Hazel eyes vs. green eyes?

[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.

[Anonymous]

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

These are green

They are but also likely colored contacts -- that kind of vibrant green is unlikely because green eyes are not green due to having green pigment in them. Green eyes are green due LACK of melanin in the iris which causes light to scatter instead of be absorbed as you see with brown eyes. So green (and blue) eyes very rarely look richly colored because the color is not coming from pigment in the eyes. The eyes in that photo are both dark green and brilliantly colored which is a give away for color contacts.

[Anonymous]

Hazel. To me green has very little brown in it.

[Anonymous]

What color is this considered?

[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

Well, everybody is wrong. Hazel eyes are brown+ another color. Mine are brown + green. In the OP, the first photo is hazel. The second looks hazel to me, but I wouldn’t quibble over that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What color is this considered?

I’d say hazel. Brown + green. I wouldn’t correct the person if they claimed to have green eyes, b/c the green is dominant, but there are clearly rays of another color.

[Anonymous]

I’d you use clear or a iPhone, don’t share your eye photo!!!

[Anonymous]

Those look green to me, both of them.

My boyfriend has gray-blue eyes with a greenish tinge around the pupil and thought he had green eyes. It's true that when he wears green it draws the green out more, but I don't think of him as having 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

I would call that amber not hazel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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:

The top is hazel, the bottom is brown.

[Anonymous]

OP’s photos are hazel.

I have light brown with golden flecks - not hazel.