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What is the difference between hazel eyes and central heterochromia?

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B) Which one do you have… and…

C) Are you sure?

Here are some answers I have found:

What Are Their Differences? In short, the difference between hazel eyes and those with central heterochromia lies in how the melanin is dispersed. Hazel eyes can appear to be two different colors, but they blend together at some point, where central heterochromia has two very distinct rings of color within the iris.

Source: Vision Boutique

And from Quora:

“My understanding of the difference between hazel eyes and central heterochromia, is whether the two colors diffuse into one another.

Someone with hazel eyes, the brown diffuses into the region with the green. The amount of diffusion varies from person to person. This diffusion makes it appear like the eyes change colors with different light sources and changes in surrounding colors.

With central heterochromia, the areas of color are more distict. There is not a gradation in colors, but rather a distict transition from the inner color to the outer color of the iris. Usually, the inner color appears like a star pattern around the pupil.

In the photos below, the first image is an example of an eye with central heterochromia. Notice how distict the brown layer is from the outer layer.

The second photo is of someone with hazel eyes. While they are brown in the center and green in the outer layer, there is not a strong distinction between the two areas.”

“From the pictures you posted, I would call your eyes hazel, because the brown diffuses into the areas with the green.”

https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-truly-differentiate-between-hazel-eyes-and-central-heterochromia-Ive-seen-eyes-categorized-as-hazel-when-they-look-like-green-eyes-with-heterochromia/answer/Steff-Grimes?ch=10&oid=119343426&share=8badbd57&srid=XN4o&target_type=answer


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