OK you guys:- a fun Christmas Sunday poll. What colour are your eyes?

Georgiegirl256

Yeah, maybe not the most common, but definetly a lot higher than 8%! You learn something new everyday!

fierystormcloud

heuchera wrote: »

No I really haven't met anyone with 'amber' eyes. (Light brown?) My granny used to say her mum had violet eyes (also rare, but they do exist)

Violet eyes? Nice.

I think Liz Taylor was classed as having violet eyes, but I think I would have just called them blue.



However, as you said, you could class amber as light brown.

But that eye colour on the pic I put does match the colour amber.

fierystormcloud

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Yeah, maybe not the most common, but definetly a lot higher than 8%! You learn something new everyday!

Yes indeedy!

I think we assume there would be a % of more more blue eyed folk worldwide, because we live in a high part of the Northern hemisphere, and tbh, the % of blue eyed folk would be higher up here.

In my family alone of say 35 people (my siblings, their partners, their kids, my parents, my cousins, my aunts and uncles, and my grandparents) around three quarters have blue eyes! (About 75%!)

Yet I bet in China, in an extended family of 35, it would be nigh on 100% brown eyes.

I have a Japanese friend at work (been here 3 years,) who thinks blonde hair and blue eyes is the most beautiful look in the world. I guess coz it's rare where she comes from.

I think South American people and middle east and Asia are stunning; especially Iranian and Jordanian and Venezuelan and Peruvian ladies. But that is because they are exotic to me. Beauty is subjective I guess.

olgadapolga

I'm the only person in my family/extended family (of over 150 people, excluding my own children) with blue eyes. All of my siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles etc have brown, green, grey but I'm the only one with blue eyes.

The genetics of eye colour is fascinating although I am pretty well unable to explain why I'm the only one with blue eyes. I think that my parents brought the wrong baby home from the hospital, myself :rotfl:

I married a man with blue eyes and so all four of our children have blue eyes.

heuchera

olgadapolga wrote: »

I'm the only person in my family/extended family (of over 150 people, excluding my own children) with blue eyes. All of my siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles etc have brown, green, grey but I'm the only one with blue eyes.

The genetics of eye colour is fascinating although I am pretty well unable to explain why I'm the only one with blue eyes. I think that my parents brought the wrong baby home from the hospital, myself :rotfl:

Yup, you're the milkman's

DigForVictory

Blue eyed, from a blue eyed family so I regard it as normal. We're rare?!
Several are redheaded blue eyed souls (ah, Scottish blood) and we rate the redheads as rarer.

missprice

I am the "other" one brown one green. No idea how that happened.

alba7

About three quarters of my family have blue eyes (including me), the rest have green eyes. My mum has green eyes with brown flecks in them. We're all Scottish and also have redheads in the family - very traditional!

fierystormcloud

missprice wrote: »

I am the "other" one brown one green. No idea how that happened.

Related to BOWIE perchance?

Pollycat

Have I wandered onto The Arms board by mistake..........?