Portrait Of The Sleep Deprived

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purple eye by Lee251073 on Flickr.

Alexandria’s Genesis, a.k.a violet eyes (a genetic mutation).

When someone is born with Alexandria’s Genesis, their eyes are blue or gray at birth. After six months, the eyes begin to change from their original color to purple, and this process lasts six months. During puberty, the color deepens to dark purple, a deep purple, a royal purple, or a violet-blue color and remains that way. It does not affect the person’s eyesight.

Those who have this mutation will never grow any facial, body, pubic, or anal hair (not including hair on their head, on their ears, noses, eyebrows and eyelashes) Women also do not menstruate, but are fertile.

So basically they’re perfect people. 

^^

Well, damn. 

Except it’s nonsense.  The entire thing is made up.

Eye colour is determined by melanin, the same thing that determines skin colour.  Brown irises have lots of it; green eyes have quite a bit; blue irises only have it on the back.  Mild albinism means there is so little of it even on the back that the iris appears light blue, and the blood vessels behind it can make them appear light purple - but there is literally no way you can naturally have purple eyes.  People who do appear to have violet eyes (like Liz Taylor), actually have dark blue irises that just appear violet in certain light.

(Source: solarflaresinmymind)

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