Eye Color Explained: Everything you know is wrong

Discover Magazine ^ | March 13, 2007 | Boonsri Dickinson

[Perdogg]

Famous Heterochromes

Alexander the Great
Anastasius I of the Byzantine Empire
Dan Aykroyd
Kate Bosworth
Michael Flatley
Louis Émile Javal
Mila Kunis
Oded Kattash
Tim McIlrath
Les Murray
Pacho O’Donnell
Max Scherzer
Jane Seymour
Kiefer Sutherland
Christopher Walken

[trisham]

I’m darker than the darkest, like rich columbian coffee. Or manure, depending on what I’ve just said to somebody...

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One of my friends back in the day was Sicilian. His eyes were almost black. I like the coffee reference, though. :)

[Allegra]

My parents and siblings all have brilliant, beautiful blue eyes.

Mine are pea-green. Iraqis have called me "eyuni bazuna." (Eyes of a cat.)

Go figure.

[Perdogg]

This is Mila Kunis

[Stonewall Jackson]

The daughter of one of my coworkers has cat eyes. Her pupils are vertical slits, similar to those of a cat. When she went up for her physical before joining the Air Force, the doctors thought she was wearing contacts.

[G8 Diplomat]

I once saw a picture of a Mongoloid girl with blond hair and brown eyes. Very unusual. I also saw a pic of a Pakistani kid with blue eyes and blond streaks in his dark hair. Although it's not *too* unusual for Pakis, Afghans, and Persians to have lighter hair and eyes; they are Indo-Europeans like you and me after all. You can even find Arabs with blue or green eyes, but it's rarer.

There are some pretty cool animals with blue eyes.

Zebra (copy & paste URL to see image at full size to better see the eyes):



Snake: (There was a really good pic w/a close-up of the eyes but I can't seem to find it)



Koala:

[Shire]

Never went back to the doctor, but believe me, I looked at them enough during the Pink Eye to know that they definitely changed color, and it was even obvious to people who know me and they noticed the change. They are not as light as they were after the Pink Eye. I had it in one eye then the other then back to the first one. That stuff nearly killed me! The eye color changed when a friend of mine had it, too.

Recent eye test and there is nothing wrong with my eyes.

[RedWhiteBlue]

Maybe 15 years ago, the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans had some white alligators with blue eyes — really freaky looking!

[G8 Diplomat]

Wow, that’s cool!

I once saw a picture of a blue-eyed white ferret as well, but now I can’t find it.

[wazoo1031]

They are NOT pea-green, you Moron! They are jade-turquoise (depending on if you’re pissed off or not)...and they are beautiful...

[wazoo1031]

However, they are green and awesome!

[Shadowstrike]

My eyes are green as grass.
lol

[MS.BEHAVIN]

My Mom was a green eyed red head, my Dad black haired with dark brown eyes.

I was a dark blonde (silver now) with green eyes (bright green like leaves on a tree).
My bro has beautiful hazel eyes that look blue depending on what he wears.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Same here.
*sigh*

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Hey you!
Long time no see!
I have seen your beautiful green eyes, and they do NOT look pea green!
They are about the same shade as mine!

[Monkey Face]

My son’s eyes are what his cousin’s wife from Chile called “honey eyes.” Almost a golden color. His dad’s eyes were blue.

And my six sibs ALL had the dark brown eyes of my mother. Not me, though!

[Daffynition]

[SunkenCiv]

Black Lab — the wellspring of the Nation of Islam. /weirdjk

[trisham]

My father had brown eyes and black hair. My mother had grey-blue eyes and brown hair. I have brown/auburn hair and blue-grey eyes.

My paternal and maternal grandfathers had brown/auburn hair and blue or blue-grey eyes.

[Daffynition]

*The eyes have it* ;)