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⌈ Secret Post #3453 ⌋

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[Lori Maddox, Sable Starr]

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I feel the same, I don't find them any more prettier than other colours.

Well, if you're using that pic as an example, not very many RL blue eyed people have eyes like that.

Especially if they're not looking into glaringly bright light. Some very heavily-pattered blue-silver eyes look really off-putting/uncanny valley when under bright light because when the pupil gets that small, it gets lost among the pattern and it looks like the person has pale blue blotchy pupil-less eyes, and having no pupils (especially in light eyes) is one of the #1 visceral creep-inducers of all time. Dark eyes don't have the same problem.

All blue eyes or only pale ones like in the picture?

Are you from a part of the world where blue eyes are rare? I remember seeing a secret where someone had read a book where a person told someone with blue eyes that they looked like a skull that you could see the sky through.

I remember seeing a secret where someone had read a book where a person told someone with blue eyes that they looked like a skull that you could see the sky through.

Might have been Lawrence!Anon.

*stares*

*grumbles and crosses a very similar sentence out of my WIP*

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tabaqui - 2016-06-18 04:21 (UTC) - Expand

I never even notice people's eyes unless they are unusual. I like pale blue eyes because they stand out, and most eyes don't stand out to me.

lots of people don't like blue eyes!

That dude's eyes are pretty creepy, but I think that shade of blue is pretty rare. Also I agree with the anon above about pupils. The presence of visible dark pupils helps a lot.

Well, the REALLY pale, "unnatural" blue eyes can fall under Uncanny Valley. Sometimes, in certain lighting, the iris blends in with the whites and it gets even more off putting.

For me that happens more when someone has irises that are so dark, sometimes they appear to blend in with the pupils, e.g. Stephen Colbert.

I think I have minor colorblindness because I often can't distinguish blue eyes as being that color unless they're freakishly pale, which rather scares the crap out of me as I'm used to dark eyes. So...not a fan of blue eyes, either.

Nah. Most people's eye colors aren't as distinguishable as fiction would like us to believe, existing as some shade of medium-ish/dark grey-green-blue-brown that if hard-pressed you wouldn't be able to accurately identify 5 minutes after talking to someone.

(Anonymous) - 2016-06-19 08:10 (UTC) - Expand

Bright blue eyes (Like, Misha Collins blue) run in my family and they can be unsettling for sure. More vivid blue than the washed out ones in the picture. I still think they're pretty, but I'm not surprised you find them offputting.

My BF has grey-blue-green eyes and they're less intense.

My father and my mother's mother both had light, sort of cornflower, blue eyes. And even so it is a little bit freaky colour to me!

I once met a girl from Lancs who had these insane I-can't-believe-they're-not-contacts bright blue eyes. That was wild.

On the other hand, bluish grey eyes? Totally normal to me. Like, most of the rest of my relatives on my mother's side have dull blue or grey eyes of some kind.

I laugh at people who think bright blue eyes are the standard of attractiveness. Really intensely blue eyes are kind of creepy! And often it just clashes with the rest of one's colouring.

I actually think really pale blue eyes are super pretty and fascinating .
Unfortunately, I have gross brownish hazel eyes so part of that fascination is also jealously lol.

philippos42 - 2016-06-18 00:27 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2016-06-18 00:28 (UTC) - Expand

Honestly it seems that so many characters in fiction have blue eyes, it's become boring to me. I guess no one ever points out brown eyes.

Also it seems like disproportion amount of actors have blue eyes. Hollywood beauty standards, I guess.

I find light eyes can be lovely with dark hair but if somebody's super blond they just look really washed out to me.

Green eyes master race

Well, nothing you can do about that reaction. As long as you don't make it too obvious that you're uncomfortable when interacting with people irl.

Very light eyes like the ones pictured look uncanny-ish like something is missing from the face to me, so... same I guess.

Those eyes are really pretty, but then I really like very pale blue or blue-grey eyes.

Not everyone does, though. I've lived in places where blue eyes are less common and where the vast majority finds any kind of blue eyes (not just the pale ones) creepy. I've been told it looks like "demon-eyes" or as if you are looking straight through the person's eyes and at the sky.

Vice-versa, I grew up in a place where blue eyes is common, and there brown eyes are ALSO considered prettier. And blue eyes are considered either cold or a sign of stupidity and naivite (because the people in the cities who were more "civilized" and "cultured" were also more likely to have brown eyes since people had moved there from other countries for many generations - whereas people in the countryside were more likely to have blue eyes since fewer people had moved there from other places.)

Yes, I have blue eyes, and yes, I was often told crap about them being cold/a sign of stupidity/naivite - and then I moved to a place where people told me they looked creepy. So no, blue eyes being pretty is not a general thing everywhere. Maybe mostly in the US?

(Anonymous) - 2016-06-18 10:36 (UTC) - Expand

If you really find blue eyes offputting, you should never travel to the Nordic countries. Most people don't have eyes of that exact shade, but blue is very common here.

I don't love light blue eyes like Travis Fimmel's (guy in OP's secret), but I do generally like blue eyes that are "normal" blue eyes.

Let's be real. Travis Fimmel totally got a modeling contract because of his creepy, striking light blue eyes. (That, and he was insanely attractive when he was younger and thinner)

I rarely notice eye colour, but I have learned that my light blue eyes have enough white that people get uncomfortable or feel intimidated when I make eye contact while talking. Asking around, I found there were a few people at school with equally light eyes that got the same reaction from people. So it's not rare to dislike or be weirded out by eye colour, I guess.