Do you eyes change colour when you change your hair colour?

[jojo]

This may seem like a strange question but when my hair was dyed dark my eyes looked more green and now I'm back to being lighter my eyes have gone back to being blue.

Am I strange or does anybody else notice this too?

It's not just me either other people have commented on it, take this photo that you have all sen before I'm sure but my eyes are more green than blue in it http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l283/joanna_eglin/34008_438368025782_549665782_6199046_2676926_n.jpg my recent photo is my avatar and it's also my profile photo.

[Viscountess]

Yup. Happens to me all the time. the redder my hair is, the more green my eyes are. The browner my hair is, the more blue my eyes are.

[Tia2010]

Mine don't change color, but they change shades/intensity of blue. My dark hair makes them appear more blue and vibrant.

[jojo]

Yup. Happens to me all the time. the redder my hair is, the more green my eyes are. The browner my hair is, the more blue my eyes are.
The opposite with me, the darker the hair the greener the eyes, though they change to more blue sometimes and the lighter the hair the bluer the eyes, it's nice to have my ole blue eyes back! Bet the green eyes with the red hair is stunning too

Mine don't change color, but they change shades/intensity of blue. My dark hair makes them appear more blue and vibrant.

I bet your eyes look beautiful next to your dark hair, I do love the look of dark hair and blue eyes, my youngest has the darkest of hair and the bluest of eyes, it's simply beautiful.

[ratgirldjh]

This happens to me too! I just thought my eyes were just color changing! When I was younger I had very dark brown hair and my eyes were light blueish green. When I started using henna my eye look much greener! sometimes they look almost olive green! I remember from years ago with my dark hair people always telling me how blue my eyes were! Mine get bluer when I am near water too (or used to).

Wonder why this is? I thought it was just me that noticed it!

[KiwiBum]

Mine have before. When I've done my hair red they look more hazel/greenish, and when my hair is darker they look more brown.

Red hair
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n120/ides_kejoh/meeye3.jpg

Brown hair
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n120/ides_kejoh/meeye4.jpg

The colors I wear can also affect the way they look. :)

[christine1989]

Your eyes look lovely! And I definitely see the difference too. I wear colored contacts but I love having dark hair to further accentuate the fake blue of my eyes. I wish they sold your eye color in a contact so I could buy it for myself. Lol!

[elthia]

Considering I am mixed race, (part asian), my eyes are stubbornly dark brown no matter what color my hair is. I just don't have the "typical" asian hair. My hair took after my Scotch-Irish ancestors, except in color, I would die to be a red-head, except it wouldn't suit my coloring.

[Avital88]

I noticed the Same,my eyes are à lighter blue With blonde hair and more towards green With Brown. Really strange,my eyes also change color depending on the clothes i wear

[auburntressed]

Wonder why this is? I thought it was just me that noticed it!
Basically, it's an optical illusion. The coloring around your eyes is affecting how the light bounces off of them, creating a look that is more one color or less another. Eyes that "appear" to change color based on clothing or hair color are typically referred to as "hazel," I believe. Though I think the technical definition of hazel is eyes that have more than one color in them. Which, of course, really helps in the illusion of eyes changing colors with hair or clothing - because the blues are accentuated with certain tones, then the greens are accentuated with certain tones.

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had my father's blue eyes while my brothers all had my mother's green eyes. My brothers definitely all have a very olive-ish green/hazel coloration to their eyes and almost no blue to them at all.

When I started college, I found that my friends had rather mixed opinions on whether my eyes were green or blue. It was a bit strange for me, because the fact that I am blue-eyed was one I had never questioned before - ever. But I didn't pay much attention to it, because it wasn't really something I cared about one way or another.

The summer after I graduated from college, I saw my dad for the first time since I'd been a young teenager. And I was quite literally SHOCKED by the fact that his eyes were this gorgeous steely gray-blue color. The reason I was shocked was because I expected to see eyes that looked like mine, but his eye color is nothing like mine! I don't know why I'd never noticed the difference when I was young. Maybe I hadn't looked at my own eyes enough back then to notice my own eye color, which I had done since being told by various parties that I was green-eyed.

Anyways, my eyes are what I call "true hazel" (or just... aqua). The top half is green, the bottom half is blue, and there are coppery flecks throughout the iris. You have to get very close to see the line of color demarcation, because both the green and the blue are quite pale. They look nothing like either of my parents' eyes.

So they definitely appear to change color based on what I wear, but I've never thought that they have changed color based on how much red is seen in my hair. It is possible, definitely. Hair is the closest color to your eyes other than your skin, so it's bound to affect the way the lighting frames your face.

[ariesfairies]

Basically, it's an optical illusion. The coloring around your eyes is affecting how the light bounces off of them, creating a look that is more one color or less another.

^ This! :waving:

It's actually covered in "colour science", or colour theory in painting :)

As much as I love to believe that eyes change colour mysteriously and magically as we wish to believe, colour are indeed, relative. Here's a excerpt from one of my fave sources:


Colors and values are relative. By using various tricks it's possible to trick the viewer into thinking a color is really another color, or a value is darker than it is. Unfortunately, the artist is also tricked into using too much colors or values than is needed... and then it gets artsy and irrelevant, but if you want to read the rest, I've linked the article below.

Article: http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm#color_relativity

With that, here is their visual representation. The last bottom two images explain the phenomenon:
http://i45.tinypic.com/nb7j7k.jpg

Yes, this is an extreme example (who here has hennaed their blue hair and had eye colour changes to their steel grey eyes? :tongue:) but it applies to all colours.

But look, the first gray smudge on the warm coloured background looks very cool doesnt it?.. And vice versa. Your hair colour's value of whether its warmer or cooler than the original hair you had will change the effect. Skin, eyes, many things if not all of the body will reflect colours from the atmosphere around them, and yes, to varying degree, but also because our eyes do a sort of "auto balance" like in a digital camera would to "balance" the hues so we can see better, you will get slight colour variations. No biggy. Wish stuff like eye colour changing with the moon or whatever where real, but once again, science as stomped on our dreams :D

[Jing]

My eyes change colour anyway. Colour of lighting, angle of lighting, pupil size, what I'm wearing... They're grey, really, but they shift between blue, grey, and green.

[Nae]

You guys with lighter eye colors are lucky. My eyes are dark, dark brown. No changes here.

[jojo]

I noticed the Same,my eyes are à lighter blue With blonde hair and more towards green With Brown. Really strange,my eyes also change color depending on the clothes i wear

Same as me, are you olive skinned by any chance? I wonder is this is why? Maybe certain skin colours have different eye colours depending on hair, clothes etc?

[jojo]

My eyes change colour anyway. Colour of lighting, angle of lighting, pupil size, what I'm wearing... They're grey, really, but they shift between blue, grey, and green.

Yeah mine do too, when I'm in a bad mood they go very green and mine are similar in colour, they was sky blue when I was very young but can be anything between a grey, to a blue to a green

[jojo]

You guys with lighter eye colors are lucky. My eyes are dark, dark brown. No changes here.

I love brown eyes, my mum has very dark eyes and skin and my dad had pale green, so by rights I should have taken after my mum. Hormones also change eye colour too

[spirals]

Mine appear to change with outfit color change or lighting changes. I think it's because I have dichromatic eyes. The main iris color is teal (green-blue) overlayed with true olive green in a lacy pattern that's solid just around the pupil. Does anyone else have an eye freckle? I have a pumpkin-orange one at the top of one of my irises.

[MonaMayfair]

My eyes are bright green no matter what my hair color, but when I had it dyed dark brown with a semi permanent, the first thing I noticed was how much greener and more intense the color was.

With my natural fair hair they were noticeable enough to get lots of comments, but nowhere near as impressive as the darker hair made them!

[Covet]

Off topic but... Jojo which mascara do you use? I want lashes like yours! :D

[Celebrian]

The darker my hair, the lighter my eyes appear. But my eye color is seen at it's most intense when the hair is a mid golden red- brown (deep green with tawny flecks and slight blue outer ring).

[faellen]

Nope, my eyes are always blue. Though the colour stood out more when my hair was red.

[rach]

me in most colours
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8284/7497051404_28bd8bf910_c.jpg

can't help thinking the henna evens out the warmth between eyes and hair

[Rain]

My eyes are cold, dark blue. They'll look brighter blue in certain lighting conditions and go more steely or more vivid in others. Doesn't matter what color my hair is, really. I've never been blonde but I've had black, blue-black, various shades of red, and my natural red-brown. They're always cold blue. This is one reason henna looks so very garish on me, really.

[Vanilla]

Red hair made my eyes look really dark blue and stand out. The blonde makes them look gray-green.

[auburntressed]

Does anyone else have an eye freckle? I have a pumpkin-orange one at the top of one of my irises.
By "eye freckle," do you mean segmented heterochromia, or do you mean a tiny spot, like a fleck? I have some copper flecking that looks like freckles, but nothing large enough to stand out.

[Venefica]

I have gray green eyes with amber specks, I do think that the green and the amber get more noticeable and pop more when my hair is dyed black then it did when my hair was it's natural golden blond, well now light brown.

[Rosetta]

I have gray green eyes with amber specks
Incredible, but that's my eye colour almost exactly!
Though I usually say it the other way round if I need to name my eye colour, i.e. green-grey (sounds more enticing :wink:), and my specks are a bit darker than amber, closer to light golden brown.

I also think that the green pops way more when my hair is red than with my natural (bleh) dark blonde, or any other shade of blonde (probably one reason why it's been some shade of red for about half of my life :wink:).

[jellycatty]

My friend's eye colour changes when her hair changes. She has hazel eyes and they sometimes look pure gold if she dyes her hair lighter.

[maborosi]

No my eyes (nor anyone elses') actually change color, but in different lighting, they look different. In some lighting, they look very dark, but in truth, I've got hazel eyes.

Aeriesfairies- that was an excellent demonstration of the effects of colors on each other. ^^

~maborosi~

[onlyforhim]

I have brown eyes so I only notice their color is more prominent with my dark brown hair ..but when it was colored with light brown it wasn't the same. Your eyes are beautiful by the way and I love greenish blueish eyes i think your eyes are hazel that's why they seem to change color

[1nuitblanche]

My eyes always look the same colour. They're brown. However, when my hair was blonde, they looked darker and when my hair is wet and looks black, my eyes look more amber.

[ladylowtide]

Copper hair -> orange eyes
Black hair -> blue hazel
Natural brown -> brown hazel
Red hair ->Mostly dark green
Pink hair -> dark brown
Platinum -> amber

And don't get me started on eye shadow, I just pop some purple around my eyes and every ones asks me if I have green color contracts in :roll eyes:

My eyes actually -> warm brown in the middle, green blue on the outside.

[OilPaint]

I've never dyed my hair, so I'm not sure how that coloring would affect the look of my eyes, but I have noticed that they look bluer when I'm not feeling well.

My eyes are confederate-grey. I used to have some gold-flecks but they seem to have blended near the center over the years and now seem more like a faint "halo" around the pupil.

My father has blue eyes with gold-flecks, and I always notice how strikingly blue they seem when he feels ill (although I don't notice the flecks then), also... not so striking when he's feeling well.

[Rain]

Nobody has mood eyes. If they seem to change color according to wellness, maybe the person's skin is flushed/less flushed than normal and the contrast affects appearance.

[OilPaint]

I know that they are not actually changing color with mood, and most likely it is due to slight changes in skin tone and corneal tone due to health and lighting. It' just a consistent observation about appearance about appearances. :)

[Ligeia_13]

Yeah, not me, brown eyes don't do that :p

[Jeno86]

I have darkish brown eyes. When I colored my hair black, my eyes looked almost black. Now that I've got back to my natural color (medium brown) my eyes actually look a nice lighter shade of brown.

[Gillian]

mine look much brighter green when my hair is darker. when its blonde they look more hazel

[Marcellaa]

No, my eyes are very dark brown and will always stay that way...

[luxepiggy]

My eyes don't, but my skin did! (^(oo)^)v

[Anywhere]

My eyes are hazel, but with my natural color they look a light yellowy brown. Now that I dyed my hair darker, they seem to be greenish yellowy brown, kind of like swamp mud or something.

[Amber_Maiden]

Sometimes... Though really they just stay the same odd green colour.

[Lady Neeva]

No matter what I do, they stay Dark Brown.

[FrannyG]

My eyes looked exactly the same when I tried the dark brown colour as they do today. Just a kind of greyish shade. But I like them. :)

Your eyes are gorgeous, Jojo! :inlove:

[jojo]

Off topic but... Jojo which mascara do you use? I want lashes like yours! :D
It's an Avon one, it has a purple end and you twist it to make lashes longer. My lashes are anaemic really and weird light brown with blonde tips, so I use blue black mascara but it's a nice mascara non clumpy

No my eyes (nor anyone elses') actually change color, but in different lighting, they look different. In some lighting, they look very dark, but in truth, I've got hazel eyes.

Aeriesfairies- that was an excellent demonstration of the effects of colors on each other. ^^

~maborosi~ yes agree!


I've never dyed my hair, so I'm not sure how that coloring would affect the look of my eyes, but I have noticed that they look bluer when I'm not feeling well.

My eyes are confederate-grey. I used to have some gold-flecks but they seem to have blended near the center over the years and now seem more like a faint "halo" around the pupil.

My father has blue eyes with gold-flecks, and I always notice how strikingly blue they seem when he feels ill (although I don't notice the flecks then), also... not so striking when he's feeling well. though have to agree with this too, my eyes go very blue when I've been crying, maybe that's the red eye affect making them brighter?


My eyes looked exactly the same when I tried the dark brown colour as they do today. Just a kind of greyish shade. But I like them. :)

Your eyes are gorgeous, Jojo! :inlove: aww thank you franny x x

[~honeyflower~]

When my hair is wet they look brownish- gold but when I have dry hair my amber eyes get brighter till it has a copper inner color and yellower gold in the outer, kind of cool. Hmm maybe I could use that as my picture they look really pretty.

[BrownEyedBeauty]

Years back I used to colour my hair a dark brown with auburn highlights. This never changed the shade/colour of my brown eyes. I had hoped for a bit of red as with the colour of red wine to flicker in my eyes but did not get that.

[gillybeanxo3921]

my eyes are brown, and I've noticed that the darker my hair is, the lighter my eyes look. When my hair is light, my eyes look almost black, but when my hair is dark, my eyes become a nice, rich, chocolate tone.

[CircesButterfly]

Yes, when I had colored my hair black my eyes turn brown. When I color my hair red, my hazel eyes tend to show more green in them and I do have days where my eyes are dark green and other days where my eyes are cat green. And I do have days where my eyes are light green in the middle with a dark green ring around them.

[MissBubble]

My eyes are hazel-light brown.
They are just like that with my natural hair color, light brown.
Now that I have red hair, they appear to be more green.
When I had black, or dark brown hair, my eyes were lighter and more yellowish.

[chen bao jun]

I never dyed my hair but I'm sure it would make my eyes appear a different color, since I have those 'hazel' eyes that do that anyway, according to the colors of clothing I wear or the light I'm in. People tell me I have cat eyes--they constantly shift between light yellowish brown and green and VERY green. But my hair has always been black.

[Weewah]

The only color changing I've noticed with my eyes is that in the winter they appear grey, and in the summer they're full on blue. I notice when I wear turquoise shirts it accentuates the blue in my eyes, and gold eyeshadow makes blue eyes pop.

[YamaMaya]

Nah, my eyes stay boring brown :lol:

[Johannah]

An interesting topic though. I got green eyes and when my hair gets blonder (read: in summer), my eyes pop more out. At least it looks that way :o

[HadessThera]

Mine do and it's the reason I prefer some colours over others, my eyes are constantly changing colour anyway though, from mood usually but also temperature etc :shrug:

[Quasiquixotic]

I'm exactly the same. Blue-ish when I'm blond. Piercing light green when I go darker. Which I intend to do post haste!

[SleepyTangles]

Interestingly enough, my chocolate brown irises turned really greenish when my hair was burgundy! Its funny, because they are solid brown, with an amber highlight in direct sunshine. No hint of green at all in normal conditions :confused:

[StickyMane]

My eyes are hazel. They look blue-green sometimes, then a bright medium green, then a mossy, dark green color. Then in some lighting my eyes look like a brownish color, it's truly bizarre and awesome. But when I really look at them using natural sunlight, they are a deep blue on the edges and a pale, mossy green towards the pupil with some darker splashes of green. I was outside with a friend and she looked at my eyes and was really surprised to notice that my eyes were green! She had no idea what color they were.. which is the case with most people. My eyes seem to be indistinguishable even when you look for a while at them. They just look dark, like there's always a shadow cast on them. I find it cool. When my twin sister was in middle school, her friend noticed her eyes (same color as mine of course) looked coppery red surrounding her pupils. Her hair was dark red back then, too. It's interesting that our eyes can be blue, green, and reddish/dark coppery color depending on the lighting.

[Weewah]

Double post wahh

[Weewah]

Blue clothes bring out the blue in my eyes. Turquoise is my favorite color to wear:) I've noticed too that my eyes will look Grey in the winter, and blue in spring/summer. Now that I think of it, the two times I had dark hair I did feel like my eyes popped more.

[MINAKO]

My eyes are very dark brown with an even darker greyish ring towards the outside of the iris, so almost black from a distance, but i like that. Not sure if a warmer haircolor would bring out warmer tones in my eyes, but that's not an option for me anyways. If i want an eyecolor change i pop in some contacts and i'm done. :)

[Simone_Fatale]

I used to be blonde for a while, and thought I didn't notice any notable difference in color, my eyes seemed much lighter with blonde hair, and my undereye circles also seemed much less visible. Since my natural hair color is warm, I guess it brings out the cool tones in my eyes, making them seem blue, but I can easily suppose that they would look much more greenish when paired with an ashy, cool hair color, as I have some yellow in my eyes too.

[Platzhalter]

Not really... but I think medium to dark grey is fairly neutral with very little potential to change.

[Biancachloe]

My eyes have always changed colour. When I was younger my eyes were grey, completely colourless. When I was about nine or ten the right half of my right eye went gold and while the other parts of my eyes would change from grey to green to blue. I find my eye colour is more depended on my mood for some reason. I find my eye colour also changes with the clothes I wear and hair colour, just more subtly. They look more green when my hair is redder or I wear purple.

[Begemot]

My eyes are mixed color so the overall appearance depends on light, colors surrounding my face etc. I remember thinking my eyes looked very blue when my hair was colored cool dark brown. With red and warm light brown hair they seem more green, sort of dark grey green.

[Nadine <3]

My eyes are very, very blue but I've been told sometimes they look grey, and someone once told me they looked purple.

[fiðrildi]

I have never dyed my hair, but my eyes do seem to change colour sometimes. I have some kind of heterochromy in my irises, they're a mix of grey, yellow, green, blue and orange. The mix of all colours together look green. But depending on the weather, the clothes I'm wearing, the light, they can look grey, bluish, yellowish. Darker, or very light. It's funny when people feel confused about it and ask if you're wearing contacts :laugh:

[arelrios]

My hair is almost black and I didn't notice a change in my eye color when I dyed it lighter...

I do, however, notice that it changes when: I wear contacts (as my eyes are more visible), after I cry (thank goodness not often) and with certain color of clothes...

My eyes are hazel/yellowish/greenish/brown.... depending on the day, the lighting, etc. :D

[Nightshade]

Nope. Gray is gray is gray XD

[Undomiel]

Against black hair my dark brown eyes -might- seem a little more amber-y... though it could also just be the lighting in photos. IRL though it looks the same to me!

[Bella-donna]

Colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel make each other stand out more, they're called complimentary colors. For example, red and green are complimentary colors, so if your hair is red it will make your green eyes seem brighter since they are opposites, and your green eyes will probably seem duller if your hair is for example, brown... same can go with any hair and eye colors. I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this before but I thought I'd share :)http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/316/9/9/color_wheel_by_dryadforestking-d32q8mx.png

[Nymphadora]

Colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel make each other stand out more, they're called complimentary colors. For example, red and green are complimentary colors, so if your hair is red it will make your green eyes seem brighter since they are opposites, and your green eyes will probably seem duller if your hair is for example, brown... same can go with any hair and eye colors. I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this before but I thought I'd share :)http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/316/9/9/color_wheel_by_dryadforestking-d32q8mx.png
Totally makes sense! Red hair makes my hazel eyes pop green!

[Candy88]

well, my eyes are brown but when I had my hair bleached, me eyes seemed a little darker

[Eraisuithiel]

My eyes shift between blue and grey. I find that my natural, un-super-washed hair, which is a richer brown, makes them seem more blue and my daily-washed, lighter hair makes them seem more grey. Clothes can change their look too, though.

[Remi]

I don't think mine do.

[mermaid lullaby]

:confused: naw!

[endlessly]

All. The. Time. It's pretty annoying. More than ever, though, my eyes tend to change depending on my eyeshadow. My eyes are grey (boring, right?), but frequently fluctuate between looking blue or green, sometimes even turquoise if I'm lucky. Brown colors will always pull out more of the blue tones, so since I am a natural brunette, I had people (myself included) deceived for the longest time until my eye doctor told me they were, in fact, grey. When I've had reddish hair, they always tend to look a bit more grey-green. And, depending on the eyeshadow of the day, I have the same results: brown = blue, purple/pink = green, turquoise/teal = dark blue/turquoise, green/gold = golden green, etc.

[swords & roses]

Yep. Good old chameleon hazel eyes. :) They change a bit depending on what color shirt I'm wearing, what eye shadow I'm wearing, and how the light is hitting. My eyes have even looked gold before! Dh has similar shifty chameleon hazel eyes. His venture from greenish gold to steely blue. Mine venture from greenish gold to full-on gold, and various shades of greenish brown.

[Islandgrrl]

My eyes are very green 100% of the time. They can appear more vivid if I wear certain colors, but they never waver from being very green.

[hannabiss]

For me..nope. i have the same dark specks as always. Very very dark brown eyes. Been blonde, brunette, pink, rainbow, red. Still nearly black specks.

[Jadestorm]

Wonder why this is? I thought it was just me that noticed it!

Though eye color can change a little (mainly due to illness), the fact that your eye color seems to change when you change your hair color has to do with the fact that color is relative.
Color is seen in relation to its surrounding colors. It's not the color of your eyes that changes when you change your hair color, you just perceive the color differently because of a nearby color that has changed. In this case your hair. You can also notice the same thing when you wear different colors of clothing. The same as how the color of your hair and your clothes change the way your skin color looks. It's not that your skin color all of a sudden changed its tone, its the proximity of another color that changes the way you see the color. It's a little more complicated than this, to explain the full color theory in all its aspects in detail you need an entire day, but I think you get the idea. :)

[parkmikii]

My eyes are always green. I think it can be a change of lighting or the contrast between the hair colour and the eye colour, nothing more

[spotsb4myiz]

I haven't changed my hair color however my eyes will brighten depending on the color I am wearing. Also the lighting has an effect on my eye coloring. My eyes are green without any blue flecks. Depending on the brightness of the light will determine how much of the inner iris is exposed. My inner iris is much lighter so my eyes will be light green in bright light and forest green or grey green in subdued light.

[Ingrid]

Eyes can also change because of health and diet.

I've got hazel eyes and it seems like there's no two days on which the colour looks the same :lol: When I used to dye my hair with henna, that definitely brought out the green in my eyes and made the middle of the iris look more reddish. With my natural hair colour my eyes look more blueish-green.

[Platzhalter]

Eyes can also change because of health and diet.

I've got hazel eyes and it seems like there's no two days on which the colour looks the same :lol: When I used to dye my hair with henna, that definitely brought out the green in my eyes and made the middle of the iris look more reddish. With my natural hair colour my eyes look more blueish-green.

Mind explaining this further for curious people like me?

[*ReiKa*]

I don't understand the question. Maybe the perception of your eyes colour can change if you change your hair colour, but your eyes colour can't change because you changed your hair colour.
Any colour can be perceived differently depending on the surrondings and lighting (especially lighting). So what happens is that you may perceive your eyes colour differently if you change your hair colour. That's only because you changed the combination of colours. Different pairings of colours give different perceptions of the single colours, they may darken/lighten each other, one may make the other one stand out or obscure it.
For example, I had light blond hair in the past and I think blonde hair made my eyes' green pop up more (not that it made my eyes greener, it just made the green of my eyes more noticeable.)
And the same happens with your skin, a dark hair colour may make your skin "paler" (just by peception), only because it plays a contrast, and the stronger the contrast between the colours the bolder the colours will look.

[reilly0167]

I have brown eyes..they not dark I guess alittle in the light side...but when my hair is either red or warm auburn they look lighter kinda makes them pop=)

[Ingrid]

Mind explaining this further for curious people like me?

I think *ReiKa* above explained the theory of colour combinations pretty well. So when you change the colour of your hair even though that doesn't cause your actual eye colour to change, it may appear to look different.

As for health and diet, just like skin and hair can change colour due to better/worse health and different nutrient intake, eyes can also gradually change colour, become clearer/less clear, and the iris fibre structures can also change. This tends to be more obvious in lighter eyes.

[diddiedaisy]

I have bluey green eyes, they don't look any different with different hair colour. However, when I have a drink they look just green, must be something in the alcohol, that or the combination with red lol

[Arctic]

I have eyes that have many colours. To me the overall colour is grey, although people seem to disagree with that sometimes. My colour is not blue, at most it's bluish-grey, then I have some light brown around the pupils, which makes my eyes look green at some lights/clothes. When I look at the iris really closely, there is quite a bit of that brown, but the overall look is not brown at all, far from it. Only one person in my whole life has called my eyes brown, which felt really weird. There is a darker grey ring around the pupils, which I think is what makes my eye colour appear grey to me.

I know how to manipulate my eyes to look more green, and I do like to do it. I just need something green around my face (clothes, eye shadow), and voila, green eyes. Khaki/olive green is the best.

In some lights my eyes look very intense/dark, and I love that. Anybody interested in seeing iris closeup photo? (lol)


(Also giggling to DiddieDaisy's red eyes :laugh:)

[diddiedaisy]

Yup, I'm interested in a pic lol

One of my boys tells me I have stripey eyes, green on the top, blue on the bottom. They don't look stripey though. I used to have grey in mine as well when I was young, but it seems to have disappeared. They would go blue, grey or green depending on my mood. I wish they still did that. As for my 4 boys, they have green, grey, chocolate brown and hazel. The hazel boy is interesting as they started out as a light brown but they are now getting an awful lot of green in them.

[Ingrid]

Totally, Arctic! Sounds so intriguing :)

[Platzhalter]

As for health and diet, just like skin and hair can change colour due to better/worse health and different nutrient intake, eyes can also gradually change colour, become clearer/less clear, and the iris fibre structures can also change. This tends to be more obvious in lighter eyes.

Thanks for explaining, because that was the part that left me a bit confused.

[Ingrid]

Thanks for explaining, because that was the part that left me a bit confused.

No problems at all! My English is not the best so it's difficult to express what I'm trying to say :)

[Platzhalter]

No problems at all! My English is not the best so it's difficult to express what I'm trying to say :)

Hey... it was more than good enough for me to understand, and that's what matters ;)

[Arctic]

I have eyes that have many colours. To me the overall colour is grey, although people seem to disagree with that sometimes. My colour is not blue, at most it's bluish-grey, then I have some light brown around the pupils, which makes my eyes look green at some lights/clothes. When I look at the iris really closely, there is quite a bit of that brown, but the overall look is not brown at all, far from it. Only one person in my whole life has called my eyes brown, which felt really weird. There is a darker grey ring around the pupils, which I think is what makes my eye colour appear grey to me.

I know how to manipulate my eyes to look more green, and I do like to do it. I just need something green around my face (clothes, eye shadow), and voila, green eyes. Khaki/olive green is the best.

In some lights my eyes look very intense/dark, and I love that. Anybody interested in seeing iris closeup photo? (lol)


(Also giggling to DiddieDaisy's red eyes :laugh:)


Yup, I'm interested in a pic lol

One of my boys tells me I have stripey eyes, green on the top, blue on the bottom. They don't look stripey though. I used to have grey in mine as well when I was young, but it seems to have disappeared. They would go blue, grey or green depending on my mood. I wish they still did that. As for my 4 boys, they have green, grey, chocolate brown and hazel. The hazel boy is interesting as they started out as a light brown but they are now getting an awful lot of green in them.


Totally, Arctic! Sounds so intriguing :)


Thanks to you both, I posted some eye close up photos in my blog: http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/entry.php?b=124058

Hmm, I think there once was a thread dedicated to eye photos, it was very cool thread!

[diddiedaisy]

arctic, love the pics, your eyes are a lovely colour. I must admit though I'm not quite sure what colour I'd call your eyes lol

As for the TSH tests, in the uk they only test some of the numbers, if you understand what I mean. They don't do a fully comprehensive thyroid test. My dietician wrote back to my doctor and requested he test the other numbers but he wouldn't. My normal test had come back ok but the dietician still thought i had some kind of thyroid problem. I suppose really I should pay privately for it and maybe I will at some point. The point being is make sure you have all the thyroid numbers tested.

[sommer]

This may seem like a strange question but when my hair was dyed dark my eyes looked more green and now I'm back to being lighter my eyes have gone back to being blue.

Am I strange or does anybody else notice this too?

It's not just me either other people have commented on it, take this photo that you have all sen before I'm sure but my eyes are more green than blue in it http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l283/joanna_eglin/34008_438368025782_549665782_6199046_2676926_n.jpg my recent photo is my avatar and it's also my profile photo.

Such an interesting topic, can't not to bump it! :) I've never heard about such changings in case of eyes, I noticed only that the general impression of my face and eyebrows change when I experiment with different colours :) I think that every colour creates somelike an optical illusion for the eye colour, that's why some colours aren't good for the certain people... Also I remember how lighter looked my eyes when I tried the bright colours like here on some pics http://stylemann.com/best-hair-color-ideas/, such types of shade can make you look a bit younger too :o

[Zebra Fish]

I have green-brown eye, brown just a lil bit around the pupil. When I had MP vampire red, so dark red, my eyes looked almost emerald green sometimes and I had lots of people that knwo me for years stop me and say they never notices I had green eyes. When I was lighter orange/red (henna cassia mix), my eyes looked brownish.

[lithostoic]

My eyes are blue but a few people have called them green. They look green from the side. My mom's eyes started out blue and turned green in adulthood, I think mine may be following the same path. I'm also getting more freckles in my eyes, like she has.

When my hair was dark auburn, my eyes looked very blue. With my natural ashy/neutral blonette shade, they can almost look silver! I love it. Can't wait for fully virgin hair.