Different Color Meanings

How to Choose Beaded Jewelry Based on the Different Color Meanings

Knowing the different color meanings and start choosing your beaded jewelry based on that knowledge is a very interesting and important topic.

Color affects life in many different directions. Depending on your activity, mind set, and certain emotions in a particular moment (day, week, etc.) you can boost your positive energy by surrounding yourself with a particular color.

In this article you will find the attributes, associations, and effects of the basic, most common colors and this will give you the knowledge to evaluate the beaded jewelry that you wear in certain situations.

Neutrals - Simple and restful, they are associated with security, warmth, nature. People believe that the neutral colors are grounded. Their effects are creating comfort, evoking relaxation, and softening.

White - This clean, fresh, pure, and always modern color is associated with purity, sterility, balance, wedding, and unfortunately - emptiness. The effects of the color white are getting attention and on the other side - eye-straining.

Gray - Secure, practical, dependable, elegant, and safe. It is associated with neutrality, coolness, safety, and on the other side - with ashes and conservatism. The effects of the color gray are reassuring, thoughtful, and dulling.

Black - Worldly, sexy, and classy, a color that screams sophistication, mystery, elegance, power. People associate the color black with dignity, simplicity, diversity, and on the other side - with death, mourning, bad luck, and night. Its effects are that it is bold and empowering.

Brown - Comforting, reliable, steady, simple, and on the same time - rich. We associate the color brown with the earth, stability, hearth, wholesome, harmony, protection, comfort, and...something very sweet - chocolate. Its effects on us are that it comforts, sooths, and grounds us.

Blue - Uplifting, magical, relaxing, serene, calming, tranquil, proud to be nominated the most versatile color in spectrum. Associated with constancy, hope, dependability, trust, patience, and of course - sky and water, its effects are that it calms, cleanse, cools, sooths us, promotes thoughtfulness and introspection, and supports relaxation.

Red - The most dramatic, energetic, exciting, daring, sexy, intense, impulsive, dynamic, passionate, and let's not forget - aggressive color of the spectrum. We associate it with fire, heat, energy, emotion, competition, violence, heritage, and...love. The effects of the color red are related to increase of heart and respiration rate, facilitation of judgement, enhancement of activity, encouragement of achievement and activity, nurture of passion, and promotion of alertness.

Purple/Violet/Lavender - Its exciting, regal, mysterious, intriguing, complex, inspirational. Associated with royalty, wit, spirituality, vanity, superiority, richness, and art, the color purple inspires us and though provoking, encourages meditation, nurtures a sense of balance and purpose, calms body and balances mind.

Green - The most refreshing color. Calming, restful, clean, the color green provokes harmony and security. People associate it with spring, nature, environment, ecology, balance, justice, and on the other side - with envy and...last but not least - money. Its effects on us are that it stabilizes, nurtures, heals, and revitalizes us, promotes balance and careful judgement.

Yellow - The most cheerful color. Happy, uplifting, uncompromising, associated with sunshine, optimism, newness, creativity, and imagination. The effects of the color yellow on us are that it makes us playful, warms us up, encourages spontaneity, inspires creativity and imagination.

Orange - Lively, vibrant, warm, and friendly color that is associated with adventure, extroversion, celebration, enthusiasm, uniqueness, and ethnicity. The color orange inspires our creativity and motivation, promotes movement and excitement. It's energetic and stimulating.

Understanding the different color meanings and applying this knowledge in choosing your beaded jewelry, clothing, accessories, and home decor is something that can help you in getting rid of the negative energy. It can make you look at your surrounding world with new and refreshed eyes.

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