10-12-17 Today I Learned
9This is a very random topic, and I’m late to post, who else can you blame besides the goat.
I have blue eyes. It’s never been a special thing to me like a lot of people make it out to be. I guess because it’s so common where I was born. I would actually get a little jealous of people that have really bright blue eyes because mine look more grey sometimes. The inner part of my iris is actually kind of yellow. Sometimes people think I have green eyes. If I wear a green shirt, they tend to look more green. I decided to look this up and found out that it might be a thing called central heterochromia. I had no idea that was a thing. I always thought of heterochromia as two entirely differently colored eyes, or the one eye would be randomly two different colors in splotches. I figured since both of my eyes are the same, it was just a normal thing. Apparently it’s not that common, so that’s cool. My dog has heterochromia… But it’s not very distinct. She just has two different shades of gold eyes. No one notices.
Looking up photos of heterochromia, I feel a twinge of jealousy again. There are so many people with central heterochromia that have a very distinct different color from the inside to the outside. I was looking at photos of my eyes, and you can barely even tell in the pictures. It’s definitely a lot more noticeable in person. Maybe I don’t have it after all. Haha. At least it’s interesting to read about, to me anyway.
Here’s a random photo that shows the lack of difference in my eyes:
Here’s an article that shows photos of the different types of heterochromia.
https://owlcation.com/stem/Heterochromia-Iridum-People-with-two-different-colored-eyes
Do you have heterochromia or know anyone with it?
Do you ever feel jealous over things that we are born with like the color of our eyes or hair? Do you wear colored contacts or dye your hair because of this?
Tonight’s musical selection:
Motionless In White
I burned a CD from them called Graveyard Shift. Highly appropriate for this month. I was hooked from the first song. How have I not heard of them until now?
Rats
When this song started, I actually went and looked to see if this was the same singer from Orgy. I actually found a review that said this band was as if Orgy kept playing music and evolved into the current day.
Eternally Yours
It has a chick in lingerie and heels writhing around in a casket. Just for you @mfladd.
Necessary Evil
I love the take on Its My Party.
Seeing as this gave me vibes from Orgy, here’s a few songs by them.
Blue Monday
The cover that everyone should recognize even if they don’t remember who the fuck Orgy is.
Stitches
Man… This really brings back high school vibes. The makeup and hair, wow.
Fiction (Dreams in Digital)
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Hmm And here I just called my sectoral heterochromia a brown spot in my eye. My brother once told me I was marked for life and couldn’t be a bank robber because they’d catch me too easily with that. I told him not if I wore an eye patch during the robbery. We were 7 and 9 at the time. (PS I have not yet tested that theory).
Right eye
Left eye
and like you hard to tell what color my eyes actually are as, like you, it depends on what I wear. Not as blue as my dad and siblings, not greenish/gray like my mom. Never know what color to put on driver’s licenses. The line across both are my glasses frames.
@Kidsandliz pretty cool! I’d probably put blue on my license unless they had an option for more than one color.
@RiotDemon Yeah but when up against other family members they clearly aren’t that blue. Only sort of blue. And sort of green, and sort of gray.
@Kidsandliz
/image shades of blue
@RiotDemon You need a color chart for somewhat changing shades LOL
@RiotDemon Actually looking carefully at both eyes in a mirror - something I haven’t done in ages - I also have mild (narrow) Central heterochromia too (also yellowish brown). And there is a green overlay over the blue. You can’t really see it in the photos I posted cuz the resolution is crap, they are snap shotted out of an already small photo and sort of washed out but that also contributes to why I can’t figure out what color to call my eyes.
Hummm… does this give us any super powers or anything having this?
@Kidsandliz
It’s been my experience that all girls have super powers.
Fortunately, only a very few abuse those powers.
Huh. Your link was an interesting read. When I was young, my eyes were just called hazel, but then, I had an ophthalmologist who said they were a striking example of mumble, and I now realize he’d said “Central Heterochromia” (I remembered the Central bit). My eyes are very like the one in the photograph, but more jade green than the olive green shown here. The yellow is also more pronounced.
…and no, I’m not providing a photo of my eyes. I probably won’t be providing a photo of my house keys, either. Yeah, I have rampant paranoia; so it goes.
@Shrdlu I guess one day I’ll have to be worried that someone will steal my eye photo and use it to unlock a security system of some kind!
Your eyes sound awesome
@Shrdlu I was born with pretty dark brown eyes that slowly sorta changed green over time. Based on the above, I guess I’m hazel now? Should I change driver’s license?
I figure this is blurry enough nobody can identity thieve me.
Edit: My child has blue eyes with a little brown in the middle of one. It’ll be interesting to see if that changes over time.
@RiotDemon The direct shot that would be necessary to show the color gradation would also be enough to use for an Iris scanner, and I’ve been scanned (for identification) enough times that I don’t think I’d be comfortable sharing that. Besides, I am paranoid.
Then again, we’re all a little crazy.
I may post a photo of my eye later if I figure out how to take one. I call my eye color hazel, it ranges from a pale honey color to green depending on my mood and attire. I have long curly red hair and fair skin with a million freckles. One of the downsides is almost insible eyebrows. The upside is invisible and near non-existent body hair. I’ve always been jealous of people with straight dark hair and clear skin. I tend to favor darker complexions. I’m happy with my eye color, I’ve never met anyone with quite the same color. I’m satisfied with my overall coloring, it’s a clear reflection my Gaelic roots, which I’m fond of.
Another factoid - “they” figured out that all of us with blue eyes had one common ancestor. We are mutants. LOL Hey cousins! When and where is the reunion?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm
@Kidsandliz Neat. My kidlet and brother have blue eyes, so I likely have the blue recessive gene. Can I come?
@medz Open to all. Food is pot luck.
Are those your eyes!?!?! Holy Shit!
And loving the liner!
These must be appreciated. Pinging @2many2no
@mfladd This whole thread was just to show us that her eye makeup game is on fleek.
@mfladd yes, they are mine.
@medz lol, right. That’s why.
I actually hardly ever wear makeup, so when I do, it takes a while.
@mfladd @RiotDemon
I saw those eyes and I could tell they were trying to draw me in.
I was afraid, so I scrolled by quickly! (Very nice, though.)
@2many2no my eyes were trying to do no such thing, lol
Motionless in White has been through town here a few times, but I don’t remember the level of weirdness that is in the videos. I’m impressed, great vocals and guitar. And you can check with @mfladd, but I think the girl on fire was hotter (?) than the girl in the casket.
Since I jumped the gun (due to no fault of my own
) I’m gonna link to Texas music here.
My eyes are hazel, but you made me look.
@2many2no “Hazel eyes have a higher concentration of melanin (pigment) around the eye’s border, which can result in a multi-colored appearance that varies between copper and green depending on the lighting. Most people estimate that around 5-8% of the world’s population has hazel colored eyes.” So we are part of a small minority.
@2many2no Agreed. The girl on fire is hotter, but neither one was exactly lighting my wick.
I only have dark brown eyes (boring…yawn)
@mfladd then you aren’t related to me LOL
@mfladd I tried, oh well.
@RiotDemon
@mfladd She got that low growl goin’ on.
Mine were very blue until I used latisse. Now they’re grayish blue. One of my besties has one green eye and one brown eye.
@lseeber when I saw that latisse could change your eye color, I was all, wtf, get away.
@RiotDemon Yeah… at the time I tried it they weren’t sure of it but yep… it did. It really works on the lashes tho, I’ll tell ya that. But if you have blue eyes and want them to stay blue… don’t touch the stuff.