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Definitely my lips. I have fairly full lips, getting thinner with age, but still there. I also like my brows when they are filled in.
Definitely my eyes, since I can play them up and make many versatile looks!
Eyes.
Eyes. I get complimented the most on them, too. This customer at the coffee shop I work at even calls me “Beautiful Eyes” lol 🙂
My green, almond shaped, hooded eyes! Because the color is quite unexpected with the shape, they look really exotic! And an odd shade of green at that…teal-green with gold flecking thats more noticeable near the pupils (I wish there was a simpler color description!). Btw, your eye color is gorgeous, Christine, yours also have multi-tonal irises, too!
Your eyes sound gorgeous, Nancy T!
Thank you so much, Rachel R! Your eyes sound very beautiful too, and similar to mine! I struggle with my color description of mine because I don’t know what color “name” mine are: Green? Hazel? Weirder yet, they change color with what I have on or if I’m sick or upset!?!
Yay! Isn’t it fun?! Make a gallery! Take a picture each day if your eyes, 3 times s day, close ups of just the Iris, and do it for a year! Or the whole eye.. The results are so fascinating!!! I’m sure you’ll see things you never thought your eyes did! 😀
Yep, it is! And now I finally know the “name” for my nondescript eye color, but only after I looked up what on earth Central Heterochromia meant because I had never heard of this before. And then I saw pics of Angelina Jolie’s eyes. OMG, They look like mine!!!! Sometimes more green, sometimes light golden green, sometimes teal or turquoise ! This is so bizarre that it took 56 years to get a clear answer, because yeah, it’s fairly confounding how they change. I have got to ask my ophthalmologist next time I go in if that’s what they are.
That’s cool, Nancy! How pretty! 😀 ChC for you! 🙂 I have multiple rings that change shape & color around the pupil, which affect the whole eye, as wel as more than one around the Iris and the colors in between are in constant flux. I did photograph an eye everyday and people didn’t know the eyes were all from the same person. It’s so odd! But it is fascinating! Yay! 56 years and voila! You have a gorgeous contrast going on! 🙂
Same here. Mine are brown and amber around the pupil, and pale green, olive green and blue-gray on the outer iris, with dark gray outer ring. My parents always called them hazel, but everyone else called them green or brown.
Mine usually look khaki green or olive green, but it depends on lighting and what eyeshadow colors I’m wearing. Sometimes they look blue-gray or green-gray, and occasionally really brown (more so when I was younger; I think they’ve lightened up with age). Never blue or teal, though.
6 out of every 1000 people have some degree of Central Heterochromia, and the added teal, turquoise or blue *seems* to be the difference between it and hazel, also most the time, the added brown tones in CHC are lighter, too, like gold or light amber. It’s a whole new eye color definition for me, so I’m just finding out! I just usually called mine green for years, LoL! Both types can appear to change color though.
Very interesting! Genetics is so fascinating…all the variation, and eyes are subject to incomplete dominance. I should research it further. As for me, I’m going to continue to call my eyes hazel green for now. 🙂
I agree! Christine has very beautiful eyes, a quite rare blend in the darker spectrum that still has lighter shades popping through on occasion. Quite remarkable. This is why I got into studying genomes. I’m fascinated by these mutations and the truth behind “albino eyes” is really fun to learn! Brown eyes can be albino! It has to do with the melanin and layers.. As to where and how light can get in and be in filtered. So endlessly fun to research! 😀
Rachel, your eyes sound so pretty also! My mom has a similar situation as yours but with her eyes being much lighter in the green and olive areas, never really going teal either, but they are very cat-like! She used to call hers hazel until finding out that hazel refers to an amber color! True hazel eyes, please google! There’s a giant misconception! Genetics IS fascinating!! Real hazel eyes stay hazel. You’ll see in pictures! Now my mom has been putting green and it makes more sense! Photo IDs don’t have a “multiple, check my mood,” choice, so I’ll just put green too but I’m prepared for their arguments about them being blue, or looking much darker.. My sister had brown eyes all her life and closer to 40 she received some hazel poking in quite pretty! Age, medications, life experiences & genetics are all factors but answers remain a mystery.. I say enjoy! 😀
Christine has awesomely gorgeous and brightly amber-russet hazel eyes with a deep charcoal- green outer ring! Very unique! All of us on this thread lucked out in the eye-color department, and so did Christine. It’s fun to have something a bit, or even more than a bit, different and unique from general! And genetics really are fascinating and intriguing, although ChC is a mutation, but a good one to have. Many with it also have microchimerism.
lips! 🙂
eyes!
All of them! I’ve vowed to stop kind of liking only parts of me that society doesn’t deem TOO hideous, so I may as well accept all of them equally. 🙂
Hard to say. I can find something wrong with pretty much everything. But I guess I’ll go with eyes.
“”Hard to say. I can find something **wrong** with pretty much everything. But I guess I’ll go with eyes.””
Am hoping someday you’ll be able to switch that word with awesome or something more self loving
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate myself. I’m just very critical and hard on myself I guess. I can get quite obsessed with my flaws and imperfections. I wish I wouldn’t though 🙂
Probably my skin. I’ve taken good care of it all my life and have avoided the sun and now when people learn my age, they generally don’t believe me (I actually came out of anesthetic after knee surgery about 7 years ago to hear 2 nurses, who I guess were looking at my chart, saying “It says here she’s 53 – she sure doesn’t look 53!”). So, yeah, it’s probably my skin.
My eyes!
On myself? My eyes. On other people, I love to look at eyes and lips… and eyebrows. I really love eyebrows.
Eyes.
Definitely my eyes. I love to play them up with long lashes and bright eyeliners
Eyebrows!
Mouth, lips & teeth included!
My eyebrows! I do virtually nothing to them (occasionally tweeze a few strays, and that’s it) and still get more compliments on my brows than anything else.
My eyes. They are hazel/green, large and almond-shaped, and wide-set, with slight hooding. Everyone tells me how pretty they are, so I play them up and usually try to bring out the green as much as I can.
Sounds weird, but my bone structure. I have good cheekbones and a nice jawline.
My small lips. I’m aware of the full lips trend, but I don’t think it would suit me. I don’t use lip liners and I like applying a bright color on the center of my lips and a light stain outwards to make them look even smaller.
On other people, I always notice light eye colors. Most people in my country have dark brown eyes, like mine, so I think blue, green, and golden brown eyes are striking. And I can’t think of anything more rare and attractive than heterochomia.
*heterochromia
I have to say lips. There are so many great colors and formulas to accentuate– decorate them with! Although I get the most compliments about my eyes. They are sooooo artificially blue, and sometimes green.
In general, eyes. On me, definitely eyes because I have rare constant evolving ChC and dense, extremely long, dark, thick, curled eyelashes, both top and bottom, which makes only using mascara enough for me! 🙂 It’s a fun thing to have because it freaks people out in a good way, but I never actually know what color they are each second as they are ceaselessly altering, but the variations are all able to be seen in macro images! I am the only member in my family with this and photos have been used to showcase my rare “bizarre” case of Central Heterochromia. I’ve always been fascinated with anything that changes color so when I learned about my eyes, finally understanding them, I thought it was super fun! It suits me! Literally and figuratively. 😉
You have such unusual coloring. I always think you must look like a fairy princess (or a unicorn 🙂 ).
I agree with Rachel R, your coloring DOES bring to mind a Fairie Princess, very ethereal and almost Anime’-like!
Hi Nancy! Lol! Thanks! 🙂 One of my best friends always said I was like a live anime cartoon, to him.. He’s a comedian now. 😀
🙂 LOL! My entire life I’ve been told, “Hey, you know what? You look like a fairy!” So you’re not alone in thinking that! Nicknames, pet names.. Pretty much all covered for a lifetime.. I’m super petite with delicate features that are still somehow pronounced & tiny ears that are close to head and shift back a bit.. Always doing something smiley & whimsical, mostly oblivious to whatever is around me.. And I do not age. I look younger now than I did when I was 17! Nothing about me has ever been easy or usual or “normal.” Your comment is so adorable to me because you picked up on it in a really sweet way that made it feel special and less strange. Thank you for that, Rachel. <3 My unicorn must be somewhere! (I can dream) 🙂 Oh! I'm very sensitive to light & my eyes do funky things in sunlight & in the dark! Being told to stop doing that, it's freaky, stop it.. When I'm not doing anything… It's made me withdraw & I never ever make eye contact while speaking unless the person is someone very close to me because by making eye contact, the male species have become enchanted and gal in love, and I don't want that! I'm different enough! I met a much younger male with eyes like mine and we could talk forever because both of us would have our eyes changing colors in the same places at the same times while we conversed! That fascinated me that we could relate and out rarity mirrored each each other! That was interesting, fun and understood. I fear eye contact otherwise because of odd insinuations. I am HUMAN. (Shh.. Don't tell my wings. 😉 )
People can be so rude without meaning to, like saying “it’s freaky.” You’re not freaky: You’re ethereal, beautiful, heavenly. Remember that. <3
Aww, <3 🙂 Thank you, Rachel. I'll remember that, thank you! 🙂
My lips!..
My eyes! Hooded and all, I think they’re a good shape and it’s pretty easy to work with makeup-wise! Also, my cheekbones after I’ve contoured them to the heavens. I’ve always liked my brows too 🙂
I default to eyes and lips like most people, but this year I’ve come to appreciate brows much more, and now I like looking at people’s cheekbones. *shrug*
I would say my brown eyes and my freckles. I use to hate my freckles and I even tried looking for ways to get rid of them, but then one day, I asked myself why. I realize that they make me unique and that I don’t have to look like everyone else. I use to want straight hair and clear skin like everyone else, but not anymore. I’ve embraced my freckle face and curly/ringlet hair!
I know it sounds weird… but I’d have to say it’s my left eye. It seems that accumulative stress and trauma have taken it’s toll on me and I’m experiencing relatively mild (in comparison to other cases) Bell’s Palsy on the right side of my face. I have to apply my makeup differently on each side in order to look somewhat balanced — draw the eyebrow higher, create a new crease on my eyelid, apply contour to define the cheek, and overdraw my lips on one side. I’m still struggling with the eyebrow and blush placement, haven’t quite perfected those yet. One of the reasons why I choose to dye my hair intense, dark red is to take some of the focus off of my face.
Eyes
I don’t have a “favorite”… Each feature on its own is nothing unique/spectacular; however, they all work together, and make for just the right balance of symmetry & contrast. For example, I have extremely dark, cool-toned, large eyes, yet a fair-light, neutral skintone, making them really stand out. My lips aren’t particularly full, nor are they thin, but they have a nice shape, and allow me to wear bold lip colors without looking extreme, or nudes without looking washed out (again, my skintone enhances the undertone, nas well, so there is always enough color/contrast). I also have defined cheekbones & strong jawline, and classic Greco-Roman nose. Finally, when I was in college, we measured our faces in my stage makeup class, and to everyone’s surprise, my features were completely symmetrical (apparently, it’s rare…?).
My eye colour – unusual mix of blue and grey. They are almond shaped and hooded.
Next my skin – I have very good skin with few wrinkles. Although I am 60+, people think I look younger because of my skin and makeup.
You do look great; I thought you were closer to my age! (45)
Eyes and complexion!
my only facial feature i have ever liked are my eyes. thats why i am obsessed with eye shadow.
My eyes. My eyes are hazel. But, when I was younger ,it seemed that everyone thought they were brown or I guess they picked up more brown than green. Since I had my daughter, I noticed they are more light and green. My lashes are are also fairly long. Although medication seems to have thinned them. Hopefully, after this surgery I can lower of come off that medicine and get some back.
I’m obsessed with my lips!
eyes…..I have one blue eye and one green eye. People notice them all of the time and compliment me on them.
My eyes and skin
Lips and cheeks!
Eyebrows… They’re naturally arched. My. Mom’s and my brothers eyebrows are too
And skin the when I get a tan from being outside. (not like baking, just normal outdoor activities)
Eyes!
Skin and cheekbones.
Great question, Christine!
My smile.
Lately I’m obsessed with cheekbones!
Full lips.
Oh, I couldn’t choose. It’s all me. Haha