Eyes lightening with age?

[Sarmata]

It's very streange...couse my grandma from my father side has light brown eyes when she was young(she said that, and she has some pictures and her eyes colour is written in her documents). And I know my grandma from time when she is about 60 years old, and now she is about
80 and her eyes are light blue !!! I was thinked, this is some kind of disease but her eyes are very good(not like mine). And how about that?

[Landie]

Originally Posted by Galaico

A cousin of mine used to have hazel eyes (greenish brown), until she was about 20, when her eyes turned green.

Hazel eyes and green ones are very close to each other, so a slight loss of eye pigmentation may turn hazel eyes (greenish brown) into green(rather brownish green) eyes. I even know two girls whose hazel eyes turn green in summer.

The same happen with two of my cousins (they are not related), they had brownish green (hazel), sometimes they look brown sometimes more green. And they turn completely green by the time they were 16.

[Vincent]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Well, that would be for an Ophthalmologist to decide. I wouldn't trust any self-diagnosis.

I agree. But I do not have any real problems with my sight that would make me want to visit one of these

Of course that there may be other reasons. Off the top of my head, there is vampirism.

Who knows. Since my earliest childhood I am a fan of Vlad Tepes

Not 'warmer' areas, but areas with high sunlight exposition.

For some reasons (e.g. nordicist freaks who believe that they should live under the snow, to be more nordic, but also more normal reasons) some people are led to believe that it is related to the coldest regions.

But this is not the case with eskimos and other true boreal people, for who the reflection of the sun over the ice and snow produces the same effect as you would get in tropical areas, if not stronger.

My bad. I was just too quick, and didn't think about what I wrote. I also meant sunlight exposition, but in this second as it seems, I
assumed for some way: higher sunlight exposition = warmer

Is the exposition in boreal areas high enough that it will produce dark eyed humans as in points closer to the equator? Or are other factors involved? What's the orgin of blue eyes then, if they can also be found at some individuals in India f.e.? Or to make it simple: Does the eye color depend on the same factors as the skin color? Gloger's rule?

Originally Posted by Sarmata

I was thinked, this is some kind of disease but her eyes are very good(not like mine). And how about that?

You are wearing glasses, or what do you mean by your eyes are not as good as hers?

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Vincent

Is the exposition in boreal areas high enough that it will produce dark eyed humans as in points closer to the equator?

Ever been in the snow in high mountains, for example? The reflection of sun rays on the snow produces a strong effect in fact. That would also account for the darker pigmentation of the Lapps, even when they are the true people of the North.

[Ariets]

its normal

[Lutiferre]

Originally Posted by svin

Recently one guy on our university forum posted picture of his eyes and he said that he had darker eyes before (brown, to be precise). Current colour you can see on this photo:




I wonder how common is lightening of eyes with age?

Yellowish-green like those eyes could easily appear brown in another picture. It is merely a matter of light conditions, less likely the eyes changing.

It is my experience that eyes would more typically darken with age.

[Carnyx]

From what I recall about my grand-mother's eyes, they had lost a little of their original colour. They appeared like blueish like if they had been bleached.

[Lutiferre]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

From what I recall from my grand-mother's eyes, they had lost a little of their original colour. They appeared like blueish.

The elderly indeed tend to get a different, "pale" eye color. But they also get depigmented grey hair.

Probably has to do with the melanocytic clock, which gradually declines the melanocyte secretion with the years - this is often more easily observed in black people (Africans) and other people of heavy pigmentation, where the elderly are often seen to get pale and much lighter than in their youth. Similarly, Europeans, or allow me to say whites, are often blond when they are born, but gradually get brown, black or red hair.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Lutiferre

Similarly, Europeans, or allow me to say whites, are often blond when they are born, but gradually get brown, black or red hair.

Actually, from red to blond or brown is also common.

And I wouldn't say "blond" at birth, but a very light brown.

[Lutiferre]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Actually, from red to blond or brown is also common.

And I wouldn't say "blond" at birth, but a very light brown.

It varies much. But for me, a such light brown is in the blond category. But depigmented at least. Other ways around exist though - I know a guy who had red hair when he was born, who has black hair now.

[Sarmata]

Originally Posted by Vincent

You are wearing glasses, or what do you mean by your eyes are not as good as hers?

My grandma eyes are Aryan blue and mine are "untermensch" dark.... no it's joke of course I wearing glasses and thats all.

[Lutiferre]

Originally Posted by Sarmata

My grandma eyes are Aryan blue and mine are "untermensch" dark.... no it's joke of course I wearing glasses and thats all.

Even Hitler had "untermensch" eyes

[Sarmata]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Actually, from red to blond or brown is also common.

And I wouldn't say "blond" at birth, but a very light brown.

I as a child had light blond hair(very light almost "silver") but now my hair are dark (dark brown). Its rather common in Europeans countryies but "eyes question" is still streange to me.

[Sarmata]

Originally Posted by Lutiferre

Even Hitler had "untermensch" eyes

Yeah Adolf Hitler what a "untermensch" scum

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Sarmata

Aryan blue

I thought.. maybe a colour, like navy blue or sky blue. I searched on the Merriam-Webster online and...

Merriam-Webster Online

.. first suggestion: urinal - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary