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by 2old2dieyoung on October 14th, 2007

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Do you know anybody with purple eyes? I've only ever seen one person with purple eyes, and I don't know if they were the natural color or colored contacts. I've heard that in some parts of the world purple eyes are common. (anyone know where?)

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  • by Anonymous on December 5th, 2008

    Anonymous

    Yes,I know a 12-yr old girl who has purple eyes.Purple eyes are very rare,not found commonly.

    Here's a picture of the girl I took:

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  • by kalbert801 on January 22nd, 2010

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    I am in my final year of an Ophthalmology fellowship. After four years of med school, five years of residency and my fellowship I can definitively state that violet eyes do exist and are natural. They are exceptionally rare. The iris has essentially three layers. An outer thin layer, a middle spongy layer, and a thin backing layer. Any and all of these layers can have varying degrees of melanin in them. The middle spongy layer also contains proteins that can be yellowish. The more melanin=more brown. Less melanin=bluer. Yellow proteins+blue=green. Yellow proteins+brown=amber. Hazel eyes are caused by any mix you can think of. This is an oversimplified explanation, but correct. Violet eyes are a kissing cousin of grey eyes (which also appear different colors based on the surrounding conditions). Grey eyes only have a small amount of melanin and it's only in the backmost iris layer and have no yellow protein. Violet eyes have almost no melanin and the purple color is caused by the blood vessels in the retina showing through. Red+Blue=Purple. Any less melanin and one would have pink albino eyes.

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  • by Arisztid on February 13th, 2008

    Arisztid

    I have light purple (or lavender) eyes.

    They are original equipment.

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  • by livolivia on December 12th, 2009

    livolivia

    I don't believe that they are common in any area...but people do have them usually a mutation in genetics causes them to have purple eyes. like when 2 blue eyed parents have a brown eyed baby. that's a mutation in genetics, as well as sometimes the baby will get them from an ancestor along the line. did u know that at the beginning of time, everyone had brown eyes? then a mutation occurred and a baby had blue eyes? well after a while, the blue eyes became common and we see them on lots of people today (same for hazel eyes, which came after blue eyes). sure enough, the same kind of thing happened with purple eyes, maybe soon we'll start seeing purple eyes on lots of people. and maybe it'll be hundreds more years till we do.

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  • by Galeanda on January 20th, 2008

    Galeanda

    Elizabeth Taylor had very beautiful deep violet colored eyes but they have changed as she ages. And I had a friend in middle school who had violet eyes, too.

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  • by Sheriff Raff -Answerhag on October 14th, 2007

    Sheriff Raff -Answerhag

    Liz Taylor has violet eyes.

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  • by celticmoonlight on August 27th, 2010

    celticmoonlight

    I Would love to have purple eyes! stuck with plain ol green. i did see someone oncewith very striking violet eyes, but they were probably contacts

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  • by Anonymous on June 26th, 2009

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    yeah according to the American Eye Association and island just off the coast of japan has a pop. of 56 people with purple eyes.

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  • by Linny100 on October 24th, 2008

    Linny100

    Yes the neighbor girl next door to me when i was youger had purple eyes.

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  • by Jericho on August 20th, 2008

    Jericho

    My great grandfather's eyes were lavender, and my grandfather's eyes were lavender blue. I wasn't lucky enough to get them, though; I got the green eyes. Not the hazely ones, but the true, grass green eyes.

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  • by Deela on May 10th, 2008

    Deela

    My grandson's eyes are lavender/blue. In daylight, they are more lavender. They are beautiful.

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  • by BeyonceFanatic on February 12th, 2008

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    i only know ppl with contacts who have purple eyes....that is crazy if its true that some ppl have purple eyes,which raises the question why isnt it common and why arent other colors in the rainbow eye colors? like red orange yellow purple blk white. why only brown,blue,hazel,green,grey.

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  • by Habba Wants Pizza on December 16th, 2007

    Habba Wants Pizza

    The appearance of violet eyes is thought to occur from the mixing of red and blue reflections.

    This is believed to be a result of either large quantities of the normally scarce red areas in the eye, or a small leakage of blood into the iris; however the number of people on record as having red eyes is believed to not exceed 20 (Recording of this condition started in 1964). - wiki

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  • by Linder_S on March 15th, 2011

    Linder_S

    I believe all of them were just a contacts.

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  • by Giorgos_G on February 11th, 2011

    Giorgos_G

    There is a great possibility for all of those (including me) with purple eyes to carry a mutation called Alexandria's Genesis.

    The Origins of the "Genesis"

    "Alexandria's Genesis," as it has been called since the 1960s, is a genetic mutation generally found in women of Euro-American (a.k.a., Caucasian) descent. This mutation can be traced as far as the Middle Ages in Northern Europe. The first known record of "Alexandria's Genesis" was written in the year CE 1330 (Common Era).
    A woman named Alexandria Augustine came into the world on April 29, CE 1329 in London, England. At the time, she appeared to be normal, but her parents soon noticed that her eyes were changing from the blue eyes Alexandria had at birth to the purple eyes she would have by her first birthday. The parents were startled by this dramatic change. They took her to their priest, thinking that a witch did this to their child, and that the priest might be able to ask God to change the eye color back. The priest told the parents that it was not the work of the devil, but a myth come true. This particular priest had heard a story about a race of people who had purple eyes. These humans were thought to have come from Egypt after a mysterious light flashed in the sky during a moonless night thousands of years ago. The purple-eyed humans also had very fair skin, and were thought to be spirits because of their appearance. The so-called "spirit people" eventually went north and vanished without a trace. The priest told her parents not to worry, for they had a special child in their hands and they should take good care of her.
    Eventually, Alexandria grew up to be a very beautiful woman, got married, had four children (all four were girls, and all four also had the mutation), never got sick, and died at the age of 150 of natural causes. It is this discovery that helped to name the genetic mutation when the gene was discovered in 1968.

    The Characteristics of "Alexandria's Genesis"

    The first characteristic of people with "Alexandria's Genesis" is their eye color. When someone is born with this genetic mutation, the eyes are either blue or gray at birth. At six months, the eyes begin their transformation from the original color to purple. This process is completed by the person's first birthday. A second process, where the eye color deepens, starts as soon as the first is completed. This slow process continues until the onset of puberty. By then, the eye will have become a dark purple, a deep purple, a royal purple, or a violet-blue color, and will be that color for the rest of their time. These changes do not affect the person's eyesight, though. If anything, the eyesight is, and remains until death, 20/20. Speaking of puberty, those who have the mutation will never grow any facial, body, pubic, or anal hair during this stage of growth. In fact, the only hair they will ever have is what is on their heads, in their ears and nose, their eyebrows, and their eyelashes. Women also have an added bonus beyond never having to shave: never buying tampons or pads. It turns out that females born with "Alexandria's Genesis" never menstruate in their lives. They are fertile, however, and can go through the same things that women without the mutation can go through every month. Beyond these differences, those with the mutation go through puberty as normally as everyone else does.

    Below are all of the characteristics of "Alexandria's Genesis."

    Clear, silver-like purple eyes (after 1st birthday; deepen in color until onset of puberty)

    No facial or body hair growth beyond what was already there at birth

    Dark brown or black hair

    Shimmering white skin that resist tanning and burning

    Lack of menstruation cycle (in women)

    Highly evolved immune system (has been known to resist every disease known to man so far)

    Appear 5-20 years younger (after the age of 21, the aging process slows down greatly; it stops completely between the ages of 40-50)

    Long life span (ranges from 130-170 years)

    Perfect vision

    Never overweight (their metabolism prevents the gaining of too much fat [a.k.a., partial lipodystophy])

    Well-developed and proportioned bodies

    Found mainly in women of Euro-American descent

    Women are the primary carriers of the mutation

    Children born from mothers with the mutation are also carriers

    Mutation remains active generation after generation

    Mutation grows stronger generation after generation


    An interesting aspect of this mutation is that if it passed on to a child whose mother or father is not of Euro-American descent, the child will receive all of the qualities of those who have the gene. The only quality that changes is the skin color; it is lighter than those without the gene are, but it is not as light as the parent with the mutation is. So far, this gene has shown up in children whose mother or father was Hispanic, Asian, or Arabic. If these children were to marry someone within their own race, their offspring would also develop the same characteristics. The most startling aspect of the biracial "Genesis" children is that they take on a more Euro-American appearance. Not much more is known about these children beyond these initial findings.

    Another Interesting Development

    In ten percent of the population that has "Alexandria's Genesis," there is another characteristic of this mutation that is increasing on a yearly basis: the processing of human waste… or lack thereof.
    As it turns out, in some of these people, the mutation is actually causing the digestive system to produce no waste. No one has found out how this is possible, but most scientists have a theory that may explain this increasing phenomenon.
    The digestion process goes through its normal procedure until the digested product enters the large intestine. It is there, scientists suggest, that the large intestine absorbs everything and uses the product to keep the body in top shape. This makes the bladder completely useless, and leaves the small intestine and rectum as just an opening. It is not much of a theory, since very little is still known about "Alexandria's Genesis."
    There are questions about this genetic mutation that remain unanswered. The biggest question left unanswered is where "Alexandria's Genesis" actually first appeared. Many researchers are looking into the myth of the "spirit people" of Egypt in order to find out if this mutation really did exist several thousands of years ago. If that is indeed the case, the next question to be answered is if this mutation is of Earth origin… or of a different place.

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  • by OPD on August 27th, 2010

    OPD

    Just for the record "Alexandria's Genesis" isn't real but people can have purple eyes

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  • by annieok on December 13th, 2010

    annieok

    I used to have a purple lavender when I was young but they changed to a mostly blue with a hint of green, sorry but I do not believe that picture is real, anyone I have seen with purple eyes they were not like that color at all and she dose not have like the line or patterns to her eyes like eyes do contacts have that sold color look to them

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  • by tookietookie123 on July 7th, 2009

    tookietookie123

    They're contacts... Only one women in the whole world had purple...

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  • by raymundo on April 6th, 2011

    raymundo

    The photo is Photoshopped.

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  • by Tormento on July 27th, 2009

    Tormento

    I have purple eyes you have a living witness. But my eyes do have a hint of magenta it appears

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  • by Lt. Shinysides on July 27th, 2009

    Lt. Shinysides

    I have one squinting purple eye

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  • by crouch123 on May 25th, 2011

    crouch123

    yes a girl in my class babe

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  • by mandabell73 on April 12th, 2009

    mandabell73

    I had the purple colored contacts at one time.

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