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Properly violet or green eyes?

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Preoleai · 27/05/2020 13:49

Other than fictitious characters do you know anyone, or do you have, these coloured eyes? I mean like really intense green or vivid purple? I’ve never seen anyone with any but would love to! Would love to have them myself too rather than my own sludgy brown, supremely inefficient ones!

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4amWitchingHour · 27/05/2020 15:33

I once met a charity mugger with the most incredible green eyes - they were literally forest green as you'd imagine Harry Potter's to be. I signed up just so I could keep talking to him. He asked me about my favourite local haunts, but I never saw him again unfortunately (should have asked for his number - early 20s, was way too timid) (can you tell he left an impression?!)

PointlessUsername · 27/05/2020 15:33

Ds has eyes that sometimes look blue and sometimes look green.

Properly violet or green eyes?
Sonichu · 27/05/2020 15:34

My dad has really pale blue, almost turquoise eyes. Unfortunately I inherited my mum's boring blue/grey instead.

alwaysstressed · 27/05/2020 15:35

My dh has such dark brown eyes that they just look black you can't see any colour in them at all.

EastMidsMumOf1 · 27/05/2020 15:37

I have green eyes but depending on my makeup/ tan it can make them look either more blue or green!

Properly violet or green eyes?
thaegumathteth · 27/05/2020 15:40

My eyes are pretty green some days and light blue others. Never seen violet eyes though. Not sure actually now whether you'd say mine are properly green - just took this photo! You can judge. Sorry for extreme close up - had to crop my reflection out!

Properly violet or green eyes?
ShellsandSand · 27/05/2020 15:40

My ex had vibrant greens eyes the handsome bastard! Also have a friend with orange eyes. They're incredible.

Poppyismyfavourite · 27/05/2020 15:41

My brother and I have the exact same colour eyes, they look boring Hazel from a distance, but up close they are amber/brown in the centre (like our dad), then green, with a dark grey line around the edge. Our dad has orangey brown eyes like a wolf lol. Mum and sis have blue eyes.

YangShanPo · 27/05/2020 15:41

That purple eye thing in the picture is an internet myth.

serenada · 27/05/2020 15:43

Yours are like the sea @thaegumathteth

A snapshot of our planet, right there in your eyesSmile

TryingToBeBold · 27/05/2020 15:44

I always wanted one of each colour Grin

vampirethriller · 27/05/2020 15:46

My maternal grandmother had yellow-green eyes. They were beautiful, like a cat's.
I worked with a man who had very pale brown eyes with yellow stripes like the spokes of a wheel.

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 27/05/2020 15:48

Not violet, but my best friends son has grass green eyes. Such a beautiful colour and he has the longest eyelashes to frame them too.

SingleHandSue · 27/05/2020 15:51

Mine are quite green but definitely depends on the light and what I’m wearing. I had the light on my face for this photo.

DH’s family all have nice coloured eyes albeit very different. MIL has gold coloured eyes and SIL has the most bright, sparkly blue I’ve ever seen.

Properly violet or green eyes?
goingoverground · 27/05/2020 15:53

I spent some time studying a tiny community of four families who had been intermarrying for centuries, although largely within each family. Most of the population were brown haired, brown eyed and olive skinned but many of them carried genes for red hair. The community had ended the practice of marrying first cousins and brought in genetic screening before marriage. As well as reducing the number of genetic disorders, it also coincidentally resulted in a large number of the children having the most beautiful, vivid eye colours - peacock blue, bright green, indigo, hyacinth blue, ice blue.

Serenada's eyes are beautiful but their eyes were more like the violet contact lenses Preoleai posted in the intensity of the colour.

ScrambledSmegs · 27/05/2020 15:54

Mine are green. I thought they'd gone murky hazel for years because I had so many of those amber flecks around the pupils that they nearly filled the irises. Since I've been medicated for a thyroid disorder the amber has practically vanished and the green is back. Because I'm sort of a muddy blonde with a pink skin tone they aren't very striking, sadly. But I like them.

DD1 has pure grey eyes. It's amazing because they take on different hues depending on whether it's sunny or cloudy, and what she's wearing.

highmarkingsnowbile · 27/05/2020 15:55

My daughter had pure green eyes the colour of grass. They didn't go blue with what she was wearing, they always stayed green. It took two years for them to become that colour. They were that murky dark blue when she was born and then went to grey and finally became green.

sueelleker · 27/05/2020 15:57

I went to school with a girl with pale blonde hair, and leaf-green eyes. This was in the 60's, so I don't think she wore contact lenses!

CuriousaboutSamphire · 27/05/2020 15:58

Yes. One deeply unpleasant man I worked for has the most amazing eyes.

Pity he is a total psychopathic lecherous twat!

originalusernamefail · 27/05/2020 15:59

My mum & I have green eyes. My DSs are blue & brown (excuse the quarantine brows Blush)

Properly violet or green eyes?
Tighnabruaich · 27/05/2020 16:01

My best friend has intensely green eyes, with long thick black lashes. It’s very striking. My older sister has navy blue eyes.

sueelleker · 27/05/2020 16:01

I have green eyes but depending on my makeup/ tan it can make them look either more blue or green!
Mine are similar, but I call them hazel.

Igotta · 27/05/2020 16:02

Beautiful eyes on here so far.

DS has green eyes that go blue depending on what colour top he's wearing. Mine are a dark brown.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 27/05/2020 16:03

I just tried to take a picture of mine. They are blue grey with a bright amber corona. But it just looks muddy in a picture.

Elouera · 27/05/2020 16:04

I always thought the Afghan girls eyes were an amazing green colour:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl

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