Colours of body and cosmetics
On skin, hair, lips and nails, for beauty and for ritual.
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Red
A primary colour seen in light, pigment, and tradition worldwideBasic colour · 🇺🇸 United States +5
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White
The lightest colour, seen in snow, milk and chalk, and opposite to blackBasic colour
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Violet
A bluish-purple seen in both flowers and the light spectrumBasic colour
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Purple
A cool colour between red and blue, long linked with royalty and rarityBasic colour · 🇱🇧 Lebanon +5
Red
Red红 / 紅 (hóng), Красный (Krasny)
A colour linked with luck, love, courage and ceremony in cultures worldwideBasic colour · 🇨🇳 China +5
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Violet: Gonzalo Devia, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- White: Steve Snodgrass, CC BY 2.0, source
- Red: Sander van der Wel, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Purple: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Red: Politikaner, CC BY-SA 3.0, source