Are there different shades of hazel eyes or do only green with brown centers count?

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Anonymous wrote:Blue is blue. Hazel is hazel. How is this even a question.

NP. I have blue eyes with kind of a small radiating hazel/gold ring around the center.

You might not call that hazel, and plenty of people have complimented me on my unique eyes but they aren't pure blue either.

Like this

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Anonymous wrote:Hazel would never include blue.

I think it does. My dad is blue and green and it's definitely hazel.

My eyes are blue with green/yellow starbursts. I'm told I have cat eyes. They're quite amazing - people always compliment me because of my eyes. Some days they look bluer, some days they look greener.

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My eyes used to be light brown with a dark green ring. When I hit menopause the melanin seems to have decided to disappear, so only the very center around the pupils is still brown. The rest is hazel-gold fading to blue. Almost everyone on both sides of my family has blue eyes, so maybe the brownness is weak in me.

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My eyes are hazel. Depending on what color I'm wearing, they are either more brown or more green.

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My eyes are light brown (amber/honey colored) with green visible in certain light. I think that's hazel.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hazel would never include blue.

I think it does. My dad is blue and green and it's definitely hazel.

Wtf. No

His eyes are a mix of the two. What would you call them? They are neither green nor blue.

That's called blue green.

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A lot of people seem to use hazel to describe any shade of brown, and sometimes green. For this reason I don't use the term- because I'm not sure what people think it means. So I pick the outer third or so and call it that. One of my kids has green, one blue, both with an inner Brown/gold ring.

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Why are people randomly posting what color their eyes are? No one cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Rings around the pupil (Limbal ring) fades with age.
So the hazel / blueness will change as you age.

The limbic ring is actually the part that borders the sclera not the pupil and gives that dark appearance in youth.

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If your eyes are green with a brown ring in the center can they be called green?

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Op here. Would this be hazel or green?

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Op here. Would this be hazel or green?

I would say hazel.

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The lovely thing about hazel eyes is that they often change with leg light, or what one is wearing. So sometimes they look more green, other times more brown.

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Op here. Would this be hazel or green?

I'd say green.

Hazel is the reverse - more green in towards the pupil, brown outer.