Talk:Eye color

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What colour is this eye?

it is confusing as it seems to be brown yet it look somhow yellowish or olive-ish.--MeowKun 04:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

To me it looks brown with some lighter flecks, but the assessment of color is somewhat subjective as the article suggests. -AED 23:52, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Eye color changes?

I have green eyes and my dad has green eyes, my mom has dark blue eyes and my sister has brown eyes. I've always wondered why whenever it is dark like in a room or outside my eyes appear to be solid brown, I don't have any shade of brown in my eye and I have bright green eyes. So, why is this?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.217.87.171 (talk • contribs) 02:07, 16 November 2006 (UTC).

Distinct patterns of colors?

I'm looking for an explanation of my eye pattern/color. The background color of my eyes is a grey brown and there is a distinictive webbing pattern on top of this that is yellow. I haven't really seen this webbing pattern on anybody else except my dad (who has blue eyes with a light blue webbing on top). It looks to me to be completely separate from the background of the eye. To me, it seems that in others the color transitions slowly or that there are color stripes or rings coming out from the pupil. In addition,it often appears that mixed or ambigous eyes colors often have distinictive patterns. Obviously, I don't really know much about this except for personal observation, which is sketchy at best, so any other research supported information would be helpful.I couldn't find any simple explanations on the iris page; although, I think one of the discussions may have been related.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.173.88.77 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC).

Re: What colour is this eye?

Your eye looks completely brown to me, MeowKun.

Wild Mountain Thyme 23:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)Wild Mountain Thyme

Blue eye color doesn't change?

"Eye color usually stabilizes when an infant is around 6 months old." - This I have seen in almost all infants, most infants I have observed are born with blue eyes, most of these have later shifted into either green or brown (depending on the eye color of the parents (hooray for captain obvious)). Although further down in this article I found this statement: "As melanin production generally increases during the first few years of life, the blue eyes of some babies may darken as they get older. But never turn to a different color." - I was born with blue eyes, and so were all of my tree sisters (same parents, mother green-eyed and father blue-eyed). Me and my sisters all have green eyes... Lazersnus 09:29, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm kind of questioning that statement too. My older sister and parents all have the same dark brown eyes. I was born with really dark brown eyes, now they're greenish-brownish. I consider them to be hazel. My mom claims me and my sis are 12% European -- Italian or Portuguese -- so maybe that's why, but the statement should be removed or sourced? ― Sturr ★彡 ^Refill/lol 00:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

It does exist. Some people are born with blue eyes and they later turn green or brown, I have seen it, keep the statement.

Faris b 07:41, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

• 12% European. and the remaining 88%?! I had blue eyes until very late age, say 10 yrs old (then people said I had blue eyes, at least), now they are green, the colour can "change" due to light or cloth that I wear to lecture green (my favourite), military green, green, occasionally (rarely) they may seem grey or blue. My mother also said that I was born with very dark eyes (I never believed in her), but what sturr said made me remember that. I'm Portuguese (North) with 25% Brazilian (of Southern Europe descent, mostly Portuguese). my brothers all have different eye colours: Green, Brown and Blue. My Mom's eyes are brown, father's blue - all same parents. Those people with Aniridia seem to have alien eyes. That's cool :P. "-I'm alien!" "no, you're not!" and the guy takes off his glasses, and freaks out the other one. lol. --Pedro 21:01, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm 88% Chinese, 12% European. ― Sturr ★彡 ^Refill/lol 05:40, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Might she mean 12.5% European? As in an 8th? That would suggest one great-grandparent was european. If it is really 12%, I would wonder how on earth she could know that... Skittle 14:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

It is 12.5% -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Eurasian_%28mixed_ancestry%29#Um ― Sturr ★彡 ^Refill/lol 20:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Eye color changes depending on the mood/feeling of the person?

A couple days ago, in one of my classes we were talking about how some people's eye color changes if they are in a different mood or something like that. in example somebody said that her brother had brownish eyes, but when he got mad they went really dark. What would be causing this phenonmena? --Ampersand2006 ^{( & )} 23:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Could be the effect of increased blood flow to the face? Or perhaps simply a change in facial expression occluding light to the eyes? Extar 03:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

See the discussion below. It is postulated that hormones that are released in times of stress mimic melanogenic hormones, thereby altering eye colour. It would make sense, in this scenario, that they eyes got darker as they became more stressed, as melanocortins promote the production of dark, eumelanin. Rockpocket 03:58, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

I think the page still needs a litle fixing I removed the sentence "Tony Blair is gay" at the very beggining of the article,(of all the ways to spoof or insult a politician this one is rather lame) El Gostro 15:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Change in Eye-Colour by Substance

I have hazel green eyes, normally with little light, you can’t see much of my color, looks hazel, but more brown color is visible than green. With sunlight, you can see more green color in my eye. I use marijuana from time to time and I notice that it changes my eye color from normal (inside a room-normal lighting); to really green/hazel rich color (as if it was receiving natural sunlight). Is there a link (proof) to this? I suppose I’m not the first one to experience this. Joey 08:34, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I guess the obvious question is, who is observing the change in your eye colour after using marijuana? If it is you, yourself then you should consider the possibility that your preception of your eye colour has changed, rather than your eye colour itself. If an independent (and not high) observer is reporting the change, then it is indeed an interesting finding.

This is not direct evidence, but I do wonder if there is a link. Some treatments for glaucoma, such as prostaglandin analogs, are known to change eye colour in maybe 10% of patients. These combat glaucoma by increasing drainage of intraocular fluid, thereby lowering pressure. Its thought that prostaglandin acts on eye colour by mimicing a natural hormone that mediates melanin production. Here is the interesting part: people have reported that when they are ill or under stress that their eye color becomes darker or lighter. A modified version of the pigmentary hormones are also produced during stress (and when you stress fish and frogs, they change colour for this very reason). So, since marijuana clearly has a stress relieving effect, one could image that it effects the very hormones that control melanin production (and stress) and thereby change eye colour.

Interestingly, marijuana has also been used as a drug to lower intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma. Quite how it works is unknown however and I have never heard of eye colour changes being talked about as a side effect of its use. Hope this helps. Rockpocket 10:14, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Black Eyes

Would a photo of a very dark brown/black eye serve any purpose? It can be easily obtained. Roman Levin 09:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Definition of light eye color and number switching

I've noticed that a people seem to keep changing a few parts (especially whether hazel counts as "light" or not and percentages of people with blue eyes) back and forth. I have no knowledge which versions are correct, but none of the edits have anything to stand on either. Does anyone have references they can site for the information they're adding/removing so it's not a constant state of counter-productive edit wars? -Bbik 21:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Hazel

In the section of Hazel eyes, when it says hazel eyes are common among Middle Eastern people and Southern and Southeastern Europe, is it speaking of hazel as in light brown eyes? Or Hazel as being blue or green with brown near the pupil? -Regn

Green eyes are dominant over blue eyes

Genetically, green eyes are dominant over blue eyes, the article is wrong saying that green eye color are the rarest, the most rare eye color is blue.Lithop 06:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Blue eye pictures?

The current picture of a blue eye is kind of blah and not very highly pigmented. I mean, I'm sure it looks nice as part of someone's face, but I don't think it should be the archetypal example of a blue eye. Could we get a picture of someone whose eyes are more Paul Newman blue? I don't mean of Paul Newman's eyes, just that kind of piercing strong blue.

The only difficulty I can see with this is that it's hard to take pictures of people with blue eyes -- they tend to get incredibly strong red eye, I assume because they have less pigment to get in the way of light bouncing back. BTW, should that be mentioned in the article? 207.237.193.23 02:27, 5 March 2007 (UTC)