Celebrating Colours And The Nine Days Of Womanhood - Purple

You will always bloom in the garden of purple, laugh in purple rain, love with a purple spirit and be a woman of purple. This colour bleeds royalty, luxury, nobility and power. It is the colour of magic; it liberates our mind and feelings. It is a blend of red and blue and stands out as a feminine colour as it is loved by most women.

During Navratri, Devi Siddhidatri avatar of Durga Maa is associated with purple, who represents ambition and power.

Popular Culture

The British chocolate company Cadbury's is all purple (purple wrappers, logo), they chose purple as it was Queen Victoria’s favourite colour.

In IPL Kolkata knight riders are all in purple it is their primary colour. In basketball Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns use purple as their primary colour.

Having purple coloured walls in your bedroom, or purple coloured cushions, curtains or mere bed sheets, will give you a sense of royalty and make you feel rich.

Yahoo, Fed X, Taco Bell and many more have purple logos. In fact, every company must make use of this colour as it is said to lead to prosperity.

In the military receiving a purple badge is the highest form of achievement.

Positive Traits of Purple

Purple is the colour of compassion, dignity and inspiration. It influences people to show love and sympathy, at the same time live with self-respect and maintain dignity. It gives people a new perspective to life while making crucial decisions it helps them maintain calm ad grants them wisdom. It encourages creativity, uniqueness and elegance.

Negative Traits of Purple

Like everything good has a dark side, purple does too. Too much imagination gives rise to irrational believes which leads to irrational thinking, which if turned into irrational behaviour is psychotic in nature. Royalty often comes with a price, it does not let you express your feelings outwardly, which can accumulate stress and lead to an emotional outburst.

Purple in Vogue

Purple is known to heighten the beauty and glamour of people. As it signifies elegance, purple outfits are rare and mostly worn on rich/special occasions. You will mostly find purple dresses, jackets, scarfs, skirts; very rarely you will see basic outfits such as t-shirts in purple. Always remember whenever you want to dress for a special occasion, purple is your colour. It enhances your reaction towards creativity and makes you stand out.

Here is some celebs styling in purple.

Personality Traits of Purple

If you are fond of purple, it means you are compassionate, sensitive, supportive and understanding. People are easily drawn to your alluring dynamism. Though you are an introvert sometimes, you are a free spirit mostly. You are creative and like to do things your way, you have a great imagination, sometimes impractical, such that you fantasize your future in eccentric ways, but people are inspired by your creativity. You love to travel, make new friends and have variety in life.

The happy go lucky attitude does not let you share your feelings and you suppress them to an extent that they lead to an emotional outburst. You can be exotic at times, in such a way that you tend to be artificial at times. You can also be arrogant, cynical, impractical and immature.

If you don’t like purple, you are probably not interested in royalty or luxury much, you don’t get excited meeting new people and prefer making practical decisions, however, you do need people who love purple in your life.