quote:Originally posted by Sullen Moon: Adding to the emotion color-change theory:
My eyes are a pretty average shade of green most of the time and can look a little more vibrant if I'm wearing green clothing. But what's really freaky is when I cry they turn REALLY bright green with a dark green ring around the edge. I wish I didn't have to cry to get them to look like that!
Mine do that too! the color is beautiful, but it comes with a price of moisture and red eyelids. And here I thought I was the only one...eleventyeleven!!11!!!
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My eyes are a medium-light brown, but turn a deep gold (the best comparison I can make is a brand new penny or the color of Captain Morgan's Gold (I have a bottle on my desk)) when I get REALLY REALLY angry. When my friends see my eyes that color, they know to stay the NFBSK away. I'll see if I can't post a pic of my eye color. That might be an interesting deviation- pics of your eye color!
ETA: The Eyes Have It (close up of my eyes, if you want to see what they look like normally)
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My eyes are hazel most of the time. But, when I am angry or really excited they are green, when I am sick or sad they are grey and when I am "in the mood" they are blue. My eye doctor said that very few people have mood eyes but,it does happen.
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My eyes are green with a distinct hazel ring round the pupil that gets smaller when I'm upset and disappears altogether when I'm very angry...but I guess that's because my pupils might be more dilated than usual as a primitive mechanism to prepare for a fight when I'm angry.
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quote:Originally posted by Sullen Moon: Adding to the emotion color-change theory:
My eyes are a pretty average shade of green most of the time and can look a little more vibrant if I'm wearing green clothing. But what's really freaky is when I cry they turn REALLY bright green with a dark green ring around the edge. I wish I didn't have to cry to get them to look like that!
Mine do that too! the color is beautiful, but it comes with a price of moisture and red eyelids. And here I thought I was the only one...eleventyeleven!!11!!!
Yay for us!!!
I wonder if they look more green because of the redness... but that still doesn't explain the dark circle... Oh well.
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I always thought the dark circle had something to do with how tired your eyes are.
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quote:Originally posted by ThistleS: I always thought the dark circle had something to do with how tired your eyes are.
I don't think so. If that were the case, I'd have been exhausted for the last 39 years: I have (very) pale blue eyes with dark gray rims around the irises, always have. Julia Kitten is the same, only hers aren't as pale as mine.
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Mosherette: I could be very wrong, but I think that the first pic you posted was re-colorized. I seem to remember the dress being a pale green in the original.
Again, from fuzzy memory, I remember an article about Liz saying that her eyes were dark blue, that they just appeared violet with the lighting of the early Technicolor films. If you've seen any of the "behind-the scenes" docs about..say Gone With the Wind, and they show how the costumes looked under normal lights, and how they ended up looking on film, sometimes the colors were wildly different.
Along the same lines: I'd posted this one ages ago. Does anyone know what color Marilyn Monroe's eyes were?? Most sources say blue, but the pics of her that have appeared in Playboy recently (Once this past year, once about 4 years ago) they looked very brown. (Specifically the one of her nude looking from behind a sheer scarf.)
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quote:Originally posted by Sullen Moon: I wonder if they look more green because of the redness... but that still doesn't explain the dark circle... Oh well.
My eyes do the same thing, but they're normally grey-ish blue, and when I'm upset they turn a brilliant bright blue with a dark ring around them. I've always assumed it's some kind of optical illusion (but I wish I could keep that bright blue all the time!). Dark make-up just isn't the same
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In art, green and red are contrast colors. The more red in a painting, the more vibrant greens will be. So yes, the red eyes has something to do with how vibrant your eyes are.
I had a friend in high school whose eyes were a REALLY bright green without crying. A darker shade of that old soda called Surge, if anyone remembers that drink!
ETA: Looking around the room I'm in now...they were about the darker shade of green on a Mountain Dew can...
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::raises hand:: Yet another 'eye-color-changer' here. Officially, they're blue. However, if I wear pinks or reds, they'll turn green. Blacks and grays, they turn gray.
And to bring Liz Taylor back into this, when I was little, one of the neighbors told my mom that I was going to be the next Elizabeth Taylor when I grew up. My mom asked why, and the neighbor said, "Those lovely violet eyes? Who else in the world has them?" So this neighbor at some point happened to glance at my eyes when they looked violet. (Which they've done on *very* rare occasion, and there's no consistency as to what will cause that.)
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Hopping on, Mine are grey, sometimes darkening to blue. My aunt's (not related by blood) are hazel, with rings of purple and orange on the inside and outside of the iris. They will noticibly change size and intensity with what she's wearing; she'll put on a jacket, and you can watch them change in about 30sec.
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To this day, I'm not sure what color my eyes are. Three people looking at my eyes at exactly the same time will announce three different colors--gray, blue, and green. Yes, this has actually happened. They're kind of a pale color, but, as I'm very fair, it looks okay.
DH2B has the most beautiful eyes in the world. By the pupil, they're a dark brown, which fades to a light brown, which fades to green, which fades to pale blue, all of which is surrounded by a ring of very dark blue. He has rainbow eyes. I hope all of our future children have them.
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quote:Originally posted by ThistleS: I always thought the dark circle had something to do with how tired your eyes are.
I don't think so. If that were the case, I'd have been exhausted for the last 39 years: I have (very) pale blue eyes with dark gray rims around the irises, always have. Julia Kitten is the same, only hers aren't as pale as mine.
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But mightn't a dark circle that was sometimes there and sometimes not have to do with eye fatigue?
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Dark circles [i]under]/i]the eye can be caused by fatigue, among other things.
My eyes are gray-blue and sometimes take on the color of what I'm wearing, especially dark olive greens and dark purples. DD's eyes are similar.
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I've been trying to google for more info about dark circles around the iris, and I have not come up with anything that indicates that it has to do with fatigue. I'm guessing I misheard or misunderstood something about dark circles under the eye. If anyone knows anything about those gray circles around the iris I would be very interested to learn about them.
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I have what people (meaning, lotr geeks) refer to as "frodo eyes" mostly a really shiny plugged-in-the-socket blue. My hair color effects my eyes as well. When I'm pink, they're bright blue, when I'm brown or blonde they're grey, Green hair makes them an icy blue/green
Occasionaly I can "trick" my eyes into changing color. Cry for five minutes in the morning and I'll have grey eyes all day. Get lots of sleep and drink a lot of orange juice, bright blue.
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I have eyes that change colors, similar to what others here have mentioned, however, one is blue, and they other is grey. In photos, they nearly always show up this incredible blue that my eyes never actually seem to turn to in real life, and, occasionally, they look violetish, but they are always a shade off: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/sugarpinkkisses/manyeyecolors.jpg (wallpaper I just made with a sampling of these colors)
But I have something none of you have. I've got a patch of brown in my left eye so nya
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That's cool. Is it a hereditary thing? One parent's eyes blue, the other's brown? My mother has blonde eyelashes on one eye and brown on the other.
As I mentioned, my mother's eyes are a grey-blue and my dad's are green.
My eyes in goth make-up; this is my signature pic on the message boards where I admin/moderate. My eyes in my regular day-to-day make-up.
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quote:Originally posted by Frog_Feathers: That's cool. Is it a hereditary thing? One parent's eyes blue, the other's brown? My mother has blonde eyelashes on one eye and brown on the other.
As I mentioned, my mother's eyes are a grey-blue and my dad's are green.
My eyes in goth make-up; this is my signature pic on the message boards where I admin/moderate. My eyes in my regular day-to-day make-up.
It's a mutation of a regular gene. Alexander the Great had a dark brown one, but the mutation is incredibly rare. Having two different color eyes (again, the flash turns them both that weird blue, so it's hard to photograph) is also incredibly rare. So, having both of these things, I've got some of the rarest eyes in the world
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quote:Originally posted by Nocturnal Goddess: The Masquerade: It's a mutation of a regular gene. Alexander the Great had a dark brown one, but the mutation is incredibly rare. Having two different color eyes (again, the flash turns them both that weird blue, so it's hard to photograph) is also incredibly rare. So, having both of these things, I've got some of the rarest eyes in the world
My father has the same kind of eyes - his eyes are bluish-green and each eye has a large spot of rich brown. It's very interesting - I wish I had inherited it
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Also jumping on the eye color changing bandwagon. My sons eyes are a gunmetal gray color and will change with whatever color he is wearing. They're gorgeous.
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My eyes were dark brown when I was younger are now generally called "hazel" (I don't even know what that means) but now they are more brown in the morning and distinctly green in the evenings.
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I have changey eyes too. Some of my childhood photos my eyes are grey-green to steel blue, some dark blue-green, but a good majority of the time its green with a dark green rim. I haven't figured what changes them, except when i cry they can be pretty dark blue, or intensely green.
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My husband and I both have dark brown eyes. Our oldest son has bottle green eyes, another son has very light brown eyes, and our daughter's eyes are black, with no distinction between the iris and pupil. Genetics, huh?
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quote:Originally posted by Fantome: OMG, Mary Sue eyes!
Sorry.
LOL! That's the term I've been using lately for my eyes (while getting weird looks from the BF). Throughout my life, I've gone from blue to steel grey to hazel to aqua, before they finally settled to a green hue. But even so, the shade of green lightens and darkens constantly, with a hint of blue or grey thrown in every now and then.
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Frog Feathers-- I absolutely LOVE your eye color. If I were you I would accentuate it every chance I got! My eyes are odd, they don't change color but the are two different colors. The top half is brown, the bottom half is green. Very distinctly different. I freaked out my eye doctor when I went he was looking close up with the light then he would pull back then he would go in close again then go back out again and I asked if something was wrong (he was kinda freakin' me out) and he said, " do you know your eyes are two colors?!?!" I said why yes I do and he said he had never seen anything like that before, top brown, bottom green. I felt *special*, not short yellow bus *special* but special none the less.
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I have plain blue eyes, nothing special. DH has these fabulos light brown eyes that remind me of the picture of Davy on the cover of "Tiger Eyes". Child has these hazel eyes that has a small spot of chocolate brown on the left eye. My sister's kids have interesting eyes. My nephews eyes have not changed since he was born. They are this really cool steel color. My niece's eyes can be just about any color she wants. When she wears blue they are blue and green when she wears green. When she wears white, black, or grey they are grey, and when she wears violet or pink they look violet. The only color she can't make her eyes look is brown.
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When I'm happy my eyes are blue, when I'm mad they are blue. When I wear red they are blue and when I were green you guessed it blue. Man I got boring eyes.
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Right now, my eyes are blue with a bit of green around the pupil and gray around the rim. Whenever I've cried, they turn ice blue, and whenever I'm angry they're bright green. Normally they're very light.
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edited to get back on topic...I always thought Liz Taylor had very blue eyes.
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quote:posted by Repairman Jack I cannot give you a date but last year in the science section of the NY Times, they had a bit about whether peoples eyes could really change hues from emotion or clothing choices...and they found that in a few cases it was true.
My eyes are kind of bluey-greeney, but when I'm outside on a rainy day I often have people tell me they look grey. Also if I wear blue or green eyeshadow it makes my eyes look more of the other color (blue eyeshadow makes them look green, green makes them look blue). My mom is the same way.
That's my eye color(s) as well. Most of the pic cropped out because, well, my face was painted like a tiger.
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I knew a girl who had one blue eye and one green eye. They were strikingly gorgeous.
When I see Elizabeth Taylor, I ususally think her eyes look green. I'll have to watch National Velvet again and pay more attention to her eye color.
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quote:Originally posted by Elena: I knew a girl who had one blue eye and one green eye. They were strikingly gorgeous.
Growing up, I knew a woman who had two different color eyes. I remember one was blue, I'm not sure about the other one. I thought it was cool, but she apparently didn't, becuase she she started wearing colored contact lenses as soon as they became commercially available.
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