What color eyes do you like on a woman or man?

Once at a fair I saw a pretty black woman with blue eyes and I though how cool is that. So, after a while I just had to ask her about that, and she told me she as wearing blue contact lenses and I though again how cool is that. Then I thought that if I was to wear contact lenses, I would like to wear red ones.
 

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Sorta, relative...did you know?.. David Bowie had one brown eye and and blue eye...

a condition called Heterochromia.
 
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My eyes are kind of greyish blue. While I have always been attracted to blue eyed women I never set that as a criteria for dating.

Something I noticed when I was prowling the dating sites after I divorced. Many, many women claimed in their profiles to have green eyes, but they didn't. I even mentioned it a couple of times and they just blamed the light or what they were wearing but "oh yes, they're green". In my life I have only met two women with truly green eyes. One was a girl I dated during my mid twenties and the other was an older lady who was in spin classes I use to take. True green eyes are something to behold.
 
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On another board years ago on a thread about eyes, I posted the above close-up image of my own eyes. One can see bits of brown, per below indicating flecks of melanin in my stroma. Also each eye color is a bit different for this ancestral northern European.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(anatomy)

White babies are usually born blue-eyed since no pigment is in the stroma (part of cornea) , and their eyes appear blue due to scattering and selective absorption from the posterior epithelium.

https://www.sciencealert.com/science-how-blue-eyes-get-their-colour
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Your eyes aren't blue (or green) because they contain pigmented cells...their colour is actually structural - and it involves some pretty interesting physics. The coloured part of your eye is called the iris, and it's made up of two layers - the epithelium at the back and the stroma at the front. The epithelium is only two cells thick and contains black-brown pigments - the dark specks that some people have in their eye is, in fact, the epithelium peeking through.

The stroma, in contrast, is made up of colourless collagen fibres. Sometimes the stroma contains a dark pigment called melanin, and sometimes it contains excess collagen deposits. And, fascinatingly, it's these two factors that control your eye colour.

Brown eyes, for example, contain a high concentration of melanin in their stroma, which absorbs most of the light entering the eye regardless of collagen deposits, giving them their dark colour.

Green eyes don't have much melanin in them, but they also have no collagen deposits. This means that while some of the light entering them is absorbed by the pigment, the particles in the stroma also scatter light as a result of something called the Tyndall effect, which creates a blue hue (it's similar to Rayleigh scattering which makes the sky look blue). Combined with the brown melanin, this results in the eyes appearing green.

Blue eyes are potentially the most fascinating, as their colour is entirely structural. People with blue eyes have a completely colourless stroma with no pigment at all, and it also contains no excess collagen deposits. This means that all the light that enters it is scattered back into the atmosphere and as a result of the Tyndall effect, creates a blue hue.
 
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Eyes are not "my thing." I think a woman's sense of humour, her personality and her sparkle for living count a lot more for me. Oh, if she loves hiking and traveling, that is "icing on the cake."
 
Brown, primarily. Although there have been occasions that I've been drawn to women with blue eyes(eg: the mother of my kids).
 

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