the exception of one of my mother's uncles who has striking hazel eyes. When I realized this, I just assumed that, somewhere in our European lineage, there was a person or many people with blue or green or hazel eyes. Unfortunately, I will never know the answer, but it's cool to think about it! ✌🏾
I have hazel eyes. They're typically mostly brown but when I'm emotional, tired, or in higher elevation, the green becomes more apparent. My mom has wintergreen (blueish green) eyes and my dad has brown.
I have hazel eyes. Other than 13% of my DNA origins (per Ancestry DNA) being from central France, the rest is all England (34%), Scotland (24%), Ireland (18%), and Scandinavia (11%). I've traced my family tree back through the 1400's so I'm pretty confident that these percentages are on target.
Hazel eyes from the US here! Of Lebanese and Polish mixed descent. My eyes are my favorite feature, brown in the center, green and gold flecks in a dark blue ring.
Do you have hazel eyes? Please let me know your thoughts below... Thanks for watching!
If you know lRIDOLOGY (diagnosis by studying the iris) you know that hazel eyes are discoloured blue eyes. There are two natural healthy coloured irises - clear blue (including light grey & - rarely, green-blue) or clear brown. In the hazel-eyed person, the digestive tract (around the pupil in the iris map) could do with a detox.
I'm hazel. Appalachian Scot mostly.
@@hamishanderson6738 No. I don't know where you got any of this, but hazel is as genetic as brown and blue. I've got them and I've always got them.
That's like calling brown people "dirty and in need of washing."
@@gcanaday1 Check out iridology (if you're interested).
@@gcanaday1 comment dilitid.
Hazel eye from U.S. here. Hello fellow Hazels from around the world!🤗
I have hazel eyes also and I'm born and raised from Long Island.
I have green hazel eyes.
Aww thank u
Hey there
I hav'em Chicks dig'em
My wife has beautiful Hazel eyes that go from brownish to greenish to golden to almost electric green at times. It’s always been a sight to behold.
This comment is a sign of your love for her. 😍
Wonderful to be in love ❤
I have those same characteristics, but much older nowadays 😂
My son has these eyes ,just fabulous.
I have hazel... They seem to turn greenish in the winter time...
Hazel eyes are the most beautiful eyes in the world!
As one with shit brown eyes I agree with you. Both my parents had hazel eyes and my sister ended up with Blue and I shit brown.
@@M.SforzaNooo. I have hazel eyes but I love brown eyes!!
Brown and/ or Blue, are beautiful
Guy's and Girl's. I believe so 🙂
Truth
I have hazel eyes and love wearing green as it brings out the green in my eyes. I didn't know we were such a rare breed 🥳
I have hazel eyes. My house is painted green and I wear green often. I love green. My father's DNA was traced back to Mongolia many years ago. His very dark skinned mother had DNA with origins from Nepal and she married a blue eyed English man. My father's eyes were dark brown. My mother had very blue eyes and her ancestry was Welsh, Irish and Scottish. Two of their five children have hazel eyes. My child has hazel eyes. How lucky we are to be so unique. I am the whitest skinned of the five children but I have the very dark brows and lashes of my father. In my youth I had very wavy auburn hair similar to my father.
Well, I'm 63 and I've never known how to describe my eye colour... till today! I have the hazel sunburst centre, green above and blue/grey beneath. I always thought my eyes were just a confusing mess, now I know that this glorious variety of the spectrum is called hazel, and only 5% of the world have It.
Whoopeee!🎉
It's the most beautiful eye color by far, and is what drew me to my husband! ❤❤❤
Same here…at 73 yrs old I finally learned I have hazel eyes….
Hazel is green and brown. It sounds like you have part Hazel eyes.
Agree! I was told by my family that I have brown eyes. Yet, growing up I would notice that some days they looked green - other times green with a blue tint. I think either my family did not know about the hazel color - or they were jealous. :-) I recently realized that they ARE hazel - and started changing my driver's license information. I am 70+ years old. lol!
Same with mine,like you described.
I have Hazel Eyes, i am from Turkey. my theory is that Hazel eyes are more frequent in populations who have mixed blue eyed and brown eyed people, as my grandfather has blue eyes and my grandmother has brown eyes, my father has hazel eyes and i got them too. both my father and i are also the only ones in the family possessing hazel eyes, the rest have brown and blue eyes.
Are there many Turks with Blue eyes?
I'm Hungarian and have reached the same conclusion. There are people in my family, both my grandfather's and my brother with blue eyes, quite many with hazel and amber eyes, and some with real brown eyes. That is the smallest percentage as most have a mixture of blue/brownish.
@@Occident. I think its about 5% of the turkish population with blue eyes, 8% green, 17% hazel and 70% brown.
My grandparents are all from northern Europe but some with blue and some with brown eyes. I have hazel eyes and so do my children.
You are right. My mother had deep blue eyes my father light brown. Mine were hazel. But late in life after 55 they started to look more brownish. Weird eyes grow darker while the hair goes lighter . Mine is almost white😊
I love having hazel eyes. Hello fellow hazel-eyed beauties!
Hello fellow hazel eyes!
Green / Hazel eyes here. I'm told they change color in light and with the color of my clothing as well as my emotions ~
Yes, mood eyes lol
Yes, mine are the same
Same. They also are greener when I cry
Me too
Brown means I'm pissed. Green means I'm happy
Same. Mood for sure and light
Yes, I have them. And when I married my fiancée Hazel, I told her that I've always had Hazel in my eyes . . .
Aww 🥰
Cringe
haha
Haha…very cute 🥰
Smooth ❤️
I do have hazel eyes and had no idea how rare they are. Makes me feel kinda special ❤❤
Me too
And me ❤
And me😊
most likely not that rare with white people, maybe rare in the world though due to europeans being a global minority in the millions whilst africans indians, etc are in the billions each and so on
My eyes are hazel, and it is funny to hear people try and describe them. It's either green or brown, hazel isn't a word in their ocular vocabulary. The best thing about hazel eyes is that our eyes can seem to change color, it really confuses people. For example, when I got my first driver's license hazel wasn't an option in the system so they listed me as brown. A while later when I showed my license they thought my ID was fake cause my eye color was off, they said I had green eyes and wanted to know if I wore contacts.
I’ve had my eyes prosaically described as green surrounded by the color of shit. Now who was that?
I went through the same, each time I need to renew my passport I state that my eye color is hazel but they either write brown or green because they think they know better than I do what my eye color is. Ridiculous!
I gave in and went with brown. It's easier for everyone. Really there's orange, then a ring of green then a ring of black round the outside.
I like reading about ppl’s color of eyes, strangely.☺️ My boyfriend has hazel 👀 and they change color depending on the color of whatever shirt he’s wearing. His gaze can melt me, beautiful eyes❣️
Ha ha me too and almost same situation, then someone will say they're not green you're lying, no not lying just dumbfounded at describing my eye colour!
I am an American with 100% Norwegian heritage. My mother had green eyes. My father had blue eyes. My brother has blue eyes. I have hazel eyes. My eyes have an outer ring of dark blue. The next area is sage green. Then the inside area is golden. There are also small flecks of burgundy scattered around. The green and golden areas are about even now.
Hello all you brothers and sisters of Hazel eyes! I'm another one! My father had Hazel eyes, my mother and brother had blue. Glad I have Dad's eyes. I have a very European DNA with Ireland, Scotland, Wales, French, Denmark and Sweden thrown in for good measure. Cherri.
I have Hazel eyes... I am from Canada 🇨🇦 I noticed that my eye color changes with my mood. When I am upset they turn more greenish, as when I am joyful they are more gold. I do agree there are Spiritual aspects related to eye color, being the eyes are a mirror to the Soul 🦋
Me to they change color
* cries in boring brown eyes *
My eye color changes due to the amount of light. The emerald green outer ring & the gold color right around the pupil always stay the same. The area of pale green color between the 2 shrinks or widens depending on the size of my pupil. In bright light when my pupil is tiny they appear lighter green. When there's less light & my pupil is bigger they look more gold.
My hazel eyes change with my moods.😅
Fellow hazel-eyed Canuck here. My daughter has the same colour of eyes as I do, and hers change the same ways as mine. It's kind of freaky. My husband's eyes are a very very pale blue, almost colourless, and my son is the odd one out with brown eyes. We have no idea where they come from, as my family all have hazel eyes too, and hubby's family have blue. Tho there's a few suspects, pending genetic heritage testing to verify (Italian in hubby's case, and Canadian First Nations in mine...).
My left handed, unfreckled, ginger daughter has hazel eyes. She is a genetic wonder! The product of a blond and brunette (both right handed), she is a middle child with an older blond and younger brunet brother! She can also see more colors and taste more flavors than the rest of us. I believe that she is more angel than human! ❤
My kids were born with strawberry blonde hair!!! Two of them have hazel eyes and one has blue eyes!!
What a wonderful description of your daughter. You are clearly a loving father.
Happy Father’s Day❣️
😂😂😂🙄
A lot of Hazel eyed people are RH negative blood types. Look into it. Spain and nortwest africa have some of the highest RH negative populations in the world.
It’s possible!!
I have Hazel Eyes,
In the US Appalachian region, my primary ancestry is Scottish, Fifth Generation on my Mom's side.
My Dad's side is Mulungeon, a mixed ethnicity native to the Appalachians; composed of Cherokee, Choctaw, British, Portuguese, possibly Turkish, and African ethnicities. My Dad's family has lived in the Appalachians for 400 years.
That’s a really cool heritage!
You might me interested in some fantasy books written by Alex Bledsoe. The setting is in a place like Appalachia and the first book is called the hum and the shiver. About a musically magical group of people who were the first people there. An easy read and felt good. Wish it had a musical sound track to go with it.
Hello, cousin. 🙂 I have noticed that we Appalachians have a high frequency of the hazel eyes. The Appalachian Mountains, Atlas Mountains, Scottish Highlands and Scandinavian Mountains were all once part of the same mountain range.
@@adriennelaf5083 Neat 😃
@@galadrielwoods2332 That's right 🙂
As a kid I had to take a train to school every day, and there was this boy (from another town) with eyes just like mine. Hazel Eyes. Which I thought odd.
My Mom had them and my brother also but noone else in the family and noone else I knew.
So when my grandmother told me that one of her sisters (she had 8 of them) grandsons took this train to town, also, I knew right away which one of those boys was related to me. And sure enough, upon asking him, it turned out to be so.
I'm 72 now and I kind of was aware that eyes like mine were not common, but I had no idea they were this rare! Kinda' cool really. Thanks for the Video.
I grew up thinking my eyes were sort of a lighter cinnamon brown; in adulthood, my sister told me my eyes are more amber-hazel. I looked closer at my eyes in different lights... and she's right! A unique and pretty range of colors.
It's weird, but I've encountered a lot of people who did not know they had hazel eyes until someone pointed it out.
@bigred9428 Really? That's pretty interesting! You know, there is a commenter here that mentioned the idea of having one parent with blue eyes, and the other with brown possibly having a higher incidence of a hazel eyed offspring. That's something I never thought about; I had one blue-eyed and one brown-eyed parent! Fascinating.
From New Mexico - I have 51% Iberian genes - and hazel eyes. You have the most fabulous Scottish accent
I'm 65 and always thought my eye colour was boring. So happy to come across this video. I now feel very differently about my eyes. Now if only they were bigger. 😊
Sounds like me. I think mine are boring too. lol
I can relate, mine are very small🙂
My eyes are a beautiful hazel color but small so people don’t notice.
Same 😂
lol. Y’all Korean?
If I wasn't here for the content, it would definitely be for this beautiful Scottish accent of yours. I know someone whose eyes change colours with lighting, health and mood. It's so interesting.
Hi, I have hazel eyes. I am Canadian, born in Nova Scotia with Scottish heritage . I never knew my eye colour was only 5% of the population. Thanks, all the best.❤️🇨🇦
Hi. I am Cajun French. Where I come from hazel eyes are extremely common. You may have French Acadian heritage as it is, again, extremely common where I am from. And our people come from your region.
I have hazel eyes, so does my son, beautiful eyes, my daughter has green hazel eyes, my father had green eyes, his father blue eyes. My husband's mother had green eyes, her father had blue eyes. Hazel eyes are beautiful indeed.
We have ancestors from Spain, both my husband and I, we did a genetic research and we have a high percentage of Iberian ancestry.
I have hazel green eyes, both my mother and fathers family have family dating back to the 1600's in Nova Scotia.
Strong Acadian blood , Scottish, MicMac and Irish.
Awe - Always thought my hazel eyes were boring until now. Thanks!
Lol me too
Me too. I see now I am more rare then I thought. I'm in the USA Kansas I have native American blood plus Romanian blood in me. My mom and dad had blue eyes. I'm the ONLY one in all my family that has Hazel/green eyes.
Me too.
Owner of a pair of Hazel colored eyes, and of northern European descent. My eyes do shift from more green to more golden depending on the light and color of clothing. Loved the video, thanks!
The same. I love to make it change with make up. Sometimes gold, or purple, or brown… very funny and surprising. 🤩
From the UK with Balkan heritage, if I wear green my eyes look green, in bright sunlight my eyes look more amber/brown my eyes are green around the edges
I'm the hazel-eyed daughter of two blue-eyed parents from Appalachia. My DNA says I'm mostly from England, Scotland, and Ireland -- with a little bit of North Africa and Native America as well.
You have Melungeon in that family tree somewhere being from that region if you don't already know, research it.
@@n.d.4192Yes, very cool
I have 4 children. My husband and I have blue eyes. My oldest child has dark brown eyes, 2nd has green eyes, 3rd light brown eyes, 4th bright blue eyes. Go figures genetics are weird and much more complex than highschool suggests.
@@lauradon8603It’s genetically impossible for a child to have brown eyes if both of their parents have blue or green eyes. Blue and green are recessive genes, meaning both parents need to pass this gene on in order for it to be the visible trait. If someone has brown eyes they only have to have one parent pass this gene on because it is a dominant gene. So, the man you are claiming to be the dad, ain’t the dad because someone passed that brown gene on and it obviously wasn’t you.
@@n.d.4192 she is Caucasian
I had brown eyes up until I was around 11. Then over the summer, my eyes turned green. My immediate family didn't even notice when I went back to school in September one of my teachers noticed over the next year they changed again and became Hazel and that's what they still are
same here
Similar here, just skipped the green era
I had dark brown eyes until I was 12/13 then went to hazel without going green...but they go from hazel to green mixed and light brown and green with a smattering of gold. No one else in my family has hazel eyes... I am unique 😊!
I had blue eyes until junior high. Nobody noticed the change until I went back to school after summer break and people asked me if I was wearing contacts. I call them silver and gold. Gold near the iris and silver around the outside.
My eyes seem to shift color with the light. Brown to green to amber depending on light and who's looking.
I feel like mine showed up brown/amber in photos up til about peuberty- maybe 10 or 11, 12 at most but they shifted to be the green with orange sort of hazel. Now I'm older, just turned 40 and they're mainly a honey middle with a green/grey outter ring. Pretty neat to know lots of us had this happen!
I have Hazel Eyes and I'm from the UK. I love my eye colour because this time of year in the bright light of the sun they look more green.
Mine do too! Very bright green in the sun.
And if I wear a green shirt, hat or scarf the green in my eyes pops! Sometimes I also wear a purple eyeliner- makes the green standout!
I'm from Wales and I have hazel eyes that change colour too. When I was born I had blue eyes but after having meningitis at the age of six months my eyes changed colour.
So interesting! I have hazel eyes, one brother has bright green eyes that I always envied, and he got the lovely eyelashes too! I'm learning to be grateful for all sorts of things I didn't think about before. Thank you!
My daughter calls her eye color 'hazel' but actually they are a blue green in color, and can vary color, depending upon what she is wearing, or the weather. Outdoors, if there is snow on the ground, her eyes are vividly blue. Sometimes they are very green. Our ancestry is British Isles and German.
I've noticed some people seem to use Hazel to describe a blue or grey mix. I think they're probably describing central heterochromia, but Hazel is a mix of green and brown.
mine are a greyish green with a small ring of hazel in centre (Yorkshire born )
Mine are blue, but I have a gold/hazel/green corona around the pupil that expands/contracts depending on the light. Very blue in blue sky/water, hazel/grey in Seattle rain.
Mom had jade green eyes and dad had ice blue eyes - but his dad had hazel. Danish mom, Russian/scots/irish/german dad.
This is a confusion I've had most of my life. My eyes are mostly blue with a ring of green in the center and a few brown "freckles" scattered about. They can appear blue, turquoise, or green depending on what I'm wearing.
@@angelgering2501 You have central heterochomia.
I have one hazel eye, predominately green with some gold around the iris. My right eye is blue with green starburst around the iris.
Neat! I had a cat with one gold and one blue eye. Yours sound quite striking and beautiful!
If you stop eating cheese and things and eat more fruits and vegetables and take a bit of olive oil and get your self out doing a cleansing process you will have blue eyes you are truly a blue eye..
I eat cheese every day and my eyes are still blue.
Your eyes must be beautiful!
I have Hazel Eyes, I am half Irish and half Native American Indian, 😊 I live in the United States of America, New Jersey, Jersey City
Hello cousin! Fellow mixed native American here with Hazel eyes.
@@kirvu9677Same here
I'm also half Irish and half Native American, Crow tribe and my eyes are hazel. I like that my eyes will change color according to my emotions and the light. Nobody in my immediate family has them. I don't wear makeup very often but when I do it's fun to play up the different colors with eye shadow. Thanks for the video!
@@Moonlightpuppeteer
My name is: Maryellen
I am half Irish, and half Native American Indian, my tribe is Cherokee from North Carolina, nice meeting you on UA-cam
Irish, english, scottish, germatic, Scandinavian, and Cherokee.
Was born with dark brown eyes. They apparently changed after being stationed at Fort Bliss texas. Did know they would change color depending on mood until at a dance club in Germany with black lights and wearing a white shirt. They would glow bright green. mostly hazel now
One of my siblings has brown eyes, the other has blue eyes, one parent had brown, the other had blue.....I always thought mine were just a messy mix of everything, now I realise Hazel isn't so bad.
I'm a California girl with hazel green eyes. I'm of Scots Irish descent on my mother's side and Swedish on my father's side (if he was telling the truth).
To be honest, when I was younger I was so jealous of my mother's beautiful blue eyes...they were stunning. However, as an adult I am very proud of my hazel eyes. My husband of 25 years still says my eyes are my most devastating feature. And I'm totally cool with that!
Embrace the Hazel!! 👀 😂
Devastating?!!
@@FlackinA2it’s a compliment 😊
Same heritage here . Hazel eyes
Same - I’m a California girl too with hazel eyes, (but just moved out-of-state) and my mom and dad had brown eyes. My dad was Irish/Scottish and my mom is Italian and Austrian. I’m a mutt ! 😊
I'm Scott Irish Welsh descent. Hazel eyes. Bunch of blue eye rellies. Apart from mum. Oh grandma what have you been up to? 😊
My friend who has very interesting Hazel eyes has streaks of red in her iris. I've never seen any eyes like this. It's beautiful.
The red in her eyes is from pheomelanin which is the same type for red hair
I had a friend with green eyes that had like little streaks of orange. No joke! Very interesting and cool!
My hazel eyes have that too.
My father had such eyes. I thought he was he only one!
Yes my uncle has crazy hazel eyes that are like dark olive green with red stripes on the Iris
Sixth generation Australian here, living right on top of the Tropic of Capricorn. I am of black Irish and Scots descent, with green dominant hazel eyes, as do most of my seven siblings. One brother has blue eyes.
also black Irish, in the US. hazel eyes started out as blue then turned hazel. this seems good but all the repair tissue on my body (scratches, cuts) came in white without much melanin so after about 50 my skin looks like mortadella. I have basal cell cancer that must get frozen off every 6 months, due to this genetic situation. Also, on my father's side (Irish, dutch, French) he has had all manner of eye maladies: wet eye, dry eye, macular degeneration, basal cell cancer. Keep a look out for those in the event your condition is similar.
@fiona Could it be that your blue eyed brother takes after the family milkman ? Further investigation may be necessary .
I’m also Irish. Born and bred on the island of Ireland and the first time I heard of Black Irish was when an Australian who I meet in France described me as such. My sister’s daughter had a dna test done and was disappointed to learn she was 99% indigenous Irish. I have had Pakistani and Indian people ask me which family and place in Pakistan and India do I come from. 🤣
@@Oluinneachain Why would she be disappointed ? Should be proud.
@@redrumrabbit she has dark brown eyes , sallow skin and as she doesn’t fit the stereotypical image of what native Irish people look like, she was hoping to find some “foreign “ heritage that would explain that. Romantic exoticism. But the DNA demonstrates that, especially in Cork and Kerry, the legacy of the Anatolian farmers maintains.
I have Hazel eyes, If i'm wearing green, my eyes look green. If i'm wearing blue, my eyes look blue .
Same for me. Sometimes they appear different colors depending on my mood or if I’m not feeling well
U.S.A. Female here. I’ve got hazel eyes too. Italian on my father’s side, French and Native American on my mother’s side. Throughout the years, I’ve had photographers tell me I have beautiful eyes. From the center, there is a burst of golden brown blending into yellowish green, transitioning into grayish blue, ending with a darker blue rim on the outside. When I cry, the colors appear to deepen, or they seem to shift hues. It is pretty cool!
Same here 😮😊❗👋
My son was born with light brown hair and tootsie roll dark eyes. By time he was 5, his hair got darker, and his eyes lighter. By 16, he had black hair and my green based hazel eyes. Beautiful combimation.
I had never heard of this till my daughter! Her eyes were dark brown as a kid but became lighter and lighter and are hazel green. Very cool to hear of some one else with this experience as it comes from husbands side!
Mine changed a lot also.
I had strawberry blond hair and blue eyes as a baby. The older I got the darker my hair got. My eyes are crazy. Blue ring on the outer and the inner has grey/brown with flakes of gold. So I never know what to check. Coworker asked me one day. I was like. I have no idea. I said really look at them. She is like those are crazy colors. I got the left overs.
@@ceceliagettemy2906 I had dark brown eyes when I was young, but sometime in the past 10 years they lightened up and began to turn a green-brown. Yep, my daddy had hazel eyes.
@@kristinakilby6798my eyes are the same. Changes depends upon color of clothing and much greener if I cry.
Green hazel eye gang
YES!! Mine appear green with yellow or gold around the pupil. How about you?
When I was in middle school a group of girls got in trouble for making a "Book of Bests". In essence a book that rated people and their features in our classes. I found out I won "Prettiest Eyes". I have Hazel green eyes, which often look pure green when the sun hits them. I didn't realize they were rare. Not that it really matters but it's interesting. Thanks for the vid buddy.
I'm 52 and today years old when I found out I have hazel eyes. So thanks for that. I feel special now.
I knew they were lighter than brown but nowhere as light a green or amber (which is what I thought hazel was). I think there's a lot more hazel eyed people around but we report them as brown on our legal documents. I can understand how people in vastly brown eyed countries would report theirs as different and mark them as hazel. Mine are swampy green, with rust center sunflowers, and gold ribbons.
There isnt just one shade to brown eyes. Brown eyes range from light brown to really dark near black like some Asian and Sub Saharan people have. Cant even differentiate the iris from the pupil. Mine are brown but when i look in the mirror i can the pattern in my iris and theres a darker ring around the outside perimeter of my iris.
But yeah i get what you mean, my ex has hazzel eyes, she reckons she has brown eyes, i thought she did too until obe day she sent me a closeup photo of her eye and her eyes are actually a blend of brown and dark green.
Hello! We’re the same age, and same eye colour. 🎉
54 and have never seen a form with an appropriate box for my eye color...i honestly dont think green/brown hazel is that uncommon a color...its just not well documented,or more precisely it's constantly misdocumented..hazel is not a color,it's rarely on any forms or an accepted answer...and you have to choose one..but if you look,tons of people have it..but are saying they have brown or green,i've done it myself...actual full green is way less common in my experience,as is blue for that matter..but I guess that might depend on your local populations genetics
@CrashAndBurnProductions My brother has pure green eyes. I'm Spaniard. Half my family, , (aunties, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews) have either blue eyes or green. My father had amber eyes. So does my other brother.
Hazel green eyes here.
From US North Carolina. Have Native American roots and others as well. Always have people commenting on them!!
Glad to be part of the 5%‼️
Chippewa here!!😊
I have hazel eyes and I'm from South Eastern Europe. I believe you have 0 blood type too😂
Me too, but I'm from GA !!
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Hello cousins! Haida and Tlingit from my grandfather's side and Apache, Cherokee, Choctaw and Blackfoot on my grandmother's. Hope you all are all well!
Hazel eyes here, from US. Dad (from Cuba) had green/hazel eyes, his mom (my grandma) was a Spaniard with green eyes
Dark Hazel here. French, Scottish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Bohemian, and Finish.
Beautiful mixture. German-Finnish here, plain blue eyes.
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My mother was Italian and my father was Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English and Dutch/German. He had blue eyes that sometimes looked green. I have green hazel eyes, as I've gotten older they have become greener. My daughter has more brown hazel, her daughter started out very blue but now has very pale yellow(almost white) not gold) rays coming out from the pupils. Very beautiful. New baby has dark green almost teal green but no brown or gold. Their Dad has darker blue eyes that sometimes look green. So we will be watching to see how they change.
Green eyes stay the same from birth.
@@andreafong9952 Yes, true green eyes, but my hazel eyes have possibly lost melanin with age, scientifically I don't know why, but the green in my hazel eyes are now the predominant color rather than the golden brown.
@@adriennelaf5083Yes I think that happens but maybe someone knows for sure. Brown eyes tend to get darker based on my children’s eyes.
@@adriennelaf5083I have had the same experience, I’m 50 and the brown ring around my pupil is much smaller than it was when I was younger. Neither of my parents nor any of my four siblings have hazel eyes 🤷♀️
I looked it up and the science says some eyes get lighter with age due to loss of melanin. My Dad's blue geen eyes got lighter as well.
I have Hazel eyes, but they were brown when I was much younger. Father had Blue eyes and is from Wales, Mother has Brown eyes and is from Yorkshire. So, mixed Celtic/Norse ancestry and have Hazel eyes, oh I'm called Hazel as well. :)
When I was little I also had brown eyes but they turned hazel. The North of England, just above Yorkshire.
Mine changed from brown to hazel too. Mom and dad have blue.
Oh, and as an aside, my best dog ever was also named Hazel. A black and tan coonhound.
Very nice to meet you Hazel!
Heye Hazel!
Interesting, I Also have a Celtic (Scotland) mother and a Nordic (North East England, Family name ends in "son") and I too have Hazel eyes! One of them has a freckle on the iris.
Hazel eyed woman here! My eye color is a great feature! Yet, I didn't always think this... Salute to you all! ♥️🎻😎
Same here!
I have hazel eyes, from the USA here. I am told they change color depending on my mood, clothing, the light. I have a thick dark grey ring around the outside, green and then small amount of brown,amber around the pupils. My mother had blue eyes and my father has one brown eye and the other is almost black. Our heritage is Irish, German, English and Native American. I am the only one in my family with hazel eyes, everyone else is brown or blue.
Same as my his change it s crazy 😊
hazel green eyes with golden flecks that definitely appear to shift hues at times ~ both my parents have blue: dad's background's irish & welsh, mom's is irish & scottish - but my grams always asserted *not* scotch irish
Okay you can't leave me hanging. What did grams mean? What's the difference between scots irish and irish & scottish?
@@evanunez8833 scotch irish is an american term that originally refered to ulster scots who immigrated after they, although oppressed in their own right, helped colonize norn iron at the expensive of native irish folks
as my grams irish family came over on coffin ships during an gorta mor aka the great hunger aka the attempted genocide whitewashed & misrepresented as "the potato famine" they weren't too keen on ulster scots
my grams scottish family had also come over on coffin ships during the highland clearances so understandably didn't like being confused with the lowlanders who conspired with their enemies
so basically both sides of her family had suffered horribly partly due to the actions of ulster scots therefore it was important to all of her family they not be mixed up with the ulster scots/scotch irish despite most americans not really getting how or why they were distinct
i'm just an american mutt but out of respect for my late gram's insistence i always note it, lol. though i also tend to not get on the best with unionists 😬 but the craic's usually 90 with irish republicans & those who identify as norn irish
I have inherited my dad's greenish hazel eyes. Some people have said my eyes were brown, one person said my eyes were green. I can see a lot of green in my eyes. Both my mum and sister have brown eyes my brother's eyes are blue/ gray. Quite a mix up in our family
I have hazel. Dad is blue-eyed dutch, , mom's Indonesian background is actually predominantly Indian according to dna tests that a couple family members on her side took.
Very interesting! I have Hazel Eyes and from Australia…my mother is Spanish. Mine are multi coloured green with gold flecks that change colour with the weather.
My father had Hazel eyes. His mother had brown eyes and she was of Anglo/Irish background. His father was of German/Danish and English background and had blue eyes. They were both Australian born.
I'm beginning to think that sometimes mixing the brown and the blue genes create the hazel. That seemed to happen in many families, including my own.
Hi! I have Hazel eyes with the Hazel burst and mossy green surrounding. My Mother has extremely dark brown eyes and my Dad has vivid blue like the color of the Mediterranean Sea. I am a blend of Scottish/ Spanish and Native American. Thank you for this informative video!
I have the brown sunburst also as fir the rest of my eyeballs never figured it out... at 63 no matter how I scrutinise them in the mirror can neither call it blue green grey its like a mosaic of all three.
I have hazel eyes, and neither of my parents nor my sister have had. My father had brown eyes, my mother had blue/grey eyes, and my sister has brown eyes. None of my ancestors, at least for a thousand years, came from the Iberian peninsula, North Africa, nor the Middle East, though I was born and raised in California, which is at a similar latitude. When I was young (I'm now 75) my eyes looked brown except in strong light when the green was visible. Over the years my eyes have become lighter to where now they look hazel even in low light conditions. For what it's worth, my skin tone is very pale but, before I went grey, my hair was a very dark brown, so the distribution of melanin is uneven.
Ever since childhood I was told that my eyes are yellow like a lions eyes… but maybe they are in fact hazel? Looking very closely they are a pale green in the background with golden/amber specks fanning out from the pupil. The iris has a teal coloured ring around it. I never saw anybody else with my eyecolour. My father had pale green/grey eyes, my mother hazel. Interesting story my father told: hush-hush tales of “a spanish soldier and a girl in the family” in 1808 or so.. the wars with Napoleon. I have no evidense, but my fathers mother had dark brown eyes an jet black hair, and more family members with very dark eyes and hair. I am from Denmark where blue eyes are the most common. Thank you for very interesting information😃
I once had a friend with this yellow apearing eyes, I never forgot these eyes. It is 40 years ago. Just love it because it is so very rare and very special.
That’s interesting as my father was told he had the eyes of a lion. My mother had hazel eyes and mine are blue.
My eyes are pretty close to yours, but maybe a little darker. I also have a teal ring around the outside, with orange ring inside next to the pupil and green/brown inbetween with gold flecks. Often people perceive them as light brown, until the light hits and they’re like “oh wait, that’s not brown!” 😂
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My eyes have gold around the iris then light green and a darker green rim. I have only seen two other people with my exact eye color. One was a girl on the cover of National Geographic and the other on a box of hair dye. Both were very beautiful. I have been told many times how striking my eyes are. I feel blessed to have them.
Mine are the same … 💕💕💕
I have green dominant hazel eyes❤ I love them😊
Hazel eyes here....wow...so impressed at this vid popping up outta nowhere...thank you, my Guides and the Universe! As I do my soul work in this Moment....I didn't know I am in 5% of the population with these ocular resonances. Thank you! The eyes are the window to the Soul.
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I have hazel eyes. One of my children has hazel eyes. My father had hazel eyes when I was young but his eyes have changed color. My dad is in his 80's, he's very healthy and physically fit. His eyes have slowly changed color and are now very light translucent grey blue. Our ancestry is predominately British/Scottish.
I’ve also had my eyes change color over the years. Until a few years ago I had very dark brown eyes. People have asked if I was wearing colored contacts because they were so dark. About six or seven years ago I noticed that the color was lighter and it has continued to change until today I have a light hazel color that will appear to lean towards blue depending on the color of the blouse I’m wearing.
My father's eye color changed from brown to blue.
Our family also came from Ireland(mostly). We have a lot of hazels, but more interesting is alot of aqua blue/Grey eyes. I see this in a few other families in our village and almost nowhere else. Very unusual for me to ever see that color eye anywhere else.
Is this an Irish trait?
Your eyes do lose pigment as you age.
Both my half sister (my father's side) and I have hazel eyes from our father. My father's recent heritage is German and Norwegian. We are all light skin, dark brown curly to wavy thick hair. I didn't know about the term hazel eyes, and it seemed no one else was familiar with the term, because when I gave description of brown/green eye color on forms, l would just get assigned one color or the other, more often brown because the green is a dark green. My eye color is about 50/50. I would not be surprised if many people with hazel eyes were incorrectly documented over the years by busy workers who didn't care and just wanted to get their paperwork done. So good luck figuring out the statistics of eye color.
We are 4 generations of hazel eyes as i know of but our family has been from norway for hundreds of years. This is interesting😊
My brother has green eyes colour.
They are unique and lovely just like him ❤
Hazel eyes here. Mom had the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen, dad's were practically black. I have what I call mood eyes. More green or brown depending on the day and what color top I'm wearing.
My Dad had those black eyes! Technically Hazel but the rest of us were much lighter. My brother was almost blue with a black speck.
Same here 😊
I have green hazel eyes. I was born in Canada from Northern Italian parents. Very interesting video, thank you.
My son had beautiful hazel /amber eyes. He was born with blue eyes, but at 8 months, they began to change. They were so beautiful.
Exactly like my son. He has hazel eyes. So do I . Grandma & grandpa from Russia. They flew the 1917 bolchevique revolution to Iran.
That happened to my son. My hubby and I have brown eyes!
They always change me too
That happened to my daughter I have brown eye but my husband has blue eyes. her eyes grey when she was born later they became green and later on her edges of her iris still has blue or grey streaks that look more green while the center of her eye was more amber. It's definitely very pretty under light you can see the colors while indoor it's harder to see.
My eyes were blue for nine months, then they changed to hazel. They look grey/green in bright sunlight.
Thanks for the video, and I'm in this eye color club too.
My version: green with a sort of gold starburst in the middle.
My older sister and I (my sister passed (R I P)) have hazel eyes. I remember her eyes usually looking kinda brown and mine looking green. As I got older, I kept being told by women about my beautiful blue eyes. It always seemed weird, cause I was used to seeing myself as green eyed. But, it did seem to change growing up and I admit if the light is from the right angle and bright (like sunlight) my eyes do look bright blue.
Funny how that works! I never realised hazel was an option until today and I'm surprised by the similarities people around the world are experiencing about this (my) eye colour. I too have always been complimented about my big blue eyes but they're grey / green with brown around the pupil 😂
I have hazel eyes. They turn green when happy and blue when sad. 😊 People can tell what my emotions are.
I have the same effect. Happy green. Also I find I can enhance the green by focusing on it.
Same here, I call them mood eyes haha. My eyes also change colour depending on what colours I'm wearing or how much light is hitting them. Both of my eyes are slightly different colour to eachother too, one is more brown and the other is more green
Yes, I can wear blue or green eyeshadow to pull out the color that I want. That can go for clothes as well.
Lol.. interesting. While I was single if someone told me my eyes looked golden I'd immediately reply.. time for me to go to the house... alone. Mine change as well, no blue in that mix though.
I also refer to my hazel eyes as mood eyes. My kids could always tell what mood I was in my looking at my eyes. I rarely had to raise my voice, all I had to do was look at them, lol.
I am a green hazel-eyed daughter of two blue eyed parents from Ireland, I have six siblings all with blue eyes (with a strong resemblance to my father!) I always thought of them as boring, what fun to discover this
I always thought 2 blue eyed parents always had blue eyed children. 🤔 maybe s secret there 🫢
@@Auntiehoney217 no that's high school genetics and it's incorrect. Eye colour is a lot more complex than just recessive and dominant genes. So though rare it is possible to have non- blue eyed children from blue eyed parents. I got this information from a geneticist btw.
My mom had green eyes. My husband and I have blue eyes and our daughter has hazel eyes but she has a blue ring around the outside. My side of the family is mostly European and Iberian. My husbands family is mostly European and a 1/4 American Indian. Its interesting how our background expresss itself through our daughter
I have hazel eyes but my birth certificate says brown. Teal blue brings out the amber in them and it’s beautiful. Mine are brown in the center, yellowish amber mostly with a green outline. My mothers were hazel. Very green with gold. They almost looked like stripes. Beautiful.
Yep - I have hazel eyes and thank you for confirming this for me. My heritage is Scottish/Irish primarily.
My daughter has such gorgeous hazel eyes. She got them from her beautiful birth mother, who is a mix of Peruvian and Danish - that mix of blue with brown eye genes.
Hazel eyes here from the Philippines, but with Filipino, Spanish, Norwegian and Chinese ancestry. Mostly brown for me and my mother, but my cousin who is half Australian has mostly green Hazel eyes that always change colour and are amazing to look at.
United States here with hazel eyes , green and brown, I’ve been told by many people that they sometimes change to brown and blue. I finally saw it myself in a mirror after being told of this phenomenon. I still am not sure what causes the change but most of the time it was during amorous activities or times of joy.
My husband’s eye color has changed as he’s aged. At 32, his eyes were a medium ( milk chocolate) brown. Now, at 74, his eyes are hazel, with green being the dominant color.
me too!
This has happened to my son as well. He reached adulthood and his doe brown eyes change to green hazel with green being predominant. I have blue hazel eyes and that runs in my family, blue hazel is most dominant, but some green hazel. .y sons father has brown eyes, but his sister has green hazel. Blue hazel and green hazel seems to be the most dominant eye color on both sides. My oldest son has blue eyes, my second son has green hazel eyes and my youngest had brown eyes but are now green hazel. Crazy. I never thought eye color could change like that. Thank you for sharing this.
Same brown to hazel green
Same with my cousin! At 35 now dark hazel with green, but when younger dark brown eyes
My eyes color also changed from brown to hazel green over the years as was getting older
I always assumed mine were in the brown category. Mine are a darkish olive green with brown just in the centres. I didn't think they were light enough to be considered hazel! Very interesting! :)
I love Scotland!!!!!! Long live Scotland. My ancestral home!!
My husband has hazel eyes; I have clear blue eyes. Our daughter had a combination hazel of blue and green----very beautiful!
I was born with hazel eyes. They turned green as I got older.
Mine too, they used to only change in summer, now green all the time. I’m just thankful I can still see. Lol
Mine are hazel with a blue rim but go bright green when I cry
I never would have guessed it! I might have thought you had medium- dark blue eyes. Not light(agua) like most people associate with when they think blue but dark blue.
Yeah... I guess it is age and diet as well.
I have hazel eyes. My dad was a blue eyed redhead (carrot top) and my mum brown eyed with dark brown hair. I was born in southern England. I have lived in subtropical Australia now for nearly 60 years and my eyes have changed colour at different times in my life. They were brown/green growing up but now they are more bluish. At one time they were mostly brown. I have always felt special having hazel eyes. Thanks for this information.
I'm from Spain and have hazel eyes. They're green underneath with a golden brown burst (they also have some reddish brown spots). Hazel eyes are a lot of fun because they change color according to light and what you wear. I'm into makeup and like to create different looks to showcase the green or the brown. Some people are surprised to suddenly see the green when they thought my eyes were brown. One of my friends told me my eyes' color was "green honey" ("verde miel"). So poetic! 😍😂
Hazel Green here. Love how my eyes change color to match what I'm wearing 😊
My three nephews and one niece have such interesting coloring: two are blue-eyed blondes, one has brown eyes and auburn hair, and one has Titian (red/gold) hair and bright green eyes. What an interesting mixture for one family.
My husband and I have 4 kids. He's blue eyed with almost black hair. I'm blue eyed, brown haired. My kids are brown/auburn haired and dark brown eyed, light brown haired green eyes, dark brown hair light brown eyes, very blonde with bright blue eyes. Genetics are much more complex than we're told in highschool
@@lauradon8603 What color eyes did the milkman have? 😄 Kidding!
I think the lack of research on hazel eyes is simply because they are defined by what they are not (blue, grey, green, brown) rather than what they are. They also have a greater ability to look different in different levels of light due to iris size; so they are just more difficult to nail down. To be honest I think the difference between amber and hazel is just semantic rather than melanin relative.
No. Amber eyes are almost a vaguely orangey brown, and quite light compared to brown eyes. Hazel eyes are beautifully multicolored in a million different arrangements, including flecks or rings of amber, gold, green, blue, grey, orange, and even small bits of red, but with a lot of other variety too, and from a distance they look like they are on the darker end of the scale.
The distinguishing characteristic of hazel is the multicolors, in all different kinds of arrangements. Amber does not have that. Hazel usually (almost always) contains some dark colors, like dark brown or dark green, so much so that they are often called brown or green by people who don't know about the term hazel. If those people have to choose a term for the color, they feel they need to pick something that is in that persons eyes and is common, something everyone would recognize the word for. So because the overall feel is dark, even if there are light flecks, they say the eyes are brown or green.
My husband used to say his eyes were green, but I called them brown. Later we learned about hazel, and his eyes do fit that description to a T. I have seen people with amber eyes too, and it's very common among cats and horses. But many (or most?) people are not aware that the word amber can be applied to eyes, so that term doesn't often get used.
Adding to the problem is the fact he mentioned (in his beautiful Scottish accent) that eye color can change a lot due to several different influences, like age, cloudy skies, sunlight, artificial light, clothing, background, etc. Sadly I have grey eyes that are as boring as heck! 😉 ✌🏼
@@cattymajiv I think I'd largely agree with you, however eyes rarely, in people who have Indo-European (I realise that this is an ethno-language term) extraction have eyes of a singular colour, even though they are called blue or brown. I think the point I was trying to make, maybe unclearly, was we generalize with our language regarding eye colour and just go with the predominant colour.
Nothing wrong with grey eyes. My father had grey eyes, or was it just the dreich Scottish skies reflecting in them 😁
I think that the 5%ers are all here in this comment section!
I may have mentioned this in one of your other eye color videos, but I do have the dual color form of hazel eyes, with a brown ring in the middle and a dark jade green on the outside, though it is not very obvious except under bright lighting conditions. I imagine most people who note such things probably think they are are brown on casual inspection.
Amazing. That's exactly how mine are
My oldest son has hazel eyes. They change from green/gold to green, depending. Beautiful. :)
Mine are hazel, I usually get people saying they are green or brown, but depending on lighting I get people saying they are blue on occasion, and sometimes they turn grey in photos.
I have hazel -green eyes - my mother hazel-brown and my daughter hazel -brown. My dads were brown along with my brothers. We have very mixed ancestry on both sides. Dads being English,Sri Lankan,German;Japanese; mums being French, Mid European, English, with other little bits from all over . My haplo group is a North African Berber tribe from 10,000 years ago… my eyes change to bright green when I cry or am angry - they have an olive green ring around the outside, a flared amber ring around the pupil and flecks of yellow and green between the two but with an overall look of green…. Lol 😂 Emma; UK
I have hazel eyes, green with brown. My ancestors are from England, Ireland, Wales and Italy. Generations are Texans. My parents had brown eyes. Now I know what ‘hazel’ means.
I have hazel eyes. In Canada. My northern Italian mother had green eyes, and my dark British father had brown eyes. My eyes were brown as a young child but lightened to hazel.
My father Portuguese has hazel eyes, my daughter Portuguese/mixed and mother is Mostly Native American Mexican and my daughter has hazel eyes. I have blue eyes
I have hazel eyes, mostly amber with some green. I also have a ring around the outer edge that can appear grey or brown under various conditions. On the rare occasions that I wear makeup, I tend to wear a green eyeshadow to bring out the greens. Also, I have a mix of Celtic (Scots), French, and English backgrounds.
Hazel here, kind of nice. They do change shade depending on environmental conditions. I'm in Texas, third generation.
Interesting video! I am Black Canadian, born of Jamaican parentage. My maternal grandmother's father was of mixed heritage (European and Black). My grandmother had many siblings. All have brown eyes with the exception of one of my mother's uncles who has striking hazel eyes. When I realized this, I just assumed that, somewhere in our European lineage, there was a person or many people with blue or green or hazel eyes. Unfortunately, I will never know the answer, but it's cool to think about it! ✌🏾
I have hazel eyes. They're typically mostly brown but when I'm emotional, tired, or in higher elevation, the green becomes more apparent. My mom has wintergreen (blueish green) eyes and my dad has brown.
Hello, when I've been out in the sun my eyes more Hazel for an hour or so... 😊
I do have hazel eyes. A few people notice that difference. It is different. I eventually got used to this color. Took time.
I have hazel eyes. Other than 13% of my DNA origins (per Ancestry DNA) being from central France, the rest is all England (34%), Scotland (24%), Ireland (18%), and Scandinavia (11%). I've traced my family tree back through the 1400's so I'm pretty confident that these percentages are on target.
Hazel eyes from the US here! Of Lebanese and Polish mixed descent. My eyes are my favorite feature, brown in the center, green and gold flecks in a dark blue ring.