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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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ClientQ · 27/05/2020 16:05

Green here Smile

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Lordfrontpaw · 27/05/2020 16:06

And that photo was not recoloured at all (I know someone who has worked with him and she asked).

Brigante9 · 27/05/2020 16:08

Eyes fascinate me. At a house party, the host popped his head round the corner and I noticed he had bright green eyes. He’s my DH now.

Picture is me. People have told me I have green eyes, I think they’re more blue. If I wear a particular sparkly brown eyeshadow, people think I’m wearing bright blue lenses.

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BillyAndTheSillies · 27/05/2020 16:12

My brother has bright green eyes. He's really striking to look at (without sounding creepy).

notalwaysalondoner · 27/05/2020 16:13

My friend has proper green eyes. Not bright but a kind of grey-green, but definitely green. She’s half Burmese.

Never seen anyone with even slightly violet eyes in my life. Didn’t know it was even a thing.

TryingToBeBold · 27/05/2020 16:14

@Brigante9 your eyes are so beautiful!

FrancoBegbie · 27/05/2020 16:20

@ClientQ your eyes are stunning! What a gorgeous colour. Fab skin too.

dottiedodah · 27/05/2020 16:21

I have green eyes .My skin is quite fair and so is my hair(although with the help of a world famous hair colour)!Never met anyone with violet eyes though.My Dog has a blue eye and a brown eye and a lady we met when out had the same ! Very distinctive!

ShellsandSand · 27/05/2020 16:22

@ClientQ your eyes are amazing Smile

FrancoBegbie · 27/05/2020 16:23

I watched A Beautiful Mind last night and was mesmerised by Jennifer Connolly’s green eyes, they’re very striking.

LaurieFairyCake · 27/05/2020 16:23

Mine are gold (and bits of green)

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 27/05/2020 16:25

Laurie, mine are very similar, with a pale blue/grey undercolour.

DamnYankee · 27/05/2020 16:45

Me and DH have khaki eyes.
My DD has grey.
DS has very bright blue eyes like Elizabeth Taylor, courtesy of my grandmother (who was not, sadly, Elizabeth Taylor). Wink

Preoleai · 27/05/2020 16:55

All the eye pictures are lovely, really pretty. Would love to see more.

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MrMagooInTheLoo · 27/05/2020 16:58

I have much more yellow colour than there is green in my eyes

GerundTheBehemoth · 27/05/2020 17:06

I've seen plenty of bright blue eyes but never bright green. Most eyes described as green look more blueish or hazel to me.

sueelleker · 27/05/2020 17:09

@dottiedodah Is he a husky cross? I saw one the other day that was husky/collie, and he had one blue and one brown too.

DarkMintChocolate · 27/05/2020 17:12

MIL and DS have green eyes.

SluggishSnail · 27/05/2020 17:15

I have green eyes too. Yes to pp who said it's a genetic mutation - green is an allelic variant of blue.

I went to college with a girl who had eyes the same colour as barley sugar. They were amazing.

AnnieGetYerGun · 27/05/2020 17:18

My maternal grandmother had really piercing jewel-green eyes. She was Irish, and had very white skin and jetbblack hair - really beautiful colouring that I’ve never seen again!

BlueThursday · 27/05/2020 17:19

I have very dark hair and blue eyes but no Irish family so goodness knows where it comes from!

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DramaAlpaca · 27/05/2020 17:21

DH has dark green eyes, they look brown from a distance but are definitely green.

I had a friend at university who had the most striking bright green eyes, they weren't coloured contact lenses as they hadn't been invented then!

I used to work with a gorgeous man with black hair, pale skin and eyes that were nearer to violet than blue. Not the bright violet as in OP's photo, but a deep purply-blue. They were stunning and very unusual.

Fluffycloudland77 · 27/05/2020 17:26

My dm has really green eyes, no hint of blue or yellow in them.

I got brown eyes, I’d look amazing with green eyes. Tried lenses but they sit too low on my iris and you can still see the brown.

DC1JackieReid · 27/05/2020 17:27

I think I might get my brown eyes after all! Can they change? Mine are green but as I said I want brown. I’m wearing a black shirt so it could be that reflected 😟

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SimonJT · 27/05/2020 17:28

My son has very green eyes, his birth mum is from an area of Pakistan where green eyes are fairly common.

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