The Rarest Eye Colors in the World - Eye Colors Explained
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- Eye Colors Explained! Dr. Allen ranks the rarest eye colors in the world and explains what causes them!
Eye color is determined by the amount and distribution of melanin in the iris, the colored part of the eye. Melanin is a pigment that also gives color to our skin and hair. The amount of melanin present in the iris can vary, leading to different eye colors.
The most common eye colors are brown, blue, and green, while less common colors include hazel, gray, and amber. There are even some unique eye colors such as pink, violet, or black, but usually, these eye colors are due to other diseases and conditions. The rarity of certain eye colors can also be influenced by genetic factors and the intermixing of populations over time. Additionally, environmental factors such as sunlight exposure can affect the production of melanin in the iris, leading to subtle changes in eye color.
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0:00 Rarest Eye Colors in the World
0:19 9th place
0:37 Eye Colors Explained
2:08 8th place
3:26 7th place
4:07 6th Place
4:57 5th Place
5:25 4th Place
6:02 3rd and 2nd Place
7:38 The Rarest Eye Color - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Which Eye color do you find most attractive???
(ever seen someone with 2 different eye colors? th-cam.com/users/shorts-RTsmjDQg0Q )
Also...did you spot the spelling error? 😆
What is your thought of prism glasses for computer usage? Are they safe for those people that don’t have have double vision?
Do you know if castor oil ( for lashgrow) Can change the eye colour ?
Blue!!
My mother was born with violet eyes and then they went a crystal green. Dending on the sky or what colour she wears, they can also look blue or more grey.
I was born with grey eyes, and now they are a combination of a moss green and a russet brown in the centre (central heterochromia), and I have a turquoise ring.
My son has the most beautiful steel gray eyes!
Any eye that gives vision, is the best eye in the world.
Thank you! I came to the comments to see all the chronically online AH takes of “my eyes are a color no one’s even heard of…” but as someone who has very light eyes that don’t work, I say this to people all the time. Yes, they are pretty, but I’ll take normal eyes that work over these any day. I’d be disabled in any other timeline and I’m a classical artist so that’s a major issue. I’d never trade my reality but light eyes just don’t work as well.
Love this attitude!
Must be a Brown eye!
The same thing for a nose.
@@MDMuppetBones good to love the extra stuff too 😄
I have eyes,
I'm grateful.🙏
An amazing thing to be grateful for!
I have an immature eye, so no depth perception, but I am grateful for both eyes!!!😊
Well said
Facts!
What a nice message. Made me feel appreciative of my eyes and my sight as well.
My grandmother has yellow eyes. Her irises are more yellow than gold. Several optometrists have commented on them being very rare, and the first time her primary optometrists saw her he freaked out about her eye color and said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that he would ever see someone with her eye color.
Both my grand daughters have yellow eyes. Look like cats. Beautiful
My eyes are green, but turn yellow in the middle under certain lights. My co worker gasped one day because he had never seen yellow in someone's eyes before.
I have them too!
Very rare & beautiful.💛💛
wow what colour skin, and what heritage does she have>?
Team green eyes here❤
Here!!
Here!
Green eyes and red hair. I must be a Weasley wearing hammy down clothes! 😂
Did you hate them when you were a child? I definitely hated mine, I thought they were weird/creepy 😞
As an adult, though, I'm just glad to have eyes that work 🤷🏾♀️
I love my green eyes
I have violet eyes and for most of my life people have told me how unattractive and freaky they are. But there are a percentage of people that think albinism is the coolest thing and try and recreate the “look”. What people don’t understand is that albinism isn’t a “look” it’s a medical condition which causes loads of issues with eyes. I am legally blind and can’t open my eyes outside even when it’s dull because I have no pigment in body at all. Life is good but having albinism is hard too!
Thanks so much for sharing that! I have several patients with albinism or forms of ocular albinism. Perhaps some day I can do a dedicated video on the subject.
Thanks so much for watching!!
Elizabeth Taylor was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she had violet eyes. I think they are stunning.
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That would be cool. It would be lovely for some of the myths surrounding albinism to be busted. It’s not just about having no/little pigment it’s about being gifted with eyes with a multitude of problems, off the scale painful photophobia and a society who don’t like difference. Most of us with albinism are fighters though - we have to be!
@@daisy9910that’s False. She had blue eyes, that in certain light made them appear violet. She was born with distichiasis, a genetic ‘disorder’ that produces an extra row of eyelashes though. Also making her eyes famous!
I wish I had your eye color ✨💜✨
In grade school back in the 70’s (I was in about 3rd or 4th grade) we did a science class assignment where we wrote down our parents eye color and our eye color and talked about genes. My idiot teacher told me that my parents couldn’t be my parents because they both have brown eyes and I have blue eyes (not kidding, she actually was adamant to a 8-9 year old that they weren’t my parents based on her terrible understanding of the science lesson). I came home extremely upset and my parents had to go have a talk with the teacher and explain dominant/recessive alleles and of course that regardless of her faulty understanding of the science her behavior was highly inappropriate.
Wow I can’t believe a teacher would do that. But yes, blue eyes are recessive. My father has brown eyes and my mother has green.
That's interesting. I, too, was told that it was "impossible" that I was my parents' child, even though my physical traits are a pretty good amalgam of them both. I was told this because my father has 'ice-blue' eyes, my mother has dark brown eyes, and I have 'light sea-green' eyes. Apparently, the belief is that it is genetically "impossible" for that to happen?
But on my mother's side, my grandpa (Norwegian) has green eyes, and my grandma (Spaniard) has dark brown eyes...while on my father's side, my grandpa (Finn) has blue eyes, while my grandma (Finn/Swede) has dark 'sea-green' eyes.
So...green eyes can also be recessive?
My father has brown eyes, mother has blue eyes and I have green and I was told that is not possible. My husband has hazel eyes and two of our children have blue eyes. What is funny is from my husband’s family out of a good 40+ people, not one of us has brown eyes.
Ah the 70's.....😬 NOT the good ole days.
@@farmergirl1581 Same here 🖐️ Mama's are gray/blue, Daddy's were brown. I have green eyes, my fraternal twin's are brown. It's very fascinating!
It makes me happy to see all the people liking their eye color in here. Eyes are beautiful, and beautiful eyes come in all shades.
Olive GREEN here 💚
Agreeed!
My son has grey eyes. They are pretty spectacular. When he was young I couldn’t take him anywhere without people stopping us and commenting. I have brown, his dad has blue.
Thank you for clearing up the “black eyes” condition. I remember people telling me I had black eyes as a kid and arguing that I have really dark brown eyes (not black). 🤦🏾♀️
If people call blacks “black”, when they’re probably not even as dark as your eye color, people should be able to have black eyes.
I think there is nothing wrong with labelling them black. I have black eyes, and unless you put extreme bright light in front of them, you won't see any brown in it. Same for my hair.
It's dark enough to appear black under most scenarios. It's also cultural and symbolic, we still talk about "white" and "black" people, when nobody has literally white, or black skin; it's either dark brown or pink/beige, but never actually black/white.
Same, especially when I could clearly see that they’re brown - not just because it s visible when the light hits them, but also cause the colour is different from the pupil.
@@ligeiasiren4290exactly perfectly put 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I have brown eyes, and I have siblings with blue and green eyes. I think that dark brown/black looking eyes are gorgeous!
I have beautiful green eyes. I'm now 75 and ppl have been complimenting me all my life even now. I'm so blessed to have great eyesight. It doesn't matter what color your eyes are protect them!
Happy to hear that!
how do you protect your eyes?
me too
Same! Green eyes over here and I get a lot of compliments on my eyes.
I'm 50 and my twin and I have green eyes. Our mother did too. I'm the only one left now
I have grey eyes and I'm so excited to see you telling people that yes, it's an eye color lol I get so annoyed with people telling me that they can't be grey because it's "not a real eye color". I have a lot of grey shirts and when I put one next to my iris, it's exactly the same color (light grey at least) 😅
That's cool! Wish I could see it.
@@DoctorEyeHealth what about white eyes? I'm thinking specifically those referenced in the folk song "Cotton-eyed Joe".
You have to understand the confusion as gray eyes look almost identical to light blue. 2 of my friends have light blue eyes and I swear to God for the longest time I thought they were gray.
I've had that, people insisting that my eyes MUST be blue, when in fact they are dark grey. Like Paddington, I have to give them a very hard stare 😄
Yup, I have Grey also. I got them from my mother.
I didn't find out that mom had Grey eyes until my 40s because she aways wore green contacts lenses. 😂
I have light green eyes with specks of gold. I get compliments on them often and feel like they're my prettiest asset. They run in the family with both parents!
As a graphic artist who has edited many photos, light blue eyes always stand out on camera. I have green eyes, did not realize how rare that is; fascinating video, Doctor!
Thank you! I agree that lighter colored eyes do have a more striking appearance.
I have green eyes too!😊
@@DoctorEyeHealth color is less important then brightness & how big iris is If you have a friendly face it doesnt matter at all
What about having two different coloured eyes? I have a few friends with it…
@@totti. I read a report that said people who have dark coloured eyes are generally less likely to be perceived as trustworthy, and that people with light coloured eyes tend to have better low light vision. So it can have more impact than you might realise.
I have gray eyes. Fun fact gray eyes, similar to hazel, “shift” in color as well. My husband has amber eyes. They are so light they are almost orange in some lights. Our daughter however ended up with dark dark brown eyes. Genetics are weird (but fascinating)
I have grey eyes also but they shift to blue depending on my mood, the colors I am wearing...etc.
I have light blue eyes with that gold ring on the pupil. Sometimes they look greenish grey because of it. My husband has Hazel eyes, with blue, green, and bright orange. Our daughter ended up with a deep blue, but also has that same gold ring that I have. My Mom has green eyes and we have brown eyed family as well, kinda fun how unpredictable eye color can be
@@WolfGan0178 Yay, central heterochromia team!
I HAD grey eyes. When I became a teenager, I developed yellow pigment which turned my eyes green. There is no brown at all. My child was born with electric blue eyes, and when they hit puberty, they also got the yellow, but it turned their eyes an electric aqua shade. They got tired of people commenting on their eyes all the time, so they got contacts for a while. lol
I have grey eyes and I remember that as a kid I was convinced they looked more blue or green dependant on sunlight. As I got older I thought it was just my imagination but maybe there was something to it.
My optometrist once sent me to a specialist who told me, "You probably have always been told that you have brown/ hazel eyes, but they actually actually a really beautiful green." That was my best compliment ever.
Beautiful girls with green, blue, and gray eyes open the door to the soul with their extraordinary and rare beauty ❤❤
The most interesting thing that you said was that the pigment in our eyes is to protect our eyes from the sun. I never knew that.
That’s why it’s so important for people with light colored eyes to wear sunglasses and protect their eyes
@@michelleheadley2911 I imagine black eyed people have it the worse based on this vid. They have even less protection than albino people
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I am on the green side eyes and I love them - didn't know that they are so rare - but I recognize immediately when someone else has these green eyes too. 🥰
Same here! My husband and I both have green eyes, that's the first we noticed about eachother lol. Our son has a grey blue shade..genetics are interesting.
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I thought I had hazel colored eyes, but this video thought me that they’re amber! They always seem different depending on what I’m wearing, my makeup or if the sun is shining that day. Awesome video!
You have my favourite colour eyes!
Same! Mine are a light brown hazel, it the shift to darker brown or to golden depending on what I’m wearing or even if it’s cloudy outside!
My base eye color is amber which I usta just call baby poop I did notice at times they would darker brown with flakes of dark green making them kind of golden brown from afar, my mom always insisted I have Hazel eyes, it wasn't untill I was in my 30s something upset me, I usually don't look in a mirror when crying upset whatever that day I did and freaked me out, my mom was right, my eyes where a very bright light green. Next time something makes you cry really really sad hurt feelings sad look in a mirror than you'll know for sure Amber or Hazel ✌️😊👍
@@hejmonika1001 thank you! Blessed we have eyes to see the world 🙏🏼💓
@@aleshacoats9033 weirdly enough, I totally understand what you mean. Tears just do something with the eyes.. and clothes/makeup can also really make a difference in how they appear. I love the mine have some type of golden specs/rays in them. Eyes are just so fascinating, unique and beautiful 🙏🏼🤍
Really interesting! Enjoyed your explanation 😊
I have amber colored eyes, but I always thought of them as just light brown. 😆
My sister has amber eyes. They are stunning, as are yours I suspect 😍
Are you a purebreed Persian cat! Congrats to being able to write with your paws?❤
OOh you are rare!
@@DoctorEyeHealth 😊
@@Whippy99 Awesomeness! Thanks!😊
As a green eyed girl, I think this video was pretty cool!!
That was pretty cool and interesting ! Thanks Doc !
This was fascinating. Thank you.
Very cool video I actually always thought hazel eyes were more common!
Hey thank you! Perhaps some people confuse green for hazel and hazel for amber?
@@DoctorEyeHealth, there's no way hazel eyes can be mistaken for amber. Amber eyes are definately YELLOW (but not jaundice yellow).
I think a lot of people with hazel eyes will think they have brown eyes, so it might be underreported.
Thats the case for my family anyway.
I have reddish brown hair and amber eyes. Not surprised to learn that it's my phaeomelanin that's responsible for both!
Yeah! That is pretty cool!
My, favorite part of the show is The Doctor. Well done.
I have green eyes with blue rings...thanks for the info!!
You’re the best!! I’ve been in Optometry/Ophthalmology for 10 years and I’d do anything to work for you. MUCH respect!
Team hazel here.
👍 hazel here too
Me too😊
Same 🎉
I have Hazel eyes, also.
Same
Really interesting video!
Great info, nice video! Thank you for sharing about The Rarest Eye Colors in the World - Eye Colors Explained!
Very interesting. I have gray eyes and didn't know they were so rare.
Yup! Congrats
@@DoctorEyeHealthI have thought all my life that grey eyes are so dull😂 I have grey eyes)))
Me too! When I was young, I wished that mine were blue, which I thought was more rare. Now I'm just happy that they still work, although age deterioration has set in.
@@fikanera838 I hear you! I've had one retinal detachment and two cataracts.
@@vic3531 You have the best color and think their dull 🙄
Hazel green
I learned something about my hazel eyes, thank you!
Thank you for your very good explanation!
I have relatively dark green eyes and I have also noticed several times that others perceive my eye color differently depending on the color of my eye makeup (more often as brown instead of green).
To be honest, I've always found light gray eyes the most beautiful, but since my mother and some of my family also have green or green-brown eyes, I like them because they make me think of my family 🥰
Aqua / green/ blue
I like green eyes too!
@@DoctorEyeHealth how about light brown ?
@@chelseajohnson8254i’m sure he likes all eye colors
Yes I’ve always found eye color and how it develops between two people quite fascinating.
Me too! I studied eye color in my genetics course in undergraduate college.
This was very cool to learn.
Thank you! You just settled my life long controversy of what color my eyes are. I always said they were a grey/green. Others say blue or even call them hazel even though my eyes are not brown.
My eyes are green or green grey.
Mine too!
I’m often told my eyes are hazel. They are solid green, with no hint of brown, if anything they lean blue. True hazel is beautiful, I’d love to have it. I don’t love being informed by people with pushy opinions that my eyes are hazel and not green. It’s a bizarre experience.
I'm always mezmerized by people with dark complexions and light blue eyes. The contrast is so striking.
Contact lenses can change the iris color.
@@Cricket2731 True but it also occurs naturally. You sometimes see it in people who are of mixed race but I think it's pretty rare.
@@Punkydoodle007it can also be Waardenburg syndrome which is a condition that causes some health issues
@@CherryJuliInteresting. I've never heard of that.
@@Punkydoodle007, not that rare in mixed raced people. I have encountered here in the UK and also in the US lots of biracial children (so not adults wearing lenses) with blue or green eyes. One (in)famous person with pale blue green eyes is Jeremy Meeks (nicknamed hot or handsome felon). He later became a model.
You have beautiful eyes, Doctor! Very interesting video!
Awesome vid. Grey eyed here ^^ I find bright blue and hazzle to be attrictve colours. Thanks for sharing
Pheomelain first time hearing about it. Now I understand why my eyes are a mix of light brown to hazel. Thanks!
as always, great informational video! :) @8:48 that would be your brand slogan... "keep an eye on it..." :)
haha it sort of has been for a few years (also "let's take a look")
@@DoctorEyeHealth awesome!
A treasure of a presentation, Dr. It would be good for science teachers to share with students as a way of highlighting physical differences and possibly prevent bullying based upon physical characteristics.
I love your thought process! I think that’s a really good idea.
Wonderful idea. Keep on thinking
Sadly, I remember kids being teased in school because of their eye color. Some kids can be very cruel.
@@DoctorEyeHealth That happened to my child. They were born with electric blue eyes, but when they hit puberty, they turned vibrant green with no brown like your picture showed. Only yellow (family trait) and it was so bad when they changed that they wore colored lenses for a while. They learned to embrace there green/aqua eyes after a while. My eyes did the same, (which fascinated my eye doctor, as he is the one that told me they changed) but my base color is grey, so they are not nearly as vibrant.
Gray eyes here. They are by far my most complimented feature
Hi fella, my eyes are grey either. Love my eye color💁♀️
I have fairly dark blue eyes, they even appear navy in certain light! Always commented on by optometrists and eye doctors.
Luv my hazel eyes. Depending on what I am wearing, my eyes can appear brown or green with a splash of an orange/gold/blue around the pupils.
I wear purple eyeliner and my green pops! ❤
Love your videos, super interesting 👏
Glad you like them! Thank you!
I would love you to make a video about albinism and the challenges people with this condition have with their vision and light sensitivity. My daughter has albinism and has the symptoms you described. Her eyes are a beautiful light blue ❤
Great idea
This is really cool. I have green eyes, but when the pupil is really small you can see a yellow/gold colour at the centre and I have a dark blue ring around the outer part of the iris. I get told it's very cool a lot & no-one has ever seen eyes exactly like mine
So interesting! Green eyes here ! With a little bit of a goldish color ring around the pupil😍💚💚💚 you are fabulous Dr. Allen! Keep the good stuff coming! I have severe dry eye and a postmenopausal woman in my 60s. I do a pretty good job managing it through a trial and error and watching articles and seeing my ophthalmologist and optometrist. Except for the disease my eyes are pretty healthy and my prescription lenses are pretty light. 💖😍💖
Yays, then you may have central heterochromia like me! :D
I have hazel eyes, according to an eye doctor. They look really blueish-greyish-green, but at the pupil there's a yellow-brownish ring around it and that's why he says they're hazel. They look more blue or more green or more grey depending on the weather and also if I'd been swimming or crying.
That’s not hazel eyes.
@@TheBOG3I believe it is-my eyes are mostly olive green, except for a brown ring around the pupil/ I’ve always been told that makes them hazel, even by my eye doctor. Hazel can be a varied mix but there’s always a brown inner ring.
That's an exact description of my eyes! Hi, eye twin! I also have a dark blue ring around the outside of my irises. I always check to see what color my eyes appear to be every day because it varies so much. Baseline, they seem to present multiple colors at once. My color changing eyes are my favorite thing about myself. :-)
@@TheBOG3 Tell that to my eye doctor who got his degree from Johns Hopkins. He's actually SEEN my eyes and can describe it better than what I can. YOU'RE just full of it.
@@HalfLatinaJoy86 No I’m not! Hazel eyes don’t have blue in them. They’re light brown with green flecks that can make eyes go from looking brown to green.
I have a mix of grey green, and depending on how much and what kind if light available, they get greener.
I remember my eyes being more blue when I was a child, but once I got into my teens they became more grey or hazel, depending on what I was wearing. I honestly have a hard time truly discerning what color they are, with progressive lenses and light bulb color temperatures... so my license just says hazel. I'm not really sure if that's technically correct.
I know I'm crazy, but does anyone else not entirely sure what color their eyes actually are?
Thank you, I learned a lot.
Green eyes here, with parents and sister with brown eyes 🤷♀️🤷♀️. Both of my grandmothers had blue eyes. I've always gotten compliments on my green eyes 😊.
Me too
My dad had dark brown eyes, my mom has hazel, and my sister has the bluest eyes you've ever seen 😂
Herterozygote is the name of a mix of Brown eyes and blue eyes ( parents or grand-parents) , and it often occure to get green eyes. For instance , both of your parents have brown eyes as dominant gene, but both ( because of theirs mothers) have blue gene hidden. One of them gave you th brown, thé other gave you thé blue. Thé result in your case is a mix of both, green. My case too ( father = quiet dark green eyes, mother= brown eyes, but my grand-mother ( her mother) = grey eyes. Result for me : green eyes, clearer than my father, with grey inside.
I wished for green eyed kids! I’m blue, my mom is blue, her parents were both blue but my husbands had brown eyes with no blues anywhere in their lineage that I could find.
Soooo my kids just have yucky hazels if not brown eyes 🤷🏼♀️ my dad has hazel but has some sibs with blue along w/the browns.
My kids with hazel do have colors changing tho. One also has a blue almost ring around her hazel irises.
I have turquoise eyes, sometimes they look gray, sometimes they look green.
Same (though I didn't know it was called turquoise)! Depends on the environment I'm in - sometimes they look grey, sometimes they look green and sometimes they look ice blue. I always thought I had blue eyes, but then I see my sister and I realise, no -SHE has blue eyes 👀 very blue. Bit jealous 😅
Same
That sounds awesome!
These are considered grey eyes. They have no melanin, so they appear different colors based on surroundings, etc. mine are the same
Also a greeny, greyey, blue girl here! Someone called me a "pale eye" once
I have amazing hazel, and they do. Hange colour. Sometimes when I get super sensitive to light I know they turn almost yellow.
My husband has yellow eyes with green on the outer edge. I have never seen his color eyes before. He gets nonstop compliments on them.
I dont even know my eye colour. I've had people comment that they're green, grey, blue, hazel, brown. I grew up thinking they are hazel though. They tend to change colour depending on the light.
Most likely you do, mine are and I've been told the same thing. They are predominantly green though-at least when I look at them. People comment on them all the time but to me they're just my eyes. LOL
Hazel here too, but super dominant green hazel
My husband's eyes change colour too! It's really cool, they go from most usually hazel to green.
Same
I have hazel mostly green eyes with flecks and areas of copper brown and depending upon the lighting, my eyes can look very dark brown, grey, copper brown, brilliant green and mint green 😎
I find it interesting that you mentioned how people's hazel eyes can change with clothing or eye makeup color. Most of the time, my eyes are grey. However, I have noticed throughout the years that my eyes change from grey to blue and blue green. I started paying attention to this shift in my twenties after people began asking me if I was wearing colored contacts. Over time, I realized that the changes in my eye color occurred when I was in certain lighting, wore certain colors of clothing, or applied specific eye makeup or hair dye. So, is it common for grey eyes to change as mine do?"
I love dark eyes, they look so warm and soft. Many people here have blue eyes and they look cruel and cold for me.
Thank you for the information and the knowledge that you are sharing 😂.❤
You are so welcome! Appreciate you saying that.
I remember having a stand up argument when I got my driver's licence issued. My optician says I have green eyes and the lady behind the counter said they were hazel. Ended up with me calling the manager 😂
I don't bother arguing.. "what color?" "you pick.." it's been marked a few different things over the years.
Yes, same! I still don’t know which one I have lol. ☺️
@@JillianSiobhanMalI am glad I am not the only who doesn't know. 😏
Funniest thing I ever witnesses, was a girl, who was getting her identity card and had dark brown eyes, but was trying to talk the ckerk into writing on the card, that her eye colour was blue, because she liked blue better. The clerk was just rolling his eyes. 😂
My mom had hazel eyes… hers leaned more towards a light brown though. When you looked close there were rings of light brown, light green and gray.
I had a friend in primary school, her eyes were literally green as grass. Super awesome.
ive always been very attracted to blue eyes, you mention the sky and the sea and honestly i think thats what it is. theyre like the beauty of those thing.
i also love grey and light brown/hazel eyes.
i never knew purple, red, or pink was an eye color and now i want to see someone with such eyes.
This was really interesting!!!
Green eyes here, bright green in fact with a little bit of bright yellow surrounding the iris.
Oooh that’s cool. Sometimes hard to find a bright green eye
Sounds gorgeous!
I usually say that I have blue eyes but the have a green layer I guess. They change sometimes too. Very cool video.
Nice work now i can add more to my pupils collection
Dang! That was refreshing!
Glad you thought so! Thanks for watching!
Still bummed I don't have permanently green eyes.
Although people around me gossip that they turn green when I'm particularly emotional.
What are your eyes colored normally then>?
@@DoctorEyeHealth Grey-ish blue, depending on lighting more blue when it's brighter.
@@lillywho it when you get envious that they turn green
@@chrisk5651 bullshit
@@lillywho it was a joke! Obviously wasted on you!
Hey great vid. I have hazel eyes but find green eyes most attractive. Sometimes i wear green contacts
Great explanation. Hey doctor, could you please do a video about heterochromia iridium?? Thanks.
A friend's daughter has silver eyes and black hair. It's quite startling to see for the first time. I had a boyfriend with violet eyes like Elizabeth Taylor, and he had no albinism. Dark brown hair and olive skin. And yes, I went to school with a boy with one blue and one brown eye.
I’ve heard some other people mention Elizabeth Taylor having violet eyes. I will have to look that up
@@DoctorEyeHealthit’s false, she had blue eyes. That would/could appear violet In some lighting. But that and her being born with distichiasis, a genetic ‘disorder’ that produces an extra row of eyelashes, her eyes definitely made a statement!
Hey Dr. Allen. Wanted to ask a question about the color changing in my eyes. My eyes were hazel and lightened up to a more greenish color over time. The top portion of my irises seemed to have faded to a much lighter green (hidden by top eyelid) almost a translucent color while the bottom portion is darker. What would cause this? One optometrist said it’s related to cholesterol? I have a normal blood level of cholesterol so does this really impact eye color? Thanks for the video. It was truly interesting. My dad had sapphire blue eyes that we all were jealous of since we had hazel to dark brown eye.
As we age, higher amount of cholesterol naturally deposits on the outside of the cornea (called arcus senilis) which can cause a lighter hue to the eye color and even make it look like a white or yellow ring on the eye.
Perhaps that could be causing the change, as your doctor may have suggested.
Even with normal levels of cholesterol, we tend to still develop this as we get older and it’s considered normal after the age of 40.
My grandma had these very jade green eyes. Very uniform. Honestly I have never seen anyone with those eyes again
Hazel eyes here for sure especially that green outer layer. Some people think it’s green, depending on the positioning of the eye to the sun. but I let them know that it’s actually hazel with a green outer layer. Wonderful info. Dr. 😄
i got grey eyes never knew they were a bit rare
Yup! Are they super grey? Or a bit blue?
@@DoctorEyeHealth a bit blue
Green is mesmerizing
I was able to change my eye color with tinted contacts
Cool vid, my eyes look gray most of the time but they also change between blue or green
My son had dark grey eyes, when he was little. They looked like the sky minutes before a storm. That was very beautiful and impressiv.
Can u talk about eye color changing drops
I got on a bus here in lake worth Florida once. I forgot where to or why but I remember a young white man with the golden amber eye color of a lion. He looked homeless but it was around the time people get off work so that mighta been the case. Whichever it was I’ve never seen eyes like his or forgotten how beautiful they were. It was like they had an inner light but I don’t mean some unnatural glow or gaudiness to them. I mean a brightness that came through as natural as the sun rising in the east.
I have teal colored eyes with yellow central rings and freckles scattered around. I have 4 kids and they all have wildly different colored eyes. brown, amber with freckles, blue with yellow central rings, and deep green. Its always fascinated me how much variation there is in eye color even amongst siblings.
Thank you for sharing Dr Eye Health. I'd like ro know if it's possible to surgically change eye colour by removing melanin from the iris or inserting a disc of desired coloured in between the layers of the iris?
I have dark brown eyes, and I am happy that they make me look young.
I love that you love your eyes! 👀
Brown eyes are similar to puppy eyes 🐶
Hazel.
Now I'm sure 😀
I have eyes with a color mixture of bluegreyish/greenish with tiny brown spots when examined carefully in a good light.
Loved this. Should talk about If you put.a blue eyed person and a brown eyed person together what colour you would get and percentages. Different things like that 😀
Hey I'm from turkey and my family is pretty mixed ranging from blonde hair blue eyes to black hair and brown eyes.
In the case of my experience from my family, the mix you get from blue and brown is mostly brown unless the brown parent also carries an allele for blue in which its also possible for the kid to get blue eyes.
But it's mostly brown with a low percentage of getting green or hazel eyes.
Both my father and I got hazel eyes. I think it's Important to mention that he has 3 siblings.
So a blue + brown mix caused 3 brown + 1 hazel eyed children.
I am Italian and used to have very dark brown eyes which looked almost black. However the past few years I now have a blue-ish grey circle around the outer edge of the iris and the brown is lighter than it used to be. I like the blue grey border around my eyes but not sure why it happened! I have glaucoma but my opthalmologist said it is not related. Could it be due to aging I wonder? I think blue, grey, green or even large dark brown eyes are beautiful. Thanks for all the wonderful educational videos!
Maybe because you changed your diet ?
My mother and i had blue eyes. In time mum's chaned to green. I was very ill when young. Mine are now hazel.
I have always gotten compliments on my 'blue' eyes (have a piercing look effect), but was actually told from my eye specialist that my eyes are grey and unique. I have a dark border and the inside is very pale. I will say that depending on what I wear, my eye color can appear to change from grey to blue or bluish green. My husband's eyes are green/brown and our son has green eyes, and our daughter has blue (still very young and could change). This video was very informative and fun to watch.
Love this video. I love all eye colors. I have the hazel eye color that has green ,yellow, and brown, but I don't know when they change color. People claim they change color, and lately, people have caught them honey color, which is like amber. I caught them gray once. It actually took me years to find out my eyes weren't brown , I grew up thinking my eyes were brown, lol. Turned out they were a type of hazel. All eye colors run through my family as well, so it explains why I got hazel eyes, and my dad and sister stood with brown eyes, but theirs gets light brown too. My mom has blue, but blue eyes run through both sides of the family.
My eyes change color...if I cry they are aqua..Various clothes colors change color, deep blue, or green...
Same here… I have heterochromia… left eye is green-teal the right is reliably blue but they change colors based on my sleep and emotional state.
Yes!!!! I love my eye color after a heavy cry. Lol. They appear Aqua like a beautiful Caribbean Sea. It’s ashame I have to be so upset to get the look!!
This was an excellent video. Very informative and interesting information about eye color. I find green or gray eyes to be the most attractive, but that is just my opinion. My eye color has changed several times throughout my life (76 years), from blue to green to hazel w/green and now hazel w/blue. I have no idea about that, but it doesn't seem to be ordinary. 💕💕💕
Thank you!!! interesting that your eye colors have changed over the years. I wonder if changes to sympathetic tone (which can change with age) may influence eye color a bit. I imagine it could be seen easier on someone with lighter/green/hazel eyes. Has your doctor ever commented on the change? Can you verify with pictures?
Pictures wouldn't show up the eye color if I had any and no one has mentioned eye color. I don't think people really notice much about others. When I renew my driver's license and change it, or anything else, they never even look up.Besides, who would bother documenting something from 1947 to now. I don't think we even had a camera when I was growing up! Thanks for responding though. 💕💕💕
Thanks!
My eyes' color is blue-grey. Very interesting video, seeing where it comes from. Never had any understanding why it was the way it was.