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lilithisbitterRoy's eyes are eye colored, but enough with the Roy's eyes rant.
I understand the need to describe eyes beyond blue, brown, grey, green, hazel, violet, and all other variations since there are different shades of eye color. One character could have dark brown eyes, but another in the same show could have lighter, more amber colored eyes. Plus if a character has a unique shade of said color, you'd want to get that across with something more than the basics.
But if you're going to use a shade of such and such color, could you at least look up the shade in question to figure out if it matches the character's eye color. House does not have turquoise colored eyes. Turquoise is blue-green, no where close to the ungodly shade of blue Hugh Laurie's eyes look in close ups. If anything, they are blue-grey in most shots and holy hell Mr. Laurie, are you sure those aren't colored contacts blue. If anything, Chase has turquoise colored eyes.
Yes, some shades are ridiculously close to each other in color wise like power blue and baby blue (and the only way you can tell the difference is looking at the RGB colors and even then they are extremely close), but there is a world of difference between heliotrope and indigo. There are plenty of ways of looking up different shades of any particular color. Your thesaurus unfortunately doesn't know which shade you are thinking of... yet.
I understand the need to describe eyes beyond blue, brown, grey, green, hazel, violet, and all other variations since there are different shades of eye color. One character could have dark brown eyes, but another in the same show could have lighter, more amber colored eyes. Plus if a character has a unique shade of said color, you'd want to get that across with something more than the basics.
But if you're going to use a shade of such and such color, could you at least look up the shade in question to figure out if it matches the character's eye color. House does not have turquoise colored eyes. Turquoise is blue-green, no where close to the ungodly shade of blue Hugh Laurie's eyes look in close ups. If anything, they are blue-grey in most shots and holy hell Mr. Laurie, are you sure those aren't colored contacts blue. If anything, Chase has turquoise colored eyes.
Yes, some shades are ridiculously close to each other in color wise like power blue and baby blue (and the only way you can tell the difference is looking at the RGB colors and even then they are extremely close), but there is a world of difference between heliotrope and indigo. There are plenty of ways of looking up different shades of any particular color. Your thesaurus unfortunately doesn't know which shade you are thinking of... yet.