Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor's eyes were famous for being stunningly beautiful and distinct. Widely known for having the most striking eyes in Hollywood, Taylor had what appeared to be rare, natural purple irises. They also sometimes looked bright blue — and over the years, their glowing hue led fans to ask questions such as, "Are Elizabeth Taylor's eyes violet?" or "Does she have lavender eyes?"
We did a little digging to answer these questions and here's what we found: Her eye color was actually natural — for the most part. Colored contacts weren’t commercially available until 1983, so Taylor wasn't faking it. However, she was born with a very specific and rare amount of the pigment melanin. The appearance of the iris, or the colored ring around a person’s eye, is determined by how much melanin it contains. For example, people with dark brown eyes have irises that contain much more melanin than green-eyed folks.
Elizabeth Taylor’s eye color has a few explanations. "There are various shades of blues and grays, with many in-between," Norman Saffra, chairman of the ophthalmology department at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, explained to Live Science. "Violet may have been her typical pigmentation."
Eye color can change based on the amount of light they're absorbing — and this can also be altered by the clothes we wear. For example, a white shirt will reflect light onto your irises, making your eyes appear slightly lighter. Fair-colored eyes do reflect more light, so they are more affected by this change. Taylor, with her stunning eyes, was a master of this art, often donning bright, colorful garments in deep red, emerald, and canary yellow to complement her vibrant eyes.
Of course, makeup was probably also a key factor behind Liz Taylor’s oscillating eye color. The actress was often spotted wearing blue or purple eye shadow to flatter her violet eyes, or donning a deep brown shadow and eyeliner as a contrast to make them pop. But lighting and beauty strategies aside, the legendary actress was obviously naturally gorgeous!
Keep scrolling for striking, rare photos of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes at their most dazzling.
Only 2 percent of people have green eyes, "making it the rarest eye color, " Wong said in another post on Instagram in December. Boparai told Newsweek in February that the rarity of green eyes varies across the globe. In Europe, they're found in around 8 percent of the population.
Elizabeth Taylor was born in London, 1932, to a prominent American art dealer and former stage actress. Taylor was born with a thick layer of black hair covering her body, a rare condition known as hypertrichosis.
Actress Elizabeth Taylor starred in films like 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and 'Butterfield 8' but was just as famous for her violet eyes and scandalous love life.
Although the deep blue eyes of some people such as Elizabeth Taylor can appear purple or violet at certain times, "true" violet-colored eyes occur only due to albinism. Eyes that appear red or violet under certain conditions due to albinism are less than 1 percent of the world's population.
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.
Neither Mendelson nor Tolot mention permanent makeup in the interview. However, it is widely believed that Elizabeth Taylor had on permanent eyebrows, eyeliner, and lipstick.
The "Cruel Summer" singer began her career with her naturally curly ringlets being her signature look. Over the years Taylor has straightened her hair, although she went through periods where she changed up her look.
Together, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton did not produce biological offspring. However, their love story was enriched by the adoption of Maria Burton-Carroll born in 1961.
You guessed it, Taylor had twice as many eyelashes as most of the actresses of her day. In her case, it played to her advantage later in life. While she was one of the lucky ones who enjoyed benefits to her twin set of lashes, the medical condition we now know as distichiasis isn't so nice for some people.
Green eyes are the most rare eye color in the world. Only about 2 percent of people in the world have naturally green eyes. Green eyes are a genetic mutation that results in low levels of melanin, though more melanin than in blue eyes. Green eyes don't actually have any color.
When it comes to global numbers, multiple internet sources estimate around 3% of people worldwide have grey eyes—a rarity indeed! But not enough large-scale studies have been done to provide more accurate numbers. So, it's impossible to say exactly how many people have grey eyes.
According to an article by evolutionary biology professor Mark Elgar, PhD, of the University of Melbourne, blue-eyed redheads are the absolute rarest, with 0.17% of the population having that combination of hair and eye color. So if that describes you, you're most likely one in a million—or more!
Of the less common eye colors, pink and red eyes are considered to be the most unique in the world, giving new meaning to the word “rare.” Only one in every 20,000 people have a form of albinism, according to the National Institutes of Health, and even fewer have red-tinted eyes.
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