To think blue eyes are both a blessing and a curse

[Lewishamsally]

Blessing: Nations and western worlds favourite eye colour.

Curse: I forgot my sunglasses on a day out with dc and I could barely see in the sun. (Probably added about a million wrinkles around the eye ).

[SunnyBaudelaire]

well I have blue / green eyes and have found them to be neither a 'blessing' (?) or a 'curse' they are just eyes......

[S0mmer]

Stop generalising!!!! people without blue eyes can not walk around without sun glasses!!! where do you thinkthey sell more sunglasses? ireland or spain?

[chocolateyay]

I understand that people with blue eyes have bat-like hearing...

[TwartFaceBeetj]

just

I know I was just linking to the survey,

My eldest and myself were born with black eyes, because somewhere in our ancestry we are mixed race.
My second dc was born with blue and everyone said they may change, but I knew they wouldn't because if you have brown eyes in my family you are born with black eyes.

Although Ds1 (born with black eyes) now has copper/amber eyes which is why I was looking for the name of his coulor.

[Rainbunny]

Since we're on the subject of eye colour, does anyone else notice their eye colour seems much darker in the winter months? I have pale-ish green eyes but in the winter time they look much darker/stronger green. People ask me if I'm wearing coloured contact lenses. I don't know anyone else in RL who experiences this.

[TheChandler]

Odd OP. Reads like an excuse to make a random racist remark then enjoy watching the bunfight. Eye colour is to do with the amount of melanin and squinting in the sun is to do with facial bone structure.

Agree with all the comments about the OP being pretty odd, but as if anyone actually looks at eye colour over genuine attractiveness anyway. Someone could wear the bluest contact lenses and the blondest hair extensions, and if they are bog ugly, they will still be bog ugly.

[SumThucker]

I've lost count of the number of times I've read the word racist now in this thread.
What IS this 'random racist remark', TheChandler? I've obviously missed it.

[SumThucker]

Rainbunny I have green eyes and they go a really vivid green when I cry.

[chocolateyay]

Nah, its just the bloodshot whites that offset the green nicely...

[chocolateyay]

Actually, my green eyes were very dark brown when I was little.

[SumThucker]

Nah it's not... Happens when they get watery in the wind, too.

[TheChandler]

I've lost count of the number of times I've read the word racist now in this thread. What IS this 'random racist remark', TheChandler? I've obviously missed it.

Nations and western worlds favourite eye colour

Hard to miss, eh? That promoting of a notion that somehow blue eyed people, who tend to be white, are favoured by not only the nation, but the whole of the western world.

Obviously slipped past you easily enough SumThucker.

Its also a load of nonsense, so I have no idea why the OP would say such a thing, other than to create dissent.

[SumThucker]

Yes, it's obviously nonsense. It would only be true if every man, woman and child had been surveyed. Silly, flippant remark, yes.
Racist? Bollocks.

[Fluffyears]

I have dark green/brown eyes and am highly light sensitive. To be honest blue eyes leave me cold I prefer green or brown. My mum has blue eyes which are a very dull wishes washy colour as does my brother. My niece has dark blue vibrant eyes and they are huge. I can say they are pretty but meh! My gran had dark hazel eyes which were wise and warm looking and my dad had Brown eyes and dark colouring. Dunno why but I always see blue eyes and blond hair as 'cold' somehow.

Plus OP your stats saying blue eyes are the preferred colour is shit, the most common colour is blue so guess what colour the eyes of the people saying 'blue' were....maybe they were as in love with their own eye colour as you are. Watch you don't come a cropper staring at your 'blessings' in a mirror/shop window/ shiny surface , use them to look where you are going.

[Rainbunny]

Tbh I hardly ever see any pretty blue eyes. They're usually a wishy-washy pale blue which isn't pretty imo. My DH has pale blue eyes, he is proud of them and considers them his most attractive feature. I haven't the heart to tell him that they do nothing for me, not that I can boast. My eyes are a boring pale greyish-green, not the pretty aqua-green colour that some lucky people have.

[drudgetrudy]

If blue eyes really are more vulnerable to sun damage etc I can't see why they would be regarded as a "blessing" in any way.

[Capricorn76]

I know CactusAnnie it's a kind of weird isn't it?

I had a friend who was weirdly obsessed with being a 'natural blond'. She mentioned it all the time to the point that when she was single and met guys, if you could overhear the conversation, you could almost time your watch by when she would mention that she was a 'natural blond'! She used to constantly fish for compliments on her blond blue eyedness and would make out that everyone wanted her attributes and that she was always being hassled because of them. However, I think she was insecure and from my observations although she did get some male attention, facially she was a bit plain compared to my friend of Southern European heritage who was naturally stunning and would almost be fighting men off. The other friend never went on about her dark hair or eyes either.

I did feel kind of sorry for the blond friend as she told me her dad used to tell her she was better than others because she was a blue eyed blond so she kind of internalised it. I think the media also reinforces the blond hair blue eyed thing so I guess it can't be helped that some people no matter how plain or out of shape they are think that just because they have blond hair and blue eyes that they're automatically or think others automatically believe they're more attractive or should be admired more than people with different colour hair or eyes. It's just hair and eye colouring and has no bearing on overall attractiveness. It's a really strange cultural phenomenon.

[Rainbunny]

Capricorn - I had a colleague who thought herself to be gorgeous. She did have long naturally blond hair but honestly her face was truly very plain. She was an unpleasant, bitchy person and consequently was not liked by any other women in our office. I worked closely with her so I had to tolerate her more. She knew the other women disliked her and she was convinced it was a jealousy thing because she was so much more attractive than everyone else...

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

When I was 10 I went to Kenya and the kids in the village we went to were fascinate with my long (below bum) length blonde hair. Someone translated that the adults had nicknamed me 'walking banana' which I thought was hilarious

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

Cactus - they did want to touch it but not to admire it, just because it was so different to their own hair. It was more a novelty.

[OhtoblazeswithElvira]

When I went to Northern Russia I met a young man from Mali. He said that srangers in the street used to approach him and ask to feel his skin and hair as they had never seen someone like him. He found it very amusing.

[nooka]

The blond/blue eyed beauty thing was I think common enough when my dd was little because I remember her telling me that you could only be a princess if you were blond/had blue eyes. It was the disney/barbie norm at the time - perhaps that has changed in the last ten years (dd is now into anime, where people have all sorts of crazy hair/eye combos).

I can see that pale eyes could be problematic with the sun, but would assume that was true for pale grey and green eyes too. It's not something I've observed particularly.

Personally I like dark eyes the best, but I like strong features in general (possibly because I am very shortsighted and without contrast faces just blur when I've not got my glasses on).

[nooka]

I'm one of those people I tend to say my eyes are green as that's the dominant colour, although the amber ring in the centre sometimes is stronger (either dark or quite bright depending on the light).

Sometimes hazel is described as mixed though.