I have medium to light Blonde hair and very dark brown eyes. My eyes show up black in most photos. It is possible. Also I am of adult age. To add to this weird color combination I have a light olive skin tone.
blonde hair and brown eyes is it even a genetic possiblity
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Totally possible.
Yep, I'm another brown-eyed natural redhead. (And so is my mother!)
Yep, I'm another brown-eyed natural redhead. (And so is my mother!)
Not true that blonde hair disappears with age in brown eyed people!
I am in my early 20's and I have Natural blonde hair(never died) and dark brown eyes.
Interestingly, non of my parents have blonde hair-- in fact, no one in my immediate family has light hair... must be some weird genetic inactivation/inheritance :S
I am in my early 20's and I have Natural blonde hair(never died) and dark brown eyes.
Interestingly, non of my parents have blonde hair-- in fact, no one in my immediate family has light hair... must be some weird genetic inactivation/inheritance :S
I find it hilarious that someone actually thought blondes could only have blue eyes.
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This sounds a lot like me, actually, though my eyes aren't super-dark, and my blonde is more medium-dark. I also have fair olive skin. My ethnic ancestry is French, Swedish, and French-Canadian First Nations. I've been told I look "exotic," "really white," "Mexican" (when I had a tan)... Basically, I think it's unsettling to some people to not be able to easily pinpoint someone's heritage based on looks. Not that it's any of their business at all.
Also related: I went to high school with a guy who was half-black; his skin was so fair he appeared "white" to most, he had green eyes, but he had the tight curly hair of his black father. Gorgeous guy, actually, but people were constantly asking him the rudest nosy questions about his ethnic background.
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??? ....I know tons of people with naturaly blonde hair and they have brown eyes/ green eyes, and one has blue eyes. I also know a girl with dark brown hair and naturaly blue eyes 
Ooooh genetics! Was my concentration in grad school!
Hair color and eye color are inherited via separate genetic alleles, each process a very complex grab-bag of genes (at last count, at least 5 different genes are involved in eye color phenotype alone, and not all of them follow the simple Mendelian dominant-recessive rules!). Generally speaking, any hair color may occur along with any eye color but the statistical leanings of blond-blue/black-black/brown-brown/auburn-hazel/red-green is due to (aside from the obvious geographical/ethnic constrictions) the expression of eumelanin, which is a factor in both hair and eye color expression.
So, yes, blond hair + brown eye is very much a viable genetic combination!
Hair color and eye color are inherited via separate genetic alleles, each process a very complex grab-bag of genes (at last count, at least 5 different genes are involved in eye color phenotype alone, and not all of them follow the simple Mendelian dominant-recessive rules!). Generally speaking, any hair color may occur along with any eye color but the statistical leanings of blond-blue/black-black/brown-brown/auburn-hazel/red-green is due to (aside from the obvious geographical/ethnic constrictions) the expression of eumelanin, which is a factor in both hair and eye color expression.
So, yes, blond hair + brown eye is very much a viable genetic combination!
Interesting...now how frequently do we see combinations like very dark brown/black hair and light blue eyes?
(I ask because that's my color combo - and I am the only one in my immediate family with blue eyes).
And nope, I am not adopted...though I always used to think so when I was a kid!
It is a very definite genetic possibility. I have brown eyes, very dark eyebrowns & until I was 12, my hair was blond that would be almost white during the summer. My hair eventualy darkened to light brown and then to dark brown. I'm now a blonde again due to highlights.
A daughter of a good friend is golden blonde, golden brown eyes & olive complexion.
No particular eye color goes with a hair color. Two of my girl cousins have blonde or light brown hair with green eyes. Their father had dark hair & brown eyes and their mother has black hair, blue-green eyes with olive complexion.
A daughter of a good friend is golden blonde, golden brown eyes & olive complexion.
No particular eye color goes with a hair color. Two of my girl cousins have blonde or light brown hair with green eyes. Their father had dark hair & brown eyes and their mother has black hair, blue-green eyes with olive complexion.