• Question: is your eye colour supposed to change?

    Asked by FLUFFY LAMPOST to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 17 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Sarah Beasley

      Sarah Beasley answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      It’s not necessarily supposed to, but it can! A lot of babies are born with blue eyes, for example, but change to brown or another colour as they get a bit older.

      Trauma could cause a change in eye colour, and so can the colour of your hair, appearance-wise anyway! During puberty or pregnancy the pigment may darken slightly. But on the whole, eye colour doesn’t change after the first year or two of life.

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Once you’re an adult, generally it doesn’t change, though with certain eye colours the lighting can make a bigger difference to the way the colour looks! Babies usually have eyes that are a different colour than they will when they were older (and kittens have the same thing)!

    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      @FLUFFY LAMPOST Emotions can change eye colour, such as anger or love, and about 10% of the population have eyes that change colour with age. However, any rapid or dramatic change in eye colour could indicate a problem and would need to be assessed by an eye doctor.

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