brown eyes, blue ring

[princessrivernewstar]

my dad and his side all have blue eyes, while my mom's side all dark brown eyes with the possibility her father's father having blue or green eyes (not sure yet). i have five brothers and sisters (six of us). we all have brown eyes, varying in darkness. my younger sister has the lightest brown eyes while i myself have the darkest (when i was little, they almost looked black) i am 20 years old and a couple years back i was examining my eyes when i noticed that there was a light bluish almost gray ring around my eyes. the same color as my dad's. its not very prominent, you have to look close to see it.

at first i thought something was wrong so i checked out my brothers' and sisters' eyes to see if they had the same thing. they all had a light blue ring around they're brown eyes too. then i checked my mom's eyes to see if this was something all brown eyed people have, but she had a dark greenish/brown ring around her dark brown eyes! i've checked on the internet for what this could possibly be. i dont think its a cataract or some eye problem (i am near sighted so i go to a eye doctor who reports that other than my sight, i have nothing wrong with my eyes) and whenever i am at the doctor, i get no report of cholestral problem or anything like that. besides i am relatively healthy, i am young, and all my siblings who are all younger than me have this too. in my opinion, i think it may be a sort of mixing of my parent's eye colors or something. i didn't notice the blue ring when i was little, but then again i never really looked so i don't know. also i've noticed that my eyes have gotten a bit lighter, a little bit, they don't look as blackish as before. i've read stuff on the internet about people with brown eyes suddenly developing blue eyes or green eyes or hazel eyes (without injury).

has anyone had this and then their eyes changed colors?


This discussion is related to Eyes changing color (Blue rim around dark brown eyes).

[Joan M Pernoud, MD]

I am not certain if the eye color you are seeing is just a color variant in your iris itself or
if it a bluish ring on your cornea. An MD opthalmologist could tell you.

If it is on your cornea, you should have your cholesterol level checked with a blood test as this could be an arcus which, if found in persons under age 40 or so, is often associated with high cholesterol and a long term risk for cardiovascular disease. Your siblings should be evaluated as well.

[pooquie2]

You have Limbral eyes like i have and my family
. my Grandfathers eyes were blue like his Dad .
My Great Grandfather was Irish from Ireland and his wife was Ethiopian. There is nothing wrong with your eyes.
people have Limral eyes worldwide. Google it. Blessings.

[jekel410]

i know exactly what you are talking about. i have dark brown eyes and i have a brown ring around them. inside the brown ring if you starting all the way out of my iris and pass my color of my eye there is a brown ring. then as you get a little closer the ring is sometimes a blue-grey color and sometimes a blue-green color. my dad doesn't have it but my mom and my sister does.my mother told me her eyes were always like that since birth; so have my sister and mine. it's not any kind of disorder cause i have had several different kinds of health tests, eye exams and mental tests. i am perfectly healthy so are my mom and sister.

for awhile i thought maybe it was just something wrong with my family; i have met others with the same eyes as me that are not of blood related. some of there eyes are lighter and some are darker. honestly i have no clue what it is.

[pooquie2]

Limbral eyes.

[canyouseeit]

I have the same thing going on with my eyes.  I am a black 51 year old woman with brown eyes and a blue grey ring around it. Been to the eye doctors and they told me nothings wrong with it other than the normal weakness of the muscles which comes with age.  I just did a full medical check up and I don't have cholestrol problems either.  
everyone thinks it pretty....but I am worried about it, since no one seems to know what it is.

[laurirenee]

I am also a black female, mid-50's with dark brown eyes and blue ring around the iris. I first started noticing it when I was in my 30's.  I am extremely fit (Zumba instructor) and I've never had high cholesterol. Eyes doctors tell me there is nothing to worry about. Actually, I now think it looks rather unique. People often ask me if I'm wearing colored contacts. My Welsh Corgi and I match, sort or, because  he has one blue and one brown eye.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[tqmt]

I am a 45 year-old black woman and I also have been developing a grey ring around my brown eyes for some years now.  My father's eyes are the same and his are now believe it or not blue.  He is 75.  His eyes started changing when I was little.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[speedemons7]

i have the same thing and im black.I use to have coffee black eyes but now i have brown eyes with a dark blue ring around it, but that is inherited from my father and grandmother.I just dont know how brown and blue mixes like that.But guys that like me always tell me i have pretty eyes and they also change colors with emotions.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[Deirdre46]

The light blue ring around the cornea or iris seems to run in my family on my mothers side.  As they get to be around 50 the ring mysteriously appears.  None of them have had any major health issues with the exception of my grandmother who had lung cancer, but that was indicative of her being a life long smoker.  I am in my mid 40's and have not noticed any changes in my eyes yet.  My eye health and physical health as far as cholesterol is good.  

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[krbblueeyes]

I have the exact same thing.  The blue ring appears to be on both sides of my family, but mine are VERY, VERY blue w/ a brown center.  I have excellent medical care, so my eyes are fine and so is my cholesterol.  I assume it's a family trait.

[lday2]

I to have the blue ring going around the iris of my brown eyes that seems to change with my emotions.

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[qtgem]

I am 51 black woman and my ring appeared about 8 years ago. I do not have hogh cholestrol but I do have high blood pressure and a little anemic, other than that I do not have any other medical problems and I get my blood work done twice a year. I have always been told I have nice eyes but now people think I wear contacts with this blue/gray ring that seems to be getting thicker. My father eyes changed from brown to baby blue when he was in his 60's. I have good eyesight, with a little nearsighted at night , can't read signs until I get close to them but that is expected with age.
my eye doctor said it is nothing to worryabout and that everyone is born with blue eyes and then they change. (I did not believe him), so I am still searching for an answer before I wake up one day and my eyes are blue like my dads, really freaky looking because we expect blue eyes to be on white folks only.

[samehere25]

I am a black woman 48 years old from Trinidad West Indies and I noticed that I have dark blue ring around my iris.  I checked with other family members and found that my twin sister, brother and mother and grandmother had the same ring.  Now my mother who is 76 years old has almost completely blue eyes which once where brown.  My daughter was born with blue/gray eyes but her eyes changed within four days to a nice dark brown.  I suspect her eyes will also develop the blue ring when she reaches her forties like me.

Amazingly enough a bit of research into this and I'm finding this trait to be very common among those descendants of the slave trade who came to the Americas (North, South and Central) on ships.

[samehere25]

I am a black woman 48 years old from Trinidad West Indies and I noticed that I have dark blue ring around my iris.  I checked with other family members and found that my twin sister, brother and mother and grandmother had the same ring.  Now my mother who is 76 years old has almost completely blue eyes which once where brown.  My daughter was born with blue/gray eyes but her eyes changed within four days to a nice dark brown.  I suspect her eyes will also develop the blue ring when she reaches her forties like me.

Amazingly enough a bit of research into this and I'm finding this trait to be very common among those descendants of the slave trade who came to the Americas (North, South and Central) on ships.

[DrWify]

Why do you keep posting your ad for your clinic?  You've offered nothing to the conversation, other than your ad.  Do you believe you should be paid for whatever information you may have?  Well, that's not how this works.  In short, unless you have nothing to add to the conversation; your ad helps virtually no one.

[Cazzar57]

I am a black woman of 56 and I have noticed that there is a ring of light grey around the top of my iris although people say they can see a ring of blue around my eyes.  My natural colour is a medium brown.  My pupils are also dark blue.

I had my cholesterol and glucose checked last month and they are all normal, though I am very light sensitive.

I was wondering if this was hereditary as I have quite a mixed background.

[Rhonha]

I too have a blue gray ring around my iris too! I read on the internet somewhere that as your body becomes more alkaline brown eyes turn blue. So, it's some chemical reaction that black people may have become exposed to causing the eye color changes. Perhaps our food in some way is being manipulated causing these changes in our DNA. GMO's are suspect. If what their doing with our food affects the Black population by what type of food, drink we consume, we better find out what is changing  our eye color.

[theblackorean]

I am in my 40's and a very healthy bi-racial male; Black/Korean.  My Black father had very dark brown eyes until one day I had commented that they looked blue.  That was while he was in his early 50's.  Low and behold, he checked in the mirror and they were a permanent cobalt blue with no variation in color no matter what the conditions (clothing, weather, daylight, nighttime, etc.)  A few years ago, I was taking out an eyelash that had fallen onto the surface of my eyeball and bugging the dickens out of me, I had noticed a thin grey-hazel ring and asked my daughter to verify to ensure I wasn't seeing things.  Since then, the ring has grown.  I get a yearly health and welfare check-up that includes blood-work to check cholesterol levels.  As usual, my HDL was well above 50 mg/dl, my LDL was always well below 100 mg/dl, and this always amounted to my TC/HDL ratio to be well below 4.0, which was explained to me that it was very good.  I've never had health issues and I eat as clean as I can (organic, natural, raw, non-processed, GMO and pesticide free foods and drinks).  I exercise nearly every day in the gym or in the park.  After diligent research, I am leaning towards my situation as being genetic.  I can't think of any factors that would aid in the alteration of the color of my eyes.  If anyone has scientific evidence otherwise, I would like to examine it and see if it applies to me.  Maybe there's nothing to worry about, maybe there is.

[Natalie_1461]

My eyes are the same as yours, but the blue hue around the brown fairly obvious. I never noticed this until around three years ago and I am 40. Like yourself, I didn't really pay much attention to my eyes. I do remember as a child people always commented on how beautiful my eyes were. I heard this a lot too as an adult but assumed they were talking about the shape of my eyes, not the color. When I first moved to America as a teenager, random strangers would ask if my eyes were fake. I was taken aback by this question and thought the people here were strange. I seriously thought people had fake eyes. Then I learned later about contacts. It took a love interest to clarify what the fuss was about. We were walking and he literally stopped me to stare at my eyes. I thought there was something wrong. He told me my eyes were beautiful and he never met anyone with two eye colors before. I asked what he was talking about and he told me I had blue hue around the brown area and depending on th lighting my eyes looked grey. I will assume this is the result of recessive genes because I am black and from the West Indies. It has been about 3 years since I was made aware unique eye color. The only issue I have now is people asking if I had cataracts or some other issue or if I am sensitive to light and if my eyes are real.

[Yash75]

It could be a sign of strokes?

[Yash75]

High CHOLESTROL /It could be a sign of strokes?

[Yash75]

HI There,
I remember when I was a teenager , my moms mother has a  blue ring around her iris of her dark brown eyes.  I use to compliment my grandma for having such pretty eyes. At that time, in 1991, my grandma would go to see her doctor for regular check ups. So. One day, her family doctor told her that she HAS HIGH CHOLESTROL WHICH HAS DAMAGED HER IRIS.   SO THIS IS EXPLAINED WHY BROWN EYED PEOPLE WHO HAS A BLUE RING  AROUND THERE IRIS ...
Has HIGH CHOLESTROL.  
IF  THE HIGH COLESTROL IS
NOT CONTROLLED

[JohnHaganMD]

First of all its it cornea not the iris that is involved in the "ring around the cornea" not the iris. Second a blood cholesterol should always be done on anyone that develops a cornea arcus ring younger than 70. Sometimes its associated with elevated cholesterol but 99% of the time its an aging change of the cornea like hair graying.

[Sheshe52]

Brown eyes are naturally blue underneath the protective film which is brown. Therefore everyone with brown are actually blue! Fact check that

[michelzad]

Most people who replied to this thread are black, but I'm Korean. I do have blue-grey ring around my red-brown eyes. This thread makes me happy to know there are people like me. People always is telling me I have very sharp eyes and beautiful at the same time, scaring. I also have big, open eyes for an Asian. I knew I've had a dark ring around my eyes but oh well, not given any importance until few days ago.
I was taking off my make up and found out something was bizarre. My dark limbal ring has changed in to blue-grey and thick.
I think I'm having changing iris color in to grey-blue.
I'm an Asian, Korean, no one has got this eye color.

[aeonfluxx75]

Me too :) - thought it was just something that occurred in my family but my mother's eyes went from dark brown, to medium brown with a blue grey ring and now in her 60s I have no idea what color they are.  There's distinct blue and grey with flecks of brown.  Really pretty but the start of it was the development of the blue grey ring in her 40s.  I've been developing the same ring late 30s, now I'm 40 and the ring is getting a bit wider and my eyes went from dark brown to medium brown.  I have no health issues nor problems with my eye sight.  I assumed it was due to my grandfather who had green all his life then slate grey during his 70s.  Very weird.  I've been asked only once what color my eyes were which was the catalyst for my noticing the ring.  I'm guessing it's maybe due to a loss of pigmentation with the aging process.  I'm black, west-indies descendent of the "slave trade" too.  Interesting to hear about other people with these rings with no health issues.

[Meme54NC]

I am a 54 year Africa American women, I have just started to notice this blue ring around my eyes also. My husband pointed it out a couple of weeks ago. I had notice this in my fathers eyes also, whom is of Indian descent.