Changing eye color?!
Question: So, my eyes have always been hazel... generally green closest to the Iris, and gradually turning honey brown as it goes out, with splotches of each throughout the other. But my newish gf has been insisting my eyes are green, and I keep insisting they're hazel. Anyway, I decided to study them today (first time in about a year) and sure enough... they're green. VERY little brown left.
While asking this on Y! Answers may be fruitless, before going to a doctor... is that normal or at least feasible without a sign of something horrible? I realise the eye color of many young kids changes... but at 23, I figured I was past that.
Also, my hair's always been dark brown with auburn highlights... and now, I guess as my eyes turn green, my hair's becoming more and more auburn. Would they have anything to do with each other?
Answers: So, my eyes have always been hazel... generally green closest to the Iris, and gradually turning honey brown as it goes out, with splotches of each throughout the other. But my newish gf has been insisting my eyes are green, and I keep insisting they're hazel. Anyway, I decided to study them today (first time in about a year) and sure enough... they're green. VERY little brown left.
While asking this on Y! Answers may be fruitless, before going to a doctor... is that normal or at least feasible without a sign of something horrible? I realise the eye color of many young kids changes... but at 23, I figured I was past that.
Also, my hair's always been dark brown with auburn highlights... and now, I guess as my eyes turn green, my hair's becoming more and more auburn. Would they have anything to do with each other?
Mmmm i was born with brown eyes and still have brown eyes...maybe this happens only in other eye colors but brown eyes.
My hair was dark blond when i was baby and now it's dark brown ( with blond highlights)
I agree with the first answer, it could be the pigments, but don't worry hazel ayes or green eyes always look beautiful..lol
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maybe you are just getting older and body is changing with that. im not saying your old of course but hey im 15 and when i was a baby i had green eyes with jet black hair and now i have brown hair with blueish gray eyes. i have yellow pigment in my eyes around the inner corner in my left and u might just be losing pigment but i dont think it would be anything to be worried about if u can still see out of them but deff go to a eye doctor if u are concerned.
I hear that a lot about the color of eyes changing. It is however just not so. Unless there is some serious ocular health issues going on, it is not at all likely that they truly have changed in color. The part of the eye that has the color that you see is the iris. There are some medications that will permanently change the color of your iris to darker brown - Xalatan, Travatan, and Lumigan. These are all Prostaglandin analogs used in the treatment of Glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
My feeling about what causes the perception of people's iris to change is the diffferences in the available spectrum of the ambient light.
This is easily elicited by entering some place like a Home Depot which often has those Sodium lights that are rich in the red part of the visible spectrum - they will make your eyes seem more brown. Or a Wal-Mart with the Flourescents rich in the blue part of the spectrum. Then go out into the sunlight and they will seem different - like their true color. Sunlight has the full spectrum EVENLY distributed. That is the best light under which to judge color.
GE makes a bulb called "reveal" that has a more evenly distributed spectrum and it is better though not as good as sunlight for judging color.
Try it and see what I mean. It is remarkable the differences you can see when you compare your perception of color in the different kinds of light. Flourescents are pretty bad though they are the most efficient from an energy standpoint.
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