Can a black persons eyes change colour? eye colour:brown/black?

Question

My eyes are brown/black but in some photos they look almost lighter....and ppl have told me that my eye colour has changed to another colour which is very weird....also my eyes r slanted like a filipinos(genetics from greatgranmother) could dat be tha reason why they change colour through genetics?

Answer 1

An individual with a racially mixed background of European and African ancestors would most likely have dark eyes (since brown eyes are a dominant gene and other eye colors are recessive genes), but he or she would probably also have more variability in possible eye color than someone who is of African descent without any European ancestry.  Moreover, since very occasionally Caucasian eye shades change when people are older than infants (as in the case of illness), it sounds logical that this could also rarely occur in a person of European and African descent.

Also, old color photos probably aren't that good an indication of eye and hair color as well as skin tone.

Answer 2

They can change colour in some circumstances. My wife's brown eyes became green over a period of years when she started wearing contact lenses, she was told by her optician that it was due to a lack of oxygen because of the lenses.

It may be that your eyes have different pigments that show up in different lights.

They won't change colour through genetics, your genes are the same throughout your life (except when they get damaged), but the gene that controls eye colour is unlikely to change.

Answer 3

I'm caucasian... My eyes were very dark brown/almost black when I was a child.  I used to get a lot of comments about them.  They got lighter as I got older.... So in my experience it can happen....

Answer 4

Because of light.. You cant change eye colour!

Answer 5

The daily kind of change you're talking about is due to the refraction of light. My eyes change color dramatically from blue, green, or hazel depending on what I'm wearing and the lighting in the room. This certainly could happen in dark darker or darkest brown eyes as well.

Answer 6

Not in adulthood

Often, paler newborns have blue eyes, which change to green, hazel, light brown or dark brown. This is possibly the origin of the idiom "being blue-eyed" (i. e. naïve; gullible).

It is thought that exposure to light after birth triggers the production of melanin in the iris of the eye. By three years of age, the eyes produce and store enough melanin to indicate their natural shade. While changes in eye color of infants are more common, even in adults, eye color changes are seen, most often as a result of exposure to the sun. Sunlight triggers melanin production in the eye, as it does to the skin.

Eyedrops containing a prostaglandin analogue (such as latanoprost) may result in a permanently darkened iris; these eyedrops are commonly used to treat open-angle glaucoma