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to really love brown eyes?

126 replies

GingerDidItBackwards · 10/02/2019 20:20

I'd love brown eyes. I think they're beautiful, on men and women.

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AliyyaJann · 10/02/2019 21:18

I like chestnut brown and hazel

JuniperSling · 10/02/2019 21:20

Each to their own. I prefer green.

MeganChips · 10/02/2019 21:21

Me too! I always loved brown eyes and really wanted them. One of my friends has huge brown eyes with really long eyelashes. She looks like a Jersey cow, in a lovely way.

I have blue eyes, two of my siblings have green and one brown and I was always jealous. I quite like mine now, they are very dark blue so everyone assumes they are brown anyway!

Delatron · 10/02/2019 21:24

DH has lovely brown eyes and both DSs have inheritated them. I have blue.

I do have a secret thing for men with green eyes though. Think it’s because they are unusual.

DinoGreen · 10/02/2019 21:24

I’ve never met anyone else with eyes the same colour as mine. They’re very pale green so depending on what I’m wearing sometimes they look green and sometimes they look grey. I like this because it’s interesting, so I thought I’d be disappointed if DS had brown eyes like DH, however he has amazing big brown eyes and they’re gorgeous.

GingerDidItBackwards · 10/02/2019 21:27

Hmmm, perhaps it's the eyelashes- most dark eyed people are dark haired too, aren't they?

My friend has the most lovely dark brown eyes, you can practically see yourself in them.

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sagradafamiliar · 10/02/2019 21:28

I like my own green/grey eyes but on a man I LOVE brown eyes. Dream man would have brown eyes definitely.

OhTheRoses · 10/02/2019 21:30

I have dark brown eyes and so do my parents. DH is v blonde and blue eyed. They DC have quite distinctive eyes ds green eyes with a hazel undertone (that one has my olive tanning skin); dd greeny grey and fairer - tans lightly like an English rose.

My maternal gran had blue/grey eyes and that's what blocked the brown gene. All dh's fam have blue/grey eyes. It's grannies blues that have knocked outbthe domonant browns. Someone sciency will be along in a min

OhTheRoses · 10/02/2019 21:31

No ginger, I'm light brown/fairish haired. And tan like teak.

Yidette86 · 10/02/2019 21:32

I'm not a fan personally and can find them boring... I suppose it depends on shade and shape of eyes.

YANBU though, we like what we like.

Seline · 10/02/2019 21:32

I've always loved brown eyes. I was shocked when I found out a lot of people wish for light ones.

LeSquigh · 10/02/2019 21:33

I would also love to have brown eyes and find dark eyes very attractive. However I have (or did have) blue eyes, they have gone greyer as I’ve got older. My DP has very light blue eyes (I was convinced they were contact lenses when we were first together) and both my kids have blue eyes.

jua890 · 10/02/2019 21:33

apparently the darker your eyes the less prone to eye problems like vision deterioration or something (I did hear somewhere, could be wrong!).

YouWinAgain · 10/02/2019 21:34

My DD inherited her dads beautiful brown eyes, I am so happy about it Grin

EdWinchester · 10/02/2019 21:39

I love green eyes but my eldest has very dark brown eyes, beautiful black lashes and eyebrows and very dark brown hair.

He's devilishly handsome and blissfully unaware of it.

My best friend has dark hair and impossibly pale green eyes - she is stunning.

QueenofLouisiana · 10/02/2019 21:42

DH has amazing brown eyes, like pools of chocolate. DS has got the same eyes, they are gorgeous (I may be a tad biased of course).

Weedsnseeds1 · 10/02/2019 21:44

jua890 I have dark brown eyes and perfect vision so far at 50. My twin sister needed glasses mud 40s, but my brown eyed parents were late 60s/early 70s, so might be something in that.

IckleWicklePumperNickle · 10/02/2019 21:47

No brown eyes in our family. My dad has blue and my mum green. I have green.

DH mum and dad had/has blue. He has blue.

One of our sons has radiant blue eyes and the other has a circle of green and the rest radiant blue.

Very brown eyes that looks black is amazing.

Heronymous · 10/02/2019 21:49

I love my husband’s colouring (black hair with blue eyes) but he calls my brown hair and brown eyes ‘the classic combo’ which I always like.

OhTheRoses · 10/02/2019 21:49

I have brown eyes and the dc say I'm a diopter off a dog. Little green eyed gits. Grin

FiveRedBricks · 10/02/2019 21:50

Nah. Except on my son, his are gorgeous hazel. I'm biased though, mine are bright blue and my best feature.

cardibach · 10/02/2019 21:51

I much prefer blue eyes - particularly on a dark haired man. The contrast is amazing.

FiveRedBricks · 10/02/2019 21:52

And no OP. My son has blonde hair and dark brown eyes. So do many of my friends. My best friend has bright red hair and dark brown almost black eyes.

Ollivander84 · 10/02/2019 21:53

Mine are weird. Green but with a sort of amber colour in them

thenightsky · 10/02/2019 21:53

DH and both DC have lovely rich brown eyes. They look fab on photos. I have pale blue eyes that look weird on photos. I refer to them as my Alsatian eyes.

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