blue-ish crush

"Pink" was my first word and consequently my favorite color for several years. I mean, what little girl doesn't love this, the most princess-y color of all? Essentially all of my clothes were some form of pink, maybe partially because I had an older brother who couldn't wear any, but I would consider the percentage of pink outfits to be statistically significant, even as I got older and could pick my own clothing. In the photograph to your right, you will see one of my favorite pictures - I was dressing up for my grandparents' visit and super excited and had a little too much matchy-matchy going on. I didn't discriminate against shades, but the brighter, the better.

Then I realized that there are so many amazing shades of blue, from sky to royal blue, periwinkle to cerulean. I also had an intense love for Cinderella and her blue dress, water Pokemon (their color is obviously blue) and later the Lothlorien elves (their card color is a similar watery-blue). My grandma said that her favorite color was blue and I remember her blue china plates, so now when I think "favorite color: blue," I think of those plates.

I would have another relapse into pure blue, but first...

I made a quilt that was pink, blue and purple (and discovered that purple was the fusion of two of my favorite colors), so I put purple at the top of my list. Pretty soon I got to the stage where I hated red and orange (and still don't really love them). At this point, I adopted green and purple into my revised wheel of acceptable colors. I really liked bright green and purple together, kind of like the Joker? Anyway, then my bedspread was purple, green and blue, and this has characterized my room for a while (between walls, rugs, chairs, blinds, pillows, etc., it's been a veritable explosion of these colors).

Also, note in the above left photo my blue outfit and the blue carabiner watch which I thought was the epitome of cool.

After going to high school and seeing and wearing and designing purple everything (like The Purple Tide), I decided I was just into blue and green, and mostly blue. It was also in high school that I began my obsession with one particular shade - I would call it a medium-dark seafoam green. I really can't describe how much I love this color. It's not quite teal, aqua, aquamarine, mint, turquoise, seafoam, blue or green - but it's kind of all of them. It's...well, it's My Color. When I look at something of this color I just want it to be mine, whether it's a dress or a wall. A wall?! Yes. This was the color of the walls in two of my favorite classrooms - the first, my world history and world religions classroom, whose door could never be opened without creating a wind tunnel (I learned to quickly put away loose papers) and home to many a craft project; the second, the office inside the back room of newspaper, and where I lived for about 50% of senior year. The first was a little bit more green (though she insisted it was blue, I'm pretty sure she just did this to question our sense of reality), and the second was made a little bit darker and adapted to become the theme color for our literary magazine. (The magazine, coincidentally, is gorgeous and probably my favorite design to date.)

And now, my color is "teal." Teal everything. I say teal, but it's really the shade of the magazine that I'm thinking of, and I can't think of a word for it. Basically, though, I have a huge color crush. It's pretty and fun and smart and I can't get enough of it. I like it on the greenish side, not too dark, though sometimes I'll opt for a cyan-ish hue (which is a slightly more blue seafoam). I really just don't like dark teal. It's a fine color, but not my favorite.

I also have a small crush on coral, which has become a very popular color this year, and a kind of rosy pink. I really love this dress by ShopRuche, which tends to have prettier colors than ModCloth - they're more romantic and whimsical, but also tend to be more expensive and have fewer sales. Anyway, the rosy/dusty pink that I like looks best when paired with green and off-white. It's kind of like Sweet Frog colors, but less bright. I guess I like my colors bright but still gentle - like out of a fairy tale.

Since I've already put a lot of work into this post I'm just going to leave you with some photographs of teal-ish things that I love to show you what I mean. You may also consider the background of this blog, which I specifically picked the html hex code for because I love it so much, but I did go for a lighter shade than usual for the purpose of making my blog look inviting.