What hair/eye colour do your children have with very different-looking parents?

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DH and I are expecting our first child and I have always wondered what our child’s colouring will be. I have blue eyes, light blonde hair and fair skin. My mum’s colouring is the same as mine, my dad has light brown hair and grey eyes. My DH has black hair, brown eyes and olive skin. His mum had dark brown hair with hazel eyes and his dad has same colours as DH. I’m so curious I find genetics fascinating!

So my question is, just for fun, do any of you have child(ren) with a partner with completely different colouring to you and did your child take after one parent more than the other?

I have medium brown hair, bright blue eyes and fairer skin.
My husband has medium brown hair, hazel eyes and tans easily (his father is Asian).
Our son has dark brown hair (almost black), greeny/gold eyes and tans in the sun.
Our daughter has dark blonde hair, dark blue eyes and is fairer but still a bit darker than my family. I'm so curious to see how they may change as they get older.

Ex and I both dark hair, me brown eyes him blue.

Our DDs one has green eyes and mid brown hair, not dark like me or ex. The other has brown eyes and kind of dirty blonde hair (was very blonde when she was small).

They don’t take after either of us really!

Oh and the blonde DD is very, very fair and freckly while the other has very tan/olive skin

I have red hair and blue eyes.
my kids have hazel eyes and brunette hair, and green eyes and dark brown hair. Same dads (dark hair and eyes)

I have inherited my DF's greek colouring, while my DM had green eyes and mousy hair,
My DH has dark hair and grey/blue eyes

DS has the dark brown eyes and dark brown hair

DD was blond blue eyed as a baby, but her hair has got darker as she grew up and her eyes have central heterochromia ,light brown centre, grey blue middle and dark blue outer ring.

DH has brown hair and brown eyes, I have brown hair, green eyes and pale olive (sallow) skin. DC have brown eyes but one has much darker eyes than the other. My mum and siblings all had green eyes and my dad had blue eyes.

I have dark brown eyes and hair and lightish olive skin, dh has blue eyes and blonde hair.
One child has dark brown eyes, auburn hair and light olive skin. One has blue eyes pale skin and brown hair. One has brown eyes, pale skin and light brown hair.

I am v fair with dark blue eyes and white/blonde hair. Exh was olive skinned, black hair, brown eyes.

dd has exh’s colouring and v curly dark brown hair and brown eyes. Ds has blue eyes (lighter than mine) but brown hair and his skin is darker than mine but not as dark as exh’s.

Yes
His teacher did tell him that, eventually
Didnt stop DS mentioning there was no chance at the dinner table though
Dhs face was a picture 🤣🤣

My husband is a very tall, blue eyed blonde and I am a shortish, brown eyed brunette. All our sons are tall and blue eyed, but the eldest has very blonde hair and looks like him, the middle has light brown hair and looks like me and the youngest mid brown hair and is a perfect hybrid of his brothers.

Very different! A real range in the family.

I'm pale with dark hair and blue eyes. DH is mixed race, dark skin and hair, brown eyes. DD has exactly my colouring - maybe slightly paler.

I'm probably exactly the same as you two, and my G and B take completely like their darker father. Not a hint of blonde

One has very dark brown eyes like me, and the other one has green eyes like one of their grandparents, although they were blue when she was a baby.

Dh and all his family have blue eyes.

My husband and I have similar colouring but my parents did not!

My mum was darker skinned, tanned very easily. She had brown eyes and very very curly light brown hair. My dad has very dark wavy hair hair and light blue eyes. I am pale as anything with light blue grey eyes and had white blonde hair. Nothing like either of my parents! I have the same colouring that my grandma had. My siblings are different again - i am the only very pale, very blonde one

My parents are both mixed heritage, very physically different from each other, and got 3 very different looking children, none of us have the same eye colour, hair colour, or skin tone, facially very different, hair types are different.

My husband is physically very different from me - very different skin colour and hair colour and type and our four kids have the same hair colour, similar eye colour, similar skin tone, very similar facially to each other. They're all brunet(te)s, though in dim light, you can see they have their father's auburn hair colour without the red in it, but my hair texture, slightly lighter than my skin tone, they all have the same eye colour at different intensities with my younger son having the most vibrant colour and my younger daughter having very pale colour. As they're older, we're also seeing two of them are naturally closer to my build/proportions, while my older daughter is more like her father (the youngest is 14, and we're not sure on him yet).

I’m very dark hair/eyebrows/eyelashes, tan well. Ex DP is blonde, blue eyed and burns. DD has brown eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows (but not as dark as me), blondest brown hair and gets a lovely golden colour.

I've got dark brown hair and eyes and am a sort of dark olive colour (my dad is very dark brown and from the Caribbean). DH is white with blue eyes and blonde hair.

DD has mid-brown hair, blue/grey eyes and pale skin. But she tans very easily compared to most white people (DH for instance simply does not tan at all and just goes pink if insufficiently sun-creamed). Her facial features are so similar to mine that it's hard to tell the difference between us in black and white photos. We had a family photo taken professionally for a present and the photographer could not stop talking about how alike we are.

I have to say, I was a bit surprised to get a blue eyed child! One of my grandparents had blue eyes but all the rest of the family including my mum have brown eyes.

This is exactly like eye colour split with mine! Their Dad and all his family blue eyed, me brown. Youngest DD brown eyed, oldest green eyed like my Mum but were blue for a long time when younger.

Both brown hair brown eyes. DD blonde with green eyes.

I had straight very dark ash brown hair (now grey, and randomly wavy), very pale skin that burns at the slightest exposure to daylight, and grey eyes and dh has wavy auburn hair, blue eyes and pale skin with freckles but can tan lightly. Ds has poker straight dark blonde hair, pale skin and blue eyes and dd has very wavy dark hair, pale skin and grey eyes. Both dc have more resistance to the sun than me (not that we’ve ever allowed them to burn or tan, but they don’t need factor 50 to go out in the car in summer like me), they also have definite red undertones in their hair from dh

This is massively oversimplified because the parents will have a combination of genes each regardless of which colour actually manifests in them. And according to that chart grey eyes don’t even exist!

It looks a little bit like the oversimplified diagrams that schools use to “explain” the structure of atoms or cells to school children which are oversimplified to such an enormous extent that they are factually wrong and actually extremely misleading.

Both me and husband have blonde hair, blue eyes and are pale. My son has deep red/brown ish hair, blue eyes. My
daughter has blonde hair and blue eyes.

Red hair is a recessive gene so will be somewhere up the heritage!

I have mid brown hair with a few blonde/red highlights & blue eyes. My mum had mousy hair & blue eyes & dad had dark brown/black hair & blue eyes.
DH has dark brown/black hair & brown eyes. MIL had light brown hair & blue eyes, FIL had dark brown hair & brown eyes.

DD has mid brown hair & blue eyes like me.
DS has mid brown hair but hazel eyes.

Yes
re school
thats why I posted it
see pp