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My first post, but I've been lurking for ages. Decided to make a few posts, so I had an account approved.
Eye color is determined by two pigments: EUMELANIN and PHEOMELANIN
These contribute to the phenomenon of colored eyes, found throughout the world wherever Indo-Europeans travelled. However, it's mostly been bred out or killed off everywhere except Europe.
You will occasionally find colored eyes in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Northern India. But it's incredibly rare, and often limited to small, insular families or ethnic groups.
EUMELANIN is the predominant coloring present in almost the entire world population. In large quantities, it leads to brown-black eyes.
In a study categorizing the color of eyes relative to amounts of eumelanin and pheomelanin, brown and black eyes were found to always be the result of dominant eumelanin coloring.
View attachment 2045766
(Red - categorized as brown eyes)
PHEOMELANIN is the other pigment, yellowish-red in appearance. In hair, it leads to blonde and red coloring. Due to light scattering in eyes, however, alone it takes on a greenish tint. Found throughout Europe, but only really common in the Atlantic regions and Russia.
In the study:
(Obviously, green = green eyes)
However, when there is a near-lack of either eumelanin or pheomelanin, blue eyes result:
And when there is a complete lack of any pigment whatsoever, gray eyes result:
View attachment grayeyes.webp
Both are located here:
However, there are actually not many people with "pure" color, a relatively even amount of pigment throughout the entire iris. Often, there are people with multiple distinct colors. For those in between, we call it hazel:
(this one has both blue and green but no brown)
And, actually, there is one more distinct eye color I'd like to mention: Amber eyes. Some copers might think their light brown eyes qualify, but amber eyes are distinct because they have extremely even coloring, an almost golden color. The telltale sign to differentiate it from light brown is the yellow, reddish tint. Often pops up in the Middle East for some reason.
View attachment ambereyes.webp
I would guess that it's similar to hazel eyes, occupying the same space as them on the color chart. Brown eyes with heavy pheomelanin coverage. I'm putting it up as distinct because it's so rare and good looking, it haloes extremely hard and can sometimes be as light as green or blue eyes. Most people have never seen true amber eyes, only light brown copers in sunlight.
Now, let's do a ranking of which eye colors look best:
1. Light Blue/Green/Amber eyes
Green and amber eyes are far more rare than blue eyes, and light versions even rarer. That halo elevates them, but frankly there is no equivalent to A10-tier blue eyes in either of the others. This averages them out to the same ranking.
2. Light Brown/Hazel eyes, Regular Blue/Green/Amber eyes
Extremely common in Europe. The "regular" means that it's not light enough to halo, but not dark enough that you can't tell the color, either. Outside Europe though, Hazel and colored eyes probably rank above brown even if they're darker.
3. Dark Brown/Blue Eyes
These are eyes in which you can barely tell the color at all. For a clarification on how "dark" I mean:
4. Black Eyes
Just plain ugly, though I'm probably biased because I'm used to colored eyes. In east/south asia and africa, 95%+ of the population has this eye color, so definitely not a failo there.
Try colored contacts, if you don't care about being potentially outed. The typical ones people try are 9mmsfx, Anesthesia, and Solotica.
Some people have also looked into the laser procedures for directly changing the eye color. HOWEVER - this seems to produce pretty much the exact same result of uncanny gray eyes every single time, is incredibly expensive, and may or may not be a total fraud half the time. I won't link any because I'm not sure which are legit.
Lastly, there's iris replacement. DO NOT do this. You're gonna go blind, dumbass, and it doesn't even look good.
Eye color is determined by two pigments: EUMELANIN and PHEOMELANIN
These contribute to the phenomenon of colored eyes, found throughout the world wherever Indo-Europeans travelled. However, it's mostly been bred out or killed off everywhere except Europe.
You will occasionally find colored eyes in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Northern India. But it's incredibly rare, and often limited to small, insular families or ethnic groups.
EUMELANIN is the predominant coloring present in almost the entire world population. In large quantities, it leads to brown-black eyes.
In a study categorizing the color of eyes relative to amounts of eumelanin and pheomelanin, brown and black eyes were found to always be the result of dominant eumelanin coloring.
View attachment 2045766
(Red - categorized as brown eyes)
PHEOMELANIN is the other pigment, yellowish-red in appearance. In hair, it leads to blonde and red coloring. Due to light scattering in eyes, however, alone it takes on a greenish tint. Found throughout Europe, but only really common in the Atlantic regions and Russia.
In the study:
(Obviously, green = green eyes)
However, when there is a near-lack of either eumelanin or pheomelanin, blue eyes result:
And when there is a complete lack of any pigment whatsoever, gray eyes result:
View attachment grayeyes.webp
Both are located here:
However, there are actually not many people with "pure" color, a relatively even amount of pigment throughout the entire iris. Often, there are people with multiple distinct colors. For those in between, we call it hazel:
(this one has both blue and green but no brown)
And, actually, there is one more distinct eye color I'd like to mention: Amber eyes. Some copers might think their light brown eyes qualify, but amber eyes are distinct because they have extremely even coloring, an almost golden color. The telltale sign to differentiate it from light brown is the yellow, reddish tint. Often pops up in the Middle East for some reason.
View attachment ambereyes.webp
I would guess that it's similar to hazel eyes, occupying the same space as them on the color chart. Brown eyes with heavy pheomelanin coverage. I'm putting it up as distinct because it's so rare and good looking, it haloes extremely hard and can sometimes be as light as green or blue eyes. Most people have never seen true amber eyes, only light brown copers in sunlight.
Now, let's do a ranking of which eye colors look best:
1. Light Blue/Green/Amber eyes
Green and amber eyes are far more rare than blue eyes, and light versions even rarer. That halo elevates them, but frankly there is no equivalent to A10-tier blue eyes in either of the others. This averages them out to the same ranking.
2. Light Brown/Hazel eyes, Regular Blue/Green/Amber eyes
Extremely common in Europe. The "regular" means that it's not light enough to halo, but not dark enough that you can't tell the color, either. Outside Europe though, Hazel and colored eyes probably rank above brown even if they're darker.
3. Dark Brown/Blue Eyes
These are eyes in which you can barely tell the color at all. For a clarification on how "dark" I mean:
4. Black Eyes
Just plain ugly, though I'm probably biased because I'm used to colored eyes. In east/south asia and africa, 95%+ of the population has this eye color, so definitely not a failo there.
Try colored contacts, if you don't care about being potentially outed. The typical ones people try are 9mmsfx, Anesthesia, and Solotica.
Some people have also looked into the laser procedures for directly changing the eye color. HOWEVER - this seems to produce pretty much the exact same result of uncanny gray eyes every single time, is incredibly expensive, and may or may not be a total fraud half the time. I won't link any because I'm not sure which are legit.
Lastly, there's iris replacement. DO NOT do this. You're gonna go blind, dumbass, and it doesn't even look good.
