Hazel eyes vs. green eyes?
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Anonymous
Nobody has green (or blue) pigment in their eyes, only melanin. Very little or no melanin = blue eyes, a little bit more = green eyes, more than that = brown eyes. Uniformly green eyes are vanishingly rare because that would require completely uniform distribution of the right amount of melanin. It's more common to have uneven distribution, which looks like green with gold or brown flecks or gold center. |
Anonymous
According to Reddit, this is green per the responses on the thread I took it from which matches my eye 
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Anonymous
| They look hazel to me |
Anonymous
| hazel |
Anonymous
I agree with the dirty dishwater poster. I’m not seeing any green there at all, just kind of grayish-brownish. |
Anonymous
| I thought I was hazel, till I had my son whose eyes are more like gold/green/brown and then I realized mine are green and his are hazel. His eyes would not pass for green or brown. |
Anonymous
They are both hazel. The bottom clearly has a green outer ring and a bit of olive green in the iris as well even thugh brown is the color you see first when you look at them (and you would probably describe them as having brown eyes from a few feet away). Which is why people are also saying that they would describe the top eye as green even though it is technically hazel. As a PP noted saying that those eyes are hazel is technically true but functionally useless because the predominant color is green and if you were a few feet away you'd probably only see the green. The issue that arises is that because green eyes are more rare than brown people view it as arrogant to claim to have green eyes but not arrogant to claim to have brown eyes when in either case the eyes are actually hazel. But that's about people's emotions about rarity and beauty and not really about anything useful. Although interestingly I have hazel eyes where green is predominant AND the green is kind of greenish blue. So from a few feet away people often think my eyes are blue. But they really are not -- if you look up close it's a band of dark greenish blue on the outside and then my iris is mostly just green and then I have some gold and brown flecks and striations right next to the pupil. I have been in conversations where someone referred to my eyes as blue and another person said no they are green and then I've said actually they are technically hazel but mostly green and no one can agree. It is weird how much subjectivity there can be about something we can all look at and see. It like the blue or gold dress but for eyes. |
Anonymous
You really don't see any green in those eyes? That is so weird to me. Those are mostly green with a bit of brown in the pupil -- I would describe them as hazel-green. I think the "dirty dishwater" comments are rude. Yes the color is more muted but it is not "dirty" (do all people with brown eyes have "dirty" eyes) and if I met someone with this eye color I'd think it was pretty. |
Anonymous
Technically you both have hazel eyes (if you have any color other than green in your eyes) but yours are likely hazel-green and his are a true medium hazel with an equal mix of green and brown. |
Anonymous
Even these green eyes listed in articles as green eyes have color outside of only green - brown, gray, and blue are present:
There is no seemingly fully green eye color |
Anonymous
| My eyes change color, but are primarily green. |
Anonymous
You might be colorblind. |
Anonymous
My eyes are the color of the top picture. Officially Blue. |
Anonymous
Quite. Those are grey-green. |
Anonymous
I'm the PP who posted that photo as what my eyes look like and people do sometimes think my eyes are blue. And actually I have a parent and sibling with blue eyes so I probably did get the recessive blue eye genes. But also my eyes don't look like either my parent or my siblings blue eyes at all -- they have unequivocally blue eyes and I have blue-green-gold eyes. |