I knew a girl whose eyes were brown by the time she was two, and then faded to light grey-green by the time she was twelve (I also knew someone with triangular pupils, but that's a different kind of cat). My mom had blue eyes, so did my dad, and I have no doubt that when I was little my eyes were much more blue than they were when I hit my late teens. By then they were grey most often. If I wore certain shades of blue you could have called them blue, but they weren't. StY has always had blue, blue eyes like his dad. And StE had grey eyes when he was little. By his early teens they were grey-green. On overcast days, when he wore certain colors, they were a brilliant seafoam green--never emerald, just a pale olive-y green.
I've known hazel-eyed people who, depending on how sunny or overcast the day, and what colors they might be wearing, their eyes would look brown, grey, blue, or green. Light's a funny thing; refracted through the semiliquid of the eyeball's lens, it can affect the perceived color of the iris. Brown-eyed folk seem most impervious to the effect, though.
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Date: 2012-06-02 07:02 am (UTC)I've known hazel-eyed people who, depending on how sunny or overcast the day, and what colors they might be wearing, their eyes would look brown, grey, blue, or green.
Light's a funny thing; refracted through the semiliquid of the eyeball's lens, it can affect the perceived color of the iris. Brown-eyed folk seem most impervious to the effect, though.
...Sorry, what was the question, again?