Green
LIGHT GREEN
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Good for growth, new ideas and
a fresh approach
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Fresh
thinking, harmony, balance, rest, vigorous growth.
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DARK GREEN
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Denotes long nurtured traditions
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Stability,
dependable, reliability, reassurance
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Green is a healthy
colour according to this quote:
‘When you're green, you’re growing. When
you're ripe, you rot.’ Ray Croc
I’ve always
loved Green, but that is not the case for many of my clients I’ve seen through
the years. Given that there is a colour
for everyone to look great in AND I’ve seen many people looking great in their
best shades of greens, I’ve also experienced a greater frequency of clients expressing
a dislike for green over and above any colour, even when it looked good on
them. I concluded over time that it must
have something to do with the energy and/or the memories it was eliciting.
Everyone in the class agreed that she looked
elegant and confident in her 2-star colours, so it was a surprise to hear her
say, ‘I don’t like this colour!’
AND PAUSE! The power of silence to let
her process what she had just said in contradiction to the feedback given by
her friends in the class. As she absorbed the effect the colour was having on
her, she continued, ‘And I know why I don’t like them! The woman that went off with my first husband
wore these colours’.
Fortunately,
she was now happily married so we were able to engage in a conversation about
how well she looked, how many ways she could use it, how to introduce it into
her life more gently so that she could learn to love the colour the way the
colour loved her!
This would
probably have been a different experience if she had not been able to identify
the source of her distaste so clearly!
Was ‘the other
woman’ the green-eyed-monster, or was she herself ‘green with envy’ a few years
earlier? I doubt the world would have
looked like ‘Green and pleasant lands’
I’m not sure
that any other colour conjures up emotions quite like green. Green around
the gills suggesting a certain level of nausea has a very different application
to that of green fingers and of young people today being taught well with Green
principles to respect, conserve and save their natural environment. It is a very grounding colour in my
experience and hence, when you consider its energy is that of ‘stability and
reassurance’, a possible explanation for seeing green as a popular colour for
interior design in traditional living rooms.
Green with envy/green fingers/green eyed monster
I love the
sound of ‘sea green’ as well as the colour and the image it conjures in my mind
of azure seas, Mediterranean holidays, warm balmy evenings and diving off the
deck of the tourist boat.
Unfortunately,
I too am guilty of disparaging colours not to my liking and I’ve even heard
others talk of the ‘sludge’ colour when describing autumn. How much better to picture the leaves as they
change and find something to create the image of ochres, oranges and olives in
a Mediterranean orchard because, on the right person, that is the effect!
Your Greens range from:
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Strong :
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Light / Bright
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Spring (warm & clear)
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Leaf, Kerry
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Apple, Mint
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Summer (cool & soft)
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Sea Green and Jade
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Duck Egg to Pastel Aqua
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Autumn (warm & soft)
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Moss, Dark Olive, Forest
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Light Sage
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Winter (cool & clear)
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Emerald and Pine Green
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Ice green
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Grow well with
your greens, whether experimenting with the fresh and bright end of your
spectrum as the vigorous growth of spring, or the deeper end enjoyed by the
established trees of both conifer and deciduous forests. There is something indisputably powerful
about them, which could account for its ‘marmite’ reactions when people are
introduced to their best greens!
Colour
mixing your Greens
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Spring
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A soft background of
neutrals (honey, beige, tan) can be complemented beautifully by a bright leaf green as well as a pastel
collection of banana, peach and Apple
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Summer
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A deep collection of
burgundy, plum, navy and sea green can always be lightened with a hint of
pastel aqua.
Or mix sea green with
rose brown and mushroom
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Autumn
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Olives with Orange, Pine
green with Royal purple
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Winter
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Emeralds with…
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Green with
envy/green fingers/green eyed monster
