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

[img]https://theredheadriter.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/06/hazel-green-eyes-red-hair-1.jpg[/img]

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:

[img]https://www.colorblindnesstest.org/static/colorblindnesstest/img/blogs/hazel-eyes_2.jpg[/img][/quote]

The top is hazel, the bottom is brown.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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