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What Your Favorite Color Says About You (+ How You Can Harness Its Power)

10/14/2014

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Have you ever thought about what your favorite color communicates to others or what it says about your personality? 

I remember sitting in kindergarten class and thinking, everyone else has a favorite color. What's mine? I thought about it and decided on violet, which is still my favorite color today.

Although there's a lack of scientific research regarding color psychology, there's plenty of evidence (just ask a marketer or designer) to suggest that color can affect our moods, actions, and behaviors. And since choosing a favorite color is a such a personal thing, colors can also tell us a little something about ourselves. 

Here's a guide to get you started. 


REd


The positive:
  • Extroverted, optimistic, and confident
  • Action-oriented and strive on success
  • Love to explore and discover new ways of doing things
  • When you want something, you go out and get it and are passionate in everything you do
The negative:
  • Impatient and impulsive, always in a hurry
  • Your passion and high energy can lead to aggression and anger if not checked
  • Confident in nature, you can also come off as a know-it-all and easily trip up on your own ego
Red can help you:
  • Get energized
  • Take action
  • Excite the emotions and awaken physical passion
  • Stimulate confidence
  • Capture attention
Keywords to remember:
  • Energy
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Passion


blue


The positive:
  • You're all about inner peace, discovering truths, and forging your own path
  • You're reliable, trustworthy, and a loyal friend
  • Sincere, genuine
  • Prefer balance and harmony 
  • Love organization and clean work spaces (messy bed, messy head)
The negative:
  • You're stubborn when it comes to doing things someone else's way, even if it's easier
  • Can become moody and over emotional, self pity
  • Manipulative if provoked
  • Cautious and tend to worry over petty things
Blue can help you:
  • Make sound decisions during difficult times
  • Create order and organization
  • Slow the metabolism and relax the mind
  • Communicate your needs and wants
  • Build strong relationships
Keywords to remember:
  • Communication
  • Peace
  • Honesty
  • Devotion
  • Wisdom
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Purple/violet


The positive:
  • Free spirited, supportive, compassionate
  • Introverted with a peaceful demeanor
  • Creative and love the unconventional
  • Highly imaginative and ambitious
  • Intuitive with an affinity towards the spiritual
The negative:
  • Often impractical in your idealistic pursuits
  • Have difficulty dealing with day-to-day problems
  • A bit scatter-brained, especially when handling too many projects
  • Can appear arrogant and conceited
Purple can help you:
  • Get in touch with deeper thoughts
  • Enhance psychic ability and spiritual enlightenment
  • Promote harmony and mental stability
  • Daydream
  • Create and inspire
Keywords to remember:
  • Inspiration
  • Imagination
  • Individuality
  • Spirituality


green


The positive:
  • Practical, down-to-earth
  • Love to learn and quick to understand new concepts
  • Comfortable in social situations and well received
  • Great listener
  • Love to get involved in community projects
The negative:
  • In your need to strive for balance, you can become unsettled and anxious
  • Tendency to gossip
  • Can become envious/jealous
  • Easily put in a martyr role and can be taken advantage of
Green can help you:
  • Restore depleted energy
  • Love and nurture yourself and others
  • Balance the head and the heart
  • Persist and cope with adversity
  • Create prosperity and abundance
Keywords to remember:
  • Harmony and balance
  • Hope
  • Growth
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yellow


The positive:
  • Cheerful disposition
  • Creative and able to come up with new ideas easily
  • Spontaneous - able to think quickly and make instant decisions
  • Loves using the mind over the body
The negative:
  • Tend to be critical of yourself and others
  • Over-analyze situations
  • Apt to hide emotions during adversity
  • Can be deceitful and stubborn
Yellow can help you:
  • Strengthen your mental ability and perception
  • Inspire original thought and practical ways of doing things
  • Awaken confidence and optimism
  • Analyze, focus, and make wise decisions
Keywords to remember:
  • Intellect
  • Happiness
  • Communication


orange


The positive:
  • Warm and optimistic
  • Thrive on social contact and are able to bring people together
  • An adventurer, free spirit, loves the outdoors
  • Easily move on from life's setbacks
  • Enjoy being physically active
The negative:
  • Have a tendency to try and "keep up with the Jones'"
  • Can become restless and impatient with those who can't keep up
  • Impatient
  • Unpredictable
Orange can help you:
  • Bounce back from disappointments
  • Uplift and rejuvenate the spirit
  • Keep motivated and look on the bright side
  • Free the mind's limitations and spawn new ideas
Keywords to remember:
  • Adventure and risk taking
  • Social communication and interaction
  • Friendship
  • Enthusiasm
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pink


The positive:
  • Friendly and approachable
  • Nurturer of the world
  • Romantic, sensual, sensitive
  • Optimistic and have a positive outlook on life
  • See the good in others
The negative:
  • Tend to neglect yourself
  • Can become flippant and immature
  • May rely too much on others and become vulnerable in the process
Pink can help you:
  • Strengthen compassion and empathy
  • Calm your emotional energies and alleviate anger and aggression
  • Get in touch with your nurturing side
  • Radiate comfort and kindness
Keywords to remember:
  • Unconditional love
  • Compassion
  • Nurturing 
  • Hope


black


The positive:
  • Independent, strong-willed, and determined
  • Like to create an aura of mystery and intrigue
  • Methodical in your work
The negative:
  • May find it hard to lighten up
  • Guard your emotions and tend to put up walls
  • Suppress your desires and aspirations
Black can help you:
  • Protect external emotional stress
  • Radiate authority
  • Strengthen discipline and willpower
  • Absorb negative energy
Keywords to remember:
  • Mystery
  • Power
  • Control

What's your favorite color? Do its traits ring true? And if your color isn't on this list, check out the color psychology website for more.

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