Questions about eye color

Im still trying to figure out my own eye color, and I’m getting confused by what I read on the internet.

So, blue and grey eyes appear blue/grey because they lack pigment and therefore light just scatters/reflects when it hits the iris.

What does that mean for people with dark blue and dark grey eyes? Is the light still scattering when it hits the iris?

I’m just trying to figure out why some people have very light blue/grey eyes, and then other people have dark blue/grey eyes. I think part of my confusion stems from literature stating blue/grey eyes reflect light, but then I think of my eyes which don’t appear to be reflecting light so I’m just trying to understand the physics of it.

Do people with dark blue/grey have more melanin in their eyes than people with light shades?

These questions have been bothering me for a couple weeks now. Can someone explain the science in a way that’s easy to understand?

I'm confused about my own eye color too. I used to thought my eyes were hazel or hazel brown but after googling images of hazel brown eyes it don't look nothing at all like the eye color I got. And all this time I be lying putting hazel brown as my eye color everytime I fill out important forms and stuff. After looking hard in the mirror it might be light brown or just plain brown.

I don't know anything about the meaning behind eye color. Maybe someone experience in eyes will pop up and exhibit to this thread. I'll be watching. I might can learn something myself.

Posted by slug

Dark blue eyes would have more pigment. I'm not sure I know what you mean by dark grey, but I would assume grey eyes no matter the shade would have the least pigment.

Okayyy so pigment is different than melanin?

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Dark blue eyes would have more pigment. I'm not sure I know what you mean by dark grey, but I would assume grey eyes no matter the shade would have the least pigment.

Okayyy so pigment is different than melanin?

Melanin is what determines how much pigment there is, the more melanin you produce the more pigment.

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What if someone is super pale with dark blue eyes? Do they produce a lot of melanin, it just doesn’t present through their skin??

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As someone with blue eyes I really struggle with bright light and O often work in the dark or low light.

I recently got an eye test and was told I have a significant amount of uv damage for my age, so I've just been wearing sunglasses everywhere and I feel ridiculous.

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Me too. I have to wear my shades outdoors at all times even if the sun ain't out. My eyes are very sensitive to daylight period. I wear prescription sunglasses.

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It depends on how much melanin the cells in a certain area are producing. Your skin cells could produce more or less melanin than in the iris.

Ohhh okay I think this is where I was getting stuck because I was like “well obviously a white person does not have much melanin” but I was totally unaware different body systems/parts can create different levels of melanin. Very interesting, thank you.

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As someone with blue eyes I really struggle with bright light and O often work in the dark or low light.

I recently got an eye test and was told I have a significant amount of uv damage for my age, so I've just been wearing sunglasses everywhere and I feel ridiculous.

Me too. I have to wear my shades outdoors at all times even if the sun ain't out. My eyes are very sensitive to daylight period. I wear prescription sunglasses.

It's something I never really considered, I wish I'd realized sooner. 🤦‍♀️

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And it's only gonna get worse as you age. Sorry don't mean or intent to frighten you but it's true. I've been wearing eyeglasses since, shucks I don't know, the 5th grade probably. I just remember as a middle schooler I used to be scared to go to school thinking I would get laughed at and teased over my big nerdy glasses. My eyes been damaged my lifetime.

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As someone with blue eyes I really struggle with bright light and O often work in the dark or low light.

I’m the opposite. I don’t mind bright/fluorescent lights, and I struggle with dark lighting.

My eyes are dark gray (or dark something, still unsure on the color but they are dark).

Posted by IAteMyGrandmaInMonkeyTown

If you have pure green eyes you come from the Pharaoh line. I would marry any women with those eyes lol.

My Gemini sister. Gorgeous from head to toe with very green eyes.

I have hazel green eyes. People say they are sparkly and pretty. I think Geminis have lively and gorgeous eyes, for the most part.

And my Leo moon gives them 🐈 🐱 like shape 🙂

My eye color:

Dark green circle around

Green color

Light golden color

Black iris

Gray and brown mixed in between

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Posted by alexscaries

As someone with blue eyes I really struggle with bright light and O often work in the dark or low light.

I recently got an eye test and was told I have a significant amount of uv damage for my age, so I've just been wearing sunglasses everywhere and I feel ridiculous.

Me too. I have to wear my shades outdoors at all times even if the sun ain't out. My eyes are very sensitive to daylight period. I wear prescription sunglasses.

It's something I never really considered, I wish I'd realized sooner. 🤦‍♀️

And it's only gonna get worse as you age. Sorry don't mean or intent to frighten you but it's true. I've been wearing eyeglasses since, shucks I don't know, the 5th grade probably. I just remember as a middle schooler I used to be scared to go to school thinking I would get laughed at and teased over my big nerdy glasses. My eyes been damaged my lifetime.

Devastated. I've always had great eye sight so I can't really complain about having to wear sunglasses 😂

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Lucky you. My vision is horrible without my glasses. This is what I see without my glasses

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I have hazel green eyes. People say they are sparkly and pretty. I think Geminis have lively and gorgeous eyes, for the most part.

And my Leo moon gives them 🐈 🐱 like shape 🙂

My mom is a Gemini and she also has lively eyes! Hers are green I’d say, but more of a gray-green than the hazel-green.

I’m not sure what shape hers are though 🤔

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I have hazel green eyes. People say they are sparkly and pretty. I think Geminis have lively and gorgeous eyes, for the most part.

And my Leo moon gives them 🐈 🐱 like shape 🙂

My mom is a Gemini and she also has lively eyes! Hers are green I’d say, but more of a gray-green than the hazel-green.

I’m not sure what shape hers are though 🤔

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Are they almond shaped or round?

Posted by borednbeautiful

My eye color:

Dark green circle around

Green color

Light golden color

Black iris

Gray and brown mixed in between

I have a small spiky ring of orange/brown around my pupils. Around the entire iris itself is like a dark blue ring. Between those two rings is a couple shades of gray. One eye is lighter gray with patches of dark gray, and the other eye is dark gray with patches of light gray. And when I say patches, I mean imagine a toddler coloring a picture and they press too hard in some areas so the ink appears darker (or in the eye that has light patches it’s like the marker ran out of ink in those areas).

The lack so much pigment that they change appearance based on what I’m wearing or what environment I’m in.

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I have hazel green eyes. People say they are sparkly and pretty. I think Geminis have lively and gorgeous eyes, for the most part.

And my Leo moon gives them 🐈 🐱 like shape 🙂

My mom is a Gemini and she also has lively eyes! Hers are green I’d say, but more of a gray-green than the hazel-green.

I’m not sure what shape hers are though 🤔

Are they almond shaped or round?

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Is it possible to be both? Lol I was going to write that they are between both those shapes 😂😂

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If you have pure green eyes you come from the Pharaoh line. I would marry any women with those eyes lol.

My Gemini sister. Gorgeous from head to toe with very green eyes.

I'm lucky.

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But her vision just as bad as mines. She once mistake a man standing still for a monument and she was just about to go over to him and touch him thinking he was a monument. Having green eyes might be pretty to own but they got their faults too.

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But her vision just as bad as mines. She once mistake a man standing still for a monument and she was just about to go over to him and touch him thinking he was a monument. Having green eyes might be pretty to own but they got their faults too.

Is her vision good enough to read text here? lol

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Yeah. Like me she's nearsighted. Why? You want me to contact her and ask her to join this site so the two of yall can private message each other or something?

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My eye color:

Dark green circle around

Green color

Light golden color

Black iris

Gray and brown mixed in between

Sounds like your eyes aren't hazel but rather you have central heterochromia like me.

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Yeah. Like me she's nearsighted. Why? You want me to contact her and ask her to join this site so the two of yall can private message each other or something?

No, keep poor girl away from DXP. I was joking. I'm sure she is pretty.

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Hahaha I was just fucking with you too just to see what you gone say. She's married anyway. To a libra.

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Hahaha I was just fucking with you too just to see what you gone say. She's married anyway. To a libra.

Not nice.

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No really I was hoping you didn't think I was serious in bringing my sister to this site. I would never. I am very particular who my Gemini sister engage with on this site. That's why I said I was only messing with you.