Multi-colored eyes

[browneyes106]

Heterochromia used for the condition. I have known a couple of people with it. My boyfriend's sister has one hazel eye and one brown eye but in pictures both her eyes look brown. The other person I knew was a girl who I played youth softball with one eye was blue and the other was green.

 

[indimom]

I've got those "chameleon eyes." If you look at them close up, there's a ring of greenish-gold around the pupil, then they're a mix of green-blue-grey, then a ring of dark blue. They seem to change colors depending on what I'm wearing and what color my hair is.

If you ask my mother what color my eyes are, she'll tell you, "Heck if I know..." (ETA: She just walked in the room, I asked her...and that was exactly her answer )

Are you sure you aren't adopted? You sound like my long-lost sister. My family's eyes are like this. Sometimes blue, sometimes green, sometimes grey. They color I am wearing can really change how they look. My sister got the dark blue ring around the same color, so hers are always considered blue, but it's still green-blue-grey.
My hubby has brown eyes and I wanted a brown-eyed baby soooo bad. DD has very blue eyes. DS started blue, then started to change, first a brown spot in the lower part of the left eye, then spreading until they were all brown. I was soooo excited and it was fun to watch as it slowly spread through his eyes over the course of months.

 

[Magpie]

I didn't know eyes weren't supposed to have at least a couple different colours! My whole family is like this, with some bluer and some greener or grayer.

My eyes have a dark blue-gray circle around the outside with stripey/blotchy brown-green inside all around the black pupil.

Whenever I have to write in eye color, I usually write "hazel" or "gray" or sometimes "green" if I feel like it.

 

[tlbwriter]

I'd love to see pics of some of these multicolored eyes! I've known people with two different colored eyes, but never anyone with two different colors within one eye.

 

[Donaldswife]

I've got those "chameleon eyes." If you look at them close up, there's a ring of greenish-gold around the pupil, then they're a mix of green-blue-grey, then a ring of dark blue. They seem to change colors depending on what I'm wearing and what color my hair is.

If you ask my mother what color my eyes are, she'll tell you, "Heck if I know..." (ETA: She just walked in the room, I asked her...and that was exactly her answer )

I have those eyes too. My husband likes to look at my eyes and see what color are that day.

 

[MarilIncredible]

I had a friend in law school who had one blue eye and one brown eye. Her nickname was Husky.

 

[Acklander]

DS10 has blue/brown/green/gold combo. The shade depends on lighting/and what he's wearing. I have blue eyes, DH has brown eyes (though his dad had blue eyes) so it looks like DS couldn't make up his mind on which eye color he wanted

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

My eyes are a bluish-gray most of the time, but when my pupils fully restrict, you can see bright green around it. It turned yellow when I wore my green contacts.

 

[aaarcher86]

Kate Bosworth has a multi-colored eye. I think it's green/brown.

 

[Magpie]

Heterochromia is (generally) having two different coloured eyes.

If it's just a blotch of colour it's Sectoral Heterochromia.

Central Heterochromia is having different colours inside the same eye, usually in rings.

If you Google any of these terms you can see lots of pics of all types.

My eyes look something like this person's, only with a much, much darker outer circle (it's light gray in the picture, but mine is sharply defined and dark gray/black). The middle is pretty much the same, though. Maybe a bit more green than blue.

This thread has been so educational! I thought practically everyone had eyes like this!

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

My eyes are brown around the pupil and olive green around the brown. Overall the impression is brown, but when my pupils are large you can definitely see the green.

My eyes are green and have brown rings around them.

My brother's girlfriend has one blue eye and one green. It's crazy but neat, too.

My sister's eyes are the same way.

 

[vettechick99]

DH and DD have the most amazing eyes - like the kind that Magpie posted. DH has clear blue eyes with yellow around the pupil.

DD3 eyes aren't quite as blue and they have green in them. They are also yellow around the pupil. But she also has a line of brown going from the pupil down to the whites on her left eye. We noticed that when she was born. It stayed brown and the rest of the eye got lighter as she grew older.

I'm so super jealous of light colored or unique eyes. Maybe because mine are so boring!

 

[Kathi OD]

Guess it isn't that rare at all. DH has green eyes flecked w/ brown. My grandmother had one grey eye and one brown eye. Now that was weird looking.

 

[Mommee]

Ok, I wasn't talking about the flecks in the eyes, I thought that was normal.

This isn't the best picture, but the only one I have without hunting down dd. The spot doesn't look as big as it does in person-it gets lighter as it goes out and then disappears.

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[vettechick99]

Ok, I wasn't talking about the flecks in the eyes, I thought that was normal.

This isn't the best picture, but the only one I have without hunting down dd. The spot doesn't look as big as it does in person-it gets lighter as it goes out and then disappears.

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My boss has that. Quite a big line of brown.

DD has it in that picture I posted above - though not quite as thick.

 

[Magpie]

Ok, I wasn't talking about the flecks in the eyes, I thought that was normal.

This isn't the best picture, but the only one I have without hunting down dd. The spot doesn't look as big as it does in person-it gets lighter as it goes out and then disappears.

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Look up "sectoral heterochromia" and you'll see lots of pics of people with similar eyes. Your daughter has a little something special!

 

[FormrCastMbr]

I have green eyes with several specs of brown...my youngest son has brown eyes and about 1/3 of one is a darker brown. It has faded a lot but still there (he is 18 months).

 

[Promomx2]

DD has different color eyes. Someone told her Cher has the same. I never looked it up. No special powers here, but I swear she has something that messes up electronics. She's gone through computers, radios, cell phones. Around our house if there is anything electronic messed up we ask her if she's messed with it. She's pregnant now so I'm curious if she passes it to her son.

 

[EMom]

Heterochromia is (generally) having two different coloured eyes.

If it's just a blotch of colour it's Sectoral Heterochromia.

Central Heterochromia is having different colours inside the same eye, usually in rings.

If you Google any of these terms you can see lots of pics of all types.

My eyes look something like this person's, only with a much, much darker outer circle (it's light gray in the picture, but mine is sharply defined and dark gray/black). The middle is pretty much the same, though. Maybe a bit more green than blue.

This thread has been so educational! I thought practically everyone had eyes like this!

The wiki article indicted that if you have central heterochromia, the "real" color of your eyes is the color of the outer ring......Meaning my eyes, which appear green, are actually blue. My father's eyes were blue and my mother's were amber-ish. The family is chock full of blue eyed folks, but as far as I know, I'm the only one who had the center of my eyes go green. Until DD, that is.

My DH has those funky amber eyes too, although they're different from my mother's. Hers were more of a green brown, while his look like a lion's. Brown-golden. Strange color. A hint of green. I always wondered what our bio kids would have looked like, since he has a lot of blue eyed family members as well. Would they have gotten our fathers' blue eyes? Amber eyes like my mother and DH? Green like mine.....the oddity in the family? Who knows.....

 

[Mommee]

Look up "sectoral heterochromia" and you'll see lots of pics of people with similar eyes. Your daughter has a little something special!

Thank you so much. You don't know how much that just helped me. My other dd is going to a pediatric geneticist in a few weeks. Apparently sectoral heterochromia appears commonly with Waardenburg Syndrome. Other dd has several characteristics of this-white hair, a flattened nasal bridge, and bilateral ptosis. My mom is deaf, one of her siblings and my grandpa have hearing loss, and both her and my grandpa had premature graying. I never thought my little one's eye structure problems could be connected to other dd's strange eye color, but now I'll know to mention this to the geneticist. Even if it's not this, it could still be important.