What is the significance of green eyes

This helps determine eye colour as different light waves are captured in your eye pigment. This same scattering of light occurs in the sky which makes it appear blue.

Because of this, green eyes do not appear immediately in babies… All babies are born with blue or brown eyes. Green eyes can take between 6 months and 3 years to appear in children. Two-thirds of the inhabitants today have green eyes and blonde hair. Green Eye Superstitions People with green eyes are thought to share character traits. But your eye colour has no affect on your personality. In The Merchant of Venice the green is suggestive of illness….

And I never knew why I was sensitiv to bright light and I hate the sun!! My husband has one blue and one green eye. I have pale grey blue eyes. My son has brilliant blue eyes with a dark ring around them and a few yellow specks.

My daughter has soft green eyes with a dark ring and yellow specks. I have green eyes which are very sensitive to light or even a breeze especially a winter one. I used to get compliments about my eyes when I was younger but not so much now. I am Turkish and no one in my family have my eye color! When I cry it turns to bright green when I go out sunny day turns to yellow when I am angry dark green????

Well thank you dr John Moore for great article! I have very green eyes and very fair skin,when I was born and until about four my hair was white,then went to blond,then light brown. My eye color however remained green. My parents and 4siblings do not have green eyes, only me. My Eyes are extremely dark.. My mother said when I was born my eyes were so blue they looked purple and stayed that way for 3 years.

My eyes are also green. My mother said that when I was born they were so blue that they looked purple and my hair was jet black. I am of Lebanese and Hispanic descent. I am the only one in the family including my fathers side and my mothers side. None of my cousins on either side. I do get many compliments and sometimes I get very embarrassed.

I am proud to know that green eyes are rare. Thanks, Truly, green eyes. I have them and people often say thet i have a sparkel in my eye like there is a little diamond in my eyes. I have light greenish yellow eyes, chartreuse colored. I have night blindness to some degree and my eyes are slightly light sensitive My hair is blondish red naturally. When i get mad some people have told me that my eyes flash, which i have never seen but i have been told this by numerous people. Is my eyes green?

I wonder if they are hazel!??!?! I inherited my green eyes from my Romanian father. Always get compliments. Can someone help me and tell me my eye color!? Hazel, Green, Yellow! I have emerald green eyes, almost a dark grass green.

My optician said that they are more sensitive to light. I have to were sunglasses or I get bad headaches in bright sunshine. I seem to be able to see in the dark better than anyone I know.

I have red hair too. I am the only one in my whole family with green eyes. The others are blue or brown. I have green eyes ,too!

People often tell me that I have extremeley beautiful eyes….. I think they look nice. Green or hazel? Sometimes they change color. I have a small amount of amber around my iris. Well, now I know why people always freak out when they realize I have green: They think I possess powers, or was influenced by an alien.

Now I feel like the chosen one. Maybe I belong on another planet? I have been told that my eyes are both intense and unnerving on many occasions throughout my life. What is interesting to myself, is that I can meet someone look, into their eyes and instantly within a millisecond know whether they are a friend or foe…. Dad has lovely mahogany eyes, Mom has pale jade green eyes.

Both brothers have the same brown as Dad. Mine were deep blue as a young child, going turquoise, then changing from blue to green based on my strong emotions as a young adult.

Now they are nearly always green, with some blue tint that gets more or less each day. Hair is light amber brown. I am hispanic, my great grandparents were basque people of spain. I am only one in my family with green eyes, everyone else is dark brown eyes. Italy is heavily influenced by the entire Mediterranean with many people who have lighter color eyes. I am the only one with green eyes in my family but my grandpa on my moms side has like blue and green eyes.

But my two brothers have hazels eyes that sometimes turn like dark blue with brown around the blue. A Greek lady told me that green eyes are considered unlucky or even evil on the island of crete. She said people have charm bracelets to keep away people with green eyes. Probably some bad history at some point between cultures!!! I think the lady who told you that has her information wrong.

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And learn to type in english please. But have no dogs, love snakes, never had them as pets though. I have green eyes and have been told more than once that my eyes look good. Me too. I have that piercing through your soul quality. Jense Ackles I could stare into those green eyes all day they are so beautiful. You are right!

Thanks for letting me know???? I had blue eyes as a young child but they turned to green before my teens.

OMG the same thing myne is right above green but insted of brown its yellow same as my mom. This definitely makes us non-green eyed people feel not so special haha. Would have like the article, but the mixed race bastards who have my eyes ruined it. I have green eyes and thought it was a common color, maybe not.

Looks kind of like a mixture of mostly grey with some green. I do not believe green eyes are rare. I know many many people with green eyes. I dont know what color my eyes are my freinds say they are hazel but idk.

I have green eyes but they sometimes change colors. I have had each color eyes before but was born with green. My eyes are such a bright green, it is the first thing that people notice when they see me! I met someone the other day at a store and they looked at me and said "wow your eyes are such a bright green" and ever since that, loads of people have been bringing it up. But it's strange because I have green eyes like my dad, my Mum has blue eyes but my brother has brown eyes and my sister has one brown eye and one green eye!

I think I just come from a strange eye colored family! I also have green eyes, I am very pale with brown hair. My mom has green eyes, but no one else in my entire family including extended has green eyes, they are all brown-eyed. My background is Irish, Dutch, Scottish, and English. I would associate myself with being stubborn, devious, mysterious, creative, and very jealous. I'm Argentinean Italian, Spanish and Indigenous background , and I have white skin, really dark curly hair, and green eyes.

I have a halo of hazel around the iris, then bright green, and a circle of greyish blue that closes the iris. Depending if it's sunny or cloudy and I guess this has to do with light my eyes look green or grey. I also have a wierd blood type for my country that no one in my family has, or no one I know, actually.

I have Heterochromia so i have a really dark green eye and the other one is super light green and i have black curly hair and i am very creative im in art school. I have green eyes and blond hair. I was a toehead most of my childhood, hair turned darker blond with light reddish tones as I got older. I was born in Northern Poland by Batic Sea. Both parents had blue eyes, with my mom has dark brown hair. I always wished to have my parents blue eyes, but now appreciate my green eyes.

They do change with light to bright green, or blue depending on mood. Two of my three kids got my green eyes. My daughter has more grey and green, any my son green hazel. My husband has hazel brown eyes and my oldest has deep brown eyes. I find it fasinating how they all have different eye color, but two have a green version.

They all started as blond kids, but shades got darker as they got older. But basically naturally dark blonde young adults. Wonder if it really has something to do with Baltic countries, or genetics. Always intersting stories with green eyes. I have green eyes, curly blonde hair - I am supposedly very unique with those particular traits. I am definitely a hot head, an introvert, I hate being cheated by anyone, but especially family and do tend to want to get my pound of flesh.

I am also very compassionate about things I try believe in. Like almost everyone here I have green eyes but I have tan skin, round glasses, curly hair, I am one of the most high tempered person,. Aries, introvert and weird i'm very weird does anyone have the same personality's i'v been wondering. I Have Green eyes but I find myself to be in one word emotional. I am highly sensitive to situations- overwhelmed in the need to help animals and find myself happiness without my animals and kids.

I do not like to be in public. I also have shapes in my eyes, and the iris itself is a darker shade of green then the rest of my eye Is that normal that i have shapes in my eyes? I have green eyes and people sometimes think my eyes are blue. It all depends on what I wear but for the most part are green. I have green eyes but people tell me they change colors all the time i never realized how lucky i was to have my eyes.

I also have green eyes. But I always thought they were Hazel. I had bright blue eyes growing up and my eyes changed between blue and green my whole life.

So one day they would be blue and the next they would be green, it's a little weird but kind of cool. From where I'm from, New Zealand, green eyes isn't as uncommon, probably because our country is a mix of every race.

I have green eyes and when I get really happy the get really light and bright. Kind of like a mint green. When I'm sad they can get borderline black and it's honestly the coolest thing ever because it's so rare it't like a blessing. My eyes are green they change colour when there diffrent light at night there bright green look more golden and when im sad they go really dark i was told we should be lucky to have green eye in the eye of the gods we are powerful people.

I have green eyes, brunette hair with natural blonde highlights, freckles, and a high-mild tan. My eyes change a different color green all the time to the point where people think I have either green or golden eyes! My eyes are green with gold flecks. They do not change color other than when the light is shining on them the gold shows up more. Other than that always green. My mother had grey blue eyes, my dad brown.

My eyes can appear to change. In the early morning they are usually hazel, but later in the day they appear a bit greener. My father has hazel and my mother has light brown. My sisters eyes are darker than my mothers and my brothers are a little darker than my fathers.

Genetics is funny. My mom is Asian with brown eyes, my dad is Caucasian with blue eyes. I also got the slight auburn hair color. My great grandmother was Irish, so I think her traits skipped a generation. My parents are black and i am white in coplexion and i have central heterochomia meaning i have two different colour of eyes. My eyes are green but they have always looked turquoise. Everyone thinks my eyes are blue but they are not.

Father brown eyes, mother blue eyes. Six of us kids, three of each colour, mixed between male 2 and female 4. No green eyes, pity. So my mom has brown eyes and my dad has green eyes. But if green is recesive and brown is dominant, then how did the brown not take over? My sister 20 has blue eyes, me 23 have green eyes.

I have green eyes, fluorescent in the sun and a lush green in the shade, dirty blonde hair that naturally highlights and orangey gold skin when I bask in the sun. One eye has a brown freckle in the midst of the green. They seem to enchant people when looking into their eyes. The color is just the veil of the pupil, the window to the soul of us illusively beautiful beings. I have bright red hair, freckles, pale skin and dark green eyes. My mother has brown eyes and black hair while my father has a light mix of red and blonde hair with blue eyes.

None of my mother's kids got her dark traits. Except I did inherit her widows peek which makes my hair part really easy. I've been told that I have really gorgeous hair by a lot of people. I have my dad and half sisters eyes. My mom has hazel eyes. My eyes are a foresty and lush green color they have a light brown or yellowish middle.

My hair is a light brown or dirty blond. But I have natural highlights. There ya go. I have green eyes so does my sister. When I am in the sunlight my eyes tend to be lighter with yellow specks in the dark they turn a more rich green. My eyes are bright green in the morning, gray, green in the afternoon, and gray at night. Well, I have two different coloured eyes or rather their just different shades of green. Most people accuse me of having dark green eyes. However both of my parents have blue eyes,.

When I was little, my eyes were blue but now they are green. My eyes can change to different colors like hazel or blue. It depends on what color clothes I wear. My daughter has beautiful green eyes with very dark green rings around them.

She had very blue eyes until she was about 3 years old, but then they changed colors seemingly overnight! My husband and I have brown eyes, and we were surprised that she had blue eyes when she was born.