Where do green eyes come from?

My eyes. Lean close to the screen. They're very green.

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What many might not realize is that MANY middle eastern and mediterranean people have green eyes. My dad is middle eastern and has blonde hair and green eyes. my brother has green eyes. my boyfriend has green eyes...

i really dont think its all that rare. theres plenty of people with green eyes. i mean how would they know the percent of the population that has green eyes anyways? its not like they go door to door and do a survey on who has green eyes.

We just dont tend to see a whole lot of it in america but that doesnt mean its not in other parts of the world.

reply to post by calihan_12

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If I'm honest, I can't remember where I read this but green eyes are really common where races mix. The middle east is central to three different continents so it makes sense that green eyes would happen there. I also have a couple Indian friends with blue/green eyes.

Depending on where you are, green eyes are common. But globally, it's a really small percentage.

green is very different from hazel.

i think mine are hazel but people call them green elthough when you get close.

around the pupil there is an intense sunburst yellow, and the outter iris is a deep blue. so anywhere further then 4 feet away they are green. but thats just an optical illusion of distance + close colours melding. the same principle impressionist painters worked with.

so...are they green? or does that just mean they are hazel?

(yellow + blue = green)

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I wouldn't call them green, but then I'm a snob about green eyes. I would say that they sound beautiful and unusual. I wouldn't call them hazel either. For me hazel implies brownish green. From what you describe, I don't think there is a color for them. That's just how unique yours are.

I wouldnt say it is THAT unique, i wish i had a working camera so i could take a picture. photoshopppppppppp time.

im an artist and have done a study of eyes, only met 1 other person that have the same colour. . .

i did a 30 sec photoshop to an eye image on google. check em out. from far enough away that picture will appear green

Funny you should say that. My mother had green eyes and very dark hair while my daughter has green eyes and red hair. Our family history (both my mother's side and my father's side) going back 7 generations (it's tough to get back much further than that) is from south Ireland.

One of my nephews is blond with the bluest eyes I've ever seen. Obviously, he's Irish as well, but his mother is a Scot (which is essentially the same thing because the word scot originally meant "inhabitant of Ireland". When the Irish invaded north England and settled there, the English began to call it "land of the scots"). Other than that most of our family have brown eyes, which I think is more typical for Irish. But we all have green hats.

My eyes used to be bright blue until i was about 10 and now I have light green mixed with blue+a little yellow and dark brown hair. They kept changing over time, but when i was younger i remember they were not green AT ALL, ( ihave picstures) they were just blue.. and i never had any bits of yellow/brown in them..but both my parents have brown eyes, i think only my grandma has blueish eyes but thats it from my family how is this possible???