revised comment!
I thought that was a “ruby” dragon, not “red fire”. The Ruby dragons have red eyes, the Red Fire dragons have orange eyes. Pam has corrected me – She says that’s a red fire dragon – The gold along the tail is not present on a Ruby, even if faded. sorry! The faded ruby one I saw in person, looked very gold and I think that a slightly faded ruby would look like a red fire.
The Ruby is also the red that can fade easily. Until Pam showed me a faded Red Fire Scratching dragon, I had not had any reports of the red fire color fading, but apparantly that one can too. Neither paint was supposed to fade when we began using them. To be on the safe side, all reds should be kept out of the sun.
And in answer to the question about what styles of red fire dragons had red eyes instead of orange – we have no records of that – it may have been an error – or maybe Melody changed the eye color when we first began making them. You could try asking Melody if she remembers an eye color change for them.