In today’s post I’m going to give a rundown of Japan’s favourite and most historically popular colours, investigating their meaning while showing some examples of how their usage has changed over time. By taking this crash-course of Japanese colour, you will be able to impress your friends with thoughtful insights into the history and meaning of each colour, enriching your travels and giving you an edge when searching for that perfect ‘Made in Japan’ gift or memento. Formulated with fine powders, Japanesque has a unique coarse texture, and sophisticated and beautiful Japanese tones of 45 traditional colours. Now, imagine spring. Flowers blooming, the small, light green leaves of the blossoming cherry and plum trees filling in the gaps between the beautiful white, pink, and purple flower petals. Marigolds and willows popping up in between balance out this Japanese spring palette. As mentioned at the beginning of this review, “Hana’s Gaze” used almost exclusively Turner Design Gouache Japanesque Colors. These colors are supposed to have a coarse texture when dry. Honestly, that rougher texture isn’t all that noticeable unless you’re looking for it.

The traditional Japanese name for it is momo or momoiro (桃色, ももいろ), but that’s less commonly used. Whatever you call it, pink is a cute, naive color in Japan, with connotations of love and romance. Kawaii! Brown ( Cha) Two of our Product Development All-Stars, Lindsey Campbell and Lacy Kautzman, headed to CosmoProf in Las Vegas this week to engage future #beautytrends. It was a great time to observe, learn, and connect with fellow Beauty innovators. Read below for their observations from CosmoProf and takeaways from Marie Pope and Anna Mayo as they spoke about "How to Succeed in Beauty Innovation”: Mizu (水, みず) in Japanese means water – so mizuiro is literally ‘water-color.’ While more recent as an advent in Japanese culture, they’re joined a group of languages that has a distinct color family for light blue with its own name (while in English we just add “light” to “blue”). On the other hand, there’s no word for “teal” in Japanese. Pink is another color whose most commonly used name in modern Japan might feel pretty familiar to English speakers – pinku, written in katakana to denote a loanword. Purple, on the other hand, was the color of nobility in ancient Japan. Purple dyes were complicated to use and expensive to buy, so only the wealthiest and more powerful people wore purple. And it goes even a step beyond – while today, of course, anyone can wear purple, for a time, common people were actually banned from wearing purple, even if they could get their hands on it. Pink in Japanese ( Pinku)

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These include: Amodimethicone, Behenoxy Dimethicone, Bis-Aminopropyl Dimethicone, Cetearyl Methicone, Cetyl Dimethicone, Cyclomethicone, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethicone, Dimethicone Copolyol, Dimethiconol, Methicone, Phenyl Trimethicone, Phenyl Trimethicone, Stearoxy Dimethicone, Stearyl Dimethicone, Trimethylsilylamodimethicone. Acryl Gouache (also spelled as “Acrylic Gouache”) is pigment suspended in acrylic emulsion or basically matte acrylic paint. It has a large pigment load, much like traditional gouache. (Not all “acrylic gouaches” contain a high pigment load.) This is good for painting light colors over dark areas. Green, as in so many cultures, is a color of life and growth. A few fun facts? Originally, ao referred to both green and blue and midori was used exclusively to talk about greenery and vegetation. When you’re learning Japanese, one of the best things you can do to add texture to your conversation – and make sure you can make yourself understood in a pinch – is to learn your Japanese colors. The “Twelve Level Cap and Rank System” adopted in 603 defined rank based on the five Chinese elements passed onto Japan through the spread of Buddhism and language from the Asian continent. Based on wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, the ‘Cap and Rank System’ involved coloured caps, worn by ranked officials of the government and imperial court. Through this system important meaning was ingrained into each of the colours adopted in the system. For example, deep purple, the colour allowed only to the highest ranked officials, became attributed to unmatched virtue for its affiliation with elite nobility. Moving down the list, the virtue and ‘rank’ of each colour became increasingly linked to the job and responsibilities of those donning the cap.

As a result, please note this is only an experimental label that can be best used to possible identify problematic products you have used in the past. It is in no way a perfect identifier nor a predictor in whether or not it will exacerbate or cause fungal acne. It will continue to be worked on as more information and research comes to light. Gouache is basically opaque watercolor. It’s a combination of pigment and gum arabic. (Sometimes an opaquing agent is used.) It’s meant to be applied opaquely. This means that you can easily paint light over dark. This media can also be watered down to create washes much like watercolor. Gouache can also be re-wetted and manipulated long after it dries. It also dries to a matte finish, which makes it great for reproduction. Describing Acryl Gouache Turner Acryl Gouache is available in a range of sets which contain 12, 18, 24 or 36 colours. The range is complemented by a series of 69 Japanesque colours, which have a slightly coarse texture. This texture is designed to mimic that of traditional Japanese paints, which are made from crushed mineral pigments, shells, corals and even semi-precious stones (like malachite, azurite and cinnabar) suspended in a hide glue binder.

A lot like regular acrylic paint, acryl gouache is mostly water-resistant. (I’ll explain my observation later on in this review.) This will allow for easier layering. Red is the color of torii – Shinto shrine gates – temples, and traditional daruma dolls. Red is said to scare away evil spirits and represent protection, strength, peace, and power. The sun on the Japanese flag is red, Shinto priests often wear at least some red, and Japanese festivals are often marked by their red decor and red and white curtains. As mentioned previously, Acryl Gouache dries very fast! Maybe faster than most lines of acrylic paint. Maybe it’s from the heat given off by my swinging-arm lamp, but its rapid drying time makes it difficult to keep an open pallet wet. Even using an “air-tight” pallet such as Masterson or Soho barely keeps acryl gouache wet for any period of time. At best, you can keep them wet for around 24 hours before having to spray your paint down with more water.