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Post by Cerdic on Jul 22, 2004 2:05:34 GMT -5
My green eyes:  I was going to post them on the "what is your eye colour thread" but i think it's pretty obvious what colour they are even in this not so good picture. You illustrate my point exactly. Your eyes have a greenish cast, caused by the overlay of varying levels of light brown on a light-medium grey. They are not green in the way a cat's eye can be, or a definite blue such as some people show. |
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Post by Dienekes on Jul 22, 2004 3:14:58 GMT -5
My green eyes: I was going to post them on the "what is your eye colour thread" but i think it's pretty obvious what colour they are even in this not so good picture. They look green-gray on my monitor. |
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Post by Graeme on Jul 22, 2004 9:28:39 GMT -5
As I said everyone has a different take on what hazel means. My dictionary, which is quite old, says hazel is reddish brown like the hazel nut or greenish brown especially of eyes. Rather silly to have two different shades of brown, one reddish and the other greenish, with the same name. Personally I think hazel is a term for eyes which are not brown, blue, grey, green or black but some mixed shade involving brown with grey or green. I never use hazel as a descriptor. I don't know what is common where you folks live, but in Australia green eyes and greenish eyes are more common than pure blue or brown or grey. Green eyes vary in intensity and usually have a blue outer edge. No offence to anyone, I find green or greenish eyes very unattractive. My father's eyes are on the green side of blue, my mothers dark brown. Mine are mostly brown and my children's are blue. Luckily no green shades as has appeared in my sibs children.
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Post by Sirona on Jul 22, 2004 23:06:40 GMT -5
Light green eyes such as mine are not caused by brown pigment overlays but by yellow melanin in the front overlaying the pigment in the back for blue eyes. Everyone has pigment in the back for blue eyes and it is the overlaying pigment yellow or black in the front that makes all the different eye colours. Cats can also have yellow and orange eyes not seem on humans so that doesn't really mean anything. I'm just trying to say that obviously humans have green eyes and not just cats. It's like saying someone doesn't actually have brown eyes but just a brownish cast as it's just varying degrees of black & yellow melanin. My eyes actually do look gray-green or blue-green sometimes but i wouldn't consider them anything but green.
Graeme - Sorry to hear you consider green eyes unnattractive as i think they are very attractive on men and women. I find it strange in Australia that so many people have green eyes as I thought they were not so common.
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Post by Cerdic on Jul 23, 2004 4:50:38 GMT -5
Most eye colour variation is more apparent than real, just the effect of varying levels of pigment in the different layers of muscle in the iris. So in a sense it is all subjective.
However, though definite sky-blue or china-blue eyes are seen (not all that often) corresponding definite shades of green are not. I've never seen emerald green or grass green eyes.
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Post by Silveira on Jul 23, 2004 7:32:57 GMT -5
I would say that many Portuguese have hazel eyes but most Portuguese have brown eyes, some lighter and other darker. The Basque Country and northern Spain apparently has a very high percentage of persons with hazel eyes, while in Portugal darker eyes are more common.
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Post by Graeme on Jul 23, 2004 15:20:26 GMT -5
I have seen emerald green eyes. Usually the green is mixed with some other colour, blue to brown. I have never seen grass green eyes. I can't think of anything more hideous than eyes the shade of grass. Actually I think I don't like the colour green. Animals with light coloured eyes are mostly nocturnal by nature. Felines are. Animals that are daylight animals have dark brown eyes like horses, cattle, dogs and monkeys. Dark eyed people see better in bright sunshine so it has survivel value in the places in Europe where brown eyes are common. When I said green eyes are common in Australia I meant a mixed green iris, not strictly pure green and I included the blue/green colour. I suppose blue eyes are as common as green eyes and brown eyes.
I am not a fan of Coon, but he equated light eyes with what he called light mixed as pure blue eyes are about 20 - 30 %.
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Post by cocacola on Jul 23, 2004 21:04:52 GMT -5
However, though definite sky-blue or china-blue eyes are seen (not all that often) corresponding definite shades of green are not. I've never seen emerald green or grass green eyes. I have seen emerald green eyes and they were probably the nicest eyes I have ever seen. Green with a shiny layer on it. Many people's eyes change colour throughout their lives so they could have green eyes at one point of their life and blue another. Makeup can change eyecolour too. My cousin who has dark green eyes started putting on eye makeup and now her eyes are more blue/grey and much prettier. The green eyed book! It even has an oriental man with green eyes. www.cafeandre.com/Gallery.html |
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Post by Vitor on Jul 23, 2004 22:15:27 GMT -5
I would say that many Portuguese have hazel eyes but most Portuguese have brown eyes, some lighter and other darker. The Basque Country and northern Spain apparently has a very high percentage of persons with hazel eyes, while in Portugal darker eyes are more common. It depends on yours definition of brown....  light browns are probably all hazel, if we examine those more closely. and most likely it depends on the portuguese region you live...where I live dark browns are not that common... |
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Post by Sirona on Jul 23, 2004 22:29:51 GMT -5
I wouldn't consider all light brown eyes hazel as they would just be called brown. Hazel would have to have a definite green to it in addition to the brown. You shouldn't have to look too closely for it. I can look at someone's eyes and know whether they are brown or hazel. I guess we're still stuck on the definition of hazel.
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