The next time I hear someone make the claim that their eyes randomly 'change colour', I am going to beat them stupid with whatever object is handy. I am so sick to death of hearing this I cannot adequately communicate how annoying I find it except by screaming wordlessly.
Listen, you worthless little fuckbuckets: your eyes are not changing colour. Nobody in normal circumstances, barring medical abnormalities, has eyes that change colour. Ever. At all. Full stop.
I can't tell you how often I hear people--particularly girls, but men do this as well and it seems to be some kind of desperate bid to make yourself seem more interesting or alluring or mysterious or exciting or something. You aren't. And your eyes are not changing colour. It's called 'contrast' you assbiscuits. Look it the fuck up.
The brain is a funny thing, especially with regard to how it processes visual stimuli. The eye isn't quite as fine-tuned a piece of equipment as we're inclined to think and, likewise, the brain interprets things in ways that might not always fit with reality. Everyone has seen that 'simultaneous contrast' illusion--where two small squares of the same colour appear different when situated in a background of different contrasting colours. The small coloured squares don't change--they merely appear different because they are being contrasted with different colours. Your visual processing wants the colours it sees to do one of two things: appear as close as possible to one another, or as different as possible. This is why artists and fashion designers and makeup artists and interior decorators of all flavours talk about how to 'bring out' certain colours by either surrounding them with a similar colour or a completely different one. You can emphasize the colour blue with either more blue, or a colour opposite blue on the colour wheel, like orange or red. Because your brain wants the colours to be really similar or really different, in both cases it makes the blue more intense based not on the actual intensity of the blue itself but on what immediately surrounds it.
It's like making yourself look more attractive by surrounding yourself with ugly friends.
When a colour is a combination of others, it can be made to look more one way or the other by carefully picking the colours close to it. People with, say, blue-grey eyes can make their eyes look much more blue by wearing certain colours of makeup and clothing--or more grey, by again picking certain colours to surround them.
The eye itself is not changing colour. It hasn't changed at all. It's an optical illusion.
You don't see this with people who have very distinct single-colour eyes. People with black eyes don't go, 'Oh, my eyes look orange sometimes, they totes change colours!!' Because there isn't enough variation there to produce the illusion. It's something you find with people who have greyish or hazel eyes--they think their eyes change colour. No, they don't. Educate yourselves because every time you say that shit, god kills a kitten. Seriously. He does.
My eyes do appear different colours occasionally, depending on my makeup and my clothing and the light. But I stopped saying my eyes 'change colour' when I was about fourteen because I realized that that sounded stupid as fuck and also wasn't actually happening. I should get off a photo the next time I cry or something. When my eyes go red and bloodshot, they look really intensely blue. My eyes are not actually blue--they're green. It's just that, surrounded by red, for some reason they stand out as being quite blue.
Your eyes aren't changing colour. No one's are. Unless you're an infant or have an eye disease. You all need to stop telling people your eyes change colour. It's like saying your height changes, just because you happen to look shorter next to people taller than you and taller next to people who are shorter--it has to do with comparison, and not a change of reality.
Morons.
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