Why would some people refer to eyes that aren't brown as "colored eyes"?

Brown or black eyes are a more common eye color then blue, green or even gray eyes. I've never said your child has colored eyes. I've always said your child has dark eyes which can mean black or brown in color. I say my eyes are a light brown but they look black unless you shine a light in them. I say my daughter has blue eyes because she does like her bad and my mom. Blue and green eyes are ressevie eye colors so both parents have to have the blue or green eyed gene. If they don't then the dominate one the dark eyes have it.

I never heard people say that but I know about contact lenses they say too: brown is not a colour. I don't know what it should be if it's not a colour. Also I live in a country where most people have blue, grey or geen eyes, so not brown at all.

I have never heard of that kind of distinction being made. To me brown and black eyes are eye colors just like any other color of eyes such as light blue, dark blue, green, hazel, grey, etc. I had hazel eyes for many years but as I got older they turned to a dark blue; it was several years before I finally got around to changing the color on my driver's license. My sister has brown eyes and I don't remember what color my parents had. Someone else mentioned that blue eyes, etc. are recessive and that both parents have to have them for a child to have them. I think that is not exactly true. I think both parents have to carry the recessive gene but that the parents eye color doesn't have to be the recessive color.

My youngest grand daughter has blue eyes, her brother has normal brown eyes, my friends too comment and say her eyes are colored, just a way of telling lol.

i think it was because most of the people living in this planet has black/brown eyes. So for the majority of us, it's really a special thing that someone has colour eyes! i think brown and black are considered more to black and any other coulour would therefore be referred to as colored eyes!

I think they just refer to the other iris colors as colored because they're literally "colorful". Others have green, blue or other shades. In my country, we rarely use that term because majority of Filipinos have either black or brown iris colors.

i have never heard of this, i think blabk, brown, blue, green... we would call it by the color of the eyes.. i do not think that there are this. he he i haven't encountered someone who was using colored term only for those who have blue or green or gray eyes...

This is the first I'm hearing "colored" being used in reference to the eyes. I've known it used by elderly folk when they're talking about someone with dark skin, but for eyes its always been the exact shade. If its blue its just blue or green is just green and so on.

I usually notice that people are always complimenting blue/gray/green eyes more than black or brown eyes. I think most people find it more attractive? Even my own mother, whenever she sees people with blue/gray/green eyes, she always compliments them and also gushes about how beautiful those eyes are. I can appreciate any eye color. In fact, I want brown eyes more than any other color. Whenever I am buying contact lenses, I usually opt for brown ones.

It's actually what Shybear88 has mentioned in his first responds on this discussion. Black and brown are the common colors in human eyes. But in where i live, we refers brown as colors too since most people here has a black eyes. While others colored eye we also refers it as rare, instead, it is very rare and most people we seen have colored eyes other than brown are actually wearing contact lenses.