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Gray eyes | The secret of this beautiful rarity

They say that the gray eyes have the color of the sea in winter, of the evening plumbing in the north-east countries, which is the look of the sounding people who look at the world with a halo of subtle recollection, melancholy and enormous curiosity.

Poetry says a lot about gray eyes, however, it is known that they are not very common.If it is your case, if your gaze dazzles with this special nuance, there will be moments when many tell you that you have the iris of the blue eye and not gray .Others, on the other hand, will tell you that in effect, that your look has the hue of the gleaming stones of the rivers, or of those magic marbles with which many of us played children.

Now...What determines that we have gray eyes? Are they due only to the weight of genetics? Today, in Science Daily Online, we teach it to you.In addition, we advance that if you have always wanted to have them of this color, at the end of the article we will show you something that may interest you a lot.

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Are the gray eyes really blue eyes?

We will start by telling you that, indeed, the blue and gray tones are very similar from the genetic point of view, although they are distinguished by very special nuances.

Gray eyes | The secret of this beautiful rarity

When talking about eye color, we know a lot about the brown hue, the green, the blue...but what about the gray eyes?

Gray eyes | The secret of this beautiful rarity

Let our face be framed by this color palette in the eyes is actually determined by two factors: the amount of melanin and the amount of protein we have in the corneal stroma.

Discover the secrets of the most mysterious eye color: gray

Let's review the operation in more detail of gray eyes, to better understand its essence:

  • As you know, the iris is the colored part of the eye. A fact of interest is that this part is formed by two zones, one front and one rear.In the center, is the stroma.
  • Some hazel or brown eyes are determined by a large amount of melanin in the front of the iris, which makes, for example, that directly receives the impact of light.
  • In the blue eyes , on the other hand, the light enters through that first outer layer of the iris and tries to reflect on the melanin on the back of this layer, however, it fails to do so.Why? Because it stays in the central part, in the stroma, formed by collagen, where the light hits to give way to this bluish coloration similar to that of the sky. It is what is known as Rayleigh dispersion .

    Gray eyes | The secret of this beautiful rarity

  • Now, with gray eyes there is something very curious.It is as if the sunlight tries to pass through a “cloudy” atmosphere.With blue eyes there is no problem, directly impacting with the stroma collagen gives way to this tone, but if your eyes are gray "there is something that alters" this equation.
  • In this case two aspects come together: the proteins in the part of the stroma and a thin layer of melanin on the outside of the iris .They are two elements that cause the reflection of the blue to be obscured, not to be "so pure", because there is an outer layer that as a «Clouds» cloud that reflection giving way to the gray color.

Gray eyes | The secret of this beautiful rarity

Some geneticists explain that the difference between blue eyes and gray eyes is like a regulator in a light switch.A little bit of melanin in the front from the eye it will give you that gray and sonic tone.However, it never hurts to remember that in all these features, the weight of genetics is basic, since a blue look will be determined by the OCA2 gene.

If we are carriers of this gene, then it will be the magic of proteins which will tell if our eyes are going to be blue or gray, depending on how much melanin is distributed in our iris.

Gray eyes | The secret of this beautiful rarity

Amazing mysteries that make us unique, don't you think? Would you also want them in this color? It's not that hard to get it… Keep reading!

Change your eye color to gray with...contact lenses

If you also have an eye color that isn't gray and you have I wish to have such mysterious looking irises, today you can stop cursing your genetics for not having given them naturally. Changing eye color is already something possible and easy thanks to the Colored contact lenses .

In Amazon there are several alternatives that offer good results, these are the ones we like the most:

Gray eyes | The secret of this beautiful rarity

You can even choose to have a lot of eyes more fancy trying a red contact lens , present in people with albinism, or violet , like the look that Elizabeth Taylor looked.

Gray eyes | The secret of this beautiful rarity

It is possible to have gray or red eyes with colored contact lenses

Colored contact lenses are a good option to change eye color temporarily, always and when you have very much in mind the hygiene and care they require and consult an ophthalmologist in case of discomfort.Did you imagine that it would be so and so simple to get gray eyes? How lucky we are to live in this era! Don't you think?

Don't hesitate to tell us what color your eyes are, also reminding you of our article:

-The 5 weirdest eye colors in the world

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