Reds, blues, and a dazzling variety of earth colors!! Those are the colors you will encounter in Beauty Garde’s collections. Beauty Garde understands the subtly of hue. For example, they have three different variations of pink: Poodle, Milkshake, and Frenchy. This year’s Fall Collection features Ghost Story, Milk Chocolate, and Marshmallow. Colors that activate your memory of cosy evenings in October. These colors are really taken directly from the palettes of the Old Masters. Before the 19th century, artists made their own pigments and the bright primary colors like red, blue, and yellow were in short supply. So the more subdued tertiary colors, the purples, greens, browns, and oranges, were used more. Their expressive qualities were discovered and developed. Beauty Garde has taken the lessons of the Old Masters as their starting point.
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Brilliant Colors of Beauty Garde– The Campfire Collection
The Campfire Collection features three earth tones: Ghost Story, Milk Chocolate, and Marshmallow. These are very subtle hues for the feeling of Fall. These tones clearly announce that the excitement and bustle of Summer has ended. As mentioned above, Beauty Garde has exploited the lessons of the Old Masters in making their tertiary hues. Today, the summer heat of Southern California is beginning to break; the sharp red hues of summer would be totally out of place. It is cool today; one wants to settle into that feeling after three months of sizzling temperatures. What is more conducive to catching those feelings than the Campfire Collection. Let’s explore those hues a little.
The Brilliance of the Tertiary
Just because the tertiary colors are subdued, compared to the primary hues, doesn’t mean that can’t connect with the eye and the emotions. The color of your nails doesn’t have to scream to be noticed and appreciated.
Ghost Story. An expressive name, but what is it? It is a bluish-purple tint. When the Old Masters mixed this color, they mixed some white and bluish-purple. The mixture of these two hues produces a range of tints. Some are visually more stable than the others, but this color has the remarkable quality of interacting with other colors. So, when you wear Ghost Story, it will be changing its hue in subtle ways, like a Ghost floating through the room. Put your hand up against different colors, especially the primary colors (red, blue, yellow) and watch the tone of your fingernails magically change in small ways.
Milk Chocolate. Above, I mentioned a range of hues produced by the mixture of bluish-purple and white. The change of hue is produced by increasing the amount of white that is added to the mixture. You start with a particular bluish-purple (there are many) and gradually add quantities of white. At first, the sequence is more bluish-purple than white but at some point, a shift changes and the hue becomes more white than bluish-purple. Milk Chocolate is a hue closer to the bluish-purple before white has been added. The bluish-purple hue itself was probably made with a mixture of darker blue and red. Here is the creativity of Beauty Garde and one discovered by the Old Masters. Actual milk chocolate is not bluish-purple, but this particular mixture creates the effect of milk chocolate. It brings to mind this substance. That is what art is all about, bringing to mind our experiences.
Marshmallows. If we take our bluish-purple and continue to add white, we will eventually arrive at a kind of white that possesses, like a spirit, a blush of bluish-purple. Earlier in the mixture sequence, we were working with a tint of bluish-purple. Now, we are working with a tint of white. The white is tinted with the bluish-purple. Like the Milk Chocolate, Marshmallow easily interacts with other colors, especially the primary ones, and subtly changes when in proximity to those colors.
More for Less
You have probably heard the phrase, less is more. Here, we have the opposite, more for less. With these visually unstable hues, you actually get many more colors than you purchased as these hues change in very subtle ways as they come close to other more dominant hues. But these changes are very subtle. Most people do not discriminate these changes but are left with a sense that there is something really magical about your nails. That is so cool. Thank you, Old Masters!!