This is kinda random but you can tell a lot of things abut a person by their eyes. They say the eyes are the window to the soul. There are so many different variations of eye colours with flecks or dots or lines or stripes. I wonder if you can find anyone with the sames eyes. Are they like finger prints? Unique for every person?

Okay I googled it. I don’t think they are unique but there are many different variations of colours. They are determined by genes. The basic eye colours are blue, green, brown, hazel, amber and grey. Not everyone fits under categories like this. My eyes for example are between a blue and green. Maybe they are even a greyish. They are kind of mix between the two but the colours I’m surrounded by affect the way people see them. They also have little yellowish or green sqiggly lines that surround my pupil. Some people have really dark eyes, almost black if you don’t look properly. Others have really light eyes. Some people have a darker ring around the iris which is called a limbal ring.

It’s possible to have your eye colour change. When babies are born their eyes are normally different to the colour they will have for the rest of their lives. Their final colour will become present at around 3 years of age. Eye trauma, puberty, pregnancy can affect melanin production which can cause the eye colour to change during these times. Melanin is the pigment cell which makes colour. Skin and hair colour is made by melanin.

It is also possible to have different coloured eyes. It is a condition called heterochromia and can be complete or partial. Complete heterochromia is when the two eyes are different colours. Partial heterochromia is when one eye has part of another colour. It is caused by a lack of pigment in a particular place or it can be inherited.

So I learnt a lot about eyes today because I looked at someone’s and wanted to see what cause eye colour and why some peoples had different flecks and lines and dots.