I have green eyes and brown hair. I think my mom has green eyes too.
My dad and brother both have blue eyes. I guess I got my eye color from my moms side of the family, which is English/Irish. But I look a lot more like my dad who is from Hungary. Also When my brother was born he had bleach blonde hair till he was like 2 or 3 then it turned brown.

Originally posted by LostNemesis
Ya know, I think MOST red-heads have green eyes. Beyond that, I've wondered too. Seems me being the redhead, got green eyes.

While all the blondes in my family got Blue. Genetics is a funny thing.

Also, that it's extremely rare for a natural red-head to have anything BUT green eyes. What causes this?

both myself and my daughter are natural redheads, and while my eyes are an interesting mix of blue and green, hers are true beautiful blue. be careful when making sweeping statements. Ive also seen natural redheads with brown eyes.

my father has green eyes and black hair (but a red beard!). my sister has green eyes and brown hair. our heritage is celtic.

[edit on 10/6/08 by irishgrl]

Until I was nine, I had two blue eyes. Then one turned greenish and it's stayed that way. I used to use brown eyeshadow to try to disguise the eye-colour difference. I don't care about it now. Am used to it.

My children are twins. At birth they both had dark hair. My daughter's hair has remained dark but her eyes changed from sort of blue at birth, to hazel as a small child. In her late teens they started becoming more a true green, instead of the hazel. Now, she has clear green eyes, like pale green water. I think they're getting lighter as she gets older. She has porcelain skin. She had a full-length white hair when she was four years old.

My son's initial dark hair fell out. His next lot of hair was red, although the only proof now are his baby photos. Next, it became white blonde and remained that way almost to puberty. Now, his hair is a nice hazel-brown with occasional strands of blonde, black and white. He plays a lot of golf and the hair that isn't covered by his hat bleaches white blonde in the sun. His beard, when he hasn't shaved, is black, with strands of bright red. His eyes have remained true blue throughout. He has light to pink skin.

My children's father has hazel eyes and dark brown hair. In his immediate family are brown, green and blue eyed.

My parents were both blue eyed white blondes as children. Their eyes remained blue, but their hair became dark brown before adulthood.

My family is English, Irish and German but only my grandmother, 2nd cousin and myself have green eyes. All else has either brown or blue. My eyes have always been green and they are very very sensitive to light. When direct or filtered light hits them they get blurry and turn really green on the inside and yellow around the rim.
I think it's cool and my friends gets creeped out.

Originally posted by mateandbucky06
I remember reading something many years ago (I don't remember exactly when so don't quote me on anything) that some gypsies were weary of people with blue eyes. I remember something about that some thought that people with blue eyes could look into your soul. I think it was some random spiritual website or something. Sorry I can't be more informative. But thought it might be randomly interesting.

cool. so! this means, since i havent seen any souls in anyone as of yet, there is not such thing as souls! Which also disproves god!

lol just kidding. however i still want to see whatever else that site said.

Hi, I have heterochromia....in other words 2 different colored eyes....I have a grass green right eye and a $#@% brown left eye. I guess I am just half full of it. lol If anyone wants to see a pic u2u me and I'll hook you up.

Originally posted by Combatmed1
Hi, I have heterochromia....in other words 2 different colored eyes....I have a grass green right eye and a $#@% brown left eye. I guess I am just half full of it. lol If anyone wants to see a pic u2u me and I'll hook you up.

I messaged you!



Also, im conducting an experiment with the changing of eye color for myself atleast. just came back from a long while in 33c bright sunshine, right as i went inside i took a picture of my left eye. which looked like this (excuse the semi-bloodshot eyes, sun screen)



Tomorow morning (or later today if i deside to blindfold myself, ill take another shot of the same eye, to see if it did actually change in color. not to prove that an eye can change color, because we already know it can, simply seeing how drastic my change is because of UV rays

[edit on 6/10/08 by Ghost147]

On my fathers side of the family it's mostly blond hair and blue or brown eyes. On my mothers side it's usually brown hair with brown eyes except for my mothers sister, my aunt Katie. She has red hair with brown eyes. Her father, my grandfather, had red hair with brown eyes also. I started out with blond hair and blue eyes, then my hair turned dirty blond (dark but not brown) and my eyes change.. they'll be green one day and gray/silver the next and sometimes they turn a dark blue/green color. It's very strange and my family talks about it like it's an anomaly but I don't mind it really.

Where do green eyes come from? Ummm? Heaven? LOL! I really like green eyes. I'm quite envious (get it?) of people that have green eyes...all puns aside. I have poo brown eyes. Not interesting at all.

In the middle east, you find quite a few green-eyed people. My grandmother for example, is Iranian, has blonde hair and pale green eyes, all her 6 siblings are the same way too, as were both her parents.

She married a brown eyed/black haired man, and my father ended up with black hair and grass green eyes. My mother has brown hair and brown eyes, and my younger sister ended up with green/hazel eyes.

So, not to steer the topic...what is your take on amber eyes? Like a yellow-orange-gold color?

My eyes are that color, but I get lumped into the brown-eyed category...I believe amber eyes are as rare, if not rarer than green eyes, and probably violet eyes are the rarest (Albino's). I don't have a source for that, it is just something I heard. Anyone have any ideas about that?

I was born with flaming red hair and blue eyes but as I got older my eyes changed to hazel which is what I have now. My father had pure green eyes and my mom has deep blue eyes. My sister has blonde hair and dark blue eyes.

My eyes do change shades of green and brown, sometimes losing the colour of the other one completely, depending on my mood or what Im wearing.

I also must note that I am of European descent from Ireland- Father and Poland and German- Mother. Could this result in my hair and eye combination?

Originally posted by SciDoc


My eyes are that color, but I get lumped into the brown-eyed category...I believe amber eyes are as rare, if not rarer than green eyes, and probably violet eyes are the rarest (Albino's). I don't have a source for that, it is just something I heard. Anyone have any ideas about that?

Very pretty eyes you have.

I'd guess they are light brown? Otherwise maybe they are dark yellow? I don't know but I don't think I've every met anyone who actually has purple eyes. True albinos have pink eyes, btw.

[edit on 6-10-2008 by asmeone2]