As a beauty editor or someone who has worked at a few magazines, the one thing I/we look forward to the most every year is Pantone announcing the colour of the year. I have had countless debates with people who are not from this industry and how it doesn’t really concern or matter to them. And all I am reminded of is Miranda Priestly’s (played by Meryl Streep) monologue from The Devil Wears Prada where Andrea Sachs aka Andy (Anne Hathaway) giggles at Priestly’s difficulty choosing between two similar-looking belts. Priestly, then, in her quintessential iciness tells us how the lumpy blue sweater which she just picked as “stuff” isn’t actually blue, or turquoise, or lapis but cerulean. And how the colour had a trickle-down effect, starting from couture designers who started using the colour first, to department stores and clearance bins. Priestly’s brief lecture talks about the power it holds and how everyone unknowingly becomes a part of the same cerulean trend. Pantone colour of the year is the same sentiment for me.
What is the Pantone Colour of the Year 2024?
While Pantone announces its colours mainly for fashion, graphic or multimedia design. You will see the colour translate into your life in some or the other way, not just fashion or beauty but it could even be your table mats or bedsheets. The Pantone Colour of the Year 2024, will be all about the subtly sensual peach hue—Peach Fuzz—a warm shade that sits between pink and orange and feels kind and tender with a message of caring, sharing, community and collaboration. Pantone describes it as a fresh new approach to a new softness that inspires belonging, calmness, recalibration, an opportunity for nurturing, offering us a space to feel, heal and flourish.
Here’s how you can incorporate the Pantone Colour of the Year 2024
For me, what better to celebrate this hue than dressing up my own beauty vanity in the Pantone Colour of the Year 2024, Peach Fuzz. Here are some of my top picks
- Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Blush Wand Pillow Talk in ‘Peach Pop’, ₹3,850
- Kay Beauty Colour Corrector Stick in ‘Peach’, ₹725
- Rom&nd Better Than Cheek in ‘Peach Chip’, ₹850
- Dr. PAWPAW Peach Pink Balm, ₹675
- Dear Dahlia Paradise Dual Palette in ‘Multi Peach Champagne’, ₹2,900
- Etude House Fixing Tint in ‘Mellow Peach’, ₹950
