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).

[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.

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[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.

[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.

[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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