Blue eye color is considered the standard of beauty in many countries, and this is not surprising - this color is truly incredibly beautiful. People with blue eyes live in the northern parts of our planet, and in the southern parts, people have brown eye color. It's all about melanin, which is much more abundant in brown eyes - it can protect from the scorching sun. What do blue eyes mean, besides biological features?
The meaning of blue eyes
Blue eyes belong to the cold range. It is believed that the colder the color of the eyes, the colder the person’s heart. Blue-eyed people can be cruel. They can be quick-tempered and irritable, but this always relates to a certain situation or in relation to a certain person.
They often have hidden romance and sentimentality inside them, which they carefully try to hide from everyone. In childhood and adolescence, such people often dreamed of princes and princesses, and many attempts by their peers to court them were not taken into account, since they were far from being princes.
Rarely do blue-eyed people manage to maintain consistency in their emotions. Often, when interacting with such people, you don’t know what to expect from them: at a fun holiday, they may become sad and ruin everyone’s mood, sometimes they get irritated for no reason. Impulsive behavior is one of the main disadvantages of blue-eyed people. But when common sense and logic take precedence over emotions, a person with blue eyes makes the right and extraordinary decisions.
In general, blue-eyed people constantly crave change; they are not attracted to a monotonous, monotonous life. They quickly adapt to everything and navigate many issues.
But vigorous activity also depends on their mood: they can quickly complete any complex task, or they can be lazy all day without getting out of bed.
Blue-eyed people are creators. They often have original talents, their intelligence is higher than that of representatives with other eye colors.
Often, when a person with blue eyes has some exciting idea, it seems that he is ready to soar over the world to implement it. This is true. They are ready to do anything to achieve their goal.
And it’s not just about stubbornness, which is undoubtedly inherent in them. Blue-eyed people do not receive, nor do they expect, gifts from fate. They don't win the lottery, they don't have the necessary influential acquaintances. They achieve everything themselves.
Stubbornness in communication is not uncommon for blue-eyed people. Even if the interlocutor knows that he is right, he agrees with the blue-eyed person because he has leadership qualities and is able to persuade.
Blue-eyed people are touchy, and they get offended even over trifles. They are vulnerable and very sensitive, so they cannot forgive a traitor and offender for a long time. If someone is hated, then it is to be hated seriously and for a long time. Let them forgive the offender later, but they will never forget this situation.
Although they themselves may show tears, for example, when watching a movie, they do not react to the tears of others. It is difficult to pity them on purpose.
It is believed that people with blue eyes are ruled by the element of air. They are also constantly changing: sometimes they are kind and calm, it is pleasant to communicate with them, and sometimes they get irritated and destroy everything in their path, like a raging sky.
Interesting Facts
All children are born with blue eyes. Over time, the baby's eye color takes on a different shade, but as they get older, the eye color becomes lighter.
Blue eyes didn't always exist. There is information that the first person with blue eyes appeared about 10,000 years ago. He had a mutation in his iris, as a result of which it became blue. All other blue-eyed people come from him.
Colorblindness is more common in blue-eyed people.
All people are actually blue-eyed. Only this pigment in some people - brown-eyed or green-eyed - is hidden under a layer of the main color. This fact was established during a study during which the top layer of the iris was removed using a laser. Everyone's bottom one turned out to be blue!
99% of Estonian residents have blue eyes.
Blue-eyed people are considered to have a high level of intelligence. Just remember Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking.
Blue eyes in women
Girls with blue eyes love to be the center of male attention, flirt, make advances towards them, but forget that they can hurt other people. Often they do not think about the feelings of others at all.
Girls with blue eyes, who in their youth wanted a prince on a white horse from a fairy tale, change their priorities as they grow up and use logic when choosing a life partner.
Blue-eyed girls are kind and many can take advantage of this. If they discover that someone is not sincere towards them, the consequences are inevitable. They never forget traitors.
Shades
Grey-blue eyes
If your eyes have gray shades, this indicates a desire for freedom. It is difficult for such people to exist in conditions of isolation and subordination. This can make them depressed and even aggressive.
These people also like to surprise everyone, set unusual goals for themselves and persistently pursue them. Their only drawback is excessive kindness and gullibility, which other people can take advantage of. However, even if they get burned along their path in life, they do not lose faith in all the good things that exist in people.
Blue eyes in men
Men with blue eyes essentially remain children for life, since while a girl is forgiven for her whims and frequent mood swings, men with a changeable disposition are considered unreliable.
If a blue-eyed young man finds his beloved woman early, he will remain a monogamous man for the rest of his life. Although there are exceptions - rather flighty men with blue eyes.
Blue-eyed men become responsible workers, successful people, but in order to build a career and achieve high goals, they go through a long and difficult path, on which it is often not they themselves who suffer, but their loved ones.
Influence on a person's character
There is a belief that blue-eyed people are cold individuals, just like the color of their eyes. And this is partly true - these people can even be cruel, but it all depends on the specific situation, blue-eyed people are not cruel for no reason. Inside, these are romantic and sentimental people who try in every possible way to hide this feature from others. In general, these people are characterized by emotional instability - it is difficult to predict how a blue-eyed person will react to this or that circumstance; their mood changes, like the weather by the sea.
Blue-eyed people are very smart and often make extraordinary decisions. Nature has endowed them with wonderful talents, especially creative and mental. To achieve their goal, these people will do anything, and on their own - they are not often lucky, they do not have the necessary connections, only their own mind and stubborn character.
Under the influence of their mood, blue-eyed people often ruin their plans and can lie in bed all day due to a “lack of inspiration.” If a crazy idea has overwhelmed them, they will disappear from all radars until they realize their cherished dream.
In love, these people are very prudent, rarely plunge into the pool headlong, preferring to first weigh the pros and cons. Nevertheless, they are very romantic, the object of their attention will definitely not remain indifferent to them, they know how to make people fall in love with them, and it’s not just the beauty of their eyes.
Blue eyed women
Russian model Sasha Pivovarova captivates us with her blue-eyed gaze.
Girls with blue eyes love to be the center of attention, especially from men. These are skilled seductresses; flirting and advances bring them great pleasure. However, they can often cross boundaries and offend other people, such as their partners, with this behavior. The fact is that blue-eyed women do not seek to cheat, they simply care about male interest, but being already in a relationship, they still do not miss the chance to flirt. It could cost them the loss of a loved one.
Kindness, affection, femininity - a blue-eyed girl has all these character qualities, but if you don’t appreciate this, expect to be erased from this person’s life. She will never forgive betrayal and betrayal. The girls themselves need to make sure that others do not take advantage of her excessive sincerity and conscientiousness.
Blue-eyed men
American actor Patrick Dempsey has stunning blue eyes.
These men are considered flighty and unreliable, as they always remain boys at heart. Their mood often changes, as do their companions. Rarely do blue-eyed men remain faithful to their significant other, but monogamous men are also found among blue-eyed womanizers.
Men with blue eyes devote themselves completely to work and strive for success with all their might. However, often their path to the pinnacle of success is not easy, but it is more often those around them who suffer than they themselves.
Definition
The iris consists of an anterior - mesodermal, and posterior - ectodermal layers. The anterior layer consists of the outer border and stroma. It contains chromatophores containing melanin. The color of the eye depends on the distribution of pigments in this layer. The posterior layer contains many fuscin-filled pigment cells. Regardless of eye color, the back layer is dark, with the exception of albinos. In addition, the vessels and fibers of the iris play a role [1] [2].
Primary colors
Blue
Blue eye
The outer layer of the vessels of the iris, formed from collagen fibers, is distinguished by a dark blue color[3]. If the fibers of the outer ectodermal layer of the iris are characterized by low density and low melanin content, then it has a blue color. There are no blue or cyan pigments in the iris and in the eye at all. The blue color is the result of light scattering in the stroma[4][5]. The inner layer of the iris, unlike the outer one, is always saturated with melanin and has a black-brown color [6]. As a result, part of the high-frequency component of the spectrum of light incident on the eye is scattered in the turbid environment of the stroma and reflected, and the low-frequency component is absorbed by the inner layer of the iris. The lower the density of the stroma, the richer the blue color[7]. Many babies have this eye color in the first months of life.
Blue
Blue eye
Unlike blue eyes, in this case the density of collagen fibers in the stroma is higher. Since they have a whitish or grayish tint, the color will no longer be blue, but blue. The higher the fiber density, the lighter the color.
Blue eye color is the result of a mutation in the HERC2 gene, due to which carriers of this gene have reduced melanin production in the iris of the eye[8]. According to a study by geneticists at the University of Copenhagen, this mutation arose approximately 6-10 thousand years ago[9].
Blue and dark blue eyes are most common among the European population, especially in the Baltics and Northern Europe[10]. In Estonia, up to 99% of the population have this eye color, in Germany - 75%. In Denmark in the 1970s, only 8% had dark eyes, while now, as a result of migration, this figure has risen to 11%[11][ unauthorized source?
]. According to a 2002 study, among the Caucasian population of the United States born in 1936-1951, carriers of blue and blue eyes make up 33.8%, while among those born in 1899-1905 this figure is 54.7%[12 ]. According to 2006 data, this figure for modern white Americans had dropped to 22.3%[13][14]. Blue and blue eyes are also found in the Middle East and Central Asia, for example, in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan (among the mountain Tajiks and Pamiris), northern Pakistan[15][16][17]. They are also common among Ashkenazi Jews, for example, among Ukrainian Jews the percentage of bearers of these colors is 53.7%[18].
Grey
Gray eye (steel shade)
The definition of gray and blue eyes is similar, only the density of the fibers of the outer layer is even higher and their shade is closer to gray. If the density is not so high, then the color will be gray-blue. The presence of melanin or other substances produces a small yellow or brownish impurity. The gray color is presumably due to Mie scattering on the fibers of the outer layer, which, unlike Rayleigh scattering, is less dependent on wavelength; as a consequence, the spectrum of light reflected from the iris is closer to the spectrum of the source than in the case of blue or blue eyes[19].
Gray eye color is most common in Eastern and Northern Europe[20]. It is also found in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan[15][16][17] and some regions of North-West Africa[21].
Green
Green eye
Green eye color is determined by a small amount of melanin. The outer layer of the iris contains the yellow or light brown pigment lipofuscin. In combination with the blue or cyan color resulting from scattering in the stroma, the result is green. The color of the iris is usually uneven and comes in many different shades[4]. The red hair gene may play a role in its formation[22].
Pure green eye color is extremely rare. Its carriers are found in Northern and Central Europe[23][24], less often in Southern Europe[20]. According to studies of the adult population of Iceland and the Netherlands, green eyes are much more common in women than in men[25].
Amber
Amber eyes
Amber eyes have a monotonous light yellow-brown color. Sometimes they are characterized by a golden-green or reddish-copper hue. This is caused by the pigment lipofuscin (lipochrome), which is also found in green eyes [26] [27]. Amber eye color is divided into two tones. A light tone includes light yellow-brown. Dark varieties of amber color include dark red-brown.
Bolotny
Olive (swamp) eye
Swamp eye color (other names, less common: hazel, green-brown, light brown, olive) is a mixed color. Depending on the lighting, it can have a golden, brown-green, or brown tint. The outer layer of the iris has a fairly moderate melanin content, so the hazel color is a combination of the brown color produced by the melanocytes and the blue or cyan color.[28][29] Yellow pigments may also be present. Unlike amber, in this case the color is not monotonous, but rather heterogeneous[26]. In some cases, the eye color may appear not so much brown-green, but rather light brown with a yellow-green tint.
Brown
Brown eye
In this case, the outer layer of the iris contains a lot of melanin. Therefore, it absorbs both high-frequency and low-frequency light, and the reflected light in total produces brown. Brown is the most common eye color in the world[30]. It is widespread in all parts of the world: Europe, Asia, Australia, Oceania, Africa, North and South America[31].
Black
Black eye
The structure of the black iris is similar to the brown one, but the concentration of melanin in it is so high that the light incident on it is almost completely absorbed. In addition to the black iris, the color of the eyeball can be yellowish or grayish. This type is common primarily among the Mongoloid race, in South, Southeast and East Asia, or in Russia, but it is much less common. In these regions, newborns are immediately born with melanin-rich irises.
Yellow
Yellow eye color is extremely rare. This only happens when the vessels of the iris contain the pigment lipofuscin (lipochrome) of a very pale color[32].
Male mouth and character
Thin features of the mouth indicate caution and conservative views; sometimes such men are whiners and pessimists. On the contrary, full lips indicate a soft, even infantile character. If the upper lip is thinner and the lower lip is full, then this man is prone to offense, but despite the storm of emotions inside he always hides his condition.
The most pleasant type of men are those whose lips are of medium width, while having a clear shape. Such men are usually purposeful , strong-willed, and have a strong and independent character. A man with such lips almost always achieves his goals, he knows how to thank those who provide him with help and moral support.
All written character traits and characteristics are superficial and can, in combination with other signs, radically change the views and actions of men. Therefore, if you like a man’s blue eyes, but you are distrustful of other features of his face, try not to rush to conclusions, wait for time, perhaps this is really the man of your dreams.
