![]() That’s why people with green (or even hazel) eyes tend to say their “eye color changes.” Now you know they might not be completely full of it. You may have heard the phrase “green-eyed monster,” but I think it's much more likely that someone without green eyes was jealous of this striking eye color.Ī green eye color is not just about the pigment in the eyes, but also the way the light scatters it to bring out this color. Having one of the least common eye colors, people with green eyes are often seen as mysterious, unpredictable, and intellectual. ![]() Even though blue eyes are much less common than brown, still over 10% of the population has this hue. ![]() From pop to classic rock, you can tell by songs like “Ocean Eyes” by Billie Eilish and "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses that people with blue eyes are perceived as sentimental, emotional, and imaginative. I think we’ve all heard the songs about blue eyes. Just because brown eyes are the most common color, doesn't mean they can't be beautiful and unique in their own right. Although I don’t personally believe a majority of the population is trustworthy, if you have brown eyes, you may be perceived as more honest when up next to your lighter-eyed peers. People with brown eyes (and this means about 80% of the population) are thought to be trustworthy and more outgoing. If eyes are really the window to the soul, who’s to say our eyes can’t also give a key to our personality? Brown Eyes This has led to assumptions in our culture on personality traits and talents based on eye color. If someone has an interesting eye color, such as striking blue eyes or a unique green hue, you are more likely to remember them. But, what does your eye color mean?Įyes are one of the most noticed features on our faces. You and a sibling can both have blue eyes, but may have different amounts of pigment, or a different patterning, and thus have completely different colors! Even more unique, a person can be born with heterochromia, a condition where their eyes are two different colors. But, this means that every single eye color is as unique as a fingerprint. Disease, trauma, aging, and even some kinds of eye drops can disrupt the pigment in the iris and also lead to changes in eye color.įinally, your eye color is uniquely you! Since eye color is based on the amount of melanin, you’re really not seeing “blue” in an eye, you are perceiving the lack of pigment as a blue color ( yeah, color is weird like that). However, eye color starts to develop within the first couple of days on Earth, and by age three, eye color is typically fully developed. Most babies are born with colorless or blue eyes, since they are born with little to no melanin in their bodies. (Meaning, let’s all do a good deed and get our light-eyed friends some sunglasses).įrom the start, your eye color changes. Since lighter eyes have less melanin, less UV light is being absorbed by the iris, and more can pass through and cause damage. ![]() People with those eye colors are also more likely to experience age-related macular degeneration. If you are familiar with Albinism, those people often appear to have red (or even violet) eyes because their irises are almost completely devoid of melanin, allowing you “see” the red from the blood vessels behind their eyes.Įven two blue eyes can be completely different colors.īecause of the lack of melanin, lighter eyes such as blue, green, or grey eyes are actually more susceptible to cancer of the eye, called uveal melanoma. So, green eyes have less melanin than brown eyes, and blue eyes have even less. The more pigment, the darker your eyes will be. Scientifically speaking, your eye color really only says how much pigment (melanin) you have in your iris. In addition, we now know that it’s possible for two blue-eyed parents to have a brown-eyed child. You actually can’t determine a child’s eye color by just the eyes of their parents and grandparents. While brown is the most common eye color, eye genetics turned out to be more complicated than that. In the past, it was taught that brown eyes were dominant over all other eye colors.
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