{"id":14956,"date":"2015-01-21T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2015-01-20T17:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T09:17:32","slug":"care-about-pantone-colour-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2015\/01\/care-about-pantone-colour-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Say: Do you care at all about the Pantone Colour of the Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Towards the end of every year, just as everyone is feeling a bit tired of the glitz and glitter surrounding the Christmas season, and feeling just that little bit more stuffed from feasting, a ripple goes through the beauty industry when the Pantone Colour of the Year is announced. I only mention the beauty industry, because that’s where my finger on the pulse is, as it were.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, with this announcement of what the “Colour of the Year” is, we see brands, magazines, blogs et. al. explode with suggestions on how we can wear this colour and more importantly, where we can buy this colour so we are “with it”. For 2015, the Colour of the Year is Marsala, a rather vague browned red shade; and\u00a0as I’ve noticed in the past few years, Sephora is right there with a host of new makeup representing this colour.<\/p>\n
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Honestly though, do you care?<\/p>\n
Do you care what the colour of the year is, or where you can buy something in that shade so you feature the colour on you at some point? Does it matter to you what some high flying executives in a printing company decide should be the sell out colour in a specific year? Do you take an interest?<\/p>\n
I think you have an idea of how I feel about this LOL \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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I’d never heard of Pantone until approximately 8 years ago. It was only because I had to get some printing done and the designer worked with Pantone colours. It was then\u00a0I learned what it was and how their colour system worked, so you get the exact shade you want. It’s a bit like a universal colour system as it were, so if you specify a particular code, you get the exact same shade every time, regardless of manufacturer. It’s very useful in the printing industry, I learned.<\/p>\n
A few years after that, the beauty industry picked up on the Colour of the Year of 2011, Honeysuckle. It must have done well, because there’s been no turning back. Sephora has even collaborated with Pantone to create whole ranges of makeup based on or around the Pantone Colour of the Year, which started with Tangerine Tango in 2012, Emerald in 2013, Radiant Orchid in 2014 and now Marsala in 2015. From the numerous blogs on the range, and its sold out status, it seems popular.<\/p>\n