Celebrating colors and the nine days of womanhood- Peacock Green

It is beautiful when you bring sparkle into someone’s life without fading away from your own true colour, which is the beauty of peacock green. The colour flaunts its royalty just like the bird- peacock. The colour carries the traits of the bird it is named after. The peacock symbolizes vision, spirituality, royalty, guidance and green symbolizes patience, kindness and luck. Together it signifies desire, elegance calmness and loyalty.

It is the ninth colour of Navratri, this day is known as Navami, goddess Siddhidharti is worshipped on this day. Peacock green is believed to fulfil the desires of the devotees.

Popular Culture

It is a perfect colour for a dining area décor, its undertone attitude settles itself with off-white or wooden furnishing and helps you build your appetite. You can just paint any particular wall of your home with this colour, or just use a pea-green sofa or cushions, to give it a royal touch.

Gourmet mint flavoured ice-creams, brownies and green velvet cupcakes are of peacock green colour. Having food dishes of this colour is a little exciting as it is out of the ordinary and tastes just as yum and as interesting as it sounds.

We ladies know for sure, halogen green nail paints steal the show, its shine adds perfection, they are very rare and make you look classy and elegant and work well with almost all outfits.

In Lord Krishna temples, this colour is used the most, Krishna has a peacock feather on his head, and at times he is dressed in this colour. In Darga's peacock green ‘chaddar’ are considered sacred.

Positive Traits of Peacock Green

Peacock green is the colour of good luck. It is simply beautiful, in every form; it will give you peace, patience and teach you endurance. It knows very well to maintain its style and grace. It has a sense of superiority, but inspires generosity and hope and has high mortality. It maintains emotional balance, rejuvenates growth, confidence, spirituality and diplomacy.

Negative Traits of Peacock Green

Things that appear beautiful are not all good and peacock green to brings in some negative energy like over-confidence, envy which could lead to jealousy. This colour at times represents greed, selfishness, over possessiveness and materialism. It is extremely indifferent of other colours and sings its own glory.

Peacock in Vogue

Peacock green is an autumn shade as it gives a sense of balance and yet keeps you in style during the season. Peacock green is one colour which works best with traditional wear- dupatta’s, salwar, saree, kurta, pagdi, sherwani and more, it refreshes you and makes you shine. Western wear does not fall short in involving this shade, dungaree's, skirts, dresses, formal overcoats, jackets use this colour and make you stand out.

Here is some celebs styling in Peacock Green.

Personality Traits of Peacock Green

If you are a peacock green person you are dependable, agreeable and diplomatic. You are calm and loyal and expect loyalty in return. You are nurturing, family-oriented, high on morality, compassionate and down to earth and still appear to be like the peacock bird, full of class and elegance. At times you could get materialistic, devious with money, inconsiderate as you get too involved into yourself, though not intentionally. However, you take up the responsibility to fulfill it and take pride in it.

If you do not like Peacock green you probably like keeping low key, don’t believe much in class and do not give as much importance to moral values.