• Question: Why do we have different color eyes

    Asked by Ronaldo and Azz to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 13 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Ktrose384.
    • Photo: Richard Unwin

      Richard Unwin answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      Hi again – similar to the question on hair colour really – it depends on the amount of melanin made by the colouring ring in your eye. If you make none, the eye will appear blue There isn’t a blue pigment, as such – it’s the way the surface of the eye reflects light. The more melanin you make, the eye will appear browner. Melanin is also the pigment in your skin that means that you tan in the sun.

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