Despite the fact that blue eyes were the least common color until a few decades ago, 48% of people in the United Kingdom now have blue eyes. Green eyes make up 30% of the British population, with 22% having brown eyes. Blue is now the most commonly worn eye color in the United Kingdom.
Scientists have made a map of the eye colour of people in Britain. They found out that the most common colour is blue.
While blue eyes used to be the least common colour and were seen as a rarity, 48% of the British population now have blue eyes. This is followed by green eyes at 30%, with a mere 22% of the British population having brown eyes.
In the UK, an estimated 22 percent of the population has brown eyes — including dark brown eyes, light brown eyes and honey brown eyes. If you include hazel eyes (sometimes called hazel brown eyes), the prevalence is even higher. But the high prevalence doesn't mean all brown eyes look the same.
In fact, in Ireland and Scotland, more than three-fourths of the population has blue or green eyes – 86 percent!
When broken down by gender, men ranked gray, blue, and green eyes as the most attractive, while women said they were most attracted to green, hazel, and gray eyes. Despite brown eyes ranking at the bottom of our perceived attraction scale, approximately 79% of the world's population sports melanin-rich brown eyes.
Almost half (48%) of Brits are natural brunettes, around three in ten (29%) are natural blondes and 8% have natural black strands. Alex Fisher, Senior Beauty Analyst at Mintel, said: “As the majority of Brits have naturally darker hair, lightening their locks blonde is the nation's most obvious hair colour solution.
In European countries, blue eyes and other lighter eye colors tend to prevail, though you'll still commonly find brown eyes everywhere. Brown eyes in an otherwise mostly light-eyed region may point to a genetic leftover and a time in history during which everyone in the world had brown eyes.
The most common eye colour in Ireland is now blue, with more than half of Irish people blue-eyed, according to new research.
The largest concentration of green eyed people is in Ireland, Scotland and Northern Europe. In Ireland and Scotland, 86% of people have either blue or green eyes. There have been 16 genes identified that contribute to eye colour.
Interestingly, their eye colour will vary depending on the colour of their coat – British Blues have gold eyes, those with point colouring have blue eyes, and other eye colours range from golden to copper. The British Shorthair is a very intelligent, gentle cat breed who is well suited to calm and quiet life.
Green eyes are most common in Northern, Western and Central Europe. Around 8–10% of men and 18–21% of women in Iceland and 6% of men and 17% of women in the Netherlands, have green eyes. Among European Americans, green eyes are most common among those of recent Celtic and Germanic ancestry with about 16%.
There are plenty of blue-eyed Asians. This probably happens when the traditional blue-eyed allele comes into a family from a (possibly very distant) European ancestor. Blue eyes then resurface in a child generations later if they inherit the allele from both parents.
The way light scatters in hazel irises is a result of Rayleigh scattering, the same optical phenomenon that causes the sky to appear blue. Anyone can be born with hazel eyes, but it's most common in people of Brazilian, Middle Eastern, North African, or Spanish descent.
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Anyone can be born with hazel eyes, but it's most common in people of Brazilian, Middle Eastern, North African, or Spanish descent. When eyes are hazel, they are brown mixed with amber and green. In some cases, there are shades of gray, blue, and gold within the iris too. Brown eyes may also have some green in them.
Brown hair accounts for around 11 percent of the global population, with some of the most common shades including maple brown, light brown, dark brown, and walnut brown. Like black hair, brown hair occurs more commonly in certain countries, including Europe, Australia, Canada, and Asia.
Black hair is known to be the most common in the continents of Asia and Africa. Though this characteristic can also be seen throughout Europe as well, it is considerably less common. It can be found in Celtic populations such as in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Brown eyes, on the other hand, are the most common eye color, yet respondents to the study found them to be the least attractive. The possibility of altering the color of one's eyes from brown to hazel with the use of safe laser eye color alteration surgery is no longer a pipe dream.
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