Poll: What colour are your eyes?

[alias_sqbr]

[Poll #1479723]

Inspired by the fact that like 90% of regency romance heroines seem to have "gray eyes", and thinking about all the fantasy characters with gold or violet eyes. I thought it would be fun to compare with a relatively random sample of real people :)

EDIT: I forgot black, white, and "I don't have any eyes". Apologies to anyone these options apply to!

Comments

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

Mine are greyish green, so I picked both colours to avoid biasing the results.

I'd say their colour (usually) is closest to grey, but the colour they have when they have colour is green, so I have green eyes that are so dull that people might describe them (in the regency romance I star in...) as grey

[alias_sqbr]

Green is the second most popular colour afaict, so you're totally set to be a Romance Heroine :) (Admittedly, you don't have the requisite fiery red hair that usually goes with the green eyes)

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

my eyes either change colour (idk if this is possible) or look different at different times!

[alias_sqbr]

I thought that was part of having hazel eyes, but according to Wikipedia that's just a common misconception. But I did make it ticky boxes for a reason :)

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

heh, it says "visually, gray eyes often tend to appear to change between the shades of blue, green and gray". i guess my eyes are grey, then! ;)

[alias_sqbr]

It's a much more popular answer than I was expecting!

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

This describes my eyes pretty accurately. Although they do have odd flecks of yellow (I'd hesitate to describe them as gold ;-) in them.

If I wear a blue or green t-shirt people tend to say "wow your eyes look blue / green today" with a surprising degree of predictability.

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

me too! (blue/grey with gold flecks)

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

ha, yes, this describes the exciting life of my eyes quite accurately. they also have a touch of yellow - a thin ring around the iris.

[dannipenguin.livejournal.com]

Mine certainly do this, they go between dull blue/grey to vivid blue. I guess it depends on misc things like blood flow and diet. Also I think maybe it depends what colour I'm wearing, because our brains like to play visual tricks on us (stupid brains, not handling absolutes).

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Ooo! I get to tick two! Mine change according to mood...

According to Leece "The colour of the sea after the storm", which I think is pretty damned neat.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I get three :-)

[alias_sqbr]

Like Steph my eyes are "mucky bog" coloured :)

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Isn't that also the colour of Westly's eyes in The Princess Bride?

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Aye... which is another reason I think that it's pretty damn neat.

Not to mention that it's another reason to love my sweety! (Let's face it, who would not want to be compared to Westly?)

[alias_sqbr]

who would not want to be compared to Westly?

I don't know, depending on the specifics I'm not sure I'd be flattered :)

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you used checkboxes because mine are brown in the middle, surrounded by green, with a dark grey ring around the outside. I usually call it peat bog colour, or green-and-brown. If forced into it by inflexible paperwork I say hazel, but that's not really accurate.

[alias_sqbr]

Apart from the fact I always make polls ticky-boxes if I can help it, my eyes are exactly the same colour(s) as yours so I know your pain :)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

My mother has green eyes with a ring of orange! Mine are more plain. :(

[alias_sqbr]

That does sound very dramatic. Mine have an interesting gradient, but that gradient is the colour of pond slime.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Pond slime is nothing like peat bog!

BTW for extra data points:

Mum: grey (and as mentioned, sometimes look greenish or blueish)
Dad: blue
Brother: green
Sister1: blue
Sister2: blue
Sister3: green

I am the mutant one with dark eyes.

[alias_sqbr]

Ah. While I am the mutant with relatively light eyes, everyone else is dark brown.

[theducks.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayser-Fleischer_ring ?

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

She doesn't have any of those symptoms, but maybe it's the unpictured Fleischer one?

[alias_sqbr]

*looks at results*

Your eyes are gold? I demand pics! :)

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Hazel or gold.. hard to say ;)

[alias_sqbr]

I tell you what, that image was kind of disconcerting to have jump out at me as I scrolled down my inbox.

According to wikipedia, that's amber, but I'll admit, it is pretty golden. My natural response is to say "That's brown!", but I'm boring :)

[violetsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Mine sometimes look brownish and sometimes look greenish (and sometimes I wear purple contact lenses but I figured that doesn't count).

[alias_sqbr]

Heh. No :)

[red-elf-49.livejournal.com]

I asked my mother when I filled out the form for my learner's permit, she couldn't decide so I wrote 'green-blue-grey'. Given one of the comments above though, it seems I only have grey eyes.

[alias_sqbr]

But they're romaaantic :)

[elaran.livejournal.com]

I always thought my eyes were black until someone pointed out to me that you can't have black eyes and after an hour or so of peering into a mirror closely and giving myself a headache I figured they are darkdarkdarkbrown. >.>

[alias_sqbr]

*nods* Though the difference between black and darkdarkdarkbrown is kind of abstract. (hypothetical? I can't think of the right word)

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

Put me down as another with blue/green/hazel (grey) eyes. ^-^

[alias_sqbr]

There's certainly more of you than I was expecting. Grey isn't that much less common than brown!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

My eyes are "Stormcloud blue". :p

(I ticked blue and grey).

[alias_sqbr]

Well aren't we fancy :)

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

i did contemplate tickyboxing gold as well, as I often have gold flecks, but figured it'd mess up your stats

[alias_sqbr]

Oh no my meticulous research would be ruined! :)

[loic.livejournal.com]

for the record, I have beautiful blue eyes. There was no tickybox for beautiful.

[lizbyrd.livejournal.com]

Likewise there is no tickybox for "weird blue", although I never quite figure out why nightmancyr thought they were weird.

[alias_sqbr]

Clearly the poll should have been "Which adjective would you use to describe your eyes:
weird
beautiful
flashing
mysterious
stormy

etc"

:)

[alias_sqbr]

I assumed you were all beautiful.

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

I've ticked all the boxes that are the colours other people have used to describe my eyes. When I look in the mirrow, there is a narrow dark grey outer ring, a wide paler grey with hints of green/blue ring, and then brown? flecks surrounding the pupil. I have been told that this mix is 'hazel' which I've always wondered about - is that just a catch-all for 'not all one colour', or did the person talking to me not know what they were talking about?

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

seriously, I shouldn't be allowed out with a keyboard without supervision today. 'look in the mirrow' indeed.

[alias_sqbr]

Afaict opinions on the definition of hazel are very mixed.

[velithya]

grey/(blue) here, although like others with grey eyes they can look green if there's lots of green around!

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I'm another grey-blue eyes with those orangey-brown bits around the pupil that I believe makes them hazel (as well as grey, which is why I ticked those two).