Brown and hazel eyes get their color from melanin, the same pigment that colors your skin. The more melanin in the eye, the darker your eye color will appear. But blue eyes don't have any blue pigment ...
IN further attempts to find a solvent for melanin which would be of use in histological work, the following substances have been found to dissolve, in the cold, the pigments extracted from the ink ...
There are two main types of melanin that determine hair colour. Eumelanin is a black-brown pigment and pheomelanin is a red-yellow pigment. The amount of the different pigments determines hair colour.