When does a child's eye color become permanant?

Question

My little guy is 16 months old. His eye color has changed from blue to brown to greenish to hazel and now are back to blue. Sure keeps us guessing!

Answer 1

They say that by the time they are a year old, whatever color they have at that time stays.

BUT, on the other hand, some people have changing eye color throughout their lives. Mine do it sometimes.

Answer 2

I think by the time they go to school, it should stay the colour it is?

My family is fully Asian and somehow, one of my aunties (who married an Asian man) gave birth to a cousin of mine with green eyes and black hair... Other aunties then made a rumour that she must've slept with her green-eyed Caucasian neighbour while her husband went to work... LOL!

Answer 3

The second poster couldn't be more wrong.  If somone has blue eyes, that means that DON'T have color in their eyes.  People with brown eyes are considered to have "color."  To the OP:  The answer to your question is, "It is different for every individual.  There are two genes that produce the color of the iris of human eyes.  Since this is a matter of your son's genes, it is not a matter of "time" to discover what his final eye color will be.  Because of his genes, and POSSIBLY (this is very speculative) his "environment" control the amount of melanin that is produced in is melanocytes."   <----- This is my answer.  I used to be a biology major btw.

I just found this website.  It is very interesting.  It answers your question.    Look at source.

Answer 4

since he started off with blue, he'll have color in his future eyes like green/blue

Answer 5

I had blue eyes until I turned 13, and they randomly changed to green. Now I have a star burst of blue on the outer edge, and green on the inner. I'm 23, so who knows what will happen with them in the future.  Also my father had blue eyes until he was 2 years and they changed to hazel and have stayed hazel all his life.