earllogjam
Expert Member
I knew there was a reason I liked you.
I have grey eyes but depending on the lighting and what I'm wearing they sometimes are blue!
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I knew there was a reason I liked you.
I have grey eyes but depending on the lighting and what I'm wearing they sometimes are blue!
Is bloodshot a color?
...it depends on the man and what the rest of him looks like. :smile:
IMO, the eye color, hair color, and skin tone all work in conjunction with each other...
I also like the intensity of green eyes combined with pretty much any hair and complexion. They tend to flash like high quality emeralds when they get excited or angry.
...His younger brother was breathtakingly beautiful. He had jet black hair, blue eyes, and the same alabaster skin minus the freckles. He was also dumber than a box of rocks. :tongue:
Here are my eyes. My web cam is old and cheap, so the color isn't good, but you'll get the general idea. They are actually brighter and a bit bluer in real life.
So after reading all this about different colored eyes, did anyone ever wonder what makes them that color? The geek in me is coming out right now.
We don't have blue or gray or green pigments in our bodies. The major pigment in us is melanin, a brownish-blackish chemical. The iris has basically two areas which can be pigmented. If there is ample melanin deposited in the front and rear of the iris, the eye appears dark brown to almost black. If there is a minimal amount of melanin only in the rear of the iris and none in the front, the eyes appear the lightest blue, because the structure of the iris bends the light reflecting from them, and the brownish color appears blue. If there is a full compliment of pigment in the front, there is no bending of the light, and the true color of the pigment shows through.
All the shades in between brown and blue are because of varying amounts of melanin in the front of the iris. Add a thin even "veneer" of brown over the front and it filters the refracted blue to green or gray. And if someone has no melanin in the iris whatsoever (as in albinos), the eyes appear red because of the blood flowing behind the iris.
Oh, and I'm also good at Scrabble.
Me too. Blue eyes, in general tend to grab my attention most.There's just something striking about black hair and blue eyes that makes me weak.
So after reading all this about different colored eyes, did anyone ever wonder what makes them that color? The geek in me is coming out right now.
We don't have blue or gray or green pigments in our bodies. The major pigment in us is melanin, a brownish-blackish chemical. The iris has basically two areas which can be pigmented. If there is ample melanin deposited in the front and rear of the iris, the eye appears dark brown to almost black. If there is a minimal amount of melanin only in the rear of the iris and none in the front, the eyes appear the lightest blue, because the structure of the iris bends the light reflecting from them, and the brownish color appears blue. If there is a full compliment of pigment in the front, there is no bending of the light, and the true color of the pigment shows through.
All the shades in between brown and blue are because of varying amounts of melanin in the front of the iris. Add a thin even "veneer" of brown over the front and it filters the refracted blue to green or gray. And if someone has no melanin in the iris whatsoever (as in albinos), the eyes appear red because of the blood flowing behind the iris.
Oh, and I'm also good at Scrabble.
Here are my eyes. My web cam is old and cheap, so the color isn't good, but you'll get the general idea. They are actually brighter and a bit bluer in real life.