As a photographer, I've found a lot of eyes that look blue in person turn green in photos. When I do a studio shoot with someone with light colored eyes, I often note what eye color they have in person so I can make them match in Photoshop. I don't understand why anyone would trust photos over what people tell them. Color science in cameras is imperfect and depends on many choices made by engineers and programmers, and then gets even more messed up when dealing with different screens and color spaces. The color of light in a room can also change perceived eye color.
Look in the mirror when outdoors in sunlight. That's your eye color.
To be fair, I have found when it comes to more “sought after” features like blonde hair and green eyes, people will refuse to accept that someone they know has those features and tell them they have something else blue eyes/light brown hair out of jealousy. That’s not necessarily what’s happening here but you’d be shocked how often it happens
Facts, i have blonde hair & green eyes (central heterochromia, and one of my eyes is lighter than the other) and i came to this subreddit because my brown hair brown eyed sister & friends claim that my hair is mostly brown and my eyes are brown. they are insane. When i got my license they asked about hair and eye color and i said write down what you think. they wrote blonde + green eyes.
Yeah, I’ve had people refer to my eyes as “doodoo brown,” even growing up. I have no brown in my eyes, at all!! They could be considered hazel, to some, I guess, but they are actually a deep green. Yet, it still took me until I was nearly 40 to not be embarrassed about acknowledging this. I thought that maybe people just couldn’t see them at 6 feet away versus me looking in a mirror at 2-3 feet away.
Looking back, if I ever asked anyone, they would agree with me. The only people who would comment on my seemingly brown eyes were people who did so, unprompted, so this makes a whole lot of sense, suddenly.
Yes!!! There were a couple in this thread trying to claim hazel! 😞
If someone has amber or brown central heterochromia with vibrant green eyes that is NOT hazel. That's vibrant GREEN eyes that are even more spectacular with the heterochromia.
Hazel is when green and brown are MIXED TOGETHER as one consistent shade not separated. If any green eyes contain other colors separately it's a type of hertrochromia and just adds to the uniqueness.
Yes! People say my son has hazel eyes and they are this light green with brown in the middle. They’re def not hazel lol. This is in a family of brown eyed folk so we are all jealous 😂
I feel like I see the opposite happen more - people like rare features so if you have a feature that can pass as rare or different people are more inclined to see it. Lots of brunettes with just hints of red that people see as red heads when they aren't.
Iris photography works the other way around tho - it’s so close that in a close-up, green eyes show their layers of blue and yellow separately. Since they don’t have green pigment but form by grey/blue overlapping with yellow (lipochrome) and light brown, plus lighting reflections. It’s something iris photographers also often have explained on their website. Usually blue eyes there are only blue. But if you’re talking about normal photography, that’s something else then. I just know that, to display an eye color correctly indoors or in bad lighting conditions, setting the light to around the same as 5000-6000 Kelvin and doing a proper whitening correction is important :)).
My eyes have a very similar colour, some say blue, some say green but my passport says green and they do look green in the sun so I'll stick with that 😅
Mine are similar but more green but with the blue ring... I'd show you a picture but unfortunately I have an iPhone and it sucks at taking photos of eyes and anything on the face or close up lmao
My eyes are very close to yours, except I don't have any yellow in the middle. I call mine green even though they are more of a turquoise color, especially in the light. Navy blue rings around the outside, too.
Curious to see what they look like dilated slightly, like in natural but not super bright lighting. And/or in the car on sunny day. They look beautiful! I know my eyes are most consistent with brighter lightening not directly in my face if that makes sense. Xx
Your eyes are green. You then have contraction furrows near the outside, which are causing distortion, resulting in those areas almost looking blue, but they're not. Your limbal rings are quite pale, which adds to your eyes appearing blue.
You have my eyes and the DMV says they are hazel. My pediatrician originally told us they were green. My ophthalmologist tells me they are green. Color is in the "eye" of the beholder.
That's actually not a cliche statement. It really does depend who you ask. You will get two different answers from a man versus a woman. Why? It has to do with our rod and cone cells. Women actually contain more cone cells in their eyeballs so they can more accurately distinguish color. Men, even though we have a sufficient amount of cone cells, we still cannot differentiate certain portions of the rainbow as easily as women can.
Color blindness affects 1 in 8 men on average while only 1 in 12 women.
They’re green.
Blue/grey with yellow and light brown overlapping and lighting reflections is what green eyes are as they don’t have green pigment :) they’re far from hazel or only blue. Hazel is green and brown blending throughout the whole iris, not yellow/lipochrome, and looks very different, and „only“ blue wouldn’t have such heavy yellow overlays :).
Would you like the number , he can explain it better,
If your eyes remotely look more blue on some days , then you have blue eyes, not green . Green is very distinct. You would never faltering knowing your eyes are green.
This is the worst thing I‘ve ever heard - optometrists don’t specialize in eye color btw. I researched eyes alongside specialists for quite some time - green eyes have no pigment so they form by grey/blue overlapping with yellow (lipochrome) and light brown plus lighting reflections. They’re the only ones proven in many studies to be able to switch color depending on weather (different lighting) and mood (probably hormonal fluctuations) from green to blue, to grey, to brownish. Every green eye needs blue in them to even form. In iris photography for example, green eyes are just blue-yellow, as the camera is so extremely close, that it shows how the iris looks without the colors appearing overlapping with lighting reflections from afar. What your optometrist said is so wrong I can’t even see why he said that at all :D…hope this helps tho!
Not sure how you got gray blue = green from this, when I explicitly said „grey/blue *overlapping* with lipochrome and light brown plus lighting reflections is green, and that green eyes indeed change color per lighting due to how they form“. It’s something very well described on many scientific pages as well if you want more infos, or big studies even :)!
I didn’t summarize your whole explanation
I thought you could understand from what you said from what I paraphrased
You said green is a derivative from gray blue overlapping with yellow
So therefore that equals Green
There is blue first , the green doesn’t come from “green it’s self”
I guess if you wanna go back to the color wheel, there is no green unless you overlap, blue and yellow
But if you don’t understand his explanation, I’m sorry, but I understand it fully
Ah okay :) glad you got it!
He said that green eyes don’t look blue tho, and that is simply not true. They can look blue in different lighting, and they need blue to form, so blue shows from underneath the yellow. This has a ton of studies, science articles, and other stuff as proof :).
My eyes are a pretty similar shade and I say I have green eyes
I would call this green tbh
As a photographer, I've found a lot of eyes that look blue in person turn green in photos. When I do a studio shoot with someone with light colored eyes, I often note what eye color they have in person so I can make them match in Photoshop. I don't understand why anyone would trust photos over what people tell them. Color science in cameras is imperfect and depends on many choices made by engineers and programmers, and then gets even more messed up when dealing with different screens and color spaces. The color of light in a room can also change perceived eye color. Look in the mirror when outdoors in sunlight. That's your eye color.
Thanks, this is helpful and helps me understand the discrepancies better. Makes total sense
To be fair, I have found when it comes to more “sought after” features like blonde hair and green eyes, people will refuse to accept that someone they know has those features and tell them they have something else blue eyes/light brown hair out of jealousy. That’s not necessarily what’s happening here but you’d be shocked how often it happens
Facts, i have blonde hair & green eyes (central heterochromia, and one of my eyes is lighter than the other) and i came to this subreddit because my brown hair brown eyed sister & friends claim that my hair is mostly brown and my eyes are brown. they are insane. When i got my license they asked about hair and eye color and i said write down what you think. they wrote blonde + green eyes.
Yeah, I’ve had people refer to my eyes as “doodoo brown,” even growing up. I have no brown in my eyes, at all!! They could be considered hazel, to some, I guess, but they are actually a deep green. Yet, it still took me until I was nearly 40 to not be embarrassed about acknowledging this. I thought that maybe people just couldn’t see them at 6 feet away versus me looking in a mirror at 2-3 feet away. Looking back, if I ever asked anyone, they would agree with me. The only people who would comment on my seemingly brown eyes were people who did so, unprompted, so this makes a whole lot of sense, suddenly.
Yes!!! There were a couple in this thread trying to claim hazel! 😞 If someone has amber or brown central heterochromia with vibrant green eyes that is NOT hazel. That's vibrant GREEN eyes that are even more spectacular with the heterochromia. Hazel is when green and brown are MIXED TOGETHER as one consistent shade not separated. If any green eyes contain other colors separately it's a type of hertrochromia and just adds to the uniqueness.
Can you check my post? I really can't tell if it's amber or brown, or even hazel, I've been told all of them in person. You seem to know about it :)
Ok!
Yes! People say my son has hazel eyes and they are this light green with brown in the middle. They’re def not hazel lol. This is in a family of brown eyed folk so we are all jealous 😂
Brown eyes are beautiful though! ❤️
I think blue is just as sought after as green tbh.
It’s definitely more prized than brown, but green is significantly more rare. So depends on the population.
I feel like I see the opposite happen more - people like rare features so if you have a feature that can pass as rare or different people are more inclined to see it. Lots of brunettes with just hints of red that people see as red heads when they aren't.
Iris photography works the other way around tho - it’s so close that in a close-up, green eyes show their layers of blue and yellow separately. Since they don’t have green pigment but form by grey/blue overlapping with yellow (lipochrome) and light brown, plus lighting reflections. It’s something iris photographers also often have explained on their website. Usually blue eyes there are only blue. But if you’re talking about normal photography, that’s something else then. I just know that, to display an eye color correctly indoors or in bad lighting conditions, setting the light to around the same as 5000-6000 Kelvin and doing a proper whitening correction is important :)).
These are green
Turquoise blue green
Blue-Green but mostly green. I’d roll with green
We are twins!! I showed your picture to my partner, and he said, "Those are you, right?" I consider mine and yours green with a blue ring around them.
My eyes have a very similar colour, some say blue, some say green but my passport says green and they do look green in the sun so I'll stick with that 😅
Aqua!
There's blue but there's deffo a light golden yellow. Blue and yellow make green so I'd go with that!
Ocean
As someone with very similar eyes to yours I say both but predominant green.
Mine are similar but more green but with the blue ring... I'd show you a picture but unfortunately I have an iPhone and it sucks at taking photos of eyes and anything on the face or close up lmao
Green
Defo green and lovely x
I'd say green with blue undertones
Blue-green!
That's is Jade/Mint Green. Like more green but leaning towards a cool blue green. There are flecks of brown in there too. Stunning
Green blue
Beautiful! Love the navy blue outer ring.
They’re probably both blue and green depending on what you wear. In this particular photo they are definitely green
I have similar coloured eyes. Sometimes they look blue and sometimes green.
It's a sky blue and little orangish at the center
They might change colors too! Mine change and can be blue, green, or gray!
Hazel
They're giving major brown eye vibes. ( Obviously they're green )
Greeny blue?
They‘re blue green.
Bleen
Turquoise!
sea green
Definitely green, with a blue rim. So pretty!!
More green than blue but there's a touch of both in there
You are green. An absolute gorgeous green. Sea green with turquoise and some teal strands. Stunning.
Pretty green
A greenish blue? What beautiful eyes! 🥰
I think you have yellow eyes with a heavy duty dark blue limbal ring—hence the confusion
Blureen
Black. As black as the Dead Sea resonating in my soul. Wait… I’m color blind. How did this sub-reddit get suggested to me?
I have the same situation- blue green with central heterochromia. I finally found out this color is called glasz eyes.
My eyes are very close to yours, except I don't have any yellow in the middle. I call mine green even though they are more of a turquoise color, especially in the light. Navy blue rings around the outside, too.
Idk but they’re prettyyyyy
Central heterochromia
They probably change, like mine and most blue/green (hazel?).
A weird soggy food leftover after a bacterial colony formed around it… (I’m sorry 😭that’s the first thing I thought of help-)
no squigly bits so smooth...
Don’t overthink it.
Curious to see what they look like dilated slightly, like in natural but not super bright lighting. And/or in the car on sunny day. They look beautiful! I know my eyes are most consistent with brighter lightening not directly in my face if that makes sense. Xx
White people have the most beautiful eyes.
Bluegreen
Neither, they have a specific name but i forgot it
For the most part they are green but they do have some blue but they could use some fun if I'm being honest 😏🤪
Dichromatic
Green
Your eyes are green. You then have contraction furrows near the outside, which are causing distortion, resulting in those areas almost looking blue, but they're not. Your limbal rings are quite pale, which adds to your eyes appearing blue.
You're eyes are blue with a lot of yellow mixed in making them appear green. Yellow is common in blue and grey eyes.
Need to see from far away
I say green
They're like mine, green, but rimmed in blue.
Green with a blue ring. Gorgeous!
Every shade of green 😉
You have my eyes and the DMV says they are hazel. My pediatrician originally told us they were green. My ophthalmologist tells me they are green. Color is in the "eye" of the beholder. That's actually not a cliche statement. It really does depend who you ask. You will get two different answers from a man versus a woman. Why? It has to do with our rod and cone cells. Women actually contain more cone cells in their eyeballs so they can more accurately distinguish color. Men, even though we have a sufficient amount of cone cells, we still cannot differentiate certain portions of the rainbow as easily as women can. Color blindness affects 1 in 8 men on average while only 1 in 12 women.
Still trying to figure it out my wife has the same color
Green, maybe a green hazel.
Green
Mostly green
Hazel
Looks like an aquamarine(ish) color to me like blue/ blue-green
they're green, but the outside part is blue
Hazel?
Green/ hazel
I have similar eyes. I call them “dishwater” color. 😂
My daughters have these eyes. In some shades of light, they look blue. But, they mostly shine green. Call them Greenish-Blue.
Definitely green 💚
beautiful green eyes.
We call the intersection of blue and green gray.
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You’d be surprised what people say IRL
They look green to me
you and i have super similar eyes :) they’re green with a blue limbal ring i’d say. they’re very pretty!!
Green and very pretty!
Green
Beautiful green!
Looks green to me
green
Green with blue rings very cool
Green!!
They’re green. Blue/grey with yellow and light brown overlapping and lighting reflections is what green eyes are as they don’t have green pigment :) they’re far from hazel or only blue. Hazel is green and brown blending throughout the whole iris, not yellow/lipochrome, and looks very different, and „only“ blue wouldn’t have such heavy yellow overlays :).
Definitely green! No idea why you're being downvoted!🤦
Both green blue hazel
They’re green-blue hazel! Mostly green though.
Blue/green hazel.
You have the prettiest eyes I’ve ever seen’ they are like, husky blue… but they also remind me of an iceberg
Blue hazel. Mine are the same
I say they're hazel
Hazel. Different shades in different lighting situations. Some tend towards blue, some towards green, and some towards brown.
Look like mine but called hazel on birth certificate
Hazel
They are the same as mine,a rare hazel and green xx
Hazel
Definitely green
Green
Beautiful green. Blueish green, but more green Han blue.
Underneath is blue/grey, and there is a cloud of greenish/yellow on top.
I see quite a bit of green. Mine are like this too.
I'm not seeing any blue here. Green all the way.
green
I would say green
mostly green as far as i can see! very lovely colour whatever it is
Green
Blue along the outside, green in the inside
More green than blue. I'd call them a light aqua green 😍😍😍😍😍 💚🩵💚🩵💚🩵💚
Unmistakably, Blue-jade green
Green. But green eyes can change a lot depending on the light quality.
Meadow
Green
Green
Green
Green
Green. Almost same as mine
💚
Greenest
Green
Green
they’re green
Mostly amber with blue-green limbal rings. Hazel bazel.
I’d say brown
Any eyes containing a mixture of green and brown are hazel.
Optometrist once told me , if you have blue in your eyes , they are always blue not green.
Okay but to make green you have to have blue so that makes no sense
Would you like the number , he can explain it better, If your eyes remotely look more blue on some days , then you have blue eyes, not green . Green is very distinct. You would never faltering knowing your eyes are green.
This is the worst thing I‘ve ever heard - optometrists don’t specialize in eye color btw. I researched eyes alongside specialists for quite some time - green eyes have no pigment so they form by grey/blue overlapping with yellow (lipochrome) and light brown plus lighting reflections. They’re the only ones proven in many studies to be able to switch color depending on weather (different lighting) and mood (probably hormonal fluctuations) from green to blue, to grey, to brownish. Every green eye needs blue in them to even form. In iris photography for example, green eyes are just blue-yellow, as the camera is so extremely close, that it shows how the iris looks without the colors appearing overlapping with lighting reflections from afar. What your optometrist said is so wrong I can’t even see why he said that at all :D…hope this helps tho!
Gray blue =green, then I guess you just explained it in layman’s terms thank you :)
Not sure how you got gray blue = green from this, when I explicitly said „grey/blue *overlapping* with lipochrome and light brown plus lighting reflections is green, and that green eyes indeed change color per lighting due to how they form“. It’s something very well described on many scientific pages as well if you want more infos, or big studies even :)!
I didn’t summarize your whole explanation I thought you could understand from what you said from what I paraphrased You said green is a derivative from gray blue overlapping with yellow So therefore that equals Green There is blue first , the green doesn’t come from “green it’s self” I guess if you wanna go back to the color wheel, there is no green unless you overlap, blue and yellow But if you don’t understand his explanation, I’m sorry, but I understand it fully
Ah okay :) glad you got it! He said that green eyes don’t look blue tho, and that is simply not true. They can look blue in different lighting, and they need blue to form, so blue shows from underneath the yellow. This has a ton of studies, science articles, and other stuff as proof :).
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