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‘Neutral’ is a tricky concept because it requires a reference point—a color (or idea) to be neutral towards. Skin tone is the body’s personal neutral. Out of doors, a sandy tan could be the neutral for desert, and green for jungles or forests. Black is the neutral of New York; stripes the neutral of Paris; leopard the neutral of people who don’t believe in neutrals.
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Theoretically, any color could be a neutral with the right framework.
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Take a milky, soft powder blue...
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It’s a neutral of mood, an interior baseline, and fashion’s favorite non-beige foundation.
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The tone itself is an overlapping Venn diagram between cloud and sky.
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Not aloof, but lofty; dreamy yet clear.
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It contains multitudes because, like the ocean, it appears blue partially because it reflects the sky.
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Water is not intrinsically blue, and blue is in the cornea of the beholder, from a light-wave perspective.
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You only see the blue your eye (and mood) allows you to see.
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Fashion gets periodically obsessed with the shade for its demure demeanor and elusive relativity.
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It can be cool and detached (if you are), soft and vulnerable (if you are), minimalist and citified or naively rustic.
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That’s why Xtra Milk’s aura is this precise shade—the universal musk is the neutral of skin-scents, and yet everyone smells something a bit different in it.
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