I think your eyes are a pretty shade of green :)

My eyes are hazel - amber/dark green/gold - and are getting lighter as I get older. If I'm teary-eyed they are mostly green.

My husband's eyes change from light blue to light green, and our DD'S eyes were very blue until she was 2 and then changed to a dark, mossy green with no brown at all. She must have gotten a combination of both our eye colors!

My older son has hazel eyes but they're two different colors. One is mostly green and the other is mostly brown.

cawaps, how did you get that great closeup? I tried a few eye selfies this morning and they did not turn out well. Did someone else take it?

Your eyes don't look hazel to me. They look blue-green. My eyes are hazel and have a lot of gold, brown and greenish.

My best guess would be blue green. I've always thought to be hazel they'd have a lighter tone of brown in them and to me yours don't. Either way you look at them though, they are gorgeous!

My Mom's eyes were hazel so that's why I'm familiar with what the color is. I would go with blue on the driver's license with this color.

Having fun playing with the new camera which is taking the close ups much better. Here is my eye in the sunlight...it looks very sage green.

And here it is in a bright room inside...hard to see with all the reflection, but it's definitely more gray and blue with flecks of gold.

Yeah, that would be called blue.

You have very pretty eyes, but they are blue/green, not hazel.

This is hazel:

I think in the original eye you posted its the warm brown around the pupil that makes it hazel?

The eye above looks mostly brown to me.

LOL! Your eyes look a LOT like my DW's!! I never knew what color to call them! Therefore....I'm gonna fall into the "Hazel" camp. I'm lucky enough to have good-ol' Blue eyes, so it's simpler that way!

Faron

I used the macro setting on my camera and took about 15 crappy pics to get one decent one. It's a selfie, though.

As arkansas_girl pointed out, the second pic that Annie posted came up on a Google image search for hazel eyes, but if you read the article that goes with the pic it is not meant to represent hazel eyes.

Wikipedia article on eye color

In fact this is the picture that they used for hazel eyes

Not to hijack Annie, but what camera did you end up with?

Canon SX720HS I posted a couple of shots there showing the zoom.

Green. Very pretty eyes. Mine are just brown with maybe a few flecks of other color in there.

Yeah, I just saw that and came back to delete the question, you are fast!. Ha!

It's a good choice, I've always had great luck with the Canon brand!

I like Canon cameras and printers.

blue!

Hey robo, this is seriously not a diss on your 5yr comment, I actually found it an interesting read, however my coworker, who was actually the one who showed me this thread, hilariously DID NOT.

We had a bet on what kind of color his eyes were, and he found a similar example on google images, which led to this thread, and he was in fact comedically enraged by your comment due to what he thought had nothing to do with answering this post's question about what color the submitter's eyes were, lol! For you to really get it, I guess you have to understand what kind of individual he is. He is the type of guy that when he asks a question or is looking for an answer...he expects a DIRECT ANSWER.

I know I'm not doing the scene justice, but it was a completely hilarious scenario of him getting madder and madder the further along he read your response to what he thought was a simple inquiry (it did help that he was reading it out loud too, lol!)

I personally get it, because I'm the same way and tend to digress whenever I have to answer a question too...but nothing beats the seeing your coworker's face get redder and redder as he finally snaps and shouts "I don't need a f**king life story about your awful dating history! Just tell me if my eyes are BLUE OR NOT!"

I'm basically sharing this story because 1.) I think you have really cool eyes. 2.) I've never known anyone to get under my coworker's skin as much you easily did without evening knowing he exists. LMFAO

Winner of strangest post of the day award.

The science of blue eyes is pretty interesting.

The American Academy of Opthamology says this:

Brown eyes get their color from melanin, the same pigment that colors your skin. But blue eyes don’t have any blue pigment in them. Blue eyes get their color the same way water and the sky get their blue color. They scatter light so that more blue light reflects back out.

And Wikipedia:

The appearance of blue and green, as well as hazel eyes, results from the Tyndall scattering of light in the stroma...Neither blue nor green pigments are ever present in the human iris or ocular fluid. Eye color is thus an instance of structural color and varies depending on the lighting conditions, especially for lighter-colored eyes.

And the mutation that causes blue and green eyes is pretty recent.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm

New [note: article is from 2008] research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.

So hi distant cousins!

Hi, Cuz!

Consider the science. What colors are your parents eyes? If blue & brown, unlikely they're green.

Not sure if the chart below is very helpful but I thought it was interesting that they said there was a blue Hazel.

https://alexoloughlinintensestudy.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/tv-guides-up-close-with-alex-oloughlin-part-2-april-2008/eye-colour-chart/

Another cousin here, It's going to be a huge family reunion!

Our parents and grandparents all had blue eyes. When I was litte and would meet people, I cannot count the number of times someone said "I should have known you were a (surname) with those blue eyes." Dad had light blue eyes that got lighter as he aged, Mom's were darker but not like mine or my sisters. We both have the darker blue circles on the outer iris and I have lots of flecks of color. I also have a touch of brown near the pupil and a freckle farther out on the iris (always had). After searching online, I found this article, and the first is more like my eye color, so I have Central Heterochromia. Mine is not something you would notice unless really close. DH also has blue eyes, so our chidren do too.

My eyes are a similar to the left in color and the right Central Heterochromia. I like that they change color based on what I'm wearing.

Well, I have always known exactly what color my eyes are.

I could not get a non blurry photo. I just woke up as well so they are a bit red. I would kill to have any of of these beautiful eyes posted here!

Ak, you have beautiful eyes that reflect a beautiful soul!

My eyes are hazel.

Thanks Jinx! I would love to have to have some other color in my eyes other than just brown!

My eyes are brown and DH's are dark blue. All three kids have hazel -- the green/brown hazel.

The science of how eye color is inherited is being rewritten, as it is now understood that there are many more genes that affect eye color than previously thought. My sister has emerald green eyes, her husband had bright blue eyes, and their son (their only child) has dark brown eyes. According to the chart above, that has 0% chance of happening, but still it does.

Here's a photo of my eyes:

I was always told that they were hazel; my mother had hazel eyes and my father had turquoise eyes. In Mexico, everyone told me that my eyes were green. I used to call them "olive green."

At one time, when I wore contacts, I bought some opaque colors contacts there were labeled green, but when I put one in, it did not change my eye color at all. I even put one green in one eye and a clear one in the other eye and asked my brother which eye had the green lens, and he guessed the eye with the clear lens.

The word "hazel" means light brown - the same color as hazelnuts, but somehow it has shifted in some people's eyes to mean green with light brown or amber flecks, especially in the center.

I have one cousin who has amber eyes and light red hair, and this combination is rather striking.

Below is what some people consider hazel:

but I think it could just as easily be called green. This color is rarer than blue, but not as rare as emerald green or amber.

I do like my eye color, by the way, and I can get mesmerized by eyes that have more than one color in them. Plus they change colors, depending on the light.

The chart that mdln posted does not distinguish between brown and hazel and is therefore confusing and misleading, besides being inaccurate. It is true that if one parent has blue eyes and the other has brown, then all the children most likely will have the greenish hazel color

However, if one parent has hazel eyes (like my mother) and the other parent has blue eyes (like my father), it says that two children should have hazel eyes, and two could have blue (not green), but my sister has green and one brother has blue. The other brother has hazel eyes like mine. His wife had hazel eyes like his, and one child has blue and the other two have brown.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34662013/

If we're going to start talking about patterns in the iris, I read this article last night while after looking up stuff on color. Very academic. It's a comparison of different eye features (Fuch's crypts, Wolfflin nodules, pigment spots, contraction furrows, and conjunctival melanosis) across people of European, East Asian, and South Asian descent.

If you aren't up for the dense reading, it stll has lots of really good close-up phots of eyes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736923/

One of my cousins had Heterochromia (described in mdln's link), and he had one blue eye and one green eye.

Yep, my cousin has heterochromia too. She is pale and blonde and it is striking on her.

Mine are blue.Good to know that blue eyes don't really have blue pigment and explains why they change so much.

Lars, yes the eye color chart shown above doesn't apply totally to my family either. My father had solid blue eyes and my mother had solid brown eyes. Out of their 5 children, only one sibling has pure brown eyes, 2 have pure green eyes and 2 have hazel eyes, being a mix of green with gold around the pupil. Interestingly, my grandmother had such dark colored eyes that her iris could not be differentiated from her pupil. My grandfather had pure blue eyes. Nine of their 11 children had pure brown eyes, and 2 had the same 'black' eye color that was the same color as their pupils. None had blue eyes.

My eye color is identical to yours! In pics they look blue but in real life they look greenish blue. I put on my drivers license blue.

Blue

My granddog has heterochromia.

Regarding the eye color chart above. My science background is sketchy but I do remember the simple genetics chart where we went over eye color: big B, little B. I thought if both parents had BB brown eyes that their offspring could only have BB (brown) as well. Only if there were two little Bs (e.g., hybrid brown Bb) could there be light eyes. I probably have this wrong somewhere.

Bunny, you remember correctly. My mother had brown eyes, my father, blue. Mine are brown, so likely, in simplified terms, I have Bb. My hisband has blue eyes, bb; both of my children have light eyes, so I donated my little b to their eye color.

blubird, thank you! My husband's mother had blue eyes and his dad had brown eyes. Four children had brown eyes, and one has blue. Bb + bb yielded Bb, Bb, Bb, Bb, and bb.

I always thought hazel was goldish green. My daughter has the color eyes that terezosa/terriks posted 6 years ago (6 years ago!!) and we think of them as amber, or somewhere between green and brown. Her dad had Bb brown eyes and I have bb light green (formerly blue).

DH has hazel eyes but they get greener as he gets older.

Mine are just brown.

Please help l think I have green eyes, but everyone tells me they’re hazel

Your eyes are similar to my husband's. Depending on the light they are hazel or green. In your pictures I would say hazel.

Side note - I feel really old, because I remember the original post on this thread, and I could swear that it was only a couple of years ago!

My brother and SIL both have brown eyes/brown hair. Both of their boys, my nephews (now grown adults) have blonde hair/blue eyes. My DH and I both have blonde hair/blue eyes and everyone always thought their boys were ours, when we were all together-when they were little.

Exactly the color of mine!!!

Terriks, i know what you mean! I could have sworn the thread was from last year, although it has been bumped up a few times.

As a Male......

I thought this was about Men, keeping their eyes up & away from the "Decolletage", when chatting with the fairer-sex.

;-)

Faron