Hazel eyes vs. green eyes?

[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.

[Anonymous]

This is the green I see in friends and family. I rarely see the emerald grass green color.
Similar to the eye argument, a dark haired person might call this blonde which tends to irritate a much lighter haired blonde who would call this brown. Another exercise in perspective is what people refer to as curly, wavy and straight hair. True straight haired people would call this guy wavy and wavy/curly would call it straight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

My DS has indescribable blue/gray/green eyes with no brown and we’ve always called them hazel, and google confirms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What color is this considered?

dirty dishwater

[Anonymous]

"Hazel" has too much variation to be a useful descriptor - if you tell someone you have hazel eyes, they would not know if the predominant color was blue, green, gray, or brown. It's like saying a dog is "spotted."

My ID says I have green eyes because that's the predominant color. The fact my eyes have a tan inner ring is not really relevant to IDing me.

[Anonymous]

I like this thread but I am more confused than ever.

Hazel has some brown, got it. But what is green???