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Before starting to apply makeup to yourself sooner, let's take a look at the basic concepts in Coloring. This will help you better understand why we are doing this or that in makeup.

Amazing fact, but the whole variety of colors is obtained by just mixing three colors in different proportions: yellow, blue and red. They're called Primary colors... On color wheel they are numbered 1.

Their equal combination gives Secondary colors

yellow with blue - green,

yellow with red - orange,

blue with red - purple.

They are numbered 2 on the color wheel.

Mixing one Primary and one Secondary color in equal proportions gives Tertiary colors

yellow with orange - amber,

orange with red - saffron,

red with purple - purple,

purple with blue - lilac,

blue and green - emerald color

and green with yellow gives the color of lime.

They are numbered 3 on the color wheel.

Primary, secondary and tertiary colors form a color wheel and are considered basic colors.

If these colors are mixed with white (white is the absence of color as such), you get the effect lightening(inner colors on the circle). The color wheel could have outer edge, showing how the color changes when gray is added to it - the colors become muted, and the effect blackouts colors - when black is added to it.

By the way, if you mix the Primary colors in the same proportion, you get a gray-brown color.

This is how the variety of colors and their shades, which the human eye can distinguish, is formed. Scientists say there are also colors that our eyes cannot see.

Knowing the location of the colors in the color wheel, we must remember two main points:

  • Opposite colors - when combined together, reinforce each other(look brighter against each other). For example, blue eyes will be brighter against the background of an orange scale (including brown).
  • If you put opposite colors on top of each other, then they neutralize each other.(both the one and the other color will disappear). Redness can be neutralized with greens (olive tone). Disguise purple "bruises" with a golden tone.

2 ... Color characteristics.

Color has three significant characteristics:

  • Temperature
  • Saturation
  • Brightness

The first sign is related to how we perceive color by his temperature : warm, cold or neither one nor the other - neutral.

This perception comes from nature. Red, orange, yellow - the colors of fire, the sun - also seem hot to us - warm tones(sector from lime to purple). Blue is associated with water, therefore it is perceived as cold (sector from emerald to purple). But the color obtained 50/50 from warm and cold - green - turned out to be neutral. Also referred to as neutral are all "non-color" colors that are outside the color wheel (black, white, gray, brown) and lightened pastel shades.

But we have already said that there are a lot of shades of color. And these shades can differ from their color in temperature. And if green was originally obtained as a mixture in equal share blue and yellow, and as a result we got a neutral color, then if more yellow is taken, then the green will acquire a warm shade (the color is closer to lime).

And so in everything where there is a little more yellow than the rest, the shade of the color turns out to be warm. Where there is a lot of blue pigment - cold.

An example of a cold shade that is initially warm Yellow color: lemon. An example of a warm shade of an initially cool Blue: greenish blue (aqua or lighter turquoise).

A neutral color can also be warm (white - baked milk) or cold (white with a bluish tint).

The shade of a color can also be neutral. When it cannot be attributed to either warm or cold.

An example on the shadows from the MK palette:

cold neutral warm

cold warm

Try to combine warm shades of eyeshadow with warm and neutral shades of blush and lipstick in your makeup, and cold shades with cold and neutral shades.

Tab. №2 "Dividing the palette decorative cosmetics by temperature "

Lemongrass Emerald
2. Blush Orchid 3. Lipstick

Blueberries with cream

Delicate pink

Pink passion

Concept saturation due to the fact light color or dark. How much white is in it, how much black.

Concept brightness associated with a sense of color purity.

Here are two opposite pairs: brightness - dimness. Bright color Are pure colors obtained without adding gray (for example, such as from the color wheel). It doesn't matter if they are white or black, and what temperature they are. Bright colors there are not many decorative cosmetics in the palette. Muted colors are colors to which grey colour in large proportion. This is how the colors of a dried rose, khaki (Olive gold), etc. are obtained. The color may not have a pronounced brightness or mutedness.

bright muted

bright muted

Just as a color can be neither cold nor warm (neutral), neither light nor dark (medium), so here it can be simply - medium purity (or let's call it neutral in terms of brightness).

One color or another always has all the color characteristics. For example, lipstick Sweet nectar - warm light (neutral in brightness), Pink shimmer - muted cold (medium in saturation), Delicate metallic - light, cold, bright.

But Pomegranate frost is neutral in temperature, saturation and brightness. Therefore, it suits everyone. You will understand why when you read the next chapter.

They are currently using a form of color theory improved German theorist art by Johannes Itten. Since the time of Aristotle, people have tried to somehow arrange everything in a single system. visible colors and summarize your observations. All color rendering systems have one goal - to make color knowable, predictable, and simulated. Johannes Itten developed the "color chords" and changed the color wheel. The circle is based on three primary colors- red, yellow and blue. Composite colors are formed by mixing two main ones (blue + red = purple). Complex colors(intermediate, noble) is a mixture of basic and composite:

red-orange (saffron),


yellow-orange (amber),


yellow-green (citrus),


blue-green (turquoise),


blue-violet (lilac)and red-violet (magenta) shades.
Polar the colors are opposite each other. Related- border on the color wheel.
The main classification divides all colors into chromatic and achromatic. Achromatic(colorless) are white, black and the whole range of shades of gray. TO chromatic colors include all colors of the visible spectrum, as well as brown (it is not on the color wheel, because there is no black)

Temperature of color tones and shades









Blue, violet can only be conditionally warm or neutral. Neutral colors they do not spoil anyone, and if they do not emphasize the natural flavor, they will not spoil it. Cold colors visually make the figure slimmer.
Green = yellow + blue, the more yellow impurities in the color, the warmer its temperature.
Pure black is colder than brownish black.
Milky white is warmer than snowy or pure white.
And mouse gray is warmer than steel, ashy.
Saturation (intensity, chromaticity)- color purity / strength, depends on the concentration of the dye. The colors of the circle have the greatest saturation.

Brightness expresses the degree of closeness of colors to white or black. Achromatic colors differ only in brightness - light or dark

Monochromaticity- the unity of the color tone.

Interesting links: Color names .
Color combination tables Color wheel combination generator Color spectrum .



Where to find names and codes. Color symbols Color scale.


Mysterious colors), some of them can only be guessed at what they look like)

Aventurine - [from aventurine "a mineral, a kind of quartz, yellowish, brownish-red or green, penetrated with sparkles of the smallest inclusions of mica"; discovered by chance (per aventura) in 1750< фр. aventurine < aventure "приключение"] - серебристо-черный, черный с металлическим блеском.

Adelaide, adelaidine - [from Adelaide (Old German. "noble" + "state, position") - the name of the heroine of the song of the same name by Beethoven on verses by F. Matisson] - a red shade of blue or lilac close to purple; the name was extremely fashionable in the middle of the 19th century. In the original text of Matisson, we are talking about magenta(purpur) associated with a sad, melancholic mood. "He was dressed in an old, tattered coat of the color of Adelaide, or, as we say, an odellonide" (I. Turgenev. Office). The color of what is legal in Japan.

Adrianople - bright red, from the name of the paint, which was made from madder.

At Dal's Adrianople - [by the name of the Turkish city of Adrianople, where the art of paint production flourished] - bright red, madder paint.

Hellfire, hellfire, hellfire - [tracing paper from French. flame d "enfer] purple shade of red. Or pearl red. Or black with red streaks.

Alabaster, alabaster - (obsolete) - [from alabaster "dense fine-grained variety of gypsum white used for construction and various crafts" < греч. < Alabastron - название города в Египте] - бледно-желтый с matte shade, matt white. More often about complexion, human skin.

Almandine - [from almandine " precious stone from the group of pomegranates "< верхн.нем. Almandin < по названию горы Алабанда в Малой Азии] - темно-красный с purple tint, dark cherry.

Akazu - [from fr. acajou< яз. тупи-гуарани acaju "тропическое дерево семейства сумаховых, т.н. «красное дерево»"] цвет красного дерева.

Amaranth - a color close to purple, violet. From the name of the plant "amaranth" beauty, velvet, velvet, cockscomb (squid - red grass). Or the color of the wood is rosewood, lilac pink, light purple, crimson.

Amethyst night, amethyst - [from amestyst " semiprecious stone, a transparent variety of quartz "< нем. Amethyst, фр. am?thyste < греч. < "не" + "опьяняю"; название связано с древним поверьем, согласно которому этот камень притягивает винные пары и таким образом предохраняет его обладателя от сильного опьянения] - темный фиолетово-синий, насыщенный искрасна-синий, фиолетово-красный с синевой, вишнево-лиловый.

Amiante - the color of amiant (a type of asbestos): whitish, off-white. Most often - about the color of the sky.

Harlequin, harlequin - [from Harlequin - the name of the character of the Italian national theater (the so-called commedia dell "arte), a witty servant-jester, whose characteristic belonging is a costume made from pieces of cloth of all kinds of colors< ит. arleccino] - пестрый, разноцветный. В нач. XIX в. арлекином называли также fashionable fabric from multi-colored triangles, as well as a precious stone playing with all colors - noble opal. Nowadays it is often used to characterize the color of animals. Harlequin color, in which colored spots are scattered in separate areas on the head, withers, back and sacrum of the cat ...

Aspid - the color of the slate-asp, used in the past for the manufacture of whiteboards: black and gray.

Bottlenose dolphin - [from bottlenose dolphin "mammal of the dolphin family of the order of whales"] - silvery green-blue.

Hook - deep red with a bluish tint, dark red with a bluish or purple tint. Name options: crimson, crimson, crimson, crimson, crimson, purplish, crimson.

Crimson - crimson color: bright crimson.

Purplish - an obsolete form of the word crimson.

Bazaar fire - the definition of the shade is almost impossible due to the complexity of the associations arising in connection with this name: fiery red with an admixture of yellowish blue or gray. The name originated in late XIX v. - in memory of the terrible fire at the charity bazaar in Paris in May 1897, when a large number of people died in fire and smoke.

Bakan, Bakan, Bakan - bright red cochineal paint used in painting [< тюрк. и араб. bakkam] - красная краска - ярко-красный, багряный.

Barkansky - [from barkan "dense strong woolen fabric, patterned and one-colored, used for furniture upholstery instead of expensive silk damask "<итал. barracano < араб.-перс. barrakan] - один из оттенков красной гаммы. Упоминается как цветообозначение в 30-е-40-е гг. XIX в.

Terrified nymph's thighs - a shade of pink. Perhaps it arose at the beginning of the nineteenth century with the emergence of a new variety of roses. (There is still color " thigh nymph ". This is pale pink, the nymph is calm.) According to other sources, it was pink with an admixture of ocher. Under Emperor Paul, the lining of military uniforms was painted in this color. But since the fabric for officers and soldiers was of different quality, the officer's shade was called" thigh frightened nymph "and soldier" frightened Masha's thigh ".

Beryl - by the name of beryl, a transparent greenish-blue stone, greenish-blue.

Berlin blue, Berlin blue - [by the name of the paint obtained by the action of iron oxide salts on yellow blood-alkaline salt] intense blue. Also Prussian blue.

Buffalo - dark orange.

Billiard cloth, billiard tire - poisonous green.

Biscuit - [from biscuit - porcelain, not covered with glaze, but twice fired< фр. biscuit < bis "дважды" cuit "печеный"] - белый с сероватым или зеленоватым оттенком.

Biskra - yellowish leather colors for upholstery upholstery.

Bismarck - [from Bismarck - the names of the Reich Chancellor of the German Empire in 1871-1890] - grayish-yellow or brown.

Bisnoy - arch. gray-haired, silvery, white.

Bistrovy - [from bistre - transparent brown paint made from wood soot mixed with water-soluble vegetable glue; was used by European artists of the 15-18 centuries. for drawing with a pen and a brush, then gave way to sepia and ink< фр. bistre < ниж.-герм. biester "темный"] - густой коричневый, бурый.

Blange , or tablet (from the French blanc white), - yellowish-white, white with a cream shade, flesh-colored, cream shade of white. Dahl has a solid, flesh color.

Ble-Raymond, Ble-Raymond - [from the French. bleu "blue" + male name Raymond (Raymond (d))] - a shade of blue.

Blocky - (Polish) bright blue, blue-blue. Dahl has blue, cornflower blue.

Blond - [fr. blonde "golden, reddish, light brown, blond"] - light, with a golden yellowish tint. More often about hair color. Adjective blond in the 18th - 19th centuries it was often used in a different sense: blondes were called lace made of raw silk, initially golden, and then also white or black.

Beaujolais - deep color with a beautiful purple hue.

Bolkats th - black, dark.

Bordeaux wine (burgundy, burgundy ) - red-violet, dark red with a lilac tint.

Abdel-Kader's beards - [on behalf of the popular in ser. XIX century. historical personality: Abd-el-Qadir - Algerian commander, orator and poet (1807-1883), in 1832-1847. led the Arab uprising against the French colonialists] - white, cast in gray.

He Abdel-Kerim's beards - [on behalf of the popular in ser. XIX century. historical personality: Abdul-Kerim Pasha - Turkish general (1811-1885), participant in Russian-Turkish military conflicts].

Bronze armor is green with a purple tint.

Brony - [cf. armor, brun, armor "ripe ear", armor "ripe"< возможно, др.-инд. Bradhnas "рыжеватый, буланый"] - беловатый, бело-серый.

Broshchany - crimson, purple.

Bristol blue - bright blue.

Lingonberry - [from the name of the lingonberry berry] - one of the shades of red: the color of ripe lingonberry berries, light red, deep pink. However, for a long time this word in Russian meant green (according to the color of the lingonberry leaf). The color under this name was included in the description of the banner of Ivan the Terrible.

Beamed, beamed - red, crimson, lingonberry color.

Bransolitera - [from the French. brun solitaire "one of a kind brown or swarthy"; another meaning of solitaire "precious stone"] is a shade of brown.

Bulany - [from Türk. bulan "deer, elk"] - yellowish, of different shades, especially light; sometimes with a dark tail and mane and with the same strip on the ridge.

Burmatny - [possibly from Polish. brunatny "brown, brown"< ср.-в.-н. brunat "темная ткань", ср.-нем. braun "коричневый"] - темно-серый, как бы подернутый пылью.

Bursty, brilliant - the same as brown, reddish brown.

Busy - [possibly from ancient Türk. boz "gray, dark"] - dark bluish gray; sometimes about vague coloration. Dahl (sib). dark blue-gray, izbur-gray, brown-smoky, brown-ash; about wool, dark brown with blue, gray-brown (V. Dal. Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language). Tatar litharge greenish-beaded / Adjacent to the Venetian bead (M. Voloshin).

Bull blood - black with a reddish tint.

Vaidovy - dark blue, blue. Vaida was used instead of indigo. Later, in connection with the development of the synthetic production of indigo, the cultivation of V. almost ceased.

Currency - gray-green, dollar-colored.

Wenge - [from wenge "a hardwood tree native to the tropical jungles of West Africa." Wenge wood is distinguished by a variety of color shades: from golden to dark brown with black veins] - dark reddish brown with black veins.

Verdigri - green-gray, from fr. vert-de-gris.

Verdragon - [French. vert dragon "green dragoon"; Dragoon uniform green; another understanding is possible: dragon "dragon"] - a shade of dark green.

Vermilion, vermilion - [French. vermillion "bright red, scarlet; blush"] - bright scarlet with an orange tint.

Merry widow - a shade of pink. The name was popular in the 18th century.

Viardot - [distorted fr. vert d "eau" green water "] - light green, aqua green, also available as water green.

Wine - yellowish red.

Raven eye - black, deep black shade - recommended for expensive tailcoats, this color could only be of the highest quality wool. Any other very soon acquired a reddish tint.

Raven wing - black with a bluish tint.

Vohra, vahryanoy- the same as ocher.

Waxed, waxed - wax color, from yellow-gray, honey to amber-yellow.

Otter - otter fur color, dirty green.

Havana or havana brown - dark brown, chocolate and lighter, chestnut or slightly lilac, reminiscent of the color of Havana cigars.

Haiti - or blue and red - the colors of the flag of Haiti, which symbolizes the union of blacks and mulattoes.

Jet - black amber, with a bright resinous luster, jet color - black or brown-black.

Heliotrope - 1) the color of heliotrope (blood stone, blood jasper, bloodstone), a mineral, a kind of chalcedony; dark green chalcedony with bright or dark red ("bloody") spots and stripes. 2) heliotrope flower, a fragrant garden plant with dark purple flowers. 3) arts. organic paint for painting. cotton. fabrics in red-violet color.

Hemorrhoidal - a fashionable word of the beginning of the twentieth century: the red complexion of an unhealthy person, in Ushakov's dictionary - gray-yellow, haggard. Also paralyzed.

Hyacinth - hyacinth (stone) color, red or golden orange.

Голова негра - since the 18th century, immigrants from Africa have often met on Moscow or St. Petersburg streets, so one of the brown shades got this name.

Cabbage roll, mountain blue, english mountain blue - bright blue paint.

Pigeon neck - shade of gray.

Pea - the color of boiled gray peas, yellow-gray, wild-yellowish.

Hydrangea - light pink.

Gridfinny - pearl shade of gray. At the beginning of the century, it was called and written only in French.

Gully - asters. rose, rosewood; rose hip. Puffed water, rose-colored, distilled on the petals of a rose, wild rose.

Goose droppings (merdua ) - yellow-green with brown tint.

Two-faced - with a reflex, an ebb, with a game, multi-colored, as if two colors on one side.

Edward's children - a shade of pink. Painting by Delaroche "Children of Edward IV"<1830—1831, Париж, Лувр>, which brought him great popularity, even came into vogue hairstyle "for the children of Edward"). http://img.encyc.yandex.net/illustrations/euroart/pictures/1/1-359-01.jpg

Djalo santo - yellow, obtained from unripe buckthorn berries or zhostera.

Wild, wild - light gray. natural color of the original material, which has not been bleached or dyed

Dragon green - very dark green.

"This is how I saw dragon glass for the first time.

I'm sure nothing like him has ever existed. At first you see only a greenish shimmering transparency, like in the sea, when you swim underwater on a calm summer day and look up ... Along the edges there are splashes of scarlet and gold, the shine of an emerald, the sparkling of silver and the shine of ivory. And at the base is a topaz disc, framed by a red flame sparkling with small yellow tongues. "(ABRAHAM MERRIT" THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS ")

Dragon blood - this was the original color of the Mikhailovsky Castle, the color of the gloves of the beloved maid of honor of Pavel I.

Frantic - bright yellow, paint color from gorse dyeing flower.

Smoky, smoky - in appearance or color similar to smoke; gray, wild, mousey, blue, dark water.

Gendarme - a shade of blue. There was even an expression "blue pants", which meant employees of the gendarme office.

Hot (he is hot ) - orange, deep orange.

Burnt coffee

Burnt bread - complex shade of brown.

Zhirazol - milky with an iridescent tint, zhirazol is the old name of noble opal.

Giraffe - yellow-brown.

Giraffe belly or giraffe belly - a combination of light brown and yellow with a reddish tint. In the summer of 1827, a small female giraffe appeared in the Parisian Botanical Gardens, sent by Mehmet Ali, the Viceroy of Egypt, as a gift to the French king Charles H. The most fashionable colors of the summer of 1827 were called the color of "giraffe belly", the color of "giraffe in love" or color "giraffes in exile".

Zhonkileviy - golden yellow, jonquil is one of the species of the genus narcissus.

Zekry - light blue, gray. Blue-eyed. Zekry (blue) eyes.

Isabella - pale straw, dirty straw pink. By the name of the Spanish queen Isabella, who gave in 1604. vow: not to change shirts for three years.

Indigo - dark blue paint. It is extracted from the juice of a tropical plant of the legume family.

Incarnate - (from Latin "carneus" meat) the color of raw beef, crimson, raspberry.

Scared mouse - pale gray color.

Judah tree - bright pink, like the flowers of the Judah tree.

Cocoa shua - (French "cacao-choix" selected cocoa). It is a dark brown liqueur. http://www.thedrinkshop.com/images/products/main/2999/2999.jpg

Cardinal on the straw - a combination of yellow and red. When Cardinal de Rogan was arrested and imprisoned in the Bastille, the Parisian milliners, in a mockery of the queen, invented a lady's hat called "Cagliostro" or "Queen's Necklace" (259). Since it was made of straw of the colors of the cardinal's coat of arms, it was also called the "cardinal's hat on straw" and, in order to pity the public, they spread the rumor that His Eminence had to sleep on straw in prison. The hat was also decorated with a necklace that resembled the famous necklace of Boehmer and Bessange.

Karmazinny, karmazinny - (French cramoisi) bright scarlet, crimson; from bright scarlet cloth of karmazin.

Carmelite, Capuchin - a pure shade of brown. Back in the 18th century, pure shades of brown became widespread: "Carmelite", "Capuchin", etc. In the future, shades of brown became more complex, complex colors appeared. For example, there was a shade of "burnt bread" or "burnt coffee" and "forest chestnuts".

Castor - dark gray, castor color, woolen woolen cloth.

Pan - reddish-red, the color of brushed copper dishes, often applied to cars src = / strongbr / I'm sure nothing like it has ever existed. At first you see only a greenish shimmering transparency, like in the sea, when you swim underwater on a calm summer day and look up to the strong miles.

KashU or catechu - red-brown, brown, tobacco. Obtained from acacia wood catechu (Acacia catechu) of the mimosa family, originally from India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon). By digestion of crushed wood, an extract is obtained, evaporated into a solid red-brown mass. Porridge gives with alumina - yellow color, with iron salts - olive, with copper. and chrome. - brown and black.

Sometimes porridge denotes two completely different colors: blue or bright red. In explanatory dictionaries, this color is often interpreted as tobacco.

Boiled, boiled white - white, like boiling, snow-white, the color of white foam from boiling.

Columbine - (from the French "colombin" pigeon) pigeon, gray.

Royal blue - tracing paper from English. royal blue, bright blue.

Cochineal - from paint cochineal, extracted from insects, crimson, worm, bright red, slightly crimson.

Speckled, speckled - scarlet, madder, bright red, from it. Krapplack, the color of the Krapplack dye extracted from madder root.

Dye - red color, redness, redness.

Kumachovy - sometimes meaning. red, scarlet, according to the color of kumach.

Vitriolic - piercing blue, the color of a solution of copper sulfate.

Vat - bright blue, deep blue, from the name of the plant cube (it is also indigo).

Partridge eyes - designated in periodicals as light red.

Labrador - the color of a Labrador, a feldspar stone, with an iridescent tint, from the smallest cracks in it. The Labrador itself is colorless, white or gray in color, forms complex twins, often with beautiful iridescence of light of blue-green and golden hues. http://www.sammir.net/dop_image/f58.jpg

Lavalier - leather shade of brown - yellowish-light brown. Came into fashion, unlike yuft, only in the middle of the 19th century.

Doe (from the name of the animal) - yellowish brown.

Forest chestnuts - dark brown with a reddish tint.

Lily - pale white, whiteness, tenderly reminiscent of a lily, that is, a lily Lily brow. Lily breast.

London smoke - dark grey.

Lord Byron or Byrons - [on behalf of the English. poet J. Byron] - reddish, but rather dark shade of brown, close to dark chestnut.

Losinny - off-white, leggings color.

Magician-ghoul - red-pink.

Magenta - with ital. - bright red, magenta, from English. - purple, between red and purple. Color from mixing red and blue light, narrowed range from magenta sector. It looks like a fuchsia flower. Perhaps the name arose after the battle near the town of Magenta (northern Italy) in 1859.

Chafer - a color from a red-brown scale with a golden tint. http://www.landscape.ru/pest/melolontha/image/3.jpg

Poppies color [most often about the face] - the color of red poppy: ruddy, crimson.

Marengo - gray interspersed with black. It appeared after the Battle of Marengo in 1800. The fact is that the local handicraft fabrics were mostly dark gray.

Marengo-Claire - light gray.

Marina, Marina - light aqua, from fr. marine, marine.

Marquise Pompadour - a shade of pink. She took an active part in the creation of Sevres porcelain. A rare pink color, obtained as a result of numerous experiments, is named after her - Rose Pompadour.

Massaka - dark red with a blue tint. Well known in the first half of the 19th century. Occurs in "War and Peace", however, there he is "masaka": "The decanter should have been wearing a masaka velvet dress."

Bearish, bearish ear

Milori - dark blue, blue, Prussian blue. http://china7.ru/newcatalog/Chemicals/download/img...ori_Blue__Pigment_27_.summ.jpg

Mov is mauve. Movein (FR. Mauveine - aniline purple) - the first synthetic dye, obtained in 1856.

Mordore, mardore - a color from a red-brown range with a golden sheen. The name comes from the French more dore, literally "gilded moor". This color was especially fashionable in the 1st half of the 19th century.

Moscow fire - similar to the color of crushed lingonberries.

Muramous, moire - grassy green.

Naked - corporal.

Nakaratovy - a shade of red, "hot", scarlet. From the French. naca-rat.

Navarino flame with smoke (or smoke with a flame) is a dark shade of gray, a fashionable color of cloth, which appeared after the victory of the Russians over the Turks in Navarino Bay in 1827. Mentioned in Dead Souls.

Nankovy (Nanking, Nanjing) - the color of rough cotton fabric, once brought from Nanjing: dirty yellow.

Cloudy - cloud colors.

Enlightened - crimson.

Orletsovy - red-cherry-pink, eagle-colored.

Opal - milky white, dull white with yellow or blueness.

Oreldursovy - reddish, but rather dark shade of brown.

Aspen - green with a grayish tint.

Offit - the color of ophite, greenish marble.

Peacock - bluish purple.

Pale yellow - pale yellow, dull yellow, pinkish-beige shade of yellow, from fr. paille "straw". Dahl is straw-colored, pale yellowish. White-yellowish, from yellow-white; yellow-whitish; about horses: salt and isabella; about dogs: sexual; about pigeons: clay. Karamzin sang the praises of pale cream.

Paris blue - bright blue.

Paris blue - light blue.

Parisian mud - dirty brown color. It appeared after the public got acquainted with the essays of Louis-Sebastian Mercier "Pictures of Paris".

Parnassian rose - a shade of pink with a purple tint.

A spider plotting a crime - the same dark gray as the Marengo. According to other sources - black with red.

Cary - dark, brown.

Pervance - grayish blue, pale blue with a lilac tint.

Pearl barley - (from French perle, pearl, pearl) pearl, white, with a gray tint.

Orange - rank, ore yellow, hot. Dahl has an orange - a tree and a bitter orange fruit.

Porphyry - purple, crimson; (from the Greek porphyreos - purple) the name comes from a peculiar red breed with large white phenocrysts of orthoclase (antique P.), which was widely used for jewelry and sculptures in ancient Rome. Purple paint was in great use in Babylon in ancient times. Since ancient times, respectful attention has been preserved to persons who can afford to buy expensive products - including valuable dyes: purple, lapis lazuli, later - carmine ... Therefore, in particular, purple and porphyry are ancient symbols of power, signs of the royalty of their owner. Purple dye was obtained from the sap of a known genus of shells or snails, which were found in the Mediterranean Sea, and sometimes from the sap of an insect found in one of the types of oak trees (cochineal).

Grays last breath - yellow-red. Perhaps because before death, the eyes of a parrot turn yellow.

Fluent - light yellow. Dahl is yellow-whitish, white-yellow, straw-colored.

Green - bluish greenish.

Prazemny - the color of prase, light green quartz.

Prunely - a shade of black, named after the color of ripe mulberry berries; at first, the shade was associated with the prunel fabric, which was once only black.

Phuket - (from the spoiled "bouquet"), painted with flowers. At Ostrovsky: "You give me a piece of cloth for a dress and a French scarf in phuket."

Crimson - bright, dense or dark scarlet (wormy).

Drunk cherry - brown with a reddish tint.

Pusovy - brown, brown shade of red, the color of a squashed flea from the French puce "flea". The new Russian dictionary describes it as simply dark brown. (There are also references to shades of "flea", "flea"; "flea belly", "flea in childbirth fever", "flea fainted", "flea back", "flea in love", "dreamy flea". ..). In 1775, one summer, Marie Antoinette appeared in a dress of dark silk taffeta. “This is the color of a flea!” Exclaimed the king. And the word and fashion, of course, picked up, and the whole yard was dressed in "the color of a flea." Naturally, Paris and the provinces were in a hurry to imitate him.

Ranked - the same as orange.

Frisky shepherdess - a shade of pink.

Empress vomiting - a shade of brown.

Ryany - red, scarlet.

Redry - brown, red, reddish.

Rusty - rusty, red.

Pink ash - pale gray color, casting to pink.

Ore yellow - orange, red.

Ore - yellow with a reddish tint.

Sazhnoy - soot colors: black.

Savoyarsky - a color from a red-brown range with a golden sheen.

Salmon - a shade of pink.

Sepia (he is chinese ink ) - brown, a dye extracted from cuttlefish ink.

Celadon - grayish green.

Gray - the color of the pigeon, after just blue.

Silkovy - blue, cornflower blue.

Blue-scarlet - dark purple.

Blue - an ecclesiastical word meaning "completely blue".

Blue - with a blue tint.

Scarlatny - bright red, from the English. scarlet.

Smaragdine - emerald color (outdated name for emerald).

Gloomy - brown shade of gray, dirty gray, dark, mixed color, beech-black-gray, dark gray, dark brown. So the peasants called the dark gray color. It turned out this way. When making homemade woolen fabrics, the yarn was rarely dyed. Materials from it were obtained in various dirty gray shades of the color of natural wool - sometimes with a brownish tint.

Soldier - the color of the gray cloth of a soldier's greatcoat of the tsarist army.

Solovy - gray-yellow. The nightingale is named after this color.

Solferino - bright red. This shade became especially popular after 1859, named after the Battle of Solferino in the Austro-Italian-French war.

Somo, somu (somon) - from the French. saumon salmon, salmon: light pink-yellow, flesh-pinkish-yellow. Found in War and Peace.

Asparagus - asparagus color: olive.

Old rose - dirty pink, unsaturated in color.

Strizovy - bright red.

Wax - brown, the color of postal wax.

Dauphin's surprise. He - color of childish surprise ... According to legend, in Paris they began to dye fabrics in the color of the finished diapers after Marie Antoinette showed the courtiers her two-hour-old son, who was just born, who was "disgraced" in front of them.

Tango - orange with a brown tint. The name is based on the dance of the same name. It was first used in 1897 in the musical performance "Creole Justice".

Tausinny - blue, from the word "peacock". Bluish purple. According to Dahl of dark blue, according to the New Dictionary of the Russian Language, dark blue with a cherry tint. There are options for tagashin, tagash.

Terracotta - brown shade of red brick, rust.

Tourmaline - dark crimson, the color of a semi-precious tourmaline stone.

Fernambuck - yellow-red, paint from fernambuca wood - red sandalwood, Caesalpina dye wood, Brazilian wood, and yellow paint made from it. Fernambu paper, which he dyed, turns brown with alkali, and therefore liquids are tortured with it for alkali.

Pistachio - dirty green.

Milling cutter, milling cutter - [from the French. "fraise" strawberry] crushed strawberry color, light crimson. According to the New Dictionary of the Russian Language, pink with a lilac shade.

Chrysolite - color of chrysolite gemstone: yellowish-green.

Chrysoprase - color of a semi-precious stone chrysoprase: juicy green.

Cynical - green.

Zinc - zinc color, bluish white.

Chervonny - red, scarlet, bright red.

Scarlet, wormy - a mixture of crimson and blue, bright crimson, crimson and crimson, the color of a worm, bright crimson. Scorm is a Coccus insect that produces worm dye.

Chermnoy - red, sparkling red or scarlet, crimson, dark red; dull red ..

Inky - the color of purple ink.

Scabby - the color of comb, yellowish-sandy silk fabric.

Champagne - transparent yellow, champagne color.

Shamub - [from the French. "chamoi" ​​camel] light reddish brown.

Shanzhan - color with iridescent shades. Chanzhan is a multi-colored fabric with a contrasting texture. By using differently colored threads for the warp and weft when making smooth fabrics, an iridescent color effect is obtained, the so-called. the "shangjang" effect.

Sharlach or sherlak - bright red, from the name of the paint, the color and paint are bright crimson, scarlet.

Chartreuse - yellow-green.

Schmalt - blue, from the name of the paint, which was made from crushed blue glass (smalt).

Ecru - ivory or unbleached linen, grayish-white, cream.

Electron - bright blue with green.

Yubagry (ubagry) - purple, light purple; light blue.

Yufty, Yuftanoy, Yuhotny - leather shade of brown - yellowish-light brown. The color of yuft was widespread in the first quarter of the 19th century.

Yar-copperhead , copperhead is a bright green paint obtained by oxidizing copper.

Yakhontovy - red, purple or dark blue

The correct selection of colors when arranging the interiors of living rooms is a rather complicated matter. In this article, dear visitors to the Design Museum, you can find some useful tips on how to achieve what you want.


Choose your shade! Before you is a multicolored circle. Primary, secondary and tertiary tones are known to exist. The first group includes red, blue and yellow.

They are too bright and it is clear that they cannot be used. The second series is orange, green and purple. Their formation takes place by mixing two basic paints.

For example, by combining yellow and blue in equal proportions, you get a green tint. Tertiary colors are a mixture of primary and secondary colors to produce a variety of tones. Connecting them is done to reduce saturation.

Create a color scheme

Use your rainbow wheel to help you create your own palette. It will best suit your personality.

1. Monochrome

This color scheme involves mixing one shade with white or black to lighten or darken. An example would be the following tones: cyan, pale blue, or dark blue. All three are derivatives of blue.

2. Similar

It uses colors that are next to each other in a circle. For example, yellow will be near green or orange, and blue will be near green or purple. This creates a colorful and soothing palette.

3. Contrast

This scheme is even more dramatic. Here is a triad of opposing hues, using orange-yellow, blue-green, and red-violet. Their range will bring your home to life.

4. Additional

Finally, we get to this palette, where two opposing tones, blue and orange, will be used together.

How the color scheme is created

We want to warn you right away against the traditional mistake made by many. Before you start painting the walls in your rooms, decide what kind of carpets and furniture it will contain.

It won't take long to paint them, but you need to achieve a contrast between the furniture and the color of the walls. However, this is a master's business. Some will be satisfied with our recommendation, while others will still do at their own discretion.

Things to Consider

When choosing a palette, you need to think about contrasts. What dark objects should be combined with light colors or vice versa. If you want your living space to look more fun, consider what shades or accessories you can use to achieve the desired result. You may need to turn on something bright: a rug, for example, or curtains. But we repeat, it all depends on the tastes of the owners of the house.

Color tones

It is necessary that the color of the walls be in harmony or contrast with the colors of furniture, carpet or curtain fabrics. If you already have a sketch on paper, paint a small area to test and see how it looks.

For these purposes, you can purchase a small amount of paint. After making sure everything matches your desire, proceed with the final coloring.

The walls of another room can be of a different tone or have a neutral color. But here we emphasize again, it's all about the preferences of the owner of the house.

Light sources are important factors in color selection

Lighting

It is an important aspect of all decors and should never be overlooked. Light plays an important role throughout the day, changing the shade of indoor walls. The most correctly selected will be the one that can change during the day and night and at different times of the year.

Tone matching

If you like the idea of ​​combining space with color, but you do not dare to take it on your own, here are some tips. If your walls are neutral in color, such as pale beige, sand, ivory, gray, white, paint them with carpets.

Furniture, lamps, pillows, paintings, flowers or fresh fruit - all these accessories can create a contrast in the room. And you can also make some kind of drawing on the ceiling.

How to match colors

So, for example, green is chosen for your home greenhouse. You went to the store and looked after a dozen samples of this paint, but with different shades. However, you only need two: darker or lighter.

Green, as you know, goes well with blue, which would be great for a dining room or living room. In order for the tones to interact with each other, you need to consider several options and choose the best one.

Contrast between upper and lower floors

If you want to create striking color polarity between the first and second floor, it is best to turn to professional designers. But if such an opportunity is not available, act yourself.

On the upper level, as a rule, there are bedrooms or nurseries. The bedroom is a resting place; it should be designed in calm, non-irritating colors. But for children, you can make light, using cheerful and bright colors.

The advice you read here may not, of course, be a benchmark. But we think that having learned all this, you have learned a lot of useful and interesting things.

What is hair color and what is it for? Currently, you will not surprise anyone with the usual hair coloring, therefore, the use of several shades is considered a fashionable trend. But the selection of tones is a complex process and requires a certain skill, this is the science of color.

About color

In order to obtain the desired result when dyeing, you should know the basics of coloristics and understand the chemical processes that occur during mixing of various paints.

First of all, the harmonious combination of colors is at the heart of the theory of the color wheel, where all tones are distinguished into primary, secondary and tertiary.

When mixing the primary color scheme - blue, red and yellow - you can get a wide range of shades. To do this, it is enough to correctly calculate the proportion between them. The theory of the color wheel is that it helps you find the right gamut, as well as neutralize unwanted hue.

How to work with the color wheel?

To work properly, you must adhere to the following rules:

  1. The colors located at the vertices of the triangle are in good harmony with each other.
  2. To neutralize an unwanted shade, you should take the color located strictly opposite.
Color circle

Primary colors

There are 3 of them (blue, red, yellow) and they are dominant when stained. The most active of these is blue., when mixed with others, a stable cold color is obtained, and the color itself will be darker and deeper.

Color wheel with three primary colors

The second most durable is red... When added to blue, a light tone is obtained. When mixed with yellow highlights, the color will add depth and darken the color.

Yellow- the less active of the previous ones, it is combined with others in order to slightly dilute the main tone and make it lighter.

Secondary colors

Primary 3 colors are mixed in equal proportions, these are blue, red, yellow. Thus, it turns out:

  • the connection of blue with red is a purple tint;
  • blue with yellow - green;
  • red with yellow - orange.

These colors are used for extravagant hairstyles, for example, coloring, where there is a range of different shades up to 20 tones.

Tertiary colors

Created by mixing one primary and secondary color scheme. This produces a very diverse range: yellow-green, red-orange, blue-violet, etc.

Dividing a color into levels

Based on the knowledge of the color wheel and the application of theory in practice when dyeing, we must not forget that human hair already contains natural pigmentation in its structure, on the saturation of which the final result depends.

The color level is subdivided into sectors and the shade is selected accordingly.

Color levels

The range is from 1 to 3 are light tones;

from 4 to 7 - range of light brown and brown;

8 - 10 - characterized by dark shades.

Thus, according to the packaging of the paint, you can easily determine the range, the number coming first indicates its tone, the second indicates the percentage of the coloring composition, and the third indicates the color range.

For example, No. 8. 54. Says that the shade is dark red, the level of lightening the golden tone.

Combining color in colouristics

In addition to the basic colors, there are related, shades, these are those that are located with each other in the color wheel. Mixing them together will help to harmonize the tone.

Monochrome combination

They are shades taken from the same range, but differing from each other in lightness and saturation. They do not create contrast when coloring and help to achieve an even transition from one tone to another.

Achromatic combination

These are monochromatic colors, these include white + gray (ash) tone. It looks harmonious, lacks brightness, creates an unobtrusive image.

Composition of dyes

All hair dyes contain 4 main pigments:

  • Red;
  • Blue;
  • Gray-green;
  • Yellow.

Depending on the color, they are in different proportions, but they are always present.

Preparation before staining

For optimal results, a preparatory procedure should be carried out:

  • Determine the range of natural hair;
  • Choose the color you want to get;
  • Carry out clarification, if required;
  • Find a hue using a color wheel that can neutralize the hue if the result does not meet expectations;
  • Mix the colors in the correct proportion, following the recommendations of the color wheel.

Short summary

Knowing the basics of color is the main key to mixing colors competently and applying multicolor dyeing in practice. You can also achieve the desired shade, neutralize the tone or repaint the curls in a different color scheme without harming your hair.

Basically, the color wheel has three primary colors (blue, yellow and red), from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing.

Blue is the strongest of the primary colors and the only primary cool color (in terms of psychology and physiology). Adding it to any color can bring depth and darkness to any color.

Red is the primary color of average strength. Adding it to blue-based colors makes them appear lighter. Adding red to colors based on yellow makes them darker.

Yellow is the weakest of the primary colors. Adding it to all colors will give them brightness and lightness.

Secondary colors are formed by mixing two primary colors in equal proportions. Thus: yellow with red will result in orange, red with blue - purple, and blue with yellow - green.

Tertiary colors obtained by mixing in equal proportions one secondary and one primary color. Due to this, such colors are formed as: yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green and yellow-green.

Further color mixing will allow for even more color variations, which are called complex colors.

When studying hair color, a certain limited number of colors on the color wheel are used to make it easier to understand and work. Usually it is a color wheel with primary, secondary and tertiary colors for 12 sectors in various performance variations. In it, the primary colors are located at an equal distance at an angle of 120 °, and the rest of the colors fill the gaps between them.

Mixing three primary colors in the same proportion gives the formation of an achromatic or, as they say, neutral color (black or gray, depending on the color saturation). The colors are neutralized. It should be noted that in the color of hair, the natural range of hair colors is adopted as an achromatic (neutral) scale. Therefore, all the laws of color neutralization ultimately come down to obtaining a neutral - natural color.

Colors that are opposite each other in the color wheel (on opposite sides of the diameter of the circle passing through the center), when mixed in equal proportions, also lead to neutralization (the formation of a neutral color). These colors are called complementary or complementary. Thus, the result of mixing purple with yellow, red with green, blue with orange gives the same result - a neutral color.

Color neutralization it is used to combat unwanted shades on the hair, however it is worth noting that in practice no one adds an equal amount of complementary color. Small quantities are always added, which simply dim the brightness of the unwanted shade, and do not form gray colors.

In hair color, the result of dyeing can be safely reduced to a simple equation:

Available hair color (lightening background) + Artificial color = Final hair color .

For the correct solution to any such problem, you must:

  • correctly determine the available level of depth of tone;
  • decide on the desired shade;
  • determine if additional hair lightening is necessary;
  • decide whether to neutralize the unwanted shade and choose a neutralizing color.