Why do some gingers with light carroty hair have navy blue or light brown eyes?

[gianmarioricco1]

How did that happen?
Almost everyone with light brown or sandy hair has regular light blue eyes.

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[Davystayn]

All the gingers I know have blue eyes, but like any other people with blue eyes, no different than anyone else with blue eyes. Some gingers have brown eyes but this is much rarer.

[Carlito's Way]

I wanna know why so many of them have very curly hair, almost mulatto hair (ive seen so many with such hair texture)

[Septentrion]

All the gingers I know have blue eyes, but like any other people with blue eyes, no different than anyone else with blue eyes. Some gingers have brown eyes but this is much rarer.

This has to do with genetics. Gingers in general tend to have light eyes, but some have brown eyes as well. There are plenty of blondes who are not blue - eyed rather brown - eyed in some parts of Europe. The same way, there are many blue - eyed brunettes.

[gianmarioricco1]

This has to do with genetics. Gingers in general tend to have light eyes, but some have brown eyes as well. There are plenty of blondes who are not blue - eyed rather brown - eyed in some parts of Europe. The same way, there are many blue - eyed brunettes.

Blonde hair and brown eyes is a thing?

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[Septentrion]

Blonde hair and brown eyes is a thing?

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Yes! Although the combination of blonde hair and brown eyes is uncommon. There is occurance of this in some European ethnic groups.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I knew a carrot top ginger with brown eyes.

[Anglo-Celtic]

They do? I thought that they all had green eyes.

[DraviXi99]

[Melkiirs]

They do? I thought that they all had green eyes.

Well there is no clear correlation red hair and lighter eyes in all populations unlike with blond. Red-haired individuals are not much more likely to be light eyed than lighter half or so of brown haired people within a given population. Southern Europeans but not Northern Europeans with red hair tend to be notably lighter eyed than the population at large. This is because the majority of Southern Europeans have deep brunette hair Fischer #4 which makes rufosity difficult to show. Redheads in South Europe will be least medium brown in lightness clearly lighter than average and lighter hair and eyes correlate. Red hair should associated with having markedly lighter eyes than average in South Europe but not North.

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In England based on Beddoe’s observations the frequency of light eyes among redheads is higher than the general population (~64%) but not as high as with blond hair. Distinctive red hair has to be fairly light and lighter hair and eyes are correlated. Darker eyes (brown to hazel) and red hair or even blond is still far from uncommon and you can see here:


In dark pigmented populations redheads may be much lighter eyed than the general population. Livi's Italian recruits with red hair were very significantly lighter than average. 50.2% of the recruits with red hair had light or intermediate eyes against 30.9% of the overall series. In Italy brown-black hair (Fischer-Saller U-Y) that is too dark to show a notable reddish tint is the strong majority. The red individuals would have to have at least medium brown hair. In Northern/Central Europe by contrast the most people are at least as light haired as dark auburn if not lighter auburn hair. The rule appears to be that the lighter haired a population the less difference in eye color from the overall population among is redheads and more obviously with blonds.

Italy:



This should make it clear that in a population as light haired as British redheads could not be so much lighter eyed as to make darker eyes especially uncommon.