Happy Halloween! We hope this year’s Halloween is a colorful one.
To make it a colorful Halloween here on COLOURlovers post your Halloween inspired patterns and palettes in the comments.
Halloween Patterns
The Absolutely Scariest Colors Imaginable
For most people, color is basic element of our daily lives that we use for comfort, inspiration, practicality, etc. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, phobias and irrational fears affect approximately 10% of adults. Some of those phobias relate to colors being the most terrifying thing imaginable… for those poor people, this color loving website would probably be hell-incarnate. Here are several color phobias and some of color associations with common and strange phobias.
Chromatophobia – The fear of colors.
Chromatophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of colors. Like most fears and phobias, the fear of color is created by the subconscious mind as a protective reaction. It was likely an emotionally traumatic event in ones past that was linked to colors in general or a specific color. Because the association of colors to that traumatic event is so strong, when subjected to colors later in life the unconscious mind brings up terrible feelings. The phobia affects people in different ways, with some experiencing the suffering all the time and others just to direct stimuli.
Specific Color Phobias:
| Phodophobia Fear of the Color Red  |
Chrysophobia Fear of the Color Orange  |
Xanthophobia Fear of the Color Yellow  |
Chlorophobia Fear of the Color Green  |
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| Cyanophobia Fear of the Color Blue  |
Porphyrophobia Fear of the Color Purple  |
Leukoophobia Fear of the Color White  |
Melanophobia Fear of the Color Black  |
Colorful Halloween Makeup
Halloween makeup Tutorials:
Make Monsters is great blog that starts with a classic monsters and shows you the steps necessary to recreate the job: makemonsters.blogspot.com. You can also find a whole slew of how-to videos on YouTube: Halloween Makeup
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Halloween Inspired Palettes
We know that black and orange are the most loved, known and used colors in-celebration ofHalloween, but what other colors make it into our Halloween inspired palettes?
Here is a look at some Halloween inspired palettes from the two COLOURlovers’ groups: Spook-tacular Halloween! & Scary Out There.
There are some inspired by El Día de los Muertos too.
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Halloween Colors & Symbolism
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Probably the most well known symbol of Halloween is the carved pumpkin, or jack-o-lantern. The tradition of carving a lantern comes from the Irish who used potatoes and turnips, but was modified to use the pumpkin in the US where it was available.
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