Thinking about hair and eye color

peanutmuse · June 2013

I apologize in advance for my rambling. But I have been thinking a lot about hair and eye color lately. Anyone else?

I am a natural dark strawberry blonde and my husband has orange red hair. I am really hoping for some redheaded babies. My mother carried the red hair gene, although she was a brunette. And my father was blonde. My husband's mother is a redhead and his father was blonde. I am guessing there is a chance for blonde babies too.

As for eyes... My mother has dark brown, father had blue. His parents both were blue eyed. My eyes kind of throw me off, because they are a golden yellow-brown. That is the best way to describe them. Yellow is the closest color, actually. Weird, I know. DH's are blue. I have no idea what to expect for eyes, to be honest.

I love to think about this stuff. I don't think too much about names or baby clothes or what the nursery will look like. This is the stuff I think about.

What do you think your babies will look like?

Dishylo · June 2013

Me too. I've got mousy brown hair and blue eyes. DH has ginger hair and hazel green eyes.
DH's Mom was a redhead and so wa my Dad so I'm hoping that with the red haired genes on both sides we'll have a strawberry blond or red haired kid.

peanutmuse · June 2013

PNW, I've been reading about genetics to the point of obsession lately. Freckles and cleft chins are actually dominant traits. I never knew that before. So there's a good chance!

Cara1024 · June 2013

Did you happen that catch the post someone maybe a week ago with a link to a site about predicting eye color? I thought it was a pretty good test.

There's not a lot of mystery as to what we will likely see. DH and I both have blue eyes and so do both pairs of parents! yup 99% blue eyed baby And the same thing goes for brown hair across the board. Some lighter or darker than others but all brunettes in the family. We may have one or two blondes that may have skipped a generation though. It is really fun to think about!

peanutmuse · June 2013

Cara1024:
Did you happen that catch the post someone maybe a week ago with a link to a site about predicting eye color? I thought it was a pretty good test.

I did see that. We were 50% blue, 50% green. I put my eyes in as green, though, because there wasn't an option for yellow, lol. And my eyes are definitely not brown. When I was looking at pics of green eyes versus brown eyes, my eyes are actually closer to how green eyes look. If I remember correctly, there wasn't even a hazel option. Or grey. So I'm kind of curious where those colors fall into place.

valigrl21 · June 2013

DH has pretty dominate facial features. Everyone always says DD is his girl version minime. So I fully expect this LO to look just like him.

Pintobean39 · June 2013

I guess I'm the 1. Both my parents and all my grandparents had blue eyes I have green. My brother told me I was adopted and I really believed him.

My DH has black hair and brown eyes. I have reddish brown very curly hair with green eyes. No telling what we will get. Would be cool for that blue eyes to finally show back up.

My two boys dad has brown hair and pretty cat green eyes. One son has blonde curly hair green eyes like mine and one has straight brown hair with brown eyes.

In my experience nothing is predictable

aessary03 · June 2013

Genes are a funny thing and how they get expressed.

Take my daughter, for instance. Her sperm donor was half Hispanic/half white -- dark hair, dark eyes. I'm just a mutt of all kinds of German, French, English makes. I have dark hair and mostly brown eyes that turn hazel. Emma came out almost albino blonde (her eyebrows were so light it looked like she didn't have any) when she was born and stormy blue eyes. She still has the blue eyes (more like a gray blue), but her hair has turned a dirty blonde. We'll see if it continues to darken as she gets older (she'll be 10 in October).

My dad and brother have dark hair, blue eyes. My mom had dark hair, dark eyes. Obviously, I missed the recessive blue eye gene. My husband now is half Hispanic/half white. His mom being the Hispanic descent and his dad being white. He has dark hair and blue eyes. It'll be interesting to see if our child will have blue eyes. I'm also wondering if our child will also be blonde, because he was as a child, too.

Deblondie1 · June 2013

My husband's entire family is all blonde and redheads, maternal and paternal. My bio-parents were both blonde, but the only blondes in their families. DD has bright blonde hair that I think is here to stay. I think this LO will also be a blondie. I would love, love a redhead but I doubt it'll happen lol

As far as eyes go, H has blue and I have blue. His parents are both blue-eyed as are his maternal grandparents. With the exception of a couple green eyed folks on my maternal side, I am pulling from a lot of blue eye genes. DD has my eyes, color and shape. I can only assume this LO will also have blue eyes, although the shade is anyone's guess lol

KimberlyTX · June 2013

DH has thick, dark brown hair and brown eyes. I have fine blonde hair and blue eyes. DD was born with blue eyes and dark brown hair, but now she's got super blonde hair and blue eyes. She looks like DH with my coloring (but sadly not his thick hair). I think dark brown hair with blue eyes would be so cute, though.

KatelynEA90 · June 2013

DH was a total blondie until jr high and now he has light brown hair. He has green eyes. I have brown hair and brown eyes but was dark blonde as a baby. We have blondes, browns, and reds all throughout our families.
DD has golden hair and green eyes. They were grey for a long time.

My sister is a green eyed blonde. Her husband has dark hair with light blue eyes. Her first DD is a blondie with light blue eyes. Her second DD has dark dark brown hair with light blue eyes.

Gene pools are trippy.

chicorojo · June 2013

I wonder all the time I am a red head, lighter red but not a strawberry blonde. (I am secretly wishing for a red head lol)

My two older boys from my first marriage are dark. Their Dad is Hispanic and I am Irish. Both have almost black hair and dark chocolate brown eyes. My youngest has much darker skin then my oldest and he looks like he has the perfect tan all year round, and they both are adorable haha! They do not look a thing like me and I've been asked a lot if I am babysitting them.

My husband is half hispanic and his dad is very dark complected, but my DH has Blonde hair blue eyes, but a darker skin tone. I am excited to see what we produce together genes are a funny thing !

thefuturekpsmith · June 2013

Hoping for brown hair and blue eyes! I have dark brown hair hubby has dirty blonde and I'm a carrier for blue eyes his are blue!!!

OnBabymaking226 · June 2013

We are starting to come out to family, and so far EVERYONE has mentioned this!

DH has bright red/orange hair, I am brunette. There are no redheads on my side of family, but there were none on DH's dad's side either - so I suppose you never know! I am thinking brown hair is most likely, but would love a little redheaded boy like my husband.

My eyes are brown, as are everyone in my family's. DH's are green, so would love for a little green-eyed baby, but brown is probably a better bet.

We both have freckles and fair skin, so I am guessing those are a safe bet! I have dimples, and would love to see those on a LO

ccip82 · June 2013

I am excited to see if LO#2 will look similar to DD. I have thick, brown hair and green/gold eyes and DH has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. DD ended up with blue/gold eyes and light brown hair (she was a baldy for the longest time!) In our families there are many different eye colors, so it's pretty much a toss up what this LO will end up with.

SvedkaStoli · June 2013

We were both blond as kids, I turned very dark ashy blond as an adult and DH's hair is brown.

I have hazel eyes and he has brown so my bet is for brown.

So most likely, a blond kid turning brown hair with brown eyes.

FSUNole31 · June 2013

I have dirty blonde hair that gets a slight reddish tone to it born with red hair and blue/green eyes. H has dark hair and gorgeous blue eyes. So far DS has blue eyes and golden/reddish hair it was much more red when he was born, just like his momma so we are wondering if 2 will get the dark hair like daddy. Blue eyes and dark hair is such a pretty combination...even though DS is adorable I would love his hair color!!

sugarland726 · June 2013

DH and I both have dark hair, although mine was lighter brown growing up and got progressively darker as I aged. DD's hair is turning out the same way. DH has blue eyes and I have brown, but a blue recessive gene. DD has the most striking blue eyes. Absolutely stunning. I was really hoping they would stick around and they have. I'd love this baby to have blue eyes too. We'll just see what the genetic lottery has to say!

peanutmuse · June 2013

Lots of red hair in this thread! Love it.

brideandbreve · June 2013

My DH is of Scottish descent. His hair is a dirty blond color and it curls. His beard, however, grows in red. I freakin' love it. He's got blue eyes.

I'm of predominately Irish descent, and I've got black hair, blue eyes, and really fair skin. (I lighten my hair a lot, so it's usually a dark brown color, but naturally, it's black.)

Before we had kids, we "planned" on having 3, and we wanted 2 boys and a girl. So, when I would think about what those kids would look like, our first son looked like DH, with blond curly hair and blue eyes, and our second son and daughter looked like me, with the dark hair.

Then we had DS, who looked exactly as I imagined him. Blond hair, little curls in it, and blue eyes. He's a clone of DH, except he got my eye shape.

We'll see what we get with baby #2.

DCrider · June 2013

I have dark brown hair, dark green eyes, and olive skin that tans very easily. My background is Irish on my fathers side,American Indian and Cajun on my mothers side.
MH has dirty blonde hair white blonde as a child and pale as a teen, hazel eyes, and a fair complexion that burns easily. His beard comes in with a lot of red in it. His background is Irish and Scottish.
Our son has white blonde hair, fair to medium skin and dark green eyes. : He is also on the tall side like my family. And he has my lips and eyes, but MHs cute little nose.
I'm pretty interested to see what this LO will look like : dark hair with my skin tone would be neat I think especially since our son looks so much like MH. But I'll take what I can get haha.

SJ&Beanie810 · June 2013

My husband is a red head and I really wanted a red head. I had blonde hair when I was little and it turned light brown and our DD came out with jet black hair! My mom has dark brown hair so I guess that's where it came from. Her hair has since lightened up and is brown with reddish highlights now. My DH has blue eyes and I have hazel and my DD has green.

I'm curious to see if this one will be a redhead!

Cewilliams207554 · June 2013

You guys seem to be able to have looks fun with your genetics predictions. Husband and i are both African American with no recent genetic mixtures. My mother's parents were both Indian and black mix with dark brown eyes and fine hair, my fathers parents were mainly black with dark brown eyes and coarse hair. Dh grandparents were the same as my fathers parents on both of his sides. My mother is light skinned, dark brown eyes black hair. My father is very dark skinned with the same eyes and hair. My husband's mother is dark skinned with the same eyes and hair, and his father is caramel colored with the same eyes and hair. My husband's side claims to have some blue in their eyes, but i jokingly tell them that it's the beginning stages of glaucoma, lol. My husband is caramel colored with the same hair and eyes and i and milk chocolate colored with the same hair and eyes. Ds came out very light skinned, like my mother, with the same eyes and eventually hair, and is now a lighter caramel complexion. Both ds and my hair changes colors in the summer, from black to a dark brownish red. So for this baby, I'm expecting the same thing. Unless some dormant genetic trait decides to pop up, lol.

jldubb0626 · June 2013

My parents, FIL and both DH and I have blue eyes. MIL is odd man out with brown eyes. DS got the blue eyes so I'm hoping this LO will as well.

All of us have brunette to black hair. DS started out blonde (just like I did), but as it grows, it's getting darker. I expect this LO to be the same as well.

WinsyWade · June 2013

I agree that genetics are pretty unpredictable. I say this because I'm a blondish brunette and DH had dark blonde hair also. Our first son has sandy blonde hair with a red tint (under artificial lights), our daughter was born with dark (!!) brown hair that lightened just a little, and my youngest son came out coppery red! (Even his eyebrows, lashes and the baby back hair he had a birth was the same red. lol)

Seeing my second son, was actually kind of shocking. We didn't realize we had any red in our family until he was born and were told there was redheads on both sides of our families. We do love that he is a redhead.

We were told that in something like 20 years, redheads will probably be extinct. That's so sad to me!

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peanutmuse · June 2013

WinsyWade:
We were told that in something like 20 years, redheads will probably be extinct. That's so sad to me!

Yeah, that was a rumor that was floating around a few years ago. It's not true. Here's one of many articles about it. clicky

WinsyWade · June 2013

peanut+muse:
WinsyWade:
We were told that in something like 20 years, redheads will probably be extinct. That's so sad to me!

Yeah, that was a rumor that was floating around a few years ago. It's not true. Here's one of many articles about it. clicky

I'm glad it was just a rumor!

Saltina11 · June 2013

I was shocked when my daughter started growing in dirty blonde hair. My husband's hair is black, I was sure hers would be dark dark brown minimum (I was very blonde as a child, but it's brown as a grown up). Especially since I have two nieces and a nephew with the same genetic background as her (75% Caucasian, 25% Moroccan) and they are very tan, dark haired, dark brown eyes. My daughter does have brown eyes but they are much lighter than her cousins. I am so pale that I'm practically clear according to my best friend, so my daughter ended up pretty pale as well. I'm so curious to see if #2 resembles his/her cousins more or his/her sister!

alinafed · June 2013

I think we will have blonde babies whose hair gets to be a dark dirty blond when they get older happened to both me and DH.

Eyes DH's are blue, mine are hazel but I have the genes for both blue and brown mom had dark brown and dad beautiful blue so we have a 50/50 chance of having blue eyes I've known this for 10 years since high school genetics because I always wanted a blue eyed child

peanutmuse · June 2013

Bookshelves:
I think ours will be fair and blondish, since DH and I both are. Whatever he looks like, I'm dying for him to have DH's deep dimples. So freaking cute.

Dimples are also dominant.

mommatogirls · June 2013

I have brown hair and my DH (and his whole family) is red, my mother is red also. I thought for sure we would have redheads. We have 3 very blond little girls. Our friends who both have very dark brown hair have 2 redheaded girls. I'm not sure what this one will be but I keep thinking it might finally be a redhead

Firefly9 · June 2013

DH has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. I have blue/green eyes and darker blonde/reddish hair. DS got the dark brown eyes, but he has my hair color--slightly less red, but pretty close. When he was a newborn, his newborn photos and mine looked identical; even as he got a little older his baby pictures looked a lot like mine. BUT when you look at him and compare him to my husband and I as we are now, he is a pretty good mix of both, but resembles DH a little more.

It will be really interesting to see what this one winds up with. So many possible combinations!

Winnieella · June 2013

I wonder about this a lot. My H is fair- light skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. There is a red head gene in his family, (his brother has red hair) but otherwise most of his family is either blonde or a very light brown (so light is looks like dirty blonde. ) I am Italian and look like it. I have Olive skin, dark hair and then my eyes are a bit unique. They are a golden brown with dots of honey in them. Both of my parents have dark brown eyes, but they also both have one parent with blue/green eyes. I know that the blue eye gene should be in me. My eyes were blue for almost 2 years then they changed to the color brown they are now.

I'm very curious as to what my LO will look like.

Marygail303 · June 2013

I am hoping for anything BUT red hair and brown eyes!!!

Lucky613 · June 2013

I too am loving all the red head love! My husband and I are similarly colored, fair skin, blue eyes, dark blond/light brown hair. Our son is a bright orange "red head." To be honest, it was quite shocking! My husband and brother both have red in their facial hair but no one in our immediate family is a red head. We obviously both carry the gene and our son is beautiful :unbiased opinion: with bright blue eyes and orange hair. He's such a ball of fire too! I am hoping that this baby is similar. I love seeing other red heads, I am almost hyper aware of it!
My friend's babies are biracial her husband is half black. Her older son is tan skin, dark hair and eyes. Her new baby is fair skin and auburn hair. Genetics are so cool.

rowanthefrog · June 2013

I would bet your baby is a redhead

MY husband is brown hair, brown eyes. I'm light blonde/blue. His mom is blonde/ blue though.

Our two boys both have brown eyes, my older son has dirty blonde hair and light brown eyes, my younger has light blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes.

I admit I'm hoping this one has blue eyes...maybe blue eyes and brown hair...and a girl? Oh my word. DH would DIE.

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mommabird77 · June 2013

I have green eyes that change to blue at times and a lighter ash brown color hair. I also have very fair Irish skin. My dad has blue eyes and my mom has green, both pretty fair. My husband has dark brown hair, olive skin and hazel eyes. He looks like his father and his mother is blond with blue eyes. Our son looks exactly like his father. Olive skin, hazel eyes and brown hair, but lighter than his dads, not quite as light as mine. I have a feeling this baby will look similar. It is funny to me how much my son does not look like me. The only thing he got from my side is his ears.

katie-lynn3313 · June 2013

With my son- I had a pretty strong feeling that he would be bald and eventually blond (which he is) but I REALLY thought he would have brown eyes like me and my side. I was shocked when he had the most beautiful blue eyes.

With this baby-although this might sound weird- I keep just picturing another version of my son. I can't wait to see him or her and what similarities/differences they will have.

forevergraceful · June 2013

My husband and I have talked about this a lot, especially since we are different ethnicities.

My skin is pretty olive for a Scottish girl, but my husband's is darker. My whole family is lighter than me and his whole family is darker than him. I am sure our baby will look like s/he has a natural tan year-around.

As far as hair goes, his is almost black and is straight (was blonde and curly as a child). Mine is super curly and light brown (blonder and straighter as a child). I think curly hair is a dominate gene, I could be wrong.

His eyes are dark brown and have always been. Mine were hazel/brown growing up, but have lightened into green. I hope they get my eye color, but will probably get his.

He has dimples, I dont. I hope they get those, I love dimples.

BirdieToldMe · June 2013

I have orange red hair. DH has brown hair but his beard has some red in it. Both of our fathers had red hair. DS has blonde hair and DD has bright red/orange hair like me. I'm actually shocked I have one kid that isn't a redhead. DS really could go any direction regarding hair color as an adult but I'm betting he'll settle into a dark brown with barely a hint of red in it. I'm betting #3 is another redhead.

DH, DS, and DD all have blue eyes. Mine were blue as a kid then turned greener as an adult.

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