• Question: Can you change your eye colour naturally?

    Asked by Holly K to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Currently, probably not dramatically.

      But some peoples eye colour does appear to change as they get older, or during pregnancy for some reason. Also, you could get damage to your eye which could change the colour it appears (like David Bowie, or catarats if you fancy having gray eyes) although then you would probably loose some or a lot of your vision so probably wouldn’t be worth it.

      But it is maybe possible that one day in the future, gene therapy could advance to such a degree that we could change our eye colour but I don’t think that will happen in my lifetime. Sorry!

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