About Sight ... Entrance Into Colour

Hehe, seems someone is still dancing around :) that’s so great to notice. Follow me to the corner, your dancing partner can wait a little, there’s something I want to tell you.

Remember what I said a while ago? About us creating masks? Good, well I want to share with you the basics of how to create them. I already told you that the perfect masks bewitches all five senses, so how to make one? Pretty easy actually, in order to understand it we have to take sense by sense though. So, first of all, let’s take on the sight.

Most people heavily rely on what they see and acknowledge it at truth, that’s why sight is the first sense we’ll smash up. There are several tricks on this sense we have: color, shapes and light. We should start up with color because is the easiest way to understand them all.

Color is basically a reflection of light on an object, if there is no light, color can’t be perceived. Then again there are two kinds of color, the color known as light and the one known as pigment. Both colors are quite different, light color is produced by a ray of light smashed out into color after crossing a material, when pigment color is the color that an object has already. Bit confusing, I know, let me put it on an easier way, u can differentiate them both because when u mix light colors the mix will become a white light, contraire to what happens when you mix pigment colors because they turn black.

We will focus mostly on pigment color because, well, it’s more common to control the pigment colors we have close, in paint, clothing, make up, hair dye, and other things like that. And why do we want to control color? Well because color has properties that affect us and the way we look, therefor it is imperative that if we want to look good, we have to be aware of the colors that we choose. Such colors might help us look better or worse depending on the way we want to look.

Ok, this is very important, people usually wear the color that they like because it’s their favorite, however it might not be the best choice and not really helping them at all. Other people a bit cleverer pick up the colors they wear based on the psychology of color because they know that color says things, and they want the color they wear to say what they want. That is pretty much truth, however based on their personal color properties they might select a color rather dangerous, and by dangerous I mean a color that instead of help them look better, makes them look terrible. Yes the color does say things, but picking up the right color is of absolute importance in order to look the way we want.

Color has three columns in which it is supported, such columns are: Hue, Tone and Chroma. Those three properties will let us know how to pick up the right colors for ourselves, because just like color, we also have color properties they will let us know a thing each one: Hue will let us know which pure colors suits us best, Tone will let us know the lightness or darkness of the colors we should pick, and Chroma the intensity of the color.

Now, how to pick the exact colors to look amazing? Sit down darling, I’ll go get a drink and then I’ll come back to tell u exactly how. Hang on there.