| COLORS--6/18/04 Can you believe all this stuff they have in the cosmetics department these days? It's insane even though it is usually only about an aisle or two, because there are SO many different products packed in there. What gets me is the way they name these colors. Can anyone tell me what the difference is between brick red and crimson red? And it's amazing because women seem to know all of these colors by heart. I mean, never ask a guy to tell the difference between brick red and crimson red. "I don't even know what a crimson is, honey. Maybe if I knew what a crimson was I could compare it to a brick, but I don't." See guys know the color wheel. That's it. Yannow, you got the three primary colors, and then the three ones inbetween that are mixtures of the three primary ones. And that right there is the extent of knowlege guys have of color. Everything else is just a variation... more commonly known as an 'ish'. "Look at that teal colored car over there, honey." "Uh... I don't see... OH!... oh, ok... you mean that greenish thing over there?" But really guys, there are these things called SHADES. See, even when I was little I knew about other colors, and I tried to use little tricks to remember which was which, yannow like azULE is bLUE. They kinda sound the same. Don't have many letters. Little similarities like that. But yeah, then someone clued me in on the whole shades thing. Man, that helped a lot. I really used to have to wing it. And that didn't always turn out so well... "Could you pick up some Aquamarine colored napkins." ... "Ok, sure whatever." Later on, I'd be at the store in front of a wall of millions of different plates thinking, "Oh crud... aquamarine, aquamarine... that doesn't sound like ANY color I know." |
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