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I was looking for information on an actor when I stumbled on their Wikipedia page and at the bottom it said he had heterochromia. What’s heterochromia? Well when I visited the page for heterochromia I found out that complete heterochromia, is when one iris is a different color from the other. In partial heterochromia or sectoral heterochromia, part of one iris is a different color from its remainder.

Animals display this condition which is frequently seen in white cats. Siberian huskey’s typically display complete heterochromia where one eye is blue and the other brown.

Many famous people have heterochromia and as you read this sentence I’m sure David Bowie’s name popped into your heads…see…not true both of his eyes are blue they only seem like a different color due to the fact that one of his pupils is permanently dialated. Heterochromia is also the reason that Elizabeth Taylor's eyes appear to be lavendar. No ones eyes are purple it’s just the mixture of colors that produce that beautiful effect. There are three true colors in the eyes that determine the outward appearance; brown, yellow, and grey. How much of each colour an individual has determines the appearance of his or her eye colour. Eyes displaying central heterochromia are often referred to as "cat eyes" because of the appearance of a multi-coloured iris.

That brings me to the point of this discourse and that is that I too have central heterochromia. My eyes are blue but the iris is surrounded by a greenish yellow ring. That’s a picture of my eye up there. No I don’t want to hear that I need to wax my brow or that I need to have an eyelid tuck or that the skin is beginning to look a little crepe-y. I already know these things but I did photoshop the bloodshot blearyness just to spare you the reader. Now you and I both know the reason behind my unusual eye color and the discovery that it’s the only hetero thing about me.

10 comments:

  1. Cool!
    I had no idea. I've learned a lot.

    I guess I'm just a big old homo(chromia) here, since both of mine are hazel.

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  2. My best girl does have two different coloured eyes. I actually knew her for about 6 months before I realized it.

    As for your laundry list of "improvements" you're just being silly.

    "...apply one great stroke of Mascara to your rather limp upper lash."

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  3. I do use clear gloss mascara occasionally when getting gussied up to go out on the town but no I’m happy with the way I’m aging.

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  4. Me, too!!!! Well sometimes. My eyes really do change colors...naturally.
    Most of the time, the color arouns the pupil is hazel and then a rather odd shade of blue. Now that I think about it, they may just look like an odd shade of blue because of the hazel inside. How cool.

    BTW, you have a beautiful eye.

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  5. My sister had different coloured eyes too. 1 blue 1 hazel, I only found out about her amazing eyes when I was in my early 20s, it came as such a shock I never quite looked at her in the same way again.

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  6. Your eyes are lovely. And MIss J's not just sayin' that cuz hers are similar.

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  7. My eyes appear to be a permanent shade of red...wonder what causes that?

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  8. Such lovely eyes! I wish I could wear colored contacts to switch things up now and then, but alas, 't'would look horribly artificial. I don't care if Kristi Yamaguchi WAS spokesperson for those colored contacts.

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  9. Darling! I to have that same greenish yellow (or "olive gold" as I prefer to think of it) ring! BFF! Separated at birth! Freak!

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  10. Jane Seymour has one brown and one green eye.

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