Ask Mike: How many blue eyes?
Hey Guys,
The eyes may be the window to the soul, but not everybody’s window is the same color. While the vast majority of people have brown eyes, significant portions of the population are born with blue, green, grey, or hazel peepers. Just how many of us have baby blues? I focused in on the Web for answers.
According to a 2006 article from the New York Times, the percentage of people with blue eyes is on the decline. The reasons have to do with immigration patterns, intermarriage, and good ol’ fashioned genetics. Back in the early 20th century, roughly half of the American population had blue eyes. By around 1950, the ratio had dipped to about 1:3. Nowadays, “only about one of every six Americans has blue eyes.”
A big part of the reason for the new percentage is changing marriage patterns. Again, according to the New York Times, last century, 80% of people married somebody within their own ethnic group. That’s far less true now. So, the odds of blue eyes (a recessive trait) being passed on to children declines.
Still, even though blue eyes are becoming increasingly rare, they aren’t in immediate danger of completely going away. Redheads are another story. Some in the scientific community predict the redhead will be “extinct” by 2100. Why? “The gene is recessive and therefore diluted when carriers produce children with people who have the dominant brown-hair gene.”
Not everybody agrees with the extinction theory. Some experts argue that redheads will be around for quite some time. All you Carrot Top fans can rest easy.
Do you guys have a favorite eye color? Would you ever consider getting colored contact lenses to change up your look? Please leave a colorful comment below.
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I have blue eyes, and this post makes me happy knowing that Im rare, im like a relic haha, people think im wearing contacts and are surprised when they find that i have naturally blue eyes. Its a dark blue, like the facebook symbol color.
As a red-headed girl with blue eyes, Im surprised to readd this – I feel special(:
I have dark brown eyes and I like a girl that has the most beautiful blue eyes in the world. Blue eyes are very attractive to me.
No I would not like colored contact lenses because they do not represent who I am. One’s eyes says something about who you are and if you change it, you change the person. And I would really be uncomfortable meeting a girl with blue eyes only to realize that they are fake. That would be a let down.
Red eyes are just scary though.
Blue eyes are amazing. But I’ve come to learn that all colors are great and they suit their people perfectly. For me my favourite eye color is Gold and Yes I did see a guy with this eye color, and they weren’t contacts.
I dont have a preference per se. It all depends on who goes with what. Some people might look funny with blue or green eyes. Although something about dark eyes attracts me.
I have hazel, my ex had brown. One son has brown, the other light blue…. Made me think…
I like blue, hazel, and have only seen one green pair.
i have blue eyes.
i feel special, i will have to remember to reproduce with people with blue eyes.
I have dark brown (I’ve been told they look black, too) eyes. And dark brown (ditto black) hair. I’m not the hugest fan of blue eyes. I really like the blue-y violet colour, but that’s extremely rare.
But my favourite hair/eye colour combination is bright green eyes/dark brown hair. Yeah, I’m thinking of getting green colour contacts. Just to see how it would look. I welcome change
“The once-held view that blue eye color is a simple recessive trait has been shown to be wrong. The genetics of eye color are so complex that almost any parent-child combination of eye colors can occur.”[4][5]
4- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070222180729.htm
5- http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color
Interesting. Not really something I thought of much. By the way you should check this out if you want to find some rare eye color info. My eyes and my Fathers eyes change colors. Mine seem to change based on my mood. They are normally hazel but can be green, blue, red, and sometimes even sparkle, I mean like there are sparks in the color. My Dads just keep changing. I know eye colors changing is normal for new borns but they ussually settle on one color after awhile.
So does this make me rare? Check it out.
Cool – this what Yahoo Answers is really becoming – people ask a question and then answer it themselves.
i have blue eyes, im so proud to be the third generation girl with blue eyes! they turn ice blue when there is no clouds in the sky. and they turn turqouise when i wear the color brown and they turn indigo and some times violet depending on what color purple i wear. BROWN EYED PEOPLE DON’T WEAR CONTACTS. THEY LOOK FAKE AND UGLY. IT ANNOYS EVERYONE.
Well, it seems like society values “colored” eyes a lot more than brown eyes, which are ordinary. Even famous ‘ethnic’ models have light-colored eyes (e.g. Adriana Lima, Aishwarya Rai, etc.). Like blonde hair, blue or green eyes are eye-catching and very attractive to most people…the fact that blue eyes are a recessive trait and are becoming more rare makes it a more “special” characteristic to have…unfortunately, I have boring brown eyes.
I am blessed with very BLUE eyes, people have always commented on them being so striking with my jet black hair. So glad I was lucky enough to have blue eye gene. Dark brown, or dark, dark brown eyes make me think of 2 black buttons on some one’s face.
i have light grey eyes, which is a rare variation of blue, and seeing that blue is rare to begin with, i guess that makes my eyes extremely rare
I have really green eyes. My mother had very blue eyes and my dad has brown eyes, but his dad had blue eyes, and his mom had brown eye (shes Japanese). (=
I have bright green eyes and I love them because they are so unique, but for sometimes I wish I had brown! They’re so beautiful and bold!
I’m not a fan of the color contacts… they almost always look unnatural and give the wearer a creepy, glazed stare. I love all eye colors, including brown eyes, and I wish some girls (and guys too) would just learn to love their own eye color and give up the contacts!
I have hazel eyes and im the only one of my siblings with colored eyes :]
Well around here almost everybody has blue, green or hazel eyes. I have white eyes, don’t know why, but I love being different, a friend of mine has a blue left eye and a green right eye
I have blue eyes! And no I wuld not get contacts cuz I <3 em
my lovely boyfriend is a rare species i guess!!! he is a dark red head with some amazing blues eyes. just one more reason to convince him that we need to have babies together!!! because i’m not one to put the kibosh to a recessive gene and end such a gorgeous lemming
First of all, I would like to point out that I know atleast three or four people with blue eyes. And I loooove blue eyes, and if I could get that color of contacts, I would in a heartbeat.
Yeah, I have blue eyes and people think they are fake because they are really blue. And if I wear contacts then there isn’t anything I can do to prove its not the contacts that are blue, even if I take them out and show they are clear!
I have blue eyes and wouldn’t change it for the world. With the amount of compliments I get and how it directly places me to the blue eyes of my Dad’s side of the family, it’s a gift I’m sorry I won’t see any of my children have.
I have yellow in the center which quickly fades to turquoise with a dark ring along the outer edge of the iris. and if the light hits them just right you can actually see that one is truly green while the other is truly blue. What does that make my eyes?
My best friend has the most gorgeous green eyes that have every shade of green in them and a hit of gold with what we have deemed dirty red hair. It react to the sunlight like a blondes hair (mine) creating natrual highs and lows with blonde streaks in the very front. such a beautiful combination and surprisingly she has no freckles however I (the blonde) do.
Colored contacts are just as bad as fake nails or hair extensions or wigs, weaves, implants, botox etc. it just falsifies ones true image. Unless they are for Halloween and make your entire eye white or whatever unnatural designe
I have yellow in the center that quickly fades to turquoise with a dark circle around the edge of the iris. If the light hits my eyes just right my left eye is actually green and my right eye is actually blue a brilliant bright blue. What does that mean? How many people have two different colored eyes?
I am naturally blonde which I haven’t seen much of lately, the majority I have witnessed have been “fake blondes” with bleached hair. I wonder what the stats on blondes say…
Contacts are just another mask society has provided to hide our true identities, because deep down we all have to be exactly the same: perfect. Which there is no such thing so why even toss around the concept??
Never heard of anything go extinct just because it stopped turning up in one country. Silly really, the rate may drop in the US but in Europe it will still remain, for how long who knows but I’m sure we can send some nice blue eyed people your way in a few centuries to put in Zoos when the time comes.
Interestingly it seems our ancestors all had brown eyes at one point.
Much as one day it may happen it would be a shame to see some of the diversity of human traits disappear.
Mine are just plain brown.
I’ve worn colored contacts before and after a while it just didnt feel right to me so I stopped. While It’d be great if my eyes were naturally a different color, I’d rather just live with what I have.
Although my favorite eye color is green, it just seems very mesmerizing, like I could stare into them all day.
We mustn’t forget that beauty gravitates toward the average. A study recorded by Scientific American about 6 or 7 years ago (sorry, don’t have the issue handy) showed that most people like mending of features and not the exotic. This was a survey over a large demographic. They used computer software to mix features — nose, cheekbone, hair (style), color, etc. and asked people who they thought was most attractive. Unexpectedly, the participants leaned toward the largest mix, or the most average; top of the bell curve of facial features, as it were.
People like the rare, though, so that’s obviously a factor in attraction or notice, so I’m pretty sure the recessive color in eyes will propagate and not disappear. Green or hazel (goldish) eyes always grab a second glance from me :^)
Colored contacts, why bother?
Now, will the giant mixing pot of eye color become like when you mixed a bunch of playdough together and it looked like mud? I really don’t think so. Humans have been around for a long time. You will always see interesting bright eye color. Blue won’t just go away.
Oops, I meant “melding” of features.
I’ve got green eyes and brown hair, but my little sister has red hair and blue eyes. My dad also has read hair (although it is going more and more grey now-lol)
My older brother, however, had fiery red hair as a little kid, but now he’s 19 and it’s all brown like mine. So i wonder if it’s true about the red hair becoming extinct???
I have blue eyes and they are very unique. They are a very very deep, and they are very very very blue. they are like little bits of the sky ( wen its kinda dark )My eyes are the best shaped in my family because they all have normal shaped eyes ( rounded ) but my eyes are like a cats eyes shape. They are sort of pulled at the corners but arnt like chinease eyes. also wen i cry the turn the most beautiful color i hav ever seen. they turn a aqua ( yes a very pretty aqua ) they look like little bits of the sparkling ocean. i am very glad i hav blue eyes cuz I LUV THEM!!! lots of people complement me on them and my “angelic” hair. its golden with perfect curls!! ;D
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i have light blue eyes and all my friends and people who i dont know ( teachers , people who i meet and become friends through others ) all say i have really nice eyes.
i also have red hair , and people ask me if thats my natural hair colour ( it is ) and they are amazed it is. because they say its hard to find a natural red head becuase people dying their hair red
i wouldnt get different colour contacts because i love my eyes
and i feel specail reading this LOL :p
wow i thought green eyes were more rare than blue
I have natural blue eyes and blond hair. I hate reading things like this because in the future, no one will be unique. Everyone will have brown hair and brown eyes. I want to my kids to have blonde or red hair and green or blue eyes. So if I want my kids like this then I would have to marry a blonde or redhead guy. This is just one of the things that bugs me for some reason. No that I’m thinking about it, I cant really compare the color of my eyes to anything. I guess if I had to they are pretty close to the color of the plus sign button next to the save button.
I wonder where my mom and her ancestors fit in? They are redheads with mismatched eyes, generally one blue or gray and one brown. I always thought I was boring that both of my greens are the same color!
I have blue eyes and brown hair, just like my mom dad and everyone else in my house (I have two brothers). They said if they had kids with someone with brown eyes , our eyes would have most likely been brown. That would be sad because blue eyes are the best, I would never wear coloured contacts. My friend Phoebe is a brunette with blue eyes too.
YAY I’M RARE!! WOOT!! I’M ENDANGERED!!! WAHAHAHAHA TAKE THAT PANDAS!!! XD
I love my eyes, they’re light blue, like a weird aqua.
and people always tell me ” man you have wolf eyes!”
I prefer blue or green eyes, I’d like my children to have the same eyes as me.
You’ve raised more questions in my mind: how is a recessive gene passed to fruition? did blue eyes originate in Scandinavia from a germanic tribe? is there any biological or evolutionary advantage to having blue eyes, or blonde hair, or red hair? why do these traits seem to come from northern europe? I guess I’ll have to ask my own question!
I have 1 Blue eye ad 1 Brown eye
I have brown eyes, and I like eyes of all colors. I have friends who wear colored-contacts, but it doesn’t work because it is a letdown when you find out that they’re fake. =) But it has to be more than eyes, to attract me. But I do like all colors.
Everyone in my family has blue eyes. My mother, father and all seven children. Also the majority of my nieces and nephews.
I have dark green eyes, the sort that don’t really make a big deal of themselves.
Blue eyes are my favourite, however I do like mine, I don’t know anyone with the same colour eyes as mine.
I have baby blue eyes but where i live (Ireland) everybody has blue eyes or grey eyes and its quite uncommon to have like really chocolate brown eyes.. so thats probably why i find guys with brown eyes more attractive, its just more rare
But when im in america i get compliments about the colour of my eyes so yeah that makes me feel special
I don’t have a preference either. Eyes are just one part of what can make someone attractive and for me, they’re not all that significant. Blue eyes can be attractive, but they can also be unattractive on certain people too. Personally I wear green contacts over my natural brown eye color because I think the color suits me. Contacts are no different than hair dye or any other beauty product (including fashion). So people claiming it’s wrong or a ‘lie’ make me giggle.
i have blue eyes and this post makes me happy to know that i am rare! (: i also have blonde hair which is not a common hair color. my sister has blonde hair and green eyes that change to hazel in the winter
I have blue eyes, and, referring to an earlier comment, people have asked me if mine are contacts as well due to the dark shad of blue. I always felt like blue eyes were so common, but maybe it just has to do with where I live.
I think my favorite color eyes though are grey,,,my sister’s change between green and gray all the time, it’s really pretty.
My husband has the most amazing blue eyes. Luckily he loves brown eyed girls.
I’m a dark auburn with blue eyes
I believe any color eye is beautiful, especially if you care about the person deeply.
I wouldnlt mind wearing COSMETIC contact lenses one bit…if I weren’t someone whose eyes don’t react well to contacts by drying out so much under the lenses that they constantly popped out (at least they did in Junior High).
If I did, I;d like green.
I have rare eyes: Not blue or Black: One eye is grey and 1 is green
It’s nice to know that my little brother little sister and my best friend and I are rare. Well, we all have blue eyes. With blonde hair and my best friend is a red head. Well, my ma has brown eyes and my dad has Blueish hazel eyes or greenish hazel eyes. So, how did I get blue eyes? But apperently you marry someone with that same colored eyes as your dads.
But, i feel speical now. My eyes use to be a navy blue color when I was little then when I started to go through puberty my eyes turned lighter blue with a golden ring around the pupils. I have been told that my eyes are unique and a color that no one has seen before. Lol I feel so special right now.
It’s nice to know that my little brother little sister and my best friend and I are rare. Well, we all have blue eyes. With blonde hair and my best friend is a red head. Well, my ma has brown eyes and my dad has Blueish hazel eyes or greenish hazel eyes. So, how did I get blue eyes? But apperently you marry someone with that same colored eyes as your dads.
But, i feel speical now. My eyes use to be a navy blue color when I was little then when I started to go through puberty my eyes turned lighter blue with a golden ring around the pupils. I have been told that my eyes are unique and a color that no one has seen before. Lol I feel so special right now.
Colored contacts are just creepy sometimes. My mom changed hers from brown to blue with colored contacts for a while, it was not cool. Some people are just not meant to have blue eyes.
My sister and I both have blue eyes and blonde hair even though my parents both have brown eyes and brown hair. (We’re definitely not adopted) What do you think the chances of that happening are? Pretty slim, I’d say! But other than that, no idea. XD
I was just wondering what the percentage of blue eyed americans was yesterday. Thanks for this article!
Oh, and as far as preference, I definitely prefer brown eyes. I’m glad I have blue eyes, but I just see brown eyes as warmer and more welcoming.
blue eyes really arent very rare at all…as it turns out the gene is not recessive and they are becoming more and more common
I have white eyes naturally, I know it seems odd but they do look like I have contacts because they do look lighter grey where the color should be but my optometrist calls them white. she says it comes from a rare disease that actually comes when you are born. I really don’t care what anybody else thinks of me because I am fine with who I really am. I don’t sunburn but I also don’t tan either. most people around here that I know actually have blue eyes. I really don’t care what color eyes another person has, I look for what they are like. I am covered with scars, bruises, I am 5 foot 10, I weigh around 190 pounds, so you can actually imagine that I don’t look like the friendliest of guys around, more like the aftermat of a fight you see in a movie, but I am friendly, and most of my life I have been picked on, but I still don’t care, I will not change who I am because of it. So to make my point I really don’t think people should wear colored contacts unless it is for a movie or something
Mine are rarer, they’re light brown with grey and green stripes. Though I love blue eyes.
Wearing lenses only makes someone more attractive to people who like blue eyes… they do not change who the person is. The color of a person’s eyes do not determine who the person is. I have naturally blue eyes and have considered wearing lenses to have lighter blue eyes, and even brown eyes. Some people just like to have fun and be creative. Hence why we have hair dye and makeup.
I love light eyes, but i like golden browns one too…theres this guy i know with amazing amber eyes.
I would never get colored contacts, I have a friend who has pretty brown eyes, and naturally blonde hair. No one knows, cause she dyes her hair brown and changes her eye color to crazily unnatural colors pretty much every month. Right now there like NEON blue.
where i live blue eyes are really common so its shocking to hear that they are rare. lol
Ive got bright blue eyes and reading this post makes me feel awesome. i wouldnt change my eye color bc blue is my favorite
i have dark blue eyes with little star specs in them.
i like girls with green eyes dark emerald greeen eyes and yes i met 1 girl with emerald eyes.
color contacts are not kool at all.
becasue it says that your uncomfortable with your self
I personally love blue eyes, green eyes, hazel… OK well everything but brown because I have brown eyes
I’d never use contact lenses though because I guess our eye colour reflect and define us. So I really doesn’t matter if you have blue eyes, brown eyes, or green eyes. They’re all special 
I Love my babie blue eyes in some of my pic.’s people think there not real like one of my good friends. When he went to jail years ago I sent him a few of my photos to show him theres a good friend waiting out side the gates an he thought they was fake till 2007 he got back out an came an saw me an saw I was telling the truth.. Thats why I love the french side of me cause of my blue eyes bring out my smile…
I have reallyyy bright blue eyes. Everyone thinks that they’re contacts and in pictures people think they’re edited; when they’re not. Random people even stop me and tell me my eye color is rare. Its kinda awkward. I honestly don’t think I would want to change my eye color though by covering it up with contacts. I don’t even want contacts in general.
Most people have blue eyes in the us
I’m 21 and have had blue eyes all my life. Though as other posters have mentioned, all colors are amazing.
I always wish I had red hair *sigh*
Green is my favorite, but if I could change them I would make them greener. They’re sort of a blue-green.
I have green eyes
I have blue eyes and brown hair. I read somewhere once that people with blue eyes are all somehow more genetically realated to each other. This is because the gene for having blue eyes was acutally a mutation that occured millions of years ago.
I’ve got green eyes and my hair is brown with a red cast.Technically, most shades of brown are a variation of red. Also hair color can change over time with out artifical dye. the sun or lack of can change hair color and some people’s hair changes naturally without cause.
i have hazel eyes i mean not to be big headed but my eyes are amazing. i mean i have a lazy eye and when i talk to someone i say it walks away, but they say you have kewl eyes there like blueish brown with yellow orange and green
Haha i feel awesome that im a “rare” person I have blue eyes yayyy.
Brown eyed girl here. My boyfriend has green eyes, but he’s convinced they’re blue! Oh, color vision, you are a mystery. Not a fan of the blue eyes. They’re creepy if they’re too light. Icy.
I have blue eyes
Not baby blue though, maybe sky blue. People always comment on my eyes, so maybe I’d consider them to be my best feature- therefore I wouldn’t get contacts! I don’t really have a favourite eye colour. I like all of them! 
Olivia, you are not alone. I too have red hair and blue eyes! We can be special together.
I so in gren eyes a flash lith, what that men?
thank you for your anser, yoly
I’m especially happy that I’m blue-eyed and my fiancee has the beautiful blues as well
. I understand that there’s more complexities with it but I can bank that our kids are going to have blue eyes.
i have hazel eyes and when i cry they turn bright green. my hair is a common brown but for some reason, i was born with blonde high lights. Pretty cool eh?
I have blue/green eyes, and people compliment me a lot on them. I’m pretty content with my eye color. For eye color, it really depends. I am somewhat attracted to blue eyes. But I’m more attracted to brunettes, and they tend to have brown or green eyes.
I have grayish blue eyes and some people thought I wore contacts. I don’t like them, I think they are really dull. I would rather have a color like light brown or green. My favorite are green, they are really mysterious, and greenish blue are also gorgeous. I know this guy who has “ice” blue eyes and they are really pretty. Oh and I saw someone with gold eyes and they were amazing. I love almost all eye colors and even though I don’t like mine I wouldn’t wear contacts because I think everyone’s eye color fits them.
My older sister has red hair and blue eyes(: she’s rare! &my sisters and I all have blue eyes and different colour hair. There’s a boy in one of my classes who has the most amazing eyes, they are green and have yellow and brown and orange and a million colours O.O very pretty.
I found that interesting to read. I hope that redheads are still here in 90 odd years time I don’t get it when people make fun. Like A coppery red I think is brill. (I have brown hair and blue eyes btw) I love blue eyes and I don’t know if it’s just because I have them but blue eyes are my fav and I’ve only seen baby blue eyes once ( they weren’t contact) it was some guy in a year or two below me and ur right u never really see that.
I have blue eyes! YAY! I’m rare! You know my friend said that if you have light skin and light-colored eyes, then you’re mutated. I thought that was funny because I’m like albino white with light blue/ green eyes. My friends all LOVE my eyes because (depending on the light) they are green on the outside and a pretty blue on the inside. Anyway, I love guys with medium-blue eyes and (like me) blonde, or brown hair! So cute!
I must say that I like the way a person naturally looks, so even though i love green eyes, i hate seeing somebody wearing colored contacts. everybody looks best the way they are naturally.
I have eyes as blue as a blue crystel, they turn neon blue when it rains or I cry. I’v been told they are snake eyes. They are the wilndow to my soul. they are very exspresive.This color hits one person in my family every three generations. My great great grand child will have my eyes! My soon has a rare blue as well, they are a lite sky blue with a hasel green (just like his dad) around his pupil.
I have blue eyes and brown hair. Everyone in my family has this color eyes.
I have blue eyes, almost ice gray. I would much prefer an emerald eye
I have learned by watching medical documentaries that all Caucasian babies are born with blue eyes. Later, some change color and some don’t. I have blue eyes.
I think all eye colors are great but i suppose greenish blue eyes are my favorite i suppose i naturally think this because that is the eye color i have but i think it is a very mysterious and alluring eye color when i see it on someone else. No i dont think i would ever get colored contacts because it would kinda make me feel like a fake and it would be awkward if someone told me that i had pretty eyes cuz i would have to say um no they are just contacts but dont get me wrong that is just my opinion but there is nothing wrong with colored contacts.
my ex boyfriend has two different colored yees. one changes from green to blue to grey depending on the weather…and one is brown. i love his eyes…and i lvoe and miss him.
With todays contacts that are available…does it even matter?
eye colour had now become a new fashion statement.
Sure it may be symbolism however in the future people could probably choose what they want their child to look like.
Scary thought.
the colour of my eyes changes according to the light. from green to blue to grey. people tell me it’s special : )
I have blue eyes and everyone is always admiring them, I don’t see what’s so special. Half of my family (3/6) have blue eyes. One of my bestfriends is a blue-eyed redhead. I love green eyes. You don’t see many of those around.
A lot of people say that I have beautiful blue eyes but nobody noticed until I started wearing contacts (I used to wear glasses). My contacts aren’t colored or tinted whatsoever either. I guess I’m just lucky.
I have blue eyes but I loooove love love love brown eyes.
I have blue eyes and have 2 kids with blue eyes even though their father had dark brown eyes. May be recessive but both kids were fair, blond and blue eyes. Guess no one told my genes that they were recessive.
I have such amazing eyes i was blessed i have these wonderfull really really light blue eyes and peple cant seem to stop stareing into them its crazy xD
I’m from Ireland, and the majority of people here have blue eyes. There are still a good few red-heads too! I love red hair, so I dye mine. I wouldn’t wear coloured contacts but I suppose it’s really not so different from dyeing your hair!
I really like the way that blue eyes look. I have brown eyes and I wouldn’t change them because as someone pointed out, that would be fake. Of course I don’t really have a problem with people dying their hair, even though that is fake. I guess it’s a double standard for me because fake colored eyes are really easy to spot and I can tell when a person is wearing contacts so it can distracting when I am talking to someone with “fake” colored eyes. idk if I’m just rambling now…
I’m a brunette with blue eyes. I’ve always liked my eyes but never thought of them as being “rare” since my entire family and most of my extended family has them. This was very interesting.
I have eyes that have: hazel gold green blue and grey in em. *but mostly grey and blue…theyre kind of a greyish blue!
Im blonde too so its looks pretty…I have contacts but i have the clear n I wouldnt consider changing my eye color.
Some people may think I’m saying this because I myself have blue eyes, but if I didn’t, I would still consider them to be my favorite eye color. Just to the fact that they are “rare”..makes me unique.
I have blue eyes, but my husband’s are a striking emerald green. (No one can figure out where those green eyes came from, since he is otherwise a near-clone of the other men on his father’s side of the family, and green eyes don’t run on his mother’s side either.) Neither of my parents has blue eyes, but one my grandparents did. Since everyone else in our families has hazel, grayish, or light-brown/amber eyes, I’ve often wondered what color eyes our biological children might have had. By the way, blue are apparently the result of a genetic mutation. Originally, we all had brown eyes, and those of us with blue eyes can trace our ancestry back to a single man or woman. One wonders what that man’s or woman’s parents thought when their baby’s baby blues stayed that way.
I have baby blue eyes also, but I’ve always loved brown eyes for some reason. Even though I would hate to give up my eye color.
Very interesting. I have blue eyes (with some green thanks to my mom) and I love them. I hope blue eyes stick around, because it’s nice to see something different.
I think all eye colors are pretty, though. They suit each person and I love how each shade varies. Eyes are beautiful things!
Elvis presley had the most beautiful bluest of blue eyes I can ever remember seeing in my life except on the first guy I ever kissed, whose name was Zarco, which in Mexican, which he was, means blue eyes he told me. Is that true? .
I’m a freak! Woohoo!
I love blue eyes and am very thankful that I have them. I love my eyes, they are kind of a blue-grey color. And I think using colored contact lenses is lame, let your eyes be themselves haha.
ive always wanted to be a red head! but i have black hair!
oh and i was surprised hearing the blue eyes part! about half my street is blue eyed!
I am green eyed and have always loved brown eyes.
I looked into contacts in a brown color but at the time they just looked awful over my natural eye color.
actually its freaky weird. one of my eyes are blue while the other is brown
i have blue eyes! now i feel special
I have green eyes and dark blonde hair, so my daughter has the same trait.
But when my mood changes it is a light blue color with green specks.
I have eyes that are a sea green color… very light green. Everyone ALWAYS thinks I’m wearing colored contacts. This article talks about blue and brown eyes, but what about green and hazel eyes? Where do we stand? I’m 26 and NEVER met another person with my colored eyes… not even someone in my family
I love having brown eyes! Since blue or green eyes are labeled as “special” and “rare” I suppose most would think I hate them. Few prefer brown eyes, but I love men with brown ones! I think blue and green are okay, it is just that is mostly what we see on tv, movies, and ads so I am used to them. That is funny considering what this blog had to say. I think dark eyes are friendly, mysterious, kind, warm, and sexy. Women with brown eyes can wear any color eye make up and it fits. I have also read that light color eyes have more sensitivity to sun light. That would be awful considering I live in Arizona! Anyway, you can probably tell that I love brown eyes by now! I think all eyes are pretty in their own way.
i have purple eyes, which are even rarer than blue… what’s strange is that i am native american, which makes it even rarer
proud to be me
I have an interesting eye color. My eyes are a very plale green-blue. Most of my family has blue eyes though. Its strange, since, when I was younger, I had bluer eyes. I would get contacts to change my eye color, since I need them anyway, but mainly since I cosplay.
I have green eyes and red hair. I guess I am perpetuating the “herd”.. what is left of us.
One of my daughters has green eyes, and the other daughter has copper brown (their father has dark brown). It is interesting to see what combinations occur with the mixed genes.
I wittnessed a abortion clinic once twenty years ago, and the whole population of clients… I mean everyone was a young middle class white girl. That is why there are more and more “minorities” … we are aborting the white ones, because they can afford it.
haha thats so funny to think that i am rare
everyone else in my family has REALLY DARK brown eyes… and light hair… well i am weird i have black hair and my eyes change colors from the prettiest blue to green haha… my besties like telling me when they change… alot of the times my besties can tell what mood i am in by the color of my eyes xD
I have dark brown eyes, but I absolutely love outstanding eyes. Dark green grass eyes are my favorite, but I do love a blue that just pops. Eyes are probably my favorite feature on anyone, but I think that my eyes are kind of plain. I love different patterns and anything that just really stands out.
i have eyes that change color im not sure why id love to know if u know. my eyes change from gray to blue to green to and almost clear see thro colored blue to a rly light gray to a rly dark grey to an avrg green….i also have a freind with one blue eye and one eye that is half blue half golden brown any ideas y?
Eye Colour…
Who cares ?
If you do why ? – Is it some sort of repressed discrimination, or even some form of open discrimination?
Do you equally care about the colour of someone’s skin etc ?
Did Hitler not want to create the perfect Blue-eyed blonde haired race ?
Are you concerned that we may all end up with the same eye colour?
Did you not know that you can use contact lenses to make your eye colour appear different?
Did you also not know that hair dyes can make hair colour different?
Point is… if you care, why do you care? Another difference is just another thing to discriminate against other people with.
Remember Jane Elliot ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott
This is really weird because at my school, it seems half the students have blue/otherwise colored eyes. I kind of thought blue eyes were becoming more common, not less.
I have blue eyes myself, and I’ve heard about this too (the decline in blue eyes). Neither my mother nor father have them, but my great grandma did, so that’s where I probably got them. Anyway, I’m part Italian, and most Italians I know have brown. My favorite eye color on other people is probably dark brown. I think it’s a really nice color. But I think I’ll stick with my glass-blue peepers–if I changed them to brown I probably wouldn’t appreciate brown anymore the way I do
Wow, this is very interesting. I am a redhead with blue eyes and after reading this I definitely feel like a very special person. =D All of the people in my family have either blue or hazel eyes. My sister has wicked pretty gray eyes.
I would have to say that my favorite eye color is a light brown..almost honey color. This may sound weird, but I find blue eyes to be intimidating. When I tell people this the first thing they usually say is, “but you have blue eyes, how can you find them intimidating?”
I have green eyes and I heard that they are actually rarer than blue. If I was gonna wear contacts they would be an unntural color like purple.
I love my blue eyes, most of the time they’re a light icy blue, although depending on what I wear and how sunny it is, they can get even lighter with a few darker flecks here and there. I wouldn’t trade them in for any other color.
…But even if I didn’t like them, I’d never wear colored contacts. I just think that it would be a let down if someone complimented your eyes, and then you had to tell them that they were just contact lenses. Most of the time they look fake anyways.
I’m happy to have blue eyes, & that its a unique eye color. My friend told me that I’m REALLy rare, because I have blue eyes and brown hair. (: lol
My best friend has grey-blue eyes. They’re not the nicest colour, but she can make a potato sack look good c: And my boyfriend has green blue, which is very nice. I love my dark brown eyes, personally. I can wear whatever eyeshadow I want and not have it clash. Right now I’m rocking turquoise, purple and gold and don’t look overdone (:
Well… My eyes are just weird… =/
The outer rim is dark green, then it fades into a light sea green, then fades into brown, and then yellow along the pupil. It’s weird because: My mom has like an emerald green color of eyes, and my sister has hazel. As far as I know, We’re like the second generation of colored eyes in my family. As for contacts, I’ll never wear them. (mostly cause I can’t, Darn astigmatism.) I also hate it when people wear colored contacts cause your all like, “Omg! your eyes are beautiful!” Only to find out that they’re fake..-__- My favorite Eye color would have to be a really light honey brown.
My girlfriend’s a redhead with gray eyes (talk about rare!) but it’s nice to see diversity. I’m just an old hazel eyes myself, but I like wearing blue contacts.
i have green eyes with yellow rings…it seems whenever i see a magazine ad page,the model has my exact eyes!..if green eyes are so rare,why do i see them so frequently?
This was a really neat article to read, I didn’t know blue eyes or redheads were so rare. But no, I wouldn’t think of wearing contacts as a daily routine to change my appearance even though I have boring brown eyes. Sure every once and a while, but if everyone started dying their hair and putting in coloured contacts being original won’t be so original, would it?
im black and as usual i have brown eyes but i have a blue ringer around them. How weird does that make me lol.
People say my eyes are really beautiful since they are an emrald-green with a hint of honey and a pinch of blue. Talk about a rare mix! My eyes usually change a bit of color depending on the lighting or other colors influencing it. I get compliments saying my eyes are so green, they look like cat eyes! Also, for a fact green eyes are the rarest eye colors in the world, while blue is at second. Before I thought the oppisite; and I really wished my eyes were blue, but now I take pride in my special eye color…
I have blue eyes!!!! WOW! i have like a bunch of relatives with read hair, and almost all of my fam has blue eyes! wow. I even have a little tint of red in my hair, I am naturally blond, but I dyed it recenty to a medium brown… well somehow it has been fading into a strawberry blond! my mom’s hair does the same. So maybe if I ever had a child it would have red hair….. cool. I didn’t realize us blue eyed babes were becomin rare. That’s so sad!!!
I have green eyes, and I’ve heard that they were even rarer than blue. I’m very proud of my eyes, since only about 3 other people of the 200 kids in my grade have them.
The cool thing about green eyes is that they sometimes change colors. Mine have been only bright green for the first 10 years of my life, but for the past few years, they’ve been changing. Sometimes they’re emerald, sometimes they’re grey, sometimes they’re blue, some times they’re aqua, and occasionally even hazel. But mostly they’re green, and I love ‘em.
My whole family, including myself, have blue eyes. I never really thought it was that rare, but apparently it is!
My dad has blue eyes & my mom has green eyes. So, I guess it was a toss-up between the 2 recessive genes. My mom assumed both of us (her children) would be green-eyed since that was the darker color. Both of us wound up with baby blues, lol. But her eldest child (my bro) got a purer blue colored & I got a blue-green that is 1 time of 3 mistaken for green. But, it turns out wicked, cuz some days they look a pretty sea-green. XD
I’m very fascinated with all this genetic stuff. I assumed most people had blue eyes since I live in a very small town that’s made up of people of mostly German ancestory.
i have pink eye!
IS THIS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO WORRY ABOUT IN A RELATIONSHIP. I THINK IT’S GREAT IF YOU PRODUCE A CHILD THAT HAS EYES THAT SEE. WILL THESE BLUE EYES MAKE YOU HAPPY OR JUST BE BLUE?
I have blue eyes
mine are like a marble blue though, and my whole family has them
I don’t like blue eyes, so I wouldn’t mind if they went away. I have greenish eyes myself but I wish they were more brown.
I’d prefer to keep my ultra-rare auburn hair than have blue eyes
I have blure eyes. sweet
Blue, but depending on what I am wearing, they change color a bit, blue/green to even a blue/purplish color
oh no, i am a red head with blue eyes…
im going extinct!!! noooooo….
wow i think that its kinda true. Cuz weird thing is that Im Puerto Rican and i have blue eyes. Both my grandmas had blue eyes…no one else in my fam has blue eyes tho… i jus had a daughter and was praying, hoping, wishing she’ll have blue eyes or at least light colored eyes and no luck. my gf has dooky browns and now my daughter has those too. to bad lol..but now i c more and more ppl having kids and they have dark colored eyes. so hopefully they dont go extinct lol
o and by the way i love green eyes and blue eyes…i think they are jus amazing lol
I have brown eyes and dark brown hair and I might get blue or green contacts….. I think that would be awesome and since I have 30 day lenses, it’s nothing permenant.
I like all eye colors but have to say BROWN are my favorite, and not because its common, but because i think blue eyes are kind of creepy! Especially the lighter ones because their so… clear. I love the dark, mysterious look to brown eyes. And btw, I know all you blue eyed people FEEL special, but its not actually that great, 1/6 of the world is about 1 billion people! Just putting it out there…
i have very light blue eyes that have white specks in them, and then a dark blue ring around them. i love my eyes, and get compliments on them constantly, haha. and a lot of people think i wear contacts since my eyes don’t look real, apparently.
I have naturally blue eye’s and blounde hair.
alot of people say my eyes are beautifull, espicially foreign people lol 
Blue is my favourite colour so im very lucky
I was always told that having blue eyes is a default with the genes; like when ur a baby if ur eyes dont change then its at fault and then it can get passed on ? Idk.
I like green eyes and dark brown hair. Altho i must say i wish i had blue eyes…
Blue-Green myself, like my mum, but my dad is heterozygous blue/brown. He got his blue from his dad, who got it from his dad, but their eyes were all visibly brown because brown is dominant.
Very improbable, I know, but that’s life lol
To be honest, in the Northern and most south-westerly parts of Ireland, blue eyes are the most common, but in the rest, brown are.
i have light blue eyes mixed with light green
That’s weird. I know loads of people with blue eyes. It’s actually the most common in my school of 750. I don’t see many people with brown eyes but maybe that’s just cause I live in Ireland, I dunno.
I have blue eyes and they change color throughout the year. In the spring they will go from being kind of green like they are now to silver. From there they will change too blue and then back to green again.
Oh I hope red heads don’t go extinct. Alot of my best friends have red hair and it’s really pretty. Well I guess that we could always die our hair. I wonder if there werent any red heads and you died you hair red it would be like dieing your hair blue? That would be weird. By the way, my eyes are hazel, and I think they’re reallly cool because they change color depending on what I’m wearing. But blue eyes are really pretty to I love them!
i have blue eyes, and to be honest i see a lot more than what the facts prove, maybe because they stand out so much but yeah i love the color of my eyes and would never get colored contacts to change them. But also, i find red hair to be absolutely beautiful, probably because of how rare it is.
I got bue green eye whenever my eyes would get wet theyd look green but their normally blue
I have green eyes. but that comes from my Spanish ancestors. Both my Grandpa and Grandma had green eyes. So did my Mom. My dad had brown eyes. My wife wanted our kids to have green eyes too. But none of them do. I wonder why that is. My sister, and brothers have green eyes too. I guess they come from the Mother. Because my sisters kids do have green eyes. Yet me and my brother’s kids do not. Go Figure !!
I stilld ont understand what’s the impotance of ‘being rare’… I mean is having blue eyes going to make someone interesting… I doubt it. I hardly notice wether or not people have colored eyes unless it’s like someone dark skinned with really light eyes. As for European Descendants I pretty much dont expect their eyes to be brown. Anyways, point is, so what if your eyes are blue. You not gonna get cool points for ur eyes being a certain color by many people, unless its like a *superficial* person looking for certain phenotypical traits to pick their mate (which i find sad). My eyes are brown (black) and my hair is deep brown (black) however I still feel unique.. without the presence of blue eyes. I haven’t seen too many duplicates of me (well none at all)… so~ ya
I really hope red-heads don’t go extinct it’s a beautiful hair colour. I have bluey green eyes that people argue if they’re blue or green. I’d never change them.
I have blue eyes that are the truest shade of blue. When I wear purple they take on that weird blue purple. My son has brown eyes and I don’t know what color eyes the baby in my tummy will have. Crossing fingers for her to have mine. But,my sons eyes are are almost like golden taupe. When the light reflects on his eyes, there beautiful color is vivid and stunning.
green is still the rarest though since it’s the combination of blue and brown. it’s basically a mutation….
Thanks for the info but you forgot to mention that blue eyes are basically inherent in Caucasians (so that primarily applies to people of European descent).
There’s nothing wrong with Not having blue eyes but people are just used to blue eyes more considering that N. America has alot of people of European descent!
Let’s not discriminate against those who don’t have blue eyes or is Not of European descent or is not Caucasian!
You should do the more research about hereditary and eye color!
I’m of Chinese descent, so I have brown eyes. My favorite eye color has always been blue, and I always thought it would be cool if I could change my eye color. I think I could actually pull it off because my father and I both have the “interracial half-white” look, but I like everything to be natural. I’d hate to try to be someone I’m not.
I don’t have blue eyes, and they aren’t attractive to me at all. I prefer brown eyes or hazel eyes. And thankfully, I’ve always been satisfied with my dark, almost black, eyes. The fact that blue eyes are rare is a little weird for me, as I seem to constantly meet people with blue eyes, and hardly any brown or green. And I’ve only met one person with hazel.
Every member of my direct family I have met have the exact same shade of blue eyes I have(all 3 of my children do as well).
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Blue eyes, Bluetooth, Blu-ray, Blueband and Blueprint
are redeem.
lol i have darrrrkkkk brown eyes that look almost black. when i waz lil i thot they were fully black until i looked into a mirror in direct sunlite.. seeing as i have dark brown hair tht looks almost black i luv my eyes cause they match .. plus dark eyes match all make up u cant wear purple eye shadown and have blue eyes but it looks beautiful with blackishbrownish… if i got color contacts i would get green because i think they look rlly kwl wit black hair. i like guys wit dark hair and eyes tho.. im not rlly attracted to blue eyed, blonde, people
We have five(5) blue eyed kids and grandkids,Both me and my husband have brown eyes…how does that happen? I don’t think blue is one the decline at all.
I love blue eyes
I love green eyes
I love brown eyes
I love red eyes?
My eyes are steel grey but I never want contacts that changes my eye color! I really like women with emerald green eyes. I really think this article you read in the New York Times is very interesting. But since I live in Southern California, I read the Los Angeles Times.
I have very light blonde hair and blue eyes and so do all my brothers and sisters. My parents both have blue eyes and are both naturally blonde but my mum died her hair brown. Not surprising though, My mum is Swedish and my dad German, dad moved to Sweden to be with my mum, then I was born in Sweden and so were 3 of my 5 brothers and sisters, before we moved to Australia. So I’m guessing blonde hair is going tot be around in our family for a while. (and I’ve never understood why Americans spell the word blonde without an e)
Haha………….. I feel special when I read this, I didnt know I was rare because I have blue eyes
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Wow…I feel pretty special. I have both of the rare genes. I’m a natural born alburn redhead with blue eyes, and my sister is a natural born redhead with blue eyes like me. I’m irish- german american.