Hazel eyes vs. green eyes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have hazel eyes which look like this - they look gold sometimes

In your example, the top might be hazel - I think it needs to have that golden look though - but the bottom is definitely green.

Those are my color eyes and everybody says they are light brown and not hazel

Definitely hazel.

[Anonymous]

Hazel. Green eyes are green. If there is brown present, it's hazel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:both are predominately green

my mother had hazel eyes, with only a thin green ring around the outer edges of the circle

its the majority color that decides the name

I have blue eyes but with a hazel inner ring (nearest the iris)

Hazel refers to the blend of blue and brown.

Almost everyone's eyes only have one pigment, brown.

Some people have a tiny bit of yellow pigment.

With no pigment, eyes look blue/gray for the same reason the sky looks blue, scattering.


Skattering means some colors are only seen from direct reflection angles (like in a mirror), and other colors (low wavelength blue colors) are scattered and seen at all angles.

The more pigment to have, The closer eyes looked fully dark brown.
With moderate pigment you have full light brown/amber eyes.

With less pigment, you don't have full of brown. You have partial brown, and partial blue/green. That's hazel.

With that yellow pigment, but no brown pigment, your eyes look green.

[Anonymous]

The eyes in the OP look hazel/light brown to me. Definitely not green.

Also, I was always told that hazel is the correct term for light brown, so interesting that a PP said they hazel, not light brown. I thought they were the same thing.

[Anonymous]

My understanding is that when there is any brown whatsoever they are hazel. I have hazel eyes. I’ve had two close friends with green eyes. Those eyes you show and the ones I have that are similar are definitely not green.

[Anonymous]

I have light green eyes. There is yellow/orange present, not brown.
You can call them green, but there is also this light green that is different from yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The eyes in the OP look hazel/light brown to me. Definitely not green.

Also, I was always told that hazel is the correct term for light brown, so interesting that a PP said they hazel, not light brown. I thought they were the same thing.

My grandmother had light brown eyes--pure brown with no green, blue, or gold mixed in. Any mix is hazel.

[Anonymous]

The second picture looks almost exactly like my eye color and most people call them green. Some say hazel. I never know what color to say, and agree that people get weirdly fired up about it.

[Anonymous]

Op here. Exactly! People feel strongly about if I say green or hazel as well.

I did find this in attempting to show the shade of my eye but also someone mentioned the light green is actually yellow green and it’s not brown in the center. I have never heard of yellow green before today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both my parents had green eyes. I have green eyes. Dark forest green ring around outside, vivid olive green inside. Slight thin golden rays around pupil if you look close up but the green is solid and vivid.

I think technically the gold rays would result in hazel. I don't actually care but I thought that any color variation at all resulted in hazel eyes even if they were mostly one color.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that there are many variations of hazel eyes

You can have hazel-green eyes that are mostly green with some gold or brown around the iris

You can have hazel-brown eyes that are mostly brown with some green or gold around the iris

You can have hazel eyes that are mostly blue with some brown around the iris

And so on

If your eyes have more than one color present they are hazel but this means that you could have 5 people with hazel eyes and their eyes could all look vastly different

Which is why people with hazel eyes that are predominantly one color may just go with that color because it's actually more descriptive than just saying "hazel" which is not technically a color but a description of variation in the color

[Anonymous]

My daughter has hazel eyes - as does my father. My daughters are more of a green/hazel and my father is more of a golden hazel.

[Anonymous]

This is my eye color (sans the heavy black eyeliner but this was the best photo I could find)



I know they are technically hazel but they mostly read as green unless you look up close to see the bits of brown and gold around the iris

Whereas these are also hazel but totally different eye color than mine:

[Anonymous]

https://images.app.goo.gl/P1hR7Aq4umHNgiQaA

These are green

[Anonymous]

This is funny Op. I watch the RHOP and when I look at both Robyn and Giselle Bryant’s eyes I see blue not green. Especially Giselle’s.