Everything about Lilac

Our world is colourful – Not imaginable living in a world without colours. Colours influence our temper, they express our feelings and they prettify our surroundings. Every colour has his own meaning, for example green stands for hope, red for love, blue for silence, black for death, turquoise for humour and lilac stands for magic and mysticism.

Lilac, Violet, Purple, Magenta, Pink?

Lilac is the name for a colour which belongs to the colour wheel of violet. Violet is the colour of the flower viola and is related to the colour wheel of purple. The colour wheel of violet includes all colours, which are located between red and blue, for example lilac, magenta or pink. When we look at the colours, lilac is a bright violet and the word lilac terms the colour of the flower lilac. Magenta is a bright lilac and pink is a screaming violet. This is very confusing, but it should show you that all these different terms have different meanings. In everyday life language usage the words violet and lilac mean the same and we often use it for the same tone of colour, although this is, strictly speaking, wrong.

Religious thinking, the colour violet stands in the Christian belief for the Lent, the time before Christmas and for penance. During the Lent, in all Christian churches, you find violet clothes, which veil the cross.

Purple is the most expensive colouring in the world

Purple is a Greek word and means stirring and mingling. Real purple can change into all colours of the colouring violet; it depends on time and changing. The purple snail produces real purple, which is at first a dark red. The snail lives in the Mediterranean and is a carrion-eater. Grating 12.000 purple snails produces 1, 5 gram of the colouring purple, which corresponds with a price of 2872.00 Euro per gram purple and that means that purple is the most expensive colouring in the world. In the past it was common to milk the snails and then abandoning them, still alive. Today the method of producing purple is different, because they grate the whole snail. As you can imagine, the topic of cruelty to animals as important, but it was too late to do something against this cruelty because the snails were almost completely exterminated in the Mediterranean. The import of the snails was forbidden but the need of purple was so high, that the extermination happened too fast and the snails could not recover from the huge purple snail raid through the Mediterranean. Today it is only allowed to use the snails for colouring for home requirements.

Lilac – the new red in the world of fashion

In the last years, lilac became one of the most popular colours in the world of fashion. In the past this colour was only worn by bishops during the Lent, but now every celebrity falls back on lilac. This colour mediates that the wearer is in a good mood and the colour attracts interest, in all accounts. Above all lilac is very popular during the winter, because it is a good alternative proposal to all black, grey and brown clothes and it spices all bland outfits up. If you wear something lilac, you demonstrate being self confident and knowing, what you want. You can start with little lilac accessories, if your are still a bit insecure on how combining lilac clothes or if a lilac jacket or blouse are too much for you. You can do nothing wrong when wearing lilac clothes, the only thing that you should mind is that lilac is a very flashy colour, therefore it is important to combine low-keyed colours like black, grey or white.
No matter, on which lilac part of your outfit you decide, but keep in mind, that fashion experts said: “Lilac is the new red! A must-have”
 
This colour dominates not only the world of fashion, it is popular for all technical things like mobile phones, mp3-players, digital cameras or even notebooks, also for cars, bags, finger nails, headbands and everything that can be produced in lilac. The secret of this colour is first of all, that it is a pretty new colour and all these items have never existed in lilac and therefore it is something new and exciting for us. Secondly lilac is something different beside black or white but it is not too flashy if you maybe choose a darker lilac tone.