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).

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.