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Even when it’s storming during the day, it’s still too bright 😅 I feel like I need to wear my shades all day. God forbid I’m driving at night and people have the brightest headlights they can buy even when they don’t need it
@@gingermami9650 RIGHT?! Like, dude, there’s street lights every foot, do you really need to have spotlights for headlights AND your brights on? We’re not in the middle of nowhere 😭 I really don’t want to be that person who wears sunglasses at night but it’s getting to that point 🫠
Pro tip from a fellow light-eyes -- get some orange blue-light blocking glasses. Not to be confused with an optional clear film over prescription glasses that supposedly reduces blue light or computer glare; the sunglasses should actually be orange in tint. They don't make things darker, so you can wear them for night-driving where all those lovely illegal white headlights blind you. They just reduce the intensity of the blue/white wavelength of light. Works great for cloudy days and under flourescent lights, too. And you can get an over-sized pair to wear over prescription glasses, if need be.
It’s funny, I’ve always been conflicted about my blue eyes. There’s part of me that likes that they’re a light blue and sometimes with lighting and what I wear, they can look more blue or grey. Normally though, I don’t much care for them.
i don't think this is a thing... there are tonnes of girls with other eye colours that are seen as equally beautiful or 'special' as you put it, incuding brown. are you guys running out of things to talk about?
It's always been striking to me that Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" did not have blue eyes. I've often wondered if that was a choice by the creators to challenge themselves to find beauty beyond blue eyes and blonde hair. Interestingly, those characteristics were given to those triplets that Gaston ignores. Idk. Does anyone know anything about that choice from the animators?
The first Disney Princess was Snow White another dark hair dark eyes beauty. The next two Cinderella and Aurora were based off of old fairy tale books with blonde hair and from an area where that is more common, not necessarily a Disney choice. Belle is also beautiful and yes the triplets are blonde and actually have very distinct green eyes but I don’t think it was meant to be rude to blonde people just merely showing how Belle was extra beautiful in a town with other beautiful people not just a small town with no cuties.
@@Kswolrd1538 i agree with most of what you've said, but I think the blonde triplets could also fit the air-headed "dumb blonde" trope, cause they desired Gaston so much they didn't realise the guy was a twat and not interested in them
Every woman is different, regardless of their eye color. Their eye color doesn't reveal their character or their intelligence or their attractiveness. Every woman deserves to be regarded on their own merits.
If you've been following this channel for any length of time, you ought to be able to pick up on how its videos discuss how different traits are portrayed in the *media*. There is not, nor ever has been, any insinuation that any trait is universal among women or men in real life. As a matter of fact, this channel argues in favor of individuality being acknowledged more in the media, too. I.e. showing that blue eyes are not always more attractive than brown, like they said at the end. And the color and shape of our eyes don't necessarily make us an ice queen or a doe-eyed bundle of innocence.
I'm blue-eyed and was a teacher for years. I've lost count of the women and girls who've told me they wished they had eyes like mine. Often they're Black or South-Asian. I don't know how - in the span of a conversation - to tell them I wish they saw their brown or black eyes the way I see my blue ones. My eyes come from my mother and my grandmothers. From an ancestry of women who faced challenges and survived to raise the next generations to come up after them. The difference is that my eyes are adapted to the far north where there's less sunlight. Trust me, there's a reason people with lighter eyes wear sunglasses all the damn time. It hurts otherwise. But where my light eyes wince, your dark eyes can shine. You, too, come from an ancestry of women who faced challenges and survived to raise the next generations to come up after them. Please, look at your eyes. See their unique strengths. And please love them as reflections of yourself and the resilience those who came before you.
i feel theres a racial aspect to it since european features are usually seen as most desirable and have been the beauty standard, and for people of color having non brown eyes makes you seem “desirable” or beautiful for it
This is really interesting to me, I'm Irish and something like 80% of the population have green or blue eyes here, so having brown eyes (like mine) is the more rare thing. I remember as a kid thinking I was weird for having brown eyes cause everyone around me had blue or green eyes, when I found out that most of the world have brown eyes I was shook lol. Great video
My mum has Irish parents and she has blue eyes. I unfortunately ended up with hazel which is just as rare but definitely not seen as just as beautiful. My dad had dark brown eyes so me and one of my brothers both have hazel while my older brother has the dark brown. Guess it's easy to tell which one was the dominant gene
One of my friends always used to laugh at how in Gilmore girl fanfics they would always describe Rory’s blue eyes as mystical blue orbs lol same time with Tristans. Brown eyes are often described like chocolate which I am okay with as a brown eyed girl. I also enjoy the song Brown eyed girl
It's so relative. Here in Ireland most people have blue or green eyes so brown eyes stand out as being really lovely and unique. No wonder Van Morrison wrote that song.
So sad that Daenerys had blue eyes in the show - mystical violet Targaryen eyes would added her another layer (for her madness too - like Jinx from Arcane with magenta eyes)
That is an interesting analysis, and blues are deemed desirable. However, blues eyes are not always desirable across different cultures. In a Russian song, On the Sunny Glade, the soldier's love is a girl with black colored eyes. And in a Greek song, Apo Xeno Topo, a girl with black colored eyes is desirable as well. It just shows that while certains traits are considered desirable in one culture it doesn't always hold in another.
It's interesting to me that blue eyes are seen as rare since I live in Sweden. I think the majority of people in the nordic European countries have blue eyes, so I personally don't think that blue eyes stand out that much. Also I don't think many of the people you showed actually has blue eyes. Bruce Willis and Charlize Theron for example does not appear to have blue eyes, they are more green or maybe hazel. But I guess they can appear blue in some lights. And to me hazel eyes are probably more rare and interesting since they can have a combination of different colors, which can be change depending on the light.
Am hoping this has a part two about The Green-Eyed Girl Trope, because it is prevalent in animation, let alone how they have been portrayed as often the love interests(mostly the wife character) to The Blue-Eyed Boy, although maybe because that's out of an aesthetic choice, it really doesn't change an implied undertone of different class backgrounds with the characters(The Green-Eyed Girl can often be the Working Mom character, to the husband; who has blue eyes, portrayed as the Dumb Father Trope) whereas the other character roles she gets are, either the antagonist because of her eyes "green" with envy, or that she is implied to have supernatural/otherworldly connections tied to her,
That last bit has a lot of historical weight behind it. Since green is THE rarest eye color of all, it’s gathered a lot of symbolism and connotations over the centuries. Don’t know if there are enough pop culture examples for it to qualify as a “trope”, or at least a symbolically consistent one, but it would be worth exploring.
As someone with blue eyes and fair skin (i.e. predominantly Irish heritage), I can say that, depending on lighting, we tend to either having striking eyes that catch others' gaze, or we look like members of The Night King's army from Game Of Thrones.
I have blue eyes but I'm fat lol. In non movie world I'm seen a lot differently than the women pictured here. I think "blue eyed girl" should be replaced with "white conventionally attractive girl"
As a girl with hazel-green eyes, I’ve never understood the fascination with blue eyes. My mom and my brothers all have blue eyes, so I’ve never thought of it as especially rare. Also, I tend to be attracted to people with dark eyes, not blue. It’s interesting how this seemingly historical beauty standards (like blue eyes) can exist, and I can still feel no particular connection to them. Green or blue eyes on darker skin tones looks stunning. Other than that, blue eyes are just blue to me. 😂
Growing up in school, I had many female friends from different cultures. Being Pakistan, Filipino, Bandaglesh and Nigeria. They all had brown eyes but I just thought they were all beautiful in their own way. One Pakastani friend said how she wished she had blue eyes like mine. But I just said she looks so beautiful exactly as she is. Another friend started wearing blue eye contacts and I always thought she was better before. I realised that everyone was reacting to the cultural stereotype of beauty which was to be white. Friends said, you know your eyes are beautiful, I said, yes I do but so are yours. I won the genetic lottery of a beauty standard. But I always loved how brown eyes especially in the sun, showed amber and gold specks. Even dark eyes, I think is so striking.
I'm fascinated by eyes in general regardless of colour. I can tell you anyone's eye colour that I've looked at. It doesn't actually matter what their eye colour is, everyone suits their eye colour and im fascinated what colours can make up an eye. My son has beautiful blue eyes but my other son has equally gorgeous hazel brown eyes. I'm more interested in the differences than just one colour.
My friend Sarbjit to this day wears blue contacts over her natural Black eyes. It drives me crazy because I think she's beautiful with outthem but she disagrees. Also, I love that Toni Morrison was brought up. She is an American Literary Queen.
omg im Punjabi too from a small but snobby town and the wannabe whites were not uncommon (neither was blatant unapologetic racism), it was really saddening to see, a girl with beautiful hazel eyes was known to photoshop her eyes blue in all her photos. one classmate was really incredibly obsessed with her super light skin and never stepped out into the sun and in high school influenced a childhood friend who also had light skin to be her sidekick and they would ever so lightly powder their faces with talcum powder to subtly (but it wasnt tho) try to make their skin look more radiant or something, the only reason i found out because i walked in on them doing it once and i felt terrible that an intelligent capable girl ive seen grow up is being dragged down and being made to feel like her importance is only skin deep. Poor Sarbjit its sounds so painful to have those uncomfortable contacts on all the time and i cant even imagine the emotional pain she's been dealt that makes her want to seem more caucasian. There's so much colourism in India and Punjabi girls are held to this standard of having long straight hair & fair skin & skinny but curvy with a lot of pressure, even from their mothers. the hair thing is religious at times but not always.
As a gay man, I just wanted to add that in our community, blue eyes are often associated with the 'twink' subculture. In case you didn't know, 'twink' is a slang term that refers to young gay male, with teen characteristics, aka, little body hair, no facial hair, light-colored skin, and so on. The term is often used in dating apps to specify what kind of people are you on, or in adult content websites, to mark content.
I have a villain in my fantasy book WIP that is the classic evil icy blue-eyed and Aryan-looking woman; a demigoddess-witch and sociopathic megalomaniac who tries to usurp and fails to defeat the greater good figure (a divine mother goddess with majestic golden-brown eyes).
i feel like a lot of these women featured have either green or grey eyes, they're all just blonde so its more like the blonde blue (but not really) eyed girl trope . In a lot cases, not just eyes, Americans fail to distinguish greens from blues. For example, when Kylie Jenner was coming into the spotlight with her changed lips, everyone including her called her green dip dyed hair blue when it it clearly a shade of sea green.
I love the video but...many of the women show in the video have green eyes? Like Charlize Theron or Amanda Seyfried; I will even say that Rachel McAdams have more green eyes.
That’s where you’re wrong about Rory Gilmore Rory Gilmore doesn’t use her blue eyes to get her out of things. She uses her grandparents money to get her out of things, so inflating blue eyed with some kind of innocence as someone with blue eyes most of us are devious.
Literally didn't know this was a trope. So. Cool. I will say I'm 33, and I think people always assume I'm younger mainly because I have big, blue eyes. That means I feel like I have to work harder to not fall into that "innocent" perception that people also connect with youth. But, it's all champagne problems to have. 🤷♀
The only thing I ever think about in regards to this, is thinking that it IS a rarer thing, so sometimes I sit there and count the number of main characters in movies with blue eyes vs the brown eyed.. It is just a little weird. The Lotrs for example... count how many blues vs the brown. lol It's striking! lol
The study shows that people don’t really see the “colour” of eyes, rather the overall symmetry of features. Imagine a girl with blue eyes but without balanced features, I don’t think that won’t be recognised as the “perfect girl”.
When Marty Deeks made his first appearance on NCIS LA, Callen joked that it was because of his baby blues that he stuck out to Kensi upon their first meeting, and this was before anybody knew who he really was. The fact that they ended up working together for years before marrying and starting a family is just weirdly poetic considering their introduction.
Living in Ireland with blue eyes is like living in Asia with brown eyes. I still get comments cos they’re big and bright but damn, if I lived somewhere else they’d be special. *I’ve always wanted brown eyes btw.
If rarity means value, then minorities (of all types) would be worshipped. I don't think blue eyes would have been so elevated had they been on different skin colors.
i generally tend to make strong eye contact while engaging with someone. however, if that someone has particularly striking blue eyes, i have a very difficult time holding eye contact. i dont understand it.
It's because that pupil is so small and such a huge contrast to the rest of the iris of the eye. it's really piercing because there is no way you can't tell if they are or are not paying attention when they are looking at you. It's a bit scary/ unnerving lol (to me anyway)
Blue eyes are mutations of the eye shape, not color, causing an optical illusion. The mutation began along the Black and Caspian Sea. However, dark skin humans (back when all humans were) in ancient Britain had blue eyes. Other similar eyes exist elsewhere as well. Early hierarchies tried to concentrate blue eyes and blonde hair as visual markers of higher classes and castes. Makes me wonder what physical traits the wealthy nowadays are concentrating.
Well, I only fall on my knees to green eyes. also, solomon islands have black blonds, blue eyes, green eyes. They are so beautiful there and unique. Basically, Black is unique and beautiful
I have super pale blue-grey eyes/light olive skin and am Eurasian (Persian, Anglo-Burmese, Tajikstani, Chinese, Russian, British, Portuguese et al). No one else in my family has blue eyes but me, it skipped two generations from my great-grandfather to me. Everyone else in my family has dark skin/brown eyes.
Swed here, this is so weird to me. In Sweden 80 % have blue eyes in different shades. I have lake eyes, they are blue but shift easily with the light from grey to snowblue to almost green.
I only give my characters blue eyes if A) their face models add up to blue eyes, B) my clarifying software turns their eyes blue, C) blue eyes match/complement their makeup/hair I myself have blue eyes that just keep losing pigment through the decades (age 30).
Have brown eyes and when I was younger I considered getting blue contacts or permanently changing my eye color (also risking losing my vision) ... I then realized I might not recognize myself if I had blue eyes. I had to face the fact that God made me look the way I do and I found acceptance in it.
I have really light blue eyes, like they almost look white or grey and it might be my most distinguishable/noticeable feature, but I don’t notice it effecting my life as much as this video suggests honestly. I think the fetishizing is maybe something that happens more often on screen than in real life. But sometimes people do freak out tho and ask if I’m wearing contacts so it makes me wonder how much people really notice them and just don’t comment on it. But what’s funny is feel like people have treated me as all of these things; I’m blonde and I do think some people take the blue eye/blonde hair thing in a sweet innocent way or an intimidating & sexy kind of way. It’s just interesting how differently different people will perceive how I look and their assumptions about me just based off my coloring.
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As a blue eyed girl I can tell you, our eyes hurt most of the time. The sun literally hurts.
Even when it’s storming during the day, it’s still too bright 😅 I feel like I need to wear my shades all day. God forbid I’m driving at night and people have the brightest headlights they can buy even when they don’t need it
Driving at night is also physically painful when there are other cars on the road 😭
@@gingermami9650 RIGHT?! Like, dude, there’s street lights every foot, do you really need to have spotlights for headlights AND your brights on? We’re not in the middle of nowhere 😭 I really don’t want to be that person who wears sunglasses at night but it’s getting to that point 🫠
Lmfao
Pro tip from a fellow light-eyes -- get some orange blue-light blocking glasses. Not to be confused with an optional clear film over prescription glasses that supposedly reduces blue light or computer glare; the sunglasses should actually be orange in tint. They don't make things darker, so you can wear them for night-driving where all those lovely illegal white headlights blind you. They just reduce the intensity of the blue/white wavelength of light. Works great for cloudy days and under flourescent lights, too. And you can get an over-sized pair to wear over prescription glasses, if need be.
It’s funny, I’ve always been conflicted about my blue eyes. There’s part of me that likes that they’re a light blue and sometimes with lighting and what I wear, they can look more blue or grey. Normally though, I don’t much care for them.
I like brown eyes
Including Jules in Euphoria is a stretch….
i don't think this is a thing... there are tonnes of girls with other eye colours that are seen as equally beautiful or 'special' as you put it, incuding brown. are you guys running out of things to talk about?
It's always been striking to me that Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" did not have blue eyes. I've often wondered if that was a choice by the creators to challenge themselves to find beauty beyond blue eyes and blonde hair. Interestingly, those characteristics were given to those triplets that Gaston ignores. Idk. Does anyone know anything about that choice from the animators?
Belle's look was based on Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday who had brown eyes.
@@SephMeadowesInc Ahhhhh. That makes sense. Thank you!
The first Disney Princess was Snow White another dark hair dark eyes beauty. The next two Cinderella and Aurora were based off of old fairy tale books with blonde hair and from an area where that is more common, not necessarily a Disney choice. Belle is also beautiful and yes the triplets are blonde and actually have very distinct green eyes but I don’t think it was meant to be rude to blonde people just merely showing how Belle was extra beautiful in a town with other beautiful people not just a small town with no cuties.
@@Kswolrd1538 i agree with most of what you've said, but I think the blonde triplets could also fit the air-headed "dumb blonde" trope, cause they desired Gaston so much they didn't realise the guy was a twat and not interested in them
That and the reading where the reason why I always identified so much with Belle as a girl😊
Every woman is different, regardless of their eye color. Their eye color doesn't reveal their character or their intelligence or their attractiveness. Every woman deserves to be regarded on their own merits.
If you've been following this channel for any length of time, you ought to be able to pick up on how its videos discuss how different traits are portrayed in the *media*. There is not, nor ever has been, any insinuation that any trait is universal among women or men in real life.
As a matter of fact, this channel argues in favor of individuality being acknowledged more in the media, too. I.e. showing that blue eyes are not always more attractive than brown, like they said at the end. And the color and shape of our eyes don't necessarily make us an ice queen or a doe-eyed bundle of innocence.
I feel like you either didn't watch the video or missed the point.
I'm blue-eyed and was a teacher for years.
I've lost count of the women and girls who've told me they wished they had eyes like mine. Often they're Black or South-Asian.
I don't know how - in the span of a conversation - to tell them I wish they saw their brown or black eyes the way I see my blue ones.
My eyes come from my mother and my grandmothers. From an ancestry of women who faced challenges and survived to raise the next generations to come up after them.
The difference is that my eyes are adapted to the far north where there's less sunlight. Trust me, there's a reason people with lighter eyes wear sunglasses all the damn time. It hurts otherwise.
But where my light eyes wince, your dark eyes can shine. You, too, come from an ancestry of women who faced challenges and survived to raise the next generations to come up after them.
Please, look at your eyes. See their unique strengths. And please love them as reflections of yourself and the resilience those who came before you.
i feel theres a racial aspect to it since european features are usually seen as most desirable and have been the beauty standard, and for people of color having non brown eyes makes you seem “desirable” or beautiful for it
As a blue eyed redhead with very fair skin I’m told it’s a nice combo from time to time.
I was always taken with Rory’s blue eyes. Especially because she had dark hair so the blue really stood out to me.
This is really interesting to me, I'm Irish and something like 80% of the population have green or blue eyes here, so having brown eyes (like mine) is the more rare thing. I remember as a kid thinking I was weird for having brown eyes cause everyone around me had blue or green eyes, when I found out that most of the world have brown eyes I was shook lol. Great video
I'm an Italian with blue eyes (super pale skin and dark hair) so pretty much the opposite of most people here 😂 I know the feeling, dear
I'm irish and the same ! I defo stood out having brown eyes growing up.
I have brown eyes
My mum has Irish parents and she has blue eyes. I unfortunately ended up with hazel which is just as rare but definitely not seen as just as beautiful. My dad had dark brown eyes so me and one of my brothers both have hazel while my older brother has the dark brown. Guess it's easy to tell which one was the dominant gene
@@dusty4502 Um it's not unfortunate that you have hazel eyes
It's both - blue eyes you can get lost in... are the same blue eyes that tell you to get lost.
Who hurt you
@@imaankhurramA person, I would imagine.
One of my friends always used to laugh at how in Gilmore girl fanfics they would always describe Rory’s blue eyes as mystical blue orbs lol same time with Tristans. Brown eyes are often described like chocolate which I am okay with as a brown eyed girl. I also enjoy the song Brown eyed girl
It's so relative. Here in Ireland most people have blue or green eyes so brown eyes stand out as being really lovely and unique. No wonder Van Morrison wrote that song.
Such a fun song!
Brown eyes are so underrated. They can have so many different shades and depth of color, they are really beautiful (as all eyes are, tbh)
@@nbac26And having blue eyes gained a negative connotation after the whole blond-haired blue-eyed Aryan thing gained traction!
My Black eyes have been called an abyss
So sad that Daenerys had blue eyes in the show - mystical violet Targaryen eyes would added her another layer (for her madness too - like Jinx from Arcane with magenta eyes)
They initially tried to accomplish that with lenses, but felt that the odd color would be too distracting from the actual performance.
I have watched GOT countless times. Her eyes are blatantly green, like Emilia Clarkes are.
That is an interesting analysis, and blues are deemed desirable. However, blues eyes are not always desirable across different cultures. In a Russian song, On the Sunny Glade, the soldier's love is a girl with black colored eyes. And in a Greek song, Apo Xeno Topo, a girl with black colored eyes is desirable as well. It just shows that while certains traits are considered desirable in one culture it doesn't always hold in another.
It's interesting to me that blue eyes are seen as rare since I live in Sweden. I think the majority of people in the nordic European countries have blue eyes, so I personally don't think that blue eyes stand out that much. Also I don't think many of the people you showed actually has blue eyes. Bruce Willis and Charlize Theron for example does not appear to have blue eyes, they are more green or maybe hazel. But I guess they can appear blue in some lights. And to me hazel eyes are probably more rare and interesting since they can have a combination of different colors, which can be change depending on the light.
Amanda Seyfried has more green than blue eyes IMO
Am hoping this has a part two about The Green-Eyed Girl Trope, because it is prevalent in animation, let alone how they have been portrayed as often the love interests(mostly the wife character) to The Blue-Eyed Boy, although maybe because that's out of an aesthetic choice, it really doesn't change an implied undertone of different class backgrounds with the characters(The Green-Eyed Girl can often be the Working Mom character, to the husband; who has blue eyes, portrayed as the Dumb Father Trope) whereas the other character roles she gets are, either the antagonist because of her eyes "green" with envy, or that she is implied to have supernatural/otherworldly connections tied to her,
That last bit has a lot of historical weight behind it. Since green is THE rarest eye color of all, it’s gathered a lot of symbolism and connotations over the centuries. Don’t know if there are enough pop culture examples for it to qualify as a “trope”, or at least a symbolically consistent one, but it would be worth exploring.
@@Hallows4 I guess that's why with animated movies/tv shows, that there's a lot of female characters that have green eyes,
As someone with blue eyes and fair skin (i.e. predominantly Irish heritage), I can say that, depending on lighting, we tend to either having striking eyes that catch others' gaze, or we look like members of The Night King's army from Game Of Thrones.
Blue eyes people scare me sometimes, it really seems like you guys don't blink at all and have their eyes wide open all the time.
@@maryshelley211 😂 Sorry, I'll get the council together, and we'll discuss that matter lol
@@maryshelley211Bruh you’re telling me, I’ve scared myself before at night 😂
@kgill147 -- Having blue(ish-gray) eyes suddenly feels much cooler (no pun intended), thanks! XD
@maryshelley211 it's crazy how you'll see 80 year olds with the same baby blues
... is this really a trope?
All of the women you show in this clip are exceptionally attractive. In real life, not all blue-eyed people are that good looking.
Exactly. Eye color really doesn't matter if you're conventionally attractive
My daughter started off with Blueish eyes at birth but then they went from blue to gray to green to hazel & now she has hazel eyes with green rings.
Jesus- this channel just makes up tropes for the sake of content
I have blue eyes but I'm fat lol. In non movie world I'm seen a lot differently than the women pictured here. I think "blue eyed girl" should be replaced with "white conventionally attractive girl"
Please consider doing a video on green eyes!
The elves!
Breaking bad
I don't know, I've always liked blue-green or grey eyes best. Like more soulful, personally.
Bright blue eyes have always given me the creeps 😬
“Abbi: I can't really imagine what it's life for people with blue eyes.
Ilana: No idea, other than feeling like a fucking freak.”
lmao
As a girl with hazel-green eyes, I’ve never understood the fascination with blue eyes. My mom and my brothers all have blue eyes, so I’ve never thought of it as especially rare. Also, I tend to be attracted to people with dark eyes, not blue. It’s interesting how this seemingly historical beauty standards (like blue eyes) can exist, and I can still feel no particular connection to them. Green or blue eyes on darker skin tones looks stunning. Other than that, blue eyes are just blue to me. 😂
EXACTLY!!
please put subtitles in portuguese.I love your content, but I don't understand English (yet). I am from Brazil❤
Growing up in school, I had many female friends from different cultures. Being Pakistan, Filipino, Bandaglesh and Nigeria. They all had brown eyes but I just thought they were all beautiful in their own way. One Pakastani friend said how she wished she had blue eyes like mine. But I just said she looks so beautiful exactly as she is. Another friend started wearing blue eye contacts and I always thought she was better before. I realised that everyone was reacting to the cultural stereotype of beauty which was to be white. Friends said, you know your eyes are beautiful, I said, yes I do but so are yours. I won the genetic lottery of a beauty standard. But I always loved how brown eyes especially in the sun, showed amber and gold specks. Even dark eyes, I think is so striking.
I'm fascinated by eyes in general regardless of colour. I can tell you anyone's eye colour that I've looked at. It doesn't actually matter what their eye colour is, everyone suits their eye colour and im fascinated what colours can make up an eye. My son has beautiful blue eyes but my other son has equally gorgeous hazel brown eyes. I'm more interested in the differences than just one colour.
My friend Sarbjit to this day wears blue contacts over her natural Black eyes. It drives me crazy because I think she's beautiful with outthem but she disagrees.
Also, I love that Toni Morrison was brought up. She is an American Literary Queen.
omg im Punjabi too from a small but snobby town and the wannabe whites were not uncommon (neither was blatant unapologetic racism), it was really saddening to see, a girl with beautiful hazel eyes was known to photoshop her eyes blue in all her photos. one classmate was really incredibly obsessed with her super light skin and never stepped out into the sun and in high school influenced a childhood friend who also had light skin to be her sidekick and they would ever so lightly powder their faces with talcum powder to subtly (but it wasnt tho) try to make their skin look more radiant or something, the only reason i found out because i walked in on them doing it once and i felt terrible that an intelligent capable girl ive seen grow up is being dragged down and being made to feel like her importance is only skin deep.
Poor Sarbjit its sounds so painful to have those uncomfortable contacts on all the time and i cant even imagine the emotional pain she's been dealt that makes her want to seem more caucasian. There's so much colourism in India and Punjabi girls are held to this standard of having long straight hair & fair skin & skinny but curvy with a lot of pressure, even from their mothers. the hair thing is religious at times but not always.
The take has no more trope to analyze that it's inventing them
Eurocentric beauty hegemony thats what blue eyes means to us latinas and latinos
One of the things I get from this channel is that if it exist, it’s fetishized. And if it’s not, it will be. 🧐
If you dont think blue eyes are fetishized, you must living on another planet
can you read properly? @@blackguyofthesouth2161
As a gay man, I just wanted to add that in our community, blue eyes are often associated with the 'twink' subculture. In case you didn't know, 'twink' is a slang term that refers to young gay male, with teen characteristics, aka, little body hair, no facial hair, light-colored skin, and so on. The term is often used in dating apps to specify what kind of people are you on, or in adult content websites, to mark content.
No wonder Mac Ingime(a lesbian TikToker) reminds me of a twink!!!
Well, this depends on where you are. Where I'm from brown and hazel eyes are the popular ones because everyone has blue or grey eyes.
I have a villain in my fantasy book WIP that is the classic evil icy blue-eyed and Aryan-looking woman; a demigoddess-witch and sociopathic megalomaniac who tries to usurp and fails to defeat the greater good figure (a divine mother goddess with majestic golden-brown eyes).
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i feel like a lot of these women featured have either green or grey eyes, they're all just blonde so its more like the blonde blue (but not really) eyed girl trope . In a lot cases, not just eyes, Americans fail to distinguish greens from blues. For example, when Kylie Jenner was coming into the spotlight with her changed lips, everyone including her called her green dip dyed hair blue when it it clearly a shade of sea green.
I never liked blue eyes because of Hitler and they are c r eepy
Racism drives the obsession ijs 😅
I love the video but...many of the women show in the video have green eyes? Like Charlize Theron or Amanda Seyfried; I will even say that Rachel McAdams have more green eyes.
I think they're all kinda in betweens. They're not true blues but they're not true greens either.
It’s not any shade of blue eyes. It the light and “bright” blue eyes which are so striking and demanding of attention.
You’re so mysterious says man who’s never asked girl a single question.
That’s where you’re wrong about Rory Gilmore Rory Gilmore doesn’t use her blue eyes to get her out of things. She uses her grandparents money to get her out of things, so inflating blue eyed with some kind of innocence as someone with blue eyes most of us are devious.
Zooey Deschanel
Margot Robbie
Hunter Schaefer
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Amanda Seyfried
Alexandra Daddario
Excellent take, only thing missing from this is the extremes people go to to obtain blue eyes, think tiny’s eye surgery
Literally didn't know this was a trope. So. Cool. I will say I'm 33, and I think people always assume I'm younger mainly because I have big, blue eyes. That means I feel like I have to work harder to not fall into that "innocent" perception that people also connect with youth. But, it's all champagne problems to have. 🤷♀
with man i m very much into brown eyes ; ))
The only thing I ever think about in regards to this, is thinking that it IS a rarer thing, so sometimes I sit there and count the number of main characters in movies with blue eyes vs the brown eyed.. It is just a little weird. The Lotrs for example... count how many blues vs the brown. lol It's striking! lol
Green or hazel (central heterochromia) eyes are rarer than blue eyes, but are vastly over represented in Hollywood.
The study shows that people don’t really see the “colour” of eyes, rather the overall symmetry of features. Imagine a girl with blue eyes but without balanced features, I don’t think that won’t be recognised as the “perfect girl”.
As a brown guy, I think blue eyes look mostly good on white or light skinned people.
Rachel McAdams has green eyes, Julie Delpy has green eyes.
Pretty eyes > any particular eye colour.
Are Julie Delpy's eyes blue? I always thought they were brown... But then again I've never seen her in person
I would say it’s both; you can get lost in both of them
Maybe because I have eyes, I’ve never noticed it but blue eyes don’t stand out to me. I find them boring and untrustworthy.
Never impress me much but I do like hazel eyes.
eyes blue like the atlantic,
and i'm going down like the titanic
I personally prefer predatory eye colors like these are a wolf copper Amber color, so much more attractive
When Marty Deeks made his first appearance on NCIS LA, Callen joked that it was because of his baby blues that he stuck out to Kensi upon their first meeting, and this was before anybody knew who he really was. The fact that they ended up working together for years before marrying and starting a family is just weirdly poetic considering their introduction.
I wonder what can that mean with girls with other colored eyes like Green, Black, Hazel, Grey, or Brown(like mine)
I find green or brown eyes more beautiful.
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Living in Ireland with blue eyes is like living in Asia with brown eyes.
I still get comments cos they’re big and bright but damn, if I lived somewhere else they’d be special.
*I’ve always wanted brown eyes btw.
Never got the fuss personally
Christina Aguilar & Vanessa Willams both in my opinion have the most beautiful blue eyes
I thought Vanessa Williams eyes were green
If rarity means value, then minorities (of all types) would be worshipped. I don't think blue eyes would have been so elevated had they been on different skin colors.
i generally tend to make strong eye contact while engaging with someone. however, if that someone has particularly striking blue eyes, i have a very difficult time holding eye contact. i dont understand it.
It's because that pupil is so small and such a huge contrast to the rest of the iris of the eye. it's really piercing because there is no way you can't tell if they are or are not paying attention when they are looking at you. It's a bit scary/ unnerving lol (to me anyway)
I’m so sick of the blue eyed vs brown eyed debate. How come green eyed girls are always left out of the conversation? Where is our moment?
Well, first 60 seconds...
Kate Hudson and Bruce Willis have green eyes.. 😂🙄
Great research!
Can you do Cousins and In Laws in Media and how Never Have I Ever subverts typical depictions
My mom and brothers all have beautiful green eyes and noooo my dads genes decided they wanted me .. I always thought it was so un fairrrr 😂
Totally wrong.. as a man, we care way more about blonde hair... they’re just so much more fun
Oh really early
As a scandinavian its not held up as anything special here, its more boring and basic
Have you run out of topics? That's really ridiculous.
Can you do green eyes next 😊?
They include people with green eyes too here 😅😅. Not really blue
I’m okay with my brown eyes. I’ve been called doe-eyed.
Ok but doesn't Amanda Seyfried have green eyes?
is the person who narrates Anjelica from TBH?!
Blue eyes are mutations of the eye shape, not color, causing an optical illusion. The mutation began along the Black and Caspian Sea. However, dark skin humans (back when all humans were) in ancient Britain had blue eyes. Other similar eyes exist elsewhere as well. Early hierarchies tried to concentrate blue eyes and blonde hair as visual markers of higher classes and castes. Makes me wonder what physical traits the wealthy nowadays are concentrating.
It’s paper towns…not power towns.
every eye color can draw attention :)
It's 2023 when will popular TH-cam channels invest in getting their videos captioned? 🙄
Well, I only fall on my knees to green eyes.
also, solomon islands have black blonds, blue eyes, green eyes. They are so beautiful there and unique.
Basically, Black is unique and beautiful
I have super pale blue-grey eyes/light olive skin and am Eurasian (Persian, Anglo-Burmese, Tajikstani, Chinese, Russian, British, Portuguese et al). No one else in my family has blue eyes but me, it skipped two generations from my great-grandfather to me. Everyone else in my family has dark skin/brown eyes.
Swed here, this is so weird to me. In Sweden 80 % have blue eyes in different shades. I have lake eyes, they are blue but shift easily with the light from grey to snowblue to almost green.
My kids are half Chinese, none of them got my blue eyes. Instead, they all have beautiful, melting pools of chocolate for eyes!
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I only give my characters blue eyes if A) their face models add up to blue eyes, B) my clarifying software turns their eyes blue, C) blue eyes match/complement their makeup/hair
I myself have blue eyes that just keep losing pigment through the decades (age 30).
Have brown eyes and when I was younger I considered getting blue contacts or permanently changing my eye color (also risking losing my vision) ... I then realized I might not recognize myself if I had blue eyes. I had to face the fact that God made me look the way I do and I found acceptance in it.
I have really light blue eyes, like they almost look white or grey and it might be my most distinguishable/noticeable feature, but I don’t notice it effecting my life as much as this video suggests honestly. I think the fetishizing is maybe something that happens more often on screen than in real life. But sometimes people do freak out tho and ask if I’m wearing contacts so it makes me wonder how much people really notice them and just don’t comment on it.
But what’s funny is feel like people have treated me as all of these things; I’m blonde and I do think some people take the blue eye/blonde hair thing in a sweet innocent way or an intimidating & sexy kind of way. It’s just interesting how differently different people will perceive how I look and their assumptions about me just based off my coloring.
What about blue eyes men?
Charly Bivona narrated this, but I really thought it was Zooey Deschanel at first.
Amanda Seyfried has green eyes. Emilia Clarkes eyes are blue and greeen. Rachel Mcadams eyes are hazel.
One time, at the Tiffany's store at the mall, the security guard's eyes were, no lie... Tiffany Blue.