What colour is your eye?

[munduses]

Very, very blue eyes.

[KMB1933]

Hmmm. That's weird. I was expecting that brown eyes are far more common than blue eyes because brown is a dominant gene and blue is a recessive gene. Anyone care to explain why there are many people with blue eyes?

[Pickles]

Hmmm. That's weird. I was expecting that brown eyes are far more common than blue eyes because brown is a dominant gene and blue is a recessive gene. Anyone care to explain why there are many people with blue eyes?

{shrugs} May just not be as many brown-eyed people on PPT? Or at least, that are responding to your poll.
But yeah, brown usually is the dominant.

[Asthaloth]

See, I've always known more Blue Eyed people, with Brown being the distinctive last place.

I'm also the only person in living history (in my family) that has green or Brown eyes (Like I say, I've got all three represented, which I imagine is pretty rare in of itself

[Tymaporer]

I don't know what's common among people I see offline. I rarely look closely enough to determine someone's eye color (even if I were that curious about it, I'd have to ask before leaning into someone's face, obviously.) It's probably coincidence though, because I'm sure brown is a lot more common than blue on a worldwide scale.

[Mongrel]

Hmmm. That's weird. I was expecting that brown eyes are far more common than blue eyes because brown is a dominant gene and blue is a recessive gene. Anyone care to explain why there are many people with blue eyes?

It's got a lot to do with genetic background--blue eyes are very common throughout the northern parts of Europe, especially in the United Kingdom. Some of that history carries over to the US and Australia, two countries with a long history of immigration from the UK, and...well, a lot of people on this forum are from the US, the UK, or Australia. An easier way to determine eye color dominance would've been to seek out family history on a person with blue eyes and a person with brown eyes.

[MellieSIU]

My eyes are called grey by doctors and such but they look mostly blue w/green on outside and yellow near the pupil. I like them because I can wear any color of contacts and it looks natural


An interesting thing, my boyfriend has blue eyes and both his parents have brown. That must be genetically weird, huh?

[KMB1933]

An interesting thing, my boyfriend has blue eyes and both his parents have brown. That must be genetically weird, huh?

No, his parents may not have blue eyes but they carry the blue eye gene, as blue eyes are recessive. Your boyfriend only got blue eyes because he received two blue eye genes from his parents.

[shapu]

Which, of course, only had a 25% chance of happening. You should encourage him to buy lottery tickets.

My eyes are brown.

Ski, nice picture.

Another random disconnected thought.

[Metatwaddle]

Put brown for the survey, but they're really halfway between brown and hazel.

[Paul]

Green.

[Blake]

My eyes are hazel-ish, but everybody always says they're a different color. Must be the lighting, eh?

[Xerophyte]

I have blue eyes.

Though, sometimes I wish they were red. xD

[Mongrel]

My eyes are hazel-ish, but everybody always says they're a different color. Must be the lighting, eh?

Irises have a lot of mixed pigment, and colors in the surrounding environment can cause certain pigments to "pop" more vividly. Hair color especially can cause some dramatic changes(as a brunette people insisted my eyes were brown, while as a redhead the hazel was more obvious), but eye makeup and even clothing or backdrops can cause some people's eyes to "change color."

[theonlysaneone]

Mine are pure, deep blue.