“If you look closely at any face, you’ll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors – red, green, purple and yellow.”
Doug Dawson
Artist

“Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green and red…” Claude Monet

It’s 1:30am here in Virginia but I have a good reason for still being awake.  I just got off the phone with George Noory the host of Coast to Coast AM.
He had seen the news story “Study says the woman in red drives the men crazy,” and wanted to know,  “Is it true?”
Since the results [...]

Study released today:

By Will Dunham Will Dunham – Tue Oct 28, 1:44 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If a woman wants to drive the men wild, she might want to dress in red.
Men rated a woman shown in photographs [...]

“Reds, yellows and oranges conjure up sunlight and fire, while the blues and blue-greens evoke snow and ice, sea, sky and moonlight.” Anonymous See all quotes about color…

I enjoy browsing Flickr to see what catches my eye and today it was this photo of Fragment of “No. 5 / No. 22″, Mark Rothko, 1950, MOMA, NY.
Even among dozens of photos I was immediately drawn to this one but considering how much I enjoy Rothko paintings I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

I think [...]

Joanne Richard took a look at lipstick in an article that appeared in six of the Sun newspapers in Canada today and she included my “Personality Shades”.
I also included another sidebar that I thought you would enjoy.  It looks at personality based on how a woman wears down the point as she applies the color.
From [...]

Today’s Flickr photo find is from Goodcryst.  I like the way the bright colored balls create repetition and contrast against the middle ground of black, white and sand.  Also the red cap on the young girl in the foreground and the two red balls above really

I had to laugh when I read the response UK Telegraph columnist Hadley Freeman gave her reader to their fashion question.  She pokes fun at trend forecasting in  ‘Recession chic’

In the red: apparently scarlet pieces are a sign of the recession
Question:
I read in last week’s Guardian that it’s necklines, not hemlines, that reflect the world’s [...]

U.S. News reports that “People who own emerald green automobiles…have the most positive attitude about the course of their own lives. Dark blue and silver are other colors chosen by upbeat people.”
The article goes on to say that, “Red supposedly connotes an aggressive, high-speed personality, while yellow, theoretically, is for folks with sunny dispositions. But [...]