Thoughts are why "English" are not included in this Celtic Session? English genetics are largely Briton and Gaul, with some Frankish and Lowland West Germanic. Scotland in parts has similar genetics but with the Norse also. Scot genes are unique in the blend of the Gaelic and Norse but also West Germanic. Likewise England's best mix is it's own. Though both can be similar at times. Western England is still more Briton generally. Do an England 'Celt' video? '
Algeria wouldn't surprise me: Vandals, Gepids, Suebi, they all came originally from the northern Polish coast. Add White slaves and female trading, and there is no surprise.
My wife has grey eyes. I can confirm they are very attractive, even though she is now approaching 70 years old, they're still the most attractive eyes I've ever known.
As a non-morning person, when I need to get up early, I have found it very helpful to turn on a bright light, or, if I have the energy to get up and go outdoors, the sunlight is very soothing.
Me too, I hate using torches in the dark because my night vision is so good. Do you lot suffer from snow blindness too? I used to have an albino (I know its called Cremello now) horse and he and I had problems with glare, both having watery eyes all the time!
Yep, American here with West European ancestry and I have grey eyes… today. Other days they are grey-green when they feel like changing. And I hate the brightness, living in “The South” we get plenty of sun! ☀️ I live in dark sunglasses. 😎 ✌🏻
Yeah, I have grey eyes that reflect the colors that I wear, from green to gold, and they are so light sensitive that I have been prescribed sunglasses, my wife and kids are always shocked by how good my night vision is, they all have blue eyes. Never been genetically tested, so not sure of the origins.
Funny. I am West European with American/Jewish ancestry and I have grey eyes most of the time. Sometimes light blue, rarely green-ish. I love sun, taking sunbathing without glasses, just eyes closed. We are like twins from the mirror 😅
I live in the northeast and I gotta say- the glare off the snow is something, but it is summer that makes me literally have to walk to my car crying and blind. But at least they’re pretty 😭
I have grey eyes, with a hint of blue. My son and 5 siblings are the same. We got them from our dad. They have different colour flecks in them. I've always wished for bluer ones, or green, but I just appreciate that they work.
At school, kids used to call me Exorcist because of my fair skin and gray eyes. I used to want colored contacts until I met my husband, and he told me they were the feature he fell in love with first. The only negative now is super sensitivity to light.
This is a very celtic irish combo too, I heard the dark hair was brought here by Spanish, my family all have dark hair fair skin that tans and blue green ir grey eyes ❤
A driver’s license clerk wrote ‘blue’ for my eyes, but an eye specialist said they were gray! I hate bright sunlight as well and sunglasses are a must, even when I use my iPhone or iPad sometimes! Thank you Viking forebears! Could have left me in Norway!
I have light gray almost silver eyes. I am mostly of Swedish ancestry. I too have a terrible time with to much light. Headlights at night nearly blind me. I have to wear special yellow tinted glasses to drive at night
My mom is from Northern Germany and has grey eyes. She was very proud of them and had many complaints through the years from strangers. I was born with brown eyes and wished I had her eye color growing up. Also, her grey eyes had a neat trick of reflecting the color of the shirts she wear if the light hits right. This was very informative, thank you.
My eyes are the same, and my father, whose family came to the US from Krakow, had the similar eyes, but my eyes also have a dark blue ring around the iris. People have many times asked if I wear contact lenses to match my blouses! But I don't, my grey eyes will reflect the blue, the green, the aqua and especially dark grey colors I wear. The most noticeable is green and aqua reflection.
I also have grey eyes And you're right about the reflecting colour... mine don't change so much rhe colours but hues. Like they're neutrally grey, but on a sunny day they reflect the sky and go BRIGHT blue, and near the ocean, around trees or on cloudy days they look a deep grey-green. It really is helpful for clothes 😂 you're right haha. I'm from Manchester in England.
My eyes are grey green, but were blue as a child. They are very light sensitive. In almost all the photos of me as a child I am squinting or trying to cover my eyes. Never had sunglasses! My eyes change color depending on what I am wearing. But if I cry they become very green. Irish ancestry. My mum’s were a beautiful hazel, my dad’s blue grey.
@@horsetarget123I have grey eyes with gold flecks, but in the morning they are bright, vividly blue. They also go bright blue when I cry and darker, almost navy blue when I'm angry; My mother always used to know when I was in a bad mood before I did. (I have pretty severe alexithymia)
I'm of Scots-Irish heritage and have grey eyes. There's a guy on CZcams called Rainbolt who is maybe the world's best geoguesser, and he has grey eyes. Caitlin Clark of the WNBA also has grey eyes.
@@Brittanyjustgoesi am English with a bit of Welsh and Irish and I have grey eyes. My ancestors have never lived anywhere else but my mum has blue eyes and it is a big difference and means some colours suit her which dont suit me at all. I have to wear forest colours
Yep, I have grey eyes. When I moved to the US, they marked me as blue eyes. Also, I was once pulled over for speeding. The PO insisted that I update my DL to state my real eye color. Green. Lol, I was wearing a green shirt. BTW, I'm 1/3 Algerian from the Berber tribe.💕💕💕
Yes, I have received similar attention in the past. Nowadays, when I get a new DMV photo I usually wear something to make them obvious. Made a comment upthread that reflects my eyes changing colors
The U.S. is so weird about this. I spent my whole life with people telling me they were blue, green, or hazel. One day my dad finally said "Your eyes aren't blue. They're grey." Well I'll be damned...didn’t even know that was an option.
I am of Norwegian heritage and have gray eyes… but sometimes have a green gray look. I am very sensitive to bright light. People have always commented on my unusual eye color
My husband is almost all Irish, with only a very small bit of German. He and his parents, as well as one of our sons, all have grey eyes. I once read a description of the ancient Irish, before the Celtic arrival, as having "grey eyes and dark hair."
@Verityization the ancient precelt stories usually mention the 3 main hair colors but often blue green and Grey eyes. Icy eyes mightve meant gray instead of blue
I have green-blue-grey eyes. My eye color is usually "influenced" by the color of the shirt that i'm wearing. Almost all of my ancestors from both of my family are of English descent, with some Scottish and Dutch thrown in the mix. My maternal grandfather's family came down to New Hampshire from Quebec to work in the mills there in the mid-1800s, so there may be some French too.
I’m Irish/Scottish/welsh and German with a small amount of Native American, South Asian, and African DNA on 23andme and I have gray eyes. They usually look dark gray but can also look grey green or gray blue. I also have olive skin and my alleles on some of my skin pigmentation genes cause darker skin and hair pigmentation so i think it’s interesting how I got gene variants for eye color that make my eyes lighter pigmented but also several gene variants and alleles for darker skin and hair. Particularly, my genotype for the SLC45A2 gene (one of the main skin pigmentation genes) on 23andme is CG, the C allele is virtually absent in Europeans and it comes from my small amount of Native American ancestry. I think it’s cool how it’s possible to have both lighter pigmentation genetic variants while also having darker pigmentation variants in the same person.
mate, honestly you are not Irish, Scottish, Welsh or German. You can only be one. It's a nationality. Pick one. Best to go with where you and your family live Nationalities are defined by your passport and culture. Did you grow up in Ireland, the UK or Germany? What's your favourite tayto flavour? What does the Broons mean to you? What does going for 'my messages' mean? when is the best time to drink Irn Bru? what is the correct response to bore da, und spinnst du, bist du wirklich deutsche? these are so basic, yet I'm going to bet you, as an Irish, Scottish, Welsh and German person can't answer then without research. THAT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT. Look at your passport, that tells you your nationality. Please do not mix heritage with nationality. We are more than happy to learn of your heritage, but don't claim to 'be'. If you are born in Belgium, grow up there, but both your parents are danish, guess what, you're Belgian We are all mixed. That's because we are human. My dad had grey eyes. He was Irish, as in born there, not "I'm Irish, Portuguese, part Iranian and Japanese", but liked to claim they were grey through some Italian heritage (wishful thinking, no evidence in living memory), but as I said, we are all mixed Your DNA reveals you are human (well done) a fixation on weird DNA/race is regarded as ever so slightly suspect in Western Europe Incidentally, you cite Irish, Scottish, Welsh and German, but not English. Do you know how freakishly unlikely that is on your DNA scale? Are you ever so slightly racist???
My father was Ashkenazi Jewish, born in Poland, had grey eyes. My maternal grandmother, also Ashkenazi Jewish, but born in Riga, Latvia, also had grey eyes.
One explanation for the grey blue & green eyes in the Middle East I heard just the other day on a podcast was that Vikings would capture women from Northern Europe to be traded in the Middle East to be used in harems etc. not sure how accurate that is but it’s one theory I’ve heard
Algéria is not in the middle east, but it was one of the most important slave trade area for the ottoman empire during their occupation of northern Africa, algerians were known to practice piracy and would organize razzias on european coasts, taking slaves. That's actualy the reason why they got occupied by the french later , to make the piracy stop.
@@backintimealwyn5736 Amazingly it was the US that stopped the corsair trade in slavery. The newly formed USA couldn't afford to pay off the corsairs and as they were so far away from North Africa they couldn't maintain naval patrols to protect US trading vessels ... so they simple sent every warship they had to Algiers and bombarded it, boarding and scuttling every ship they found. Crude but effective. Both the British and French paid the corsairs to leave their ships alone and only target the other side. The corsairs just took the money from both sides and carried on as normal. In terms of eye colour taking slaves would definitely bring variable eye colours in but as North Africa has had migration in and out of Europe for millennia then its probably had variable eye colour for millennia as well.
Northwest European's have quite the diverse eye and hair colour. I'm Scots-Irish, my hair is light brown with a blonde tinge. My beard is brown with a red tinge but my moustache is yellow. Eyes are light blue.. Superb video!
i have grey eyes dark brown hair frequently asked if im irish from the border reiver area on my father's side of family. thanks for another interesting podcast.lisa Thompson.
My Dad had pale grey eyes which looked like the foam on ocean waves. His family came from Ireland as far back as anyone could remember. Both his parents were from Ireland. As a child he had bright red hair which turned black by age 18. His skin was also very pale. My Mom (Northern European) had light brown hair and eyes. I have hazel eyes with a sun burst of brown/amber with light teal rings. My sister has pale blue eyes and both of us are redheads with very pale skin. I was taught in college that brown eyes would cancel out blue eyes and thus my sister and I both should have had brown eyes. However that was ages ago and your videos are enlightening.
I have grey eyes …. The lack of pigment basically reflects whatever color the sky is. The sky is overcast and cloudy my eyes look really washed out. If the sky is blue, my eyes look a lot lighter blue, but still very pale. I have to wear sunglasses all the time.
I have gray eyes with a tad of blue. They came out of my grandmother who was from Messenia, very close to the Nestor 's palace. As is mentioned about Goddess Athena, gray eyes are around with Hellenic peoples for millennia. I believe that it is a trait that was developed through night hunting in wooden and mountainous areas.
According to Wikipedia, Athena was probably named after the city of Athens, which is strange because, also according to Wikipedia, Athens was named after the god of Athena. Something doesn't add up.
Yep! I have grey eyes. For years everyone thought I had blue and I even would call my eyes blue for limited options to choose from when describing my color. Then I realized my eyes aren't blue at all. They are grey with yellow and brown flecks in them. Definitely grey and I love them. My youngest son also has beautiful grey eyes.
I know that Romans described Picts & Cimbri as gray eyed people. They said Franks as having Bluish Gray yes. Procopius said Slavs had gray eyes. I am certainly attracted to women with off color eyes.
@@ronaldwinfield307 I have some some Germanic dna but I am 70% Italian so no it’s highly unlikely and the Germanics are not so special to have all the possible genes “ONLY THEM” it’s stereotypes and even us Mediterranean we have the same genes but in different promotion and quantity and for example I believe from my personal experience as an ITALIAN, that they are more people with Grey eyes than with the Blue eyes gene (I’m R1b U-152 not R1b U-106 or I1)
My eyes are grey and I spend 95% of the time outside in the Australian sun and squinting ,People walk past me and wave but unless they are 2 metres in front of me ,I don't know who they are..
Hi I am Spanish with grey hazel eyes. My grandma (Spanish also) had light grey eyes ( some people said blue, but in fact they were grey). One of my cousins has light grey eyes also... In my family there are all eyes colours: brown, hazel,green, greys and blues. We are all Spanish. My DNA is 80 percent North Spain and Southern France + 20 percent NorthWest European ( Denmark, Dutchland and England) Best regards! ! UN Abrazo! ! Saludos!
@@marjet2228 I guess I am considered a Spanish Caucasian? Right? As l don't have any African or black DNA... Moreover I have thin lips which come from people in Northern Countries, a trait to protect from cold weather... Southern Europeans normally have big mouth lips
I'm American with Scot/Irish ancestors and my father's family, and me, all have very pale grey eyes which my son also inherited. Yeah bright light is a problem
The Berbers certainly have a high ratio of blue and grey eyes, noticeable with a lot of Berber footballers playing in the Netherlands and France. That goes back centuries due to their movements and trading.
I doubt they would change the whole genome of the population. Berbers had these features way before due to old migration of the ice age but also with the migration of the Anatolian Farmers.
Grey-eyed here, from Central Europe. My eyes are very sensitive to light and cannot tolerate any eye-makeup, so no eyeliner or mascara for me. Sometimes they look blueish grey.
My dad has striking blue, my mother beautiful green, and I got grey. I was bummed for decades, but have learned to love them. Stormy greys that lighten and darken with my moods, and definitely reflect what I'm wearing.
The Vandals, a Germanic people, estimated to have numbered 80,000 people crossed into North Africa and conquered the coastal region of Algeria and Tunisia. So that may explain the grey eyes from their genetic legacy........ maybe???
@@serahloeffelroberts9901when writing my comment I made the assumption (which is usually a mistake) that like now many if not all the cultures surrounding the Mediterranean where dark haired and had brown eyes. So maybe the green and hazel (and there would have to be some blue as well) along with the grey could've come from the Germanic tribes that invaded and settled in Rome's western European and North African regions??? I'm no expert it was just a thought that came to mind
I'm lithuanian and my eyes are grey. I have Ukrainan heritage. Hair colour dark brown almost black. My eyes are not sensitive to light at all. Like most of us on sunny day I'm wearing sun glasses. I have sharp visibility very clear close and far.
I have grey eyes with a thick black ring around the iris. I can see really well in dim light & at night. I struggle with the artificial glare of fluro lights & oncoming car headlights at night.
My husband and one of my sons have grey eyes. My husband is primarily Irish descent, with a small bit of German. I read once that the ancient Irish, who predated the Celtic influx, had "gray eyes and dark hair."
I’m a fair skinned red head with grey eyes. I’ve always answered “blue” when asked eyed colour but they aren’t really blue. They’re grey. However, if I wear certain colours (cobalt blue) or use certain coloured eyeshadow ( warm / orangey/ browns/ pinky browns) my eyes pop more blue. Red hair and blue eyes are rare, apparently. My eldest daughter has true blue eyes. My youngest more grey. Are we unicorns?. It’s so interesting that grey eyes could be an adaptation to seasons for northern hemisphere.
I have double central heterochromia. The outer band is blue/green gray and the central circular band is grey.I am Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and also Scottish, Irish, English, Welsh and well as other Northern European. I am the only one in my immediate family with heterochromia and both my daughters have inherited it. My eyes are intensely sensitive to light during rhe day and oncoming light at night blinds me. This was a very interesting video.
In Italy there are a lot of people with gray eyes with all the variations from light to dark and for example I have Bluish Grays and they always confuse me between the 2 or even every now then in the heat it happens that they lighten temporarily and look light green lol . In my family the dominant color is Blue but my 2 grandmothers have gray eyes and I inherited the Grey/Blue color from my father side, while from my mother side had my maternal grandmother has light gray eyes and other my relatives also inherited the gray having the blue has dominant, like my cousin who always inherited the blue gray from her father's side and my aunt from my mother's side has stone gray with a bit of amber as a halo
Gray eyes (and red hair), and my eyes are what might be considered slate-colored. Very photo sensitive, and see very well in low lighting, especially at night, driving (until some idiot approaches with high beam headlights on!).
@@EyeSeeThruYou From what i understand warm white has that yellowish tint to it where as cool white has a bluish tint. Then you have hard/harsh white. That is the really painful one. Think white LED
@@EyeSeeThruYou your welcome. That is my interpretation of the description words the other used. From colours recommended painting/decorating walls of all things lol.
I have a mixture of colors in my eyes because I have heterochromia. One eye is a mixture of grey, green and hazel, the other eye is grey with a yellow ring around the pupil but it can look blue. In my passport it says I have blue eyes but people often think my eyes are green. My eyecolor depends on what I am wearing. I have come to the conclusion that they are grey and not blue (which I always thought). My father and grandfather had very grey eyes.
I'm Scottish and have grey eyes but can look blue if wearing blue or green if wearing green sometimes they look dark or light depending on light conditions. My sister has Hazel eyes, and brother blue eyes.
My dad had the most beautiful gray eyes. Like the perfect overcast sky. His eyes were so bright and beautiful and he had this dark black hair and freckles and he smelled like sunshine.
My great great grandfather Charles Fisk(e) had light gray eyes with dark brown hair and a dark complexion. And, from what I’ve been told, it was a striking combination. He was born about 1806 somewhere in New York State 🇺🇸 and died in Pennsylvania 🇺🇸 in 1881. Another thing I heard was a ladies man. He had at least 3 wives and possibly one common-law wife or girlfriend and possibly other women too. My sister always had more light gray looking eyes to me than the blue that she thought she had. They were always so light looking. My eyes faded quite a bit from brown to a lighter green-brown now. And I have mild cataracts, so I have to wear a certain type of shading on my eyes to protect them from the sun. My daughter-in-law has olive-green eyes. They’re really pretty.
I wonder if the grey eyed populations of Algeria may have origins in the slaves that were abducted from Britain, Ireland, etc to North Africa(?). A lot of Brits were taken away when the Romans left Britain too.
Not true, the people Shawia people live in a mountain area in Algeria and are not the same as the Arabic people, my husband tells me its over 15 hours drive to the mountains where they live. They are farming folk and in all likelyhood werent treated well by the other Algerian ethnic groups. Thus their remoteness and having grey eyes because in a country as huge as Algeria, it suggests a limited gene pool. (15 hours drive from Algiers).
I'm Irish-Spanish. My eyes are grey, most of the time. In Summer they have very vivid blue & green flecks. Sometimes amber flecks too. I'm light sensitive . It gives me migraines, but I love bright sunshine. That's when they change. I've always received positive comments on how "unusual" my eyes are. And I've not met many people with this same colouringMothers are vivid blue, fathers dark brown. Good to see others with the same on here.
I recently went to the opthomologist because I have a freckle in my eye, and they want to monitor it. I was asked, "Do you know what color your eyes are?". I said, "I think blue or green. They change color's. " She said, "You have the 2 rarest eye colors." She said I have green and grey eyes
I come from a heterochromatic family on my mother's side. We are of Cherokee and Irish descent. One of my aunties has one blue and one green eye. Most of my mother's family has Central Heterochromia. Another auntie has emerald green eyes with a chocolate ring around the center. Another has blue with a gold ring. I have dark grey with a gold ring. I thought another auntie had brown eyes, but she actually had a thin dark grey outer ring with a thick dark chocolate ring in the center. And my Mother had light grey with a golden ring. We all grew up thinking we had hazel eyes, except for the first auntie I mentioned. I live in the South East USA, just above the Florida - Georgia line. Many people confuse Hazel with Central Heterochromia.
I always thought I had blue eyes. For my entire life people have commented that my eyes are a very striking colour. I never thought blue eyes were that exceptional, but now I’m realising I actually have GREY eyes; maybe other people are just more perceptive about eye colours than I am lmao
Mine are in between blue and gray, leaning on the more grayish side with some crypts of light brown and a thin, muted ring of yellow around the iris. Last time I had my eyes checked, the Dr said I have the kind of eyes most people want. Except it comes with being EXTREMELY light sensitive. A clear sky a snow-fallen winter day is just as, if not more, painful than a sunny summer day. I wear sunglasses inside most of the time, and my husband gets on me for turning lights OFF when I walk in a room. Plus side, my night vision is fantastic. While I’m primarily Irish/Scottish, I do have a Grandfather that was from what is now called Slovenia. I did also come back with some West Asian dna, primarily in the region around Iraq/Turkey/Iran/Georgia. I assume the West Asian is due to some migration from there into the Bulkians in some more recent ancestors.
@@jaskobut9335 thank you for answer,this is exiting -my son have green eyes.His mum blue and dad grey. So maybe mix of grey and blue become green? ;) I wonder when one parent has blue,and the other green -what the baby will get ;)
I'm so lucky, I have pure light grey eyes, like sea foam, with a black ring around my iris. People have always commented on it and some will just stop and stare. It has made me a little shy perhaps to make eye contact. And the collagen thing, I look younger than I am. My grandmother was the same.
Really liked your opening photo!!! It's my eyes! have Norwegian, Swedish, and Saami ancestry, and I have gray eyes. I always thought it was just weird because they sometimes change colors, I see by that photo why it is. Most people think they're "blue", but that's only because I favor blue shirts. If I wear a sage green shirt , they appear "green". A brown shirt will make them look "hazel". People think that gray eyes don't even exist, until I put something white underneath them ,when it's made obvious they're gray. I am *very* light sensitive, live in sunglasses. I've been known to wear polarized sunglasses at night when driving on dark roads because otherwise oncoming headlights will blind me ! Thanks for this fun and informative video❤😊
My earliest memory of my eye color was gray, but maybe it was just a transition of blue. My mom had blue eyes and my dad had brown eyes. My siblings had brown, blue, and I ended up with green eyes. Not bright green, but between blue and green. My ancestry from my mom is Scandinavian, and my father is northern European - maybe English, Irish and Scottish. My kids had blue eyes at birth that turned to green.
My father had gray eyes. His parents were both of almost 100% German descent. Their families immigrated to what is now the USA in the first half of the 18th century.
I live in Canada, and have grey eyes. I hate them being thought to be green or blue, but truly they’re just grey. Honestly something very odd is that non of my ancestors going back about 150 years, due to my somthing amount of greats Grandmother. Telling me that in her life time her grandparents and parents had no grey eyes. She recently passed this year but she lived to 112. Not even today, but my family is odd like that. We are a quarter asian but the only one in my family with dark skin and brown eyes is my brother. My older sister has a normal skin colour not to pale but not to dark with an additional green eyes. Same with my youngest sister, she has blue eyes and darker skin than my older sister but not as dark as my brother. And me, oh I have the palest skin ever, and those grey eyes.
I have gray eyes with a thin yellowish/tannish circle around the irises. I always thought they look exactly like the color of the ocean before a storm..
My eyes are dark grey and I hated it growing up I used to say they was blue because I thought grey eyes was awful. But now I love that I have grey eyes.
I have gray eyes. I am incredibly light sensitive and always wear sunglasses outdoors even on overcast days. Genetic history is northern European. The cool thing about my eyes is that I can wear about seven different colors and my eyes will look that color. (Blues, greens, grays)
Grey eyes that look more green in summer, very pale grey when a bit hungover & very sensitive to bright lights so one of the reasons I love the night ❤
I wear sunglasses year round especially on overcast days because same color as my eyes. If I go outside without protection I'm blind and can't see anything. Only certain regions I can see outside without glasses and only part of the year .... rainy weather us better than snowy weather.
My eyes are grey and I can confirm, my eyes are very sensitive to light. Walking into a parking lot from the store temporarily blinds me, and my husband has to lead me to the car like a little old lady needing help to cross the street! Lol and yes, I wear polarized sunglasses. They are prescription lol
Blue eyes when young, which changed to smoky grey at adolescence. There are flecks of brown, yellow, and red in my eyes. If I get a slanting sun in my face, my eyes look vivid green! But they return to smoky grey without the yellow sunlight coming at an angle. They also reflect what I wear to some extent. Blue clothes make them look blue, while certain green colors make them look green. Rather fun, actually.
I have green eyes with a gray ring around the iris. My eyes change color depending on the light and what color I'm wearing, but they sometimes look darker, with a gray cast. I was born with blue eyes but they changed when I was 5 or 6.
I have green-grey eyes. On the rarest end of the chart. 😀 And now I know why I am so sensitive to bright ligth and not sqeamish, like people always tell me. Also I have ancestry in Sweden, there the grey part comes from...
My son has grey eyes with different coloured flecks, his change hew between pale grey to gold, and sometimes almost multicoloured. His father and entire paternal family have blue eyes, I have two different coloured hazel eyes (green-blue and green-brown), my family have either blue or brown eyes. His (my son's) ancestry collectively is Irish, Scottish, English, German, French, and another country which is just referred to as the Norse country (?). He is the first one known to have grey eyes in both families, as I was the first to have two different coloured eyes in both sides of my family. 👍🇦🇺
Yep. Grey eyes here. Bright lights are blinding to me and extremely uncomfortable. Especially those office lights. My home is mostly dark with a lot of indirect lighting
gray eyes and blonde hair here. also very light sensitive, but then i was also born with optic nerves 6x normal size. because of that i can see very well in the dark. a lot of celtic blood here
My ancestry is northern German, Swedish, Danish, English and Irish.i have grey eyes but im the only one in family with them. My mother's eyes are green, my Dad's were blue, my sivblings all had either blue, geeen or hazel eyes. My husband's eyes are very very blue, and our children have green or blue eyes. So I'm fairly unique even in my family.
I have grey eyes. I used to think they were blue, but there's very little color to them...they're like stone-washed jeans. Very stone-washed. I was also born with platinum blonde hair, so I think there's a link there.
Spanish Greek and German descendant here with gray eyes living in Asia. Super sensitive to light and I've gone to several eye doctors here for that and they've all told me there's nothing wrong with my eyes and to deal with it. As soon as the sun is up I tear up and even get migraines from light. The price we pay for having a rare eyecolor. But I also so really well in the dark so it's a trade-off i guess😊
Gray/green eyes here, and sometimes they look blue. I love my eyes but as much as light bothered me, I had no idea it was a sensitivity because of the color of my iris. I thought I was just being a baby about the lights lol
I have central Congenital heterochromia in a few colours. My outer ring is a mid to dark blue, followed by a broader pale grey blue which gets more grey towards the centre. Just before the iris it's then a golden amber colour. I was born with this and no one else in my family has similar eyes. All my family have just blue eyes with the exception of my real dad having green. My heritage is mainly southern irish, a bit of welsh, tiny bit of norweigan and a dash of Scottish. Also got what is deemed as germanic europe too according to dna ( netherlands/ Germany etc). Natural hair colour is a warm brown with natural aurburn streaks.
I have grey eyes, and i have never in all my life wondered why I had them up until now, even though I know how blue eyes originated. Thanks for making this! And a shout out to my grey eyed brothers and sisters. I'm British, I'm English, but I have some Scottish and some Irish ancestry as well as English
I have green eyes and red hair. Being a late riser by nature, if i must get up early, i turn on a bright light. It's comforting and eases the awakening process. I wish i could safely sleep outdoors so the bright sun shining directly on me would wake me up.
I have a mixture of grey and green, mostly grey, my mum and my grandad on my father’s side was grey eyed. I would say my eyes are mostly grey with abit of green.
Welshman here with small portion of irish, I had red hair.. Before I lost it.. and grey eyes, they can change to a greeny colour in bright light or if I get really pissed off, a Dr friend wondered if colour change was related to a blood pressure increase. My night vision is excellent to the point I hardly use lights in house when I'm by myself. bright lights can easily set off migraines for me. Sunglasses are a must.
My eyes are blue, yet they will change to grey when I am unwell or overly tired. Sometimes, in some lighting, they go violet. I have no idea why or how that happens. And yes, I am extremely light-sensitive but have excellent night vision. Something about my vision that was revealed through testing is that when I look at yellow, it gradually changes green, red often changes to purple. My Ophthalmologist told me that this is because my eyes process blue differently. Have you ever heard of that? Note: The grey-eyed goddess Athena does not take her name from Athens, Athens takes its name from the goddess Athena.
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Thoughts are why "English" are not included in this Celtic Session? English genetics are largely Briton and Gaul, with some Frankish and Lowland West Germanic.
Scotland in parts has similar genetics but with the Norse also. Scot genes are unique in the blend of the Gaelic and Norse but also West Germanic. Likewise England's best mix is it's own. Though both can be similar at times. Western England is still more Briton generally.
Do an England 'Celt' video? '
Algeria wouldn't surprise me: Vandals, Gepids, Suebi, they all came originally from the northern Polish coast. Add White slaves and female trading, and there is no surprise.
My wife has grey eyes. I can confirm they are very attractive, even though she is now approaching 70 years old, they're still the most attractive eyes I've ever known.
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As a non-morning person, when I need to get up early, I have found it very helpful to turn on a bright light, or, if I have the energy to get up and go outdoors, the sunlight is very soothing.
I have gray eyes. Enormously, painfully light sensitive. On the other hand, I have thumping night vision.
I've got grey eyes and remember permanent head aches and watering eyes through highschool because we couldn't wear sunglasses...
Me too 🙈
agreed bright light hurts. And good night vision.
Me too, I hate using torches in the dark because my night vision is so good. Do you lot suffer from snow blindness too? I used to have an albino (I know its called Cremello now) horse and he and I had problems with glare, both having watery eyes all the time!
@@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws if the sun is bright during the day yes it can be a painful issue. Reflecting off the snow.
shout out to the grey eyes folk
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I've got one pale green eye and one grey eye. World minorities unite! Yeet!!!
Yep, American here with West European ancestry and I have grey eyes… today. Other days they are grey-green when they feel like changing. And I hate the brightness, living in “The South” we get plenty of sun! ☀️ I live in dark sunglasses. 😎 ✌🏻
Yeah, I have grey eyes that reflect the colors that I wear, from green to gold, and they are so light sensitive that I have been prescribed sunglasses, my wife and kids are always shocked by how good my night vision is, they all have blue eyes. Never been genetically tested, so not sure of the origins.
Funny. I am West European with American/Jewish ancestry and I have grey eyes most of the time. Sometimes light blue, rarely green-ish. I love sun, taking sunbathing without glasses, just eyes closed. We are like twins from the mirror 😅
I live in the northeast and I gotta say- the glare off the snow is something, but it is summer that makes me literally have to walk to my car crying and blind.
But at least they’re pretty 😭
Here with Grey green eyes with Celtic Galician ancestry relating with the suns brightness to our eyes. Annoying but for sure funny too
Grey green here from England but 50% Irish Gene's. Pale skin and sun dodger.
Mine are grayish blue with the gold/brown specs. My eyes seem to change color and sometimes look greenish.
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Mine are grayish blue too but I have a ring of gold around my pupil. My don’t get green but outside they turn almost white
I have grey eyes, with a hint of blue. My son and 5 siblings are the same. We got them from our dad. They have different colour flecks in them. I've always wished for bluer ones, or green, but I just appreciate that they work.
At school, kids used to call me Exorcist because of my fair skin and gray eyes. I used to want colored contacts until I met my husband, and he told me they were the feature he fell in love with first. The only negative now is super sensitivity to light.
Yep. Mine are changeable depending on what I wear: sometimes grey, green or pale blue.
Same here am Scottish and mine are also grey /green/ blue .
Mine too😮
I’ve seen opaque grey eyes in South Texas among people with Spanish heritage. Pale skin, black hair and grey eyes. Very beautiful combo.
This is a very celtic irish combo too, I heard the dark hair was brought here by Spanish, my family all have dark hair fair skin that tans and blue green ir grey eyes ❤
My daughter has this combo. She has Irish, Belgian, German, Scottish, African, and British heritage
A driver’s license clerk wrote ‘blue’ for my eyes, but an eye specialist said they were gray! I hate bright sunlight as well and sunglasses are a must, even when I use my iPhone or iPad sometimes! Thank you Viking forebears! Could have left me in Norway!
I have light gray almost silver eyes. I am mostly of Swedish ancestry. I too have a terrible time with to much light. Headlights at night nearly blind me. I have to wear special yellow tinted glasses to drive at night
@@Vikinggirl1679 I might try that as well! Good tip!
Yeah when I got my drivers license there wasn’t a gray option so blue was close enoight
@@bruhhhhmoment4848 I guess from a little distance it’s difficult to tell.
My mom is from Northern Germany and has grey eyes. She was very proud of them and had many complaints through the years from strangers. I was born with brown eyes and wished I had her eye color growing up. Also, her grey eyes had a neat trick of reflecting the color of the shirts she wear if the light hits right. This was very informative, thank you.
My eyes are the same, and my father, whose family came to the US from Krakow, had the similar eyes, but my eyes also have a dark blue ring around the iris. People have many times asked if I wear contact lenses to match my blouses! But I don't, my grey eyes will reflect the blue, the green, the aqua and especially dark grey colors I wear. The most noticeable is green and aqua reflection.
I also have grey eyes And you're right about the reflecting colour... mine don't change so much rhe colours but hues. Like they're neutrally grey, but on a sunny day they reflect the sky and go BRIGHT blue, and near the ocean, around trees or on cloudy days they look a deep grey-green. It really is helpful for clothes 😂 you're right haha. I'm from Manchester in England.
Now you've done it. I've got grey/green eyes and now I'm feeling all special like.
I've got one pale green eye and one grey eye. World minorities unite! Yeet!!!
My son has hazel-green- grey eyes. They shift colors according to the color of clothes he wears. Light levels also change his eyes.
Mine are similar but Blue-grey-Green.
Same. What it means? So we're shape shifting or something 😅😅
My eyes are grey green, but were blue as a child. They are very light sensitive. In almost all the photos of me as a child I am squinting or trying to cover my eyes. Never had sunglasses! My eyes change color depending on what I am wearing. But if I cry they become very green. Irish ancestry. My mum’s were a beautiful hazel, my dad’s blue grey.
That's my eyes too. Ever noticed if mood can change the color?
@@horsetarget123I have grey eyes with gold flecks, but in the morning they are bright, vividly blue. They also go bright blue when I cry and darker, almost navy blue when I'm angry; My mother always used to know when I was in a bad mood before I did. (I have pretty severe alexithymia)
I'm of Scots-Irish heritage and have grey eyes.
There's a guy on CZcams called Rainbolt who is maybe the world's best geoguesser, and he has grey eyes.
Caitlin Clark of the WNBA also has grey eyes.
You might need to look again at CC
I’m 50% Scottish with grey-green eyes, always wondered why I seemed more sensitive to light 😂
I am 28% scottish and 4% irish and have grey green eyes too. Confirmed by my opthomologist.
@@Brittanyjustgoesi am English with a bit of Welsh and Irish and I have grey eyes. My ancestors have never lived anywhere else but my mum has blue eyes and it is a big difference and means some colours suit her which dont suit me at all. I have to wear forest colours
Yep, I have grey eyes. When I moved to the US, they marked me as blue eyes. Also, I was once pulled over for speeding. The PO insisted that I update my DL to state my real eye color. Green. Lol, I was wearing a green shirt.
BTW, I'm 1/3 Algerian from the Berber tribe.💕💕💕
Yes, I have received similar attention in the past. Nowadays, when I get a new DMV photo I usually wear something to make them obvious. Made a comment upthread that reflects my eyes changing colors
same happened with my mom when she first got her license (i'm also part chaoui mine are hazel though lol)
I have hazel, the army told me they were green
@@brianc9374I call my hazel camouflage color.
The U.S. is so weird about this. I spent my whole life with people telling me they were blue, green, or hazel. One day my dad finally said "Your eyes aren't blue. They're grey." Well I'll be damned...didn’t even know that was an option.
I am of Norwegian heritage and have gray eyes… but sometimes have a green gray look. I am very sensitive to bright light. People have always commented on my unusual eye color
I’m English with gray eyes… I share the struggle with the sun light
I'm an Irishman with gray eyes although they can look faded green in certain lighting
Love it
Same here except I’m female & live in “The South” (USA) with Celtic ancestry among a smattering of others. 😎 ✌🏻
Same here! Green/gray eyes
My husband is almost all Irish, with only a very small bit of German. He and his parents, as well as one of our sons, all have grey eyes. I once read a description of the ancient Irish, before the Celtic arrival, as having "grey eyes and dark hair."
@Verityization the ancient precelt stories usually mention the 3 main hair colors but often blue green and Grey eyes.
Icy eyes mightve meant gray instead of blue
I have green-blue-grey eyes. My eye color is usually "influenced" by the color of the shirt that i'm wearing. Almost all of my ancestors from both of my family are of English descent, with some Scottish and Dutch thrown in the mix. My maternal grandfather's family came down to New Hampshire from Quebec to work in the mills there in the mid-1800s, so there may be some French too.
I'm also grey/blue/green. My mother says when I'm extremely angry they go more stone grey, but usually from a distance they seem more blue
I’m Irish/Scottish/welsh and German with a small amount of Native American, South Asian, and African DNA on 23andme and I have gray eyes. They usually look dark gray but can also look grey green or gray blue. I also have olive skin and my alleles on some of my skin pigmentation genes cause darker skin and hair pigmentation so i think it’s interesting how I got gene variants for eye color that make my eyes lighter pigmented but also several gene variants and alleles for darker skin and hair.
Particularly, my genotype for the SLC45A2 gene (one of the main skin pigmentation genes) on 23andme is CG, the C allele is virtually absent in Europeans and it comes from my small amount of Native American ancestry. I think it’s cool how it’s possible to have both lighter pigmentation genetic variants while also having darker pigmentation variants in the same person.
mate, honestly you are not Irish, Scottish, Welsh or German. You can only be one. It's a nationality. Pick one. Best to go with where you and your family live
Nationalities are defined by your passport and culture. Did you grow up in Ireland, the UK or Germany? What's your favourite tayto flavour? What does the Broons mean to you? What does going for 'my messages' mean? when is the best time to drink Irn Bru? what is the correct response to bore da, und spinnst du, bist du wirklich deutsche? these are so basic, yet I'm going to bet you, as an Irish, Scottish, Welsh and German person can't answer then without research. THAT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT. Look at your passport, that tells you your nationality. Please do not mix heritage with nationality. We are more than happy to learn of your heritage, but don't claim to 'be'. If you are born in Belgium, grow up there, but both your parents are danish, guess what, you're Belgian
We are all mixed. That's because we are human. My dad had grey eyes. He was Irish, as in born there, not "I'm Irish, Portuguese, part Iranian and Japanese", but liked to claim they were grey through some Italian heritage (wishful thinking, no evidence in living memory), but as I said, we are all mixed
Your DNA reveals you are human (well done) a fixation on weird DNA/race is regarded as ever so slightly suspect in Western Europe
Incidentally, you cite Irish, Scottish, Welsh and German, but not English. Do you know how freakishly unlikely that is on your DNA scale? Are you ever so slightly racist???
Genetics is Nature's lottery. 😊
@@chandleryoung9515 same here grey eyes to light blue
My father was Ashkenazi Jewish, born in Poland, had grey eyes. My maternal grandmother, also Ashkenazi Jewish, but born in Riga, Latvia, also had grey eyes.
One explanation for the grey blue & green eyes in the Middle East I heard just the other day on a podcast was that Vikings would capture women from Northern Europe to be traded in the Middle East to be used in harems etc. not sure how accurate that is but it’s one theory I’ve heard
Very interesting, thanks. I will need to look more into that
Algéria is not in the middle east, but it was one of the most important slave trade area for the ottoman empire during their occupation of northern Africa, algerians were known to practice piracy and would organize razzias on european coasts, taking slaves. That's actualy the reason why they got occupied by the french later , to make the piracy stop.
@@backintimealwyn5736 Amazingly it was the US that stopped the corsair trade in slavery. The newly formed USA couldn't afford to pay off the corsairs and as they were so far away from North Africa they couldn't maintain naval patrols to protect US trading vessels ... so they simple sent every warship they had to Algiers and bombarded it, boarding and scuttling every ship they found.
Crude but effective.
Both the British and French paid the corsairs to leave their ships alone and only target the other side. The corsairs just took the money from both sides and carried on as normal.
In terms of eye colour taking slaves would definitely bring variable eye colours in but as North Africa has had migration in and out of Europe for millennia then its probably had variable eye colour for millennia as well.
@@backintimealwyn5736Exactly! People tend to forget about the ottomans slave trading. One can wonder why.
@@SirHjelm because they did'nt come up with grievance politics, the west did, when we stop , it stops. It's time now.
Northwest European's have quite the diverse eye and hair colour. I'm Scots-Irish, my hair is light brown with a blonde tinge. My beard is brown with a red tinge but my moustache is yellow. Eyes are light blue.. Superb video!
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I saw a young Polynesian man who worked for McDonald's , with the most stunning Grey eyes , he looked like a wolf , a rare dude indeed
I read a report yesterday saying it's now regarded that grey/gray eyes are the rarest, and green is second rarest.
Mine are medium blueish gray with this weird yellow halo / flare around the pupil like the person at 5:13. Mostly Irish Scottish background
Mine too. I'm Scottish.
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My Mom's sister had gray eyes and they run in our Stumpf/Kreiger line from Bavaria.
I have short legs ... they run to catch up in my family 😁
Both those names & the short legs sound quite familiar to us , here in Pennsylvania (USA)
i have grey eyes dark brown hair frequently asked if im irish from the border reiver area on my father's side of family. thanks for another interesting podcast.lisa Thompson.
My Dad had pale grey eyes which looked like the foam on ocean waves. His family came from Ireland as far back as anyone could remember. Both his parents were from Ireland. As a child he had bright red hair which turned black by age 18. His skin was also very pale. My Mom (Northern European) had light brown hair and eyes. I have hazel eyes with a sun burst of brown/amber with light teal rings. My sister has pale blue eyes and both of us are redheads with very pale skin. I was taught in college that brown eyes would cancel out blue eyes and thus my sister and I both should have had brown eyes. However that was ages ago and your videos are enlightening.
We joke in our family , some genes are too feisty to be recessive when they ought to 😁
The eyes in your family sound like poetry.
I have grey eyes …. The lack of pigment basically reflects whatever color the sky is. The sky is overcast and cloudy my eyes look really washed out. If the sky is blue, my eyes look a lot lighter blue, but still very pale. I have to wear sunglasses all the time.
I have gray eyes with a tad of blue. They came out of my grandmother who was from Messenia, very close to the Nestor 's palace. As is mentioned about Goddess Athena, gray eyes are around with Hellenic peoples for millennia. I believe that it is a trait that was developed through night hunting in wooden and mountainous areas.
According to Wikipedia, Athena was probably named after the city of Athens, which is strange because, also according to Wikipedia, Athens was named after the god of Athena. Something doesn't add up.
@@KenFullman the city was named after the Goddess, not the other way around
@@user-vw1vf5cw7d I also believe that the city was named after the godess. Seems some out there have misunderstood.
I'm half Irish decent. That's where my grey eyes come from! Both my parents had hazel.
Yep! I have grey eyes. For years everyone thought I had blue and I even would call my eyes blue for limited options to choose from when describing my color. Then I realized my eyes aren't blue at all. They are grey with yellow and brown flecks in them. Definitely grey and I love them. My youngest son also has beautiful grey eyes.
OMG I just fell in love with your accent, I could listen to this all dea.
I know that Romans described Picts & Cimbri as gray eyed people. They said Franks as having Bluish Gray yes. Procopius said Slavs had gray eyes.
I am certainly attracted to women with off color eyes.
We Italians have a lot of grey eyes and it’s a fact, for example myself I have Grey Bluish eye from my grandmothers side
And no we don’t look like the Godfather film….. we are not all in Italy “Mediterraneans”
@@Ajemone How do you know you are not descended from Langobards, Ostrogoths, Scirians, Rugians, Heruli & Turculingi?
@@ronaldwinfield307 I’m R1b U-152 by haplogroup
@@ronaldwinfield307 I have some some Germanic dna but I am 70% Italian so no it’s highly unlikely and the Germanics are not so special to have all the possible genes “ONLY THEM” it’s stereotypes and even us Mediterranean we have the same genes but in different promotion and quantity and for example I believe from my personal experience as an ITALIAN, that they are more people with Grey eyes than with the Blue eyes gene (I’m R1b U-152 not R1b U-106 or I1)
My eyes are grey and I spend 95% of the time outside in the Australian sun and squinting ,People walk past me and wave but unless they are 2 metres in front of me ,I don't know who they are..
Hi I am Spanish with grey hazel eyes. My grandma (Spanish also) had light grey eyes ( some people said blue, but in fact they were grey). One of my cousins has light grey eyes also... In my family there are all eyes colours: brown, hazel,green, greys and blues. We are all Spanish. My DNA is 80 percent North Spain and Southern France + 20 percent NorthWest European ( Denmark, Dutchland and England) Best regards! ! UN Abrazo! ! Saludos!
Dutchland? You mean the Netherlands?
@@marjet2228 Sure... Yes.
@@marjet2228 I guess I am considered a Spanish Caucasian? Right? As l don't have any African or black DNA... Moreover I have thin lips which come from people in Northern Countries, a trait to protect from cold weather... Southern Europeans normally have big mouth lips
Caucasian is white. If you're Spanish, you are typically white.
I'm American with Scot/Irish ancestors and my father's family, and me, all have very pale grey eyes which my son also inherited. Yeah bright light is a problem
The Berbers certainly have a high ratio of blue and grey eyes, noticeable with a lot of Berber footballers playing in the Netherlands and France. That goes back centuries due to their movements and trading.
Yes, several Germanic tribes which explored south crossed into north Africa. Those Berbers might possibly be related to some of them.
I doubt they would change the whole genome of the population.
Berbers had these features way before due to old migration of the ice age but also with the migration of the Anatolian Farmers.
Also in Iran and Turkey too.
My mom has grey eyes too. I'm from Turkey
Grey-eyed here, from Central Europe. My eyes are very sensitive to light and cannot tolerate any eye-makeup, so no eyeliner or mascara for me. Sometimes they look blueish grey.
My dad has striking blue, my mother beautiful green, and I got grey. I was bummed for decades, but have learned to love them. Stormy greys that lighten and darken with my moods, and definitely reflect what I'm wearing.
The Vandals, a Germanic people, estimated to have numbered 80,000 people crossed into North Africa and conquered the coastal region of Algeria and Tunisia. So that may explain the grey eyes from their genetic legacy........ maybe???
Interesting thought, thanks. I will need to look more into that
There are a lot of people with green and hazel eyes in that area too. Also don't forget that area was settled by Romans for hundreds of years.
@@serahloeffelroberts9901when writing my comment I made the assumption (which is usually a mistake) that like now many if not all the cultures surrounding the Mediterranean where dark haired and had brown eyes. So maybe the green and hazel (and there would have to be some blue as well) along with the grey could've come from the Germanic tribes that invaded and settled in Rome's western European and North African regions??? I'm no expert it was just a thought that came to mind
I'm lithuanian and my eyes are grey. I have Ukrainan heritage. Hair colour dark brown almost black. My eyes are not sensitive to light at all. Like most of us on sunny day I'm wearing sun glasses. I have sharp visibility very clear close and far.
I have grey eyes with a thick black ring around the iris. I can see really well in dim light & at night. I struggle with the artificial glare of fluro lights & oncoming car headlights at night.
My husband and one of my sons have grey eyes. My husband is primarily Irish descent, with a small bit of German. I read once that the ancient Irish, who predated the Celtic influx, had "gray eyes and dark hair."
Very cool and interesting, thank you!
Thanks
I’m a fair skinned red head with grey eyes. I’ve always answered “blue” when asked eyed colour but they aren’t really blue. They’re grey. However, if I wear certain colours (cobalt blue) or use certain coloured eyeshadow ( warm / orangey/ browns/ pinky browns) my eyes pop more blue. Red hair and blue eyes are rare, apparently. My eldest daughter has true blue eyes. My youngest more grey. Are we unicorns?. It’s so interesting that grey eyes could be an adaptation to seasons for northern hemisphere.
My dad has gray eyes, three of my kids have gray eyes. My sister has four kids with gray eyes. Spanish with some Irish descent.
I have double central heterochromia. The outer band is blue/green gray and the central circular band is grey.I am Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and also Scottish, Irish, English, Welsh and well as other Northern European. I am the only one in my immediate family with heterochromia and both my daughters have inherited it. My eyes are intensely sensitive to light during rhe day and oncoming light at night blinds me. This was a very interesting video.
In Italy there are a lot of people with gray eyes with all the variations from light to dark and for example I have Bluish Grays and they always confuse me between the 2 or even every now then in the heat it happens that they lighten temporarily and look light green lol . In my family the dominant color is Blue but my 2 grandmothers have gray eyes and I inherited the Grey/Blue color from my father side, while from my mother side had my maternal grandmother has light gray eyes and other my relatives also inherited the gray having the blue has dominant, like my cousin who always inherited the blue gray from her father's side and my aunt from my mother's side has stone gray with a bit of amber as a halo
Gray eyes (and red hair), and my eyes are what might be considered slate-colored. Very photo sensitive, and see very well in low lighting, especially at night, driving (until some idiot approaches with high beam headlights on!).
Do you prefer warm white lightbulbs or cool white lightbulbs?
@@TheKrispyfort Not sure I understand what constitutes "warm" or "cool" bulb, could you elaborate?
@@EyeSeeThruYou From what i understand warm white has that yellowish tint to it where as cool white has a bluish tint. Then you have hard/harsh white. That is the really painful one. Think white LED
@@lupaswolfshead9971 Thank you!
@@EyeSeeThruYou your welcome. That is my interpretation of the description words the other used. From colours recommended painting/decorating walls of all things lol.
I have a mixture of colors in my eyes because I have heterochromia. One eye is a mixture of grey, green and hazel, the other eye is grey with a yellow ring around the pupil but it can look blue. In my passport it says I have blue eyes but people often think my eyes are green. My eyecolor depends on what I am wearing. I have come to the conclusion that they are grey and not blue (which I always thought). My father and grandfather had very grey eyes.
I'm Scottish and have grey eyes but can look blue if wearing blue or green if wearing green sometimes they look dark or light depending on light conditions. My sister has Hazel eyes, and brother blue eyes.
My dad had the most beautiful gray eyes. Like the perfect overcast sky. His eyes were so bright and beautiful and he had this dark black hair and freckles and he smelled like sunshine.
My great great grandfather Charles Fisk(e) had light gray eyes with dark brown hair and a dark complexion. And, from what I’ve been told, it was a striking combination. He was born about 1806 somewhere in New York State 🇺🇸 and died in Pennsylvania 🇺🇸 in 1881. Another thing I heard was a ladies man. He had at least 3 wives and possibly one common-law wife or girlfriend and possibly other women too. My sister always had more light gray looking eyes to me than the blue that she thought she had. They were always so light looking. My eyes faded quite a bit from brown to a lighter green-brown now. And I have mild cataracts, so I have to wear a certain type of shading on my eyes to protect them from the sun. My daughter-in-law has olive-green eyes. They’re really pretty.
I wonder if the grey eyed populations of Algeria may have origins in the slaves that were abducted from Britain, Ireland, etc to North Africa(?).
A lot of Brits were taken away when the Romans left Britain too.
This is likely the correct answer.
Exactly that!
Not true, the people Shawia people live in a mountain area in Algeria and are not the same as the Arabic people, my husband tells me its over 15 hours drive to the mountains where they live. They are farming folk and in all likelyhood werent treated well by the other Algerian ethnic groups. Thus their remoteness and having grey eyes because in a country as huge as Algeria, it suggests a limited gene pool. (15 hours drive from Algiers).
@@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws Easy enough to check with modern DNA testing.
I'm Irish-Spanish. My eyes are grey, most of the time. In Summer they have very vivid blue & green flecks. Sometimes amber flecks too. I'm light sensitive . It gives me migraines, but I love bright sunshine. That's when they change. I've always received positive comments on how "unusual" my eyes are. And I've not met many people with this same colouringMothers are vivid blue, fathers dark brown. Good to see others with the same on here.
I recently went to the opthomologist because I have a freckle in my eye, and they want to monitor it. I was asked, "Do you know what color your eyes are?". I said, "I think blue or green. They change color's. " She said, "You have the 2 rarest eye colors." She said I have green and grey eyes
I come from a heterochromatic family on my mother's side. We are of Cherokee and Irish descent. One of my aunties has one blue and one green eye. Most of my mother's family has Central Heterochromia. Another auntie has emerald green eyes with a chocolate ring around the center. Another has blue with a gold ring. I have dark grey with a gold ring. I thought another auntie had brown eyes, but she actually had a thin dark grey outer ring with a thick dark chocolate ring in the center. And my Mother had light grey with a golden ring. We all grew up thinking we had hazel eyes, except for the first auntie I mentioned. I live in the South East USA, just above the Florida - Georgia line. Many people confuse Hazel with Central Heterochromia.
I always thought I had blue eyes. For my entire life people have commented that my eyes are a very striking colour.
I never thought blue eyes were that exceptional, but now I’m realising I actually have GREY eyes; maybe other people are just more perceptive about eye colours than I am lmao
Mine are in between blue and gray, leaning on the more grayish side with some crypts of light brown and a thin, muted ring of yellow around the iris. Last time I had my eyes checked, the Dr said I have the kind of eyes most people want. Except it comes with being EXTREMELY light sensitive. A clear sky a snow-fallen winter day is just as, if not more, painful than a sunny summer day. I wear sunglasses inside most of the time, and my husband gets on me for turning lights OFF when I walk in a room. Plus side, my night vision is fantastic.
While I’m primarily Irish/Scottish, I do have a Grandfather that was from what is now called Slovenia. I did also come back with some West Asian dna, primarily in the region around Iraq/Turkey/Iran/Georgia. I assume the West Asian is due to some migration from there into the Bulkians in some more recent ancestors.
From Croatia, my father and his sister have fully grey eyes. I ended up with green but have have patches of grey mixed in mainly on the outer rim.
hi,just curious,what color have your mum?
@@Gullvivas She has blue
@@jaskobut9335 thank you for answer,this is exiting -my son have green eyes.His mum blue and dad grey. So maybe mix of grey and blue become green? ;) I wonder when one parent has blue,and the other green -what the baby will get ;)
@@Gullvivas Interesting but I guess it just depends on which genes you inherit. It could be brown from some great grandfather. :)
@@jaskobut9335 Yes I am pointing to genes! and I know it suddenly can turn up something from older relatives too ;)
I'm so lucky, I have pure light grey eyes, like sea foam, with a black ring around my iris. People have always commented on it and some will just stop and stare. It has made me a little shy perhaps to make eye contact. And the collagen thing, I look younger than I am. My grandmother was the same.
The dark ring around your iris is called a limbal ring. It's said they make a person more attractive.
As a proofreader in NYc at night, I had to wear sunglasses if we used ceiling lighting, it made a glare bounce from the paper
I enjoy looking at the reflections in all of these eye pictures
I was born in Netherlands and have grey eyes ancestry Swedish and British
Really liked your opening photo!!! It's my eyes! have Norwegian, Swedish, and Saami ancestry, and I have gray eyes. I always thought it was just weird because they sometimes change colors, I see by that photo why it is. Most people think they're "blue", but that's only because I favor blue shirts. If I wear a sage green shirt , they appear "green". A brown shirt will make them look "hazel". People think that gray eyes don't even exist, until I put something white underneath them ,when it's made obvious they're gray. I am *very* light sensitive, live in sunglasses. I've been known to wear polarized sunglasses at night when driving on dark roads because otherwise oncoming headlights will blind me ! Thanks for this fun and informative video❤😊
My earliest memory of my eye color was gray, but maybe it was just a transition of blue. My mom had blue eyes and my dad had brown eyes. My siblings had brown, blue, and I ended up with green eyes. Not bright green, but between blue and green. My ancestry from my mom is Scandinavian, and my father is northern European - maybe English, Irish and Scottish. My kids had blue eyes at birth that turned to green.
My father had gray eyes. His parents were both of almost 100% German descent. Their families immigrated to what is now the USA in the first half of the 18th century.
I have gray eyes too!
Weird recommendation. But very interesting!
I live in Canada, and have grey eyes. I hate them being thought to be green or blue, but truly they’re just grey. Honestly something very odd is that non of my ancestors going back about 150 years, due to my somthing amount of greats Grandmother. Telling me that in her life time her grandparents and parents had no grey eyes. She recently passed this year but she lived to 112. Not even today, but my family is odd like that. We are a quarter asian but the only one in my family with dark skin and brown eyes is my brother. My older sister has a normal skin colour not to pale but not to dark with an additional green eyes. Same with my youngest sister, she has blue eyes and darker skin than my older sister but not as dark as my brother. And me, oh I have the palest skin ever, and those grey eyes.
I have gray eyes with a thin yellowish/tannish circle around the irises. I always thought they look exactly like the color of the ocean before a storm..
Hello, my friend, thank you for doing my eye color. I'd love to grab a Pint and talk about it, mate.
Thank you
My eyes are dark grey and I hated it growing up I used to say they was blue because I thought grey eyes was awful. But now I love that I have grey eyes.
I have gray eyes. I am incredibly light sensitive and always wear sunglasses outdoors even on overcast days. Genetic history is northern European.
The cool thing about my eyes is that I can wear about seven different colors and my eyes will look that color. (Blues, greens, grays)
Grey eyes that look more green in summer, very pale grey when a bit hungover & very sensitive to bright lights so one of the reasons I love the night ❤
I wear sunglasses year round especially on overcast days because same color as my eyes. If I go outside without protection I'm blind and can't see anything. Only certain regions I can see outside without glasses and only part of the year .... rainy weather us better than snowy weather.
My eyes are grey and I can confirm, my eyes are very sensitive to light. Walking into a parking lot from the store temporarily blinds me, and my husband has to lead me to the car like a little old lady needing help to cross the street! Lol and yes, I wear polarized sunglasses. They are prescription lol
both my parents have green eyes , my 4 siblings have blue eye , i & my husband have brown eyes , our son has gray eyes
Middle eastern with perfect grey eyes that change colour depending on sky colony or shirt colour.
I have greygreenblue eyes. Depending on light and mood the coulour apears more of one coulour. North german with mostly skandinavian and slavic genes.
Blue eyes when young, which changed to smoky grey at adolescence. There are flecks of brown, yellow, and red in my eyes. If I get a slanting sun in my face, my eyes look vivid green! But they return to smoky grey without the yellow sunlight coming at an angle. They also reflect what I wear to some extent. Blue clothes make them look blue, while certain green colors make them look green. Rather fun, actually.
I have blue-grey eyes with a gold halo around the pupil
Same!
I have green eyes with a gray ring around the iris. My eyes change color depending on the light and what color I'm wearing, but they sometimes look darker, with a gray cast. I was born with blue eyes but they changed when I was 5 or 6.
My grandfather had eyes like that and my mother are a hint bluer!! Mine are similar !! Grandpop was Scotish!! ❤
I have green-grey eyes. On the rarest end of the chart. 😀 And now I know why I am so sensitive to bright ligth and not sqeamish, like people always tell me. Also I have ancestry in Sweden, there the grey part comes from...
My son has grey eyes with different coloured flecks, his change hew between pale grey to gold, and sometimes almost multicoloured. His father and entire paternal family have blue eyes, I have two different coloured hazel eyes (green-blue and green-brown), my family have either blue or brown eyes. His (my son's) ancestry collectively is Irish, Scottish, English, German, French, and another country which is just referred to as the Norse country (?). He is the first one known to have grey eyes in both families, as I was the first to have two different coloured eyes in both sides of my family. 👍🇦🇺
Yep. Grey eyes here. Bright lights are blinding to me and extremely uncomfortable. Especially those office lights. My home is mostly dark with a lot of indirect lighting
gray eyes and blonde hair here. also very light sensitive, but then i was also born with optic nerves 6x normal size. because of that i can see very well in the dark. a lot of celtic blood here
My ancestry is northern German, Swedish, Danish, English and Irish.i have grey eyes but im the only one in family with them. My mother's eyes are green, my Dad's were blue, my sivblings all had either blue, geeen or hazel eyes. My husband's eyes are very very blue, and our children have green or blue eyes. So I'm fairly unique even in my family.
I have grey eyes. I used to think they were blue, but there's very little color to them...they're like stone-washed jeans. Very stone-washed. I was also born with platinum blonde hair, so I think there's a link there.
Spanish Greek and German descendant here with gray eyes living in Asia. Super sensitive to light and I've gone to several eye doctors here for that and they've all told me there's nothing wrong with my eyes and to deal with it. As soon as the sun is up I tear up and even get migraines from light. The price we pay for having a rare eyecolor. But I also so really well in the dark so it's a trade-off i guess😊
Gray/green eyes here, and sometimes they look blue. I love my eyes but as much as light bothered me, I had no idea it was a sensitivity because of the color of my iris. I thought I was just being a baby about the lights lol
I have central Congenital heterochromia in a few colours. My outer ring is a mid to dark blue, followed by a broader pale grey blue which gets more grey towards the centre. Just before the iris it's then a golden amber colour. I was born with this and no one else in my family has similar eyes. All my family have just blue eyes with the exception of my real dad having green. My heritage is mainly southern irish, a bit of welsh, tiny bit of norweigan and a dash of Scottish. Also got what is deemed as germanic europe too according to dna ( netherlands/ Germany etc).
Natural hair colour is a warm brown with natural aurburn streaks.
I have grey eyes, and i have never in all my life wondered why I had them up until now, even though I know how blue eyes originated. Thanks for making this! And a shout out to my grey eyed brothers and sisters. I'm British, I'm English, but I have some Scottish and some Irish ancestry as well as English
I have grey eyes with a few specs, and my daughter has brown around her irises and grey around the outside.
I have green eyes and red hair. Being a late riser by nature, if i must get up early, i turn on a bright light. It's comforting and eases the awakening process. I wish i could safely sleep outdoors so the bright sun shining directly on me would wake me up.
I have a mixture of grey and green, mostly grey, my mum and my grandad on my father’s side was grey eyed.
I would say my eyes are mostly grey with abit of green.
Welshman here with small portion of irish, I had red hair.. Before I lost it.. and grey eyes, they can change to a greeny colour in bright light or if I get really pissed off, a Dr friend wondered if colour change was related to a blood pressure increase. My night vision is excellent to the point I hardly use lights in house when I'm by myself. bright lights can easily set off migraines for me. Sunglasses are a must.
My eyes are blue, yet they will change to grey when I am unwell or overly tired. Sometimes, in some lighting, they go violet. I have no idea why or how that happens.
And yes, I am extremely light-sensitive but have excellent night vision.
Something about my vision that was revealed through testing is that when I look at yellow, it gradually changes green, red often changes to purple.
My Ophthalmologist told me that this is because my eyes process blue differently. Have you ever heard of that?
Note: The grey-eyed goddess Athena does not take her name from Athens, Athens takes its name from the goddess Athena.
My eyes are a darker gray than what you showed as your examples. My eyes are definitely gray, but a darker shade.
Mine are too. I like to describe them as “suede blue” even though they’re definitely grey.