The variation is normal. The skin looks unusually pink, so the picture colors may be out of balance. The color I see is possible--light amber in bright light--but it doesn't look normal.

Yellowish color tone can be a real eye color. In the picture the color looks too flat not dimensional, why it looks off.

Mine are a golden rust (I have central heterochromia) around the pupils and a greenish with specks of rust color in the main outer area. I was labeled as brown eyes when young but now I'm labeled as green.

I just ran your picture through a software photo fixer and it made the skin better, brought up more details in the iris, but, if anything, it's yellower. :\ Your color description of your own eyes is definitionally hazel. :) A lot of the yellow looks hand drawn.

Raven, very interesting. My eyes were very dark brown as a child and have gotten lighter with age. My dad has dark brown, mother is green. I have a sister with eyes that are still quite brown, a brother with green and a brother with blue. Ok so I tried to take a picture of my own eye.... not the easiest task in the world, that's for sure. Not only do I have colour variation in my eyes but also a beautiful sky and garden view. Bahaha

This picture has also shown me that I should probably be a little more diligent with sunscreen since I am outside everyday. Super close ups on your face are not the best for ones self esteem that is for sure.

Pllog can you run my eye through the photo editing but make me look flawless. J/K

The zombies on Flight of the Living Dead had eyes like that...HAHA! I've never seen "real" yellow eyes before. Kind of freaky looking.

I gave it a try, even though you were kidding, and it amped up the reflection instead of diminishing it, and made everything else look wrong. I could airbrush you, of course....

Arkansas, I couldn't believe it was a real colour either, that's why I asked. It does even say yellow in the description of what each of my genes has. I do think it's pretty good. I am impressed really. My eyes do tend to look a little more green if I've been crying or if I am in light. If that darn reflection hadn't of been there it would have showed a little better but it was too dark without it.

CC at: rs3794604 - Blocks some melanin. Often gives light colored eyes.
GG at: rs7174027 - Blocks some melanin. Often gives light colored eyes.
CC at: rs4778241 - Low Melanin. Basis for Gray, Blue, Green, or Yellow Eyes if no other pigmentation is present.
CT at: rs989869 - Contrasting sphincter around pupil.
CT at: rs1129038 - Adds Yellow.
AA at: rs1105879 - Weak Amber Gradient
AA at: rs4778138 - Weak Amber Gradient
GG at: rs12906280 - Gray ring around outer edge
CT at: rs1667394 - Medium melanin production on Anterior Epithelium. Adds yellow, amber, or brown. Some darkening.
CT at: rs916977 - Adds melanin. Adds yellow, amber, or brown.
AG at: rs7495174 - Adds melanin. Adds yellow, amber, or brown. Some darkening. Contributes to brown.
GG at: rs16891982 - Starburst (Collarette)
CC at: rs12203592 - No pigmented Collarette.

Plllog, at least you got to see what a beautiful day we're actually having here. Although I could use the airbrushing, I'd rather be honest. LOL

littlemonkeys, where did you find the chromosome info?

It's from Gedmatch, check your main page. If you do it post if you think it's correct or not for yours.

I once had a roommate whose eyes were that color.

When I asked her what she called it, she said, "baby-$h#t yellow"!

Something is really wrong! I got exactly what you got. Even the evil yellow eyes!

Predicted Eye Color for Kit A183309 (F2)

Read rules from top to bottom. In some cases, a rule cancels out results from rules above it.

CC at: rs3794604 - Blocks some melanin. Often gives light colored eyes.
CC at: rs4778241 - Low Melanin. Basis for Gray, Blue, Green, or Yellow Eyes if no other pigmentation is present.
CT at: rs3947367 - Contrasting sphincter around pupil.
CT at: rs1129038 - Adds Yellow.
AA at: rs8033448 - Med Brown on Sphincter
AA at: rs1105879 - Weak Amber Gradient
GG at: rs12906280 - Gray ring around outer edge
AG at: rs7174027 - Adds Yellow.
TT at: rs1667394 - Starburst (Collarette)
CC at: rs12203592 - No pigmented Collarette.

10 rules were used to make this prediction. There are 61 active rules in our evaluation model, utilizing 41 SNPs

Pleae note that your FTDNA Illumina results do not contain many of the SNPs used
by this utility, and therefore a considerable amount of accuracy is lost.

If these results are significantly different from the color of your eyes,
it would be helpful if you could upload a close-up picture of your eye
so that we can make the needed adjustments.

Instructions are on the
Eye Photo Upload Page.

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It's exactly right.

Color is correct.

It missed one or two tiny details, but it's very close.

Came close on the color(s), and got a lot of the details.

Got some of the colors in my eye, but missed a lot of details.

The color is not exactly close, but it's not a complete miss either.

The prediction missed the color completely, but it picked up a few other details.

Completely wrong. The color's not even close.

Additional Comments or Explanation:

I think it's because our kits have different versions. Was yours form Ancestry? It's saying that you only have 10 of the genes in your kit out of the 13 so they can't get as accurate as of a reading. It looks like you are missing the last 3 genes. Well your kit is anyway, you likely have them. LOL Also they say that lower genes on the list tend to cancel out higher up genes on that list. So this is probably why the reading is off.

I bet there are people that are thinking, "what the heck are these two talking about?"

On another note I told my hubby last night that I told him my eyes weren't brown. So he looks really closely at me and says, "I guess you're right. When I picture you, it's always with brown eyes." We've been married for almost 16 years. He did say that from further away they do appear brown so I think there are a lot of factors that go into to the colour interpretation.

Also looked at my youngest sons eyes and they are getting much lighter now, he's the only brown eyed one, they used to be super dark.

I used to work with a woman who had eyes that color. Very striking. :)

littlemonkeys3, my eye color is very similar to yours. Golden brown around the pupil, then med green, with a dark green limbal ring/scurf line. They were more brownish than brown/green when I was a child. So hazel? I don't know--my driver's license just says brown. (Hair is med. brown with gold streaks--it was lighter when I was a child, and when I was tanned from summers spent outside, I was almost monochrome.)

My paternal grandmother had clear green eyes--I like to think that I carry something from her, since I didn't get her mitochondrial DNA. My eldest child, only son, has eyes like mine. When he was an infant each of his eyes looked like a cross section of ripe olive, until they turned brown. My elder daughter inherited her father's eye color, gray with a golden spot in the left iris, exactly the same, but she, too, has a dark limbal ring. My youngest has my other family members' dark brown Cherokee eyes (and her father's dark, thick hair)--when she was small she always reminded me of a Curtis photo.

I once heard that there are only blue eyes or brown eyes--everything else is a variation on one or the other, but I think maybe that has been debunked. I've never had any genetic testing.

Interesting article.

Lol, my description of my eye color, and that on my driver's license
reminded me of this clip, of Mrs.Blandings' color descriptions.

I
can imagine myself saying, "Sometimes they're brown, and sometimes
they're green, but in the sun they look golden, and they've always had a
dark ring around them--it doesn't mean I'm not feeling well, and ... "

The DMV employee, nods, says, "Uh-huh," and types brown.

I had my husband take my eye pic again. That little turd took the funniest picture where it reflected him giving me the finger (it was a joke) and I didn't notice until later since the camera was so close. LOL Anyway still couldn't get a shot that didn't reflect anything, need a better camera I guess that can be used in a dark room. Anyway in the sun I did actually have a lot of amber come through, who knew. I'd post the pic of him giving me the finger for a good laugh but it would probably be removed.

I tried to take a picture last night to get an idea of what color I really am - all these years I had dark brown eyes- and got a great reflection of my overhead fixture ;-) But, surprise! They aren't dark brown any more. And yes, my DNA kit was from ancestry. I wonder what those 3 missing genes would tell me.

Discussing genealogy brings the Mrs. Blanding's paint choices to mind. And now I can wow the cousins with talk of genes, chromosomes and DNA testing companies and the differences of them. Never at a loss for words! Poor things. If they only knew what they were missing.

Re the blue vs. brown thing, according to what I've read (inc. a good article on Wikipedia), there's pigment which may or may not develop and there are non-pigment ways that the light refracts giving rise to color variations in light eyes, plus the combinations of the two. Or something like that. (I could look it up and be more precise, but I'd risk sounding authoritative, which I am not.)

Littlemonkey3:

I don't have many descriptors for eye color, but wow, you have nice eye lashes.

I think my eye colour is similar to LM3's but with a little more green. I never know what colour to call it. Hazel? When I was getting my eye exam this summer, the optometrist commented how nice my eye colour was.

jemdandy That made me laugh. I believe I may have had mascara on that day ;) I do have long eye lashes though. I don't wear make up that often but if do I cannot put mascara on my bottom lashes or I'll look like Twiggy.

Jasdip - I never know what to call it either. I call it hazel but I don't know if that's right or not. I mean I also say that my husband and 2 of my sons have gray eyes and that's not even an eye colour. LOL I do know that what you wear will change how your eyes appear. When I wear green they actually look a little more green. I don't think they really changed up like that when I was a kid though. They were dark, dark brown. I always used to tan really dark every summer (but pale rest of year) and my hair would go almost dark blond when I was really young. A real Heinz 57 of genetics. I never burned back then except the one time at the beach when my mom gave me coco oil to put on my skin. Still remember that 30 years later. LOL My dad used to get really dark every summer and would often get asked if he was Native.

Here's a pic of me as a kid sitting on a dark brown sofa. I almost blend in. The picture quality is horrible and it makes me look like I have a giant mouth. I wish I did, but it's just the picture. And it was the 1980's which is why all the neon.

This whole changing eye colour made me a little curious about it. .Changing eye colour, "does so for 10 to 15% of the normal Caucasian population. These people's eyes change slowly over many years after they reach adolescence.

"Some eyes become darker, but most become lighter with increasing age," says Richard A. Sturm, a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

And yes, Bryan, hazel eyes do change color. Hazel eyes as well as any lighter eyes usually darken with age. Hazel eyes are light brown or yellowish brown. "

This study only looked at Caucasians.