CAN COLOR YOU WEAR AFFECT YOUR MOOD BY ALYSSIA DUDA, 8TH GRADE, CHICAGO

Can Colors You Wear Affect Your Mood?

BY ALYSSIA DUDA, 8TH GRADE, CHICAGO

Did you know colors that you wear can have an influence on the way you’re feeling? It’s scientifically proven that colors can dictate your mood based on how bright or dark the color is. According to the source 99designs.com, bright red, bright yellow, and neon green can make you feel more alert and will grab attention to make you stand out from your surroundings. Colors that are richer and stronger like royal blue, turquoise, magenta, and emerald green can also have a rejuvenating effect.

Here are what some colors mean and how those colors can make you feel!

Red: Can mean love, anger, danger, passion, and symbolizes energy.

Orange:

Like red, orange can draw attention and show a lighter sense of movement. Orange can also be aggressively balanced energy that is friendly and welcoming. Yellow: Can make you feel happy, spontaneous, optimistic, comforting, and cheerful. It can be associated with sunshine, hope, and laughter.

Green:

Can make you feel optimistic, calming, relaxing, and refreshed. Green symbolizes health and the beginning of wealth.

Blue: Can make you feel safe, relaxed, calm; reps spirituality as well as security and trust. It is shown that seeing the color blue causes the body to make calming chemicals. Depending on the shade of the blue, it will mean different things.

Purple:

Can mean being mysterious, creative, royalty, wealthy, romantic, luxurious, and calming. Depending on the shade of purple, it can have different meanings too.

Pink:

Can mean femininity, playfulness, sensitivity, tenderness, and can symbolize romance. It’s naturally a sweet, cute, and charming color.

White:

Can mean simplicity, minimalism, fresh, clean, and neutral. White can also mean innocence and purity.

Grey:

Can mean maturity, responsibility, seriousness, professionalism, formality, dependability, safe, quiet, subdued, and reserved. Some negative meanings about grey are overly conservative, conventional, and lacking emotion.

Brown:

Can mean being very down to earth. It can also mean stability, support, warmness, dependability, nicely established, and old-fashioned.

Black:

Can mean being serious, sophistication, classical, powerful, luxurious, elegance, professionalism, neutrality, simplicity, boldness, and mystery. Black can also mean mourning and sadness.

As you can see from the meanings of the colors listed, colors can heavily depict the way you feel on any given day. Whether it is a color you want to add to your room or the color of something you are wearing, I say choose yellow or orange and be happy!