08/30/2026
The Atlantic recently published an article that broke my heart a little.
It’s called “The Color Recession,” and it’s about how we’ve collectively retreated into beige, gray, and greige over the past two decades. Not just our walls: our cars, appliances, our entire visual landscape.
The article is beautifully researched. It talks about how 80% of new cars are now grayscale. How purple car production dropped 93%. How real estate agents tell sellers to paint everything white. How we’ve become so afraid of making the “wrong” choice that we’ve stopped making brave ones.
Here’s the part that got me: Studies show people feel happier around warm colors like orange and yellow, calmer around blues and greens, and more depressed around too much gray. Yet gray is what we keep choosing.
We’re literally buying our way into boredom because it feels “safe.”
But then I thought about you. The women who shop here who are not participating in this recession. Who choose the brightest turquoise when everyone else is choosing taupe. Who make jewelry that gets compliments because it’s bold and unapologetically colorful.
You’re not choosing safe. You’re choosing happy.
The Atlantic says “color enthusiasts are stuck sneaking bright hues into gray.” But not here. Not in this corner of the internet. Not in what you’re making with your hands.
Here, color gets to be loud. Joyful. Defiant.
The world might be going beige. But what you make gets to be gloriously colorful.
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Be the rebellion.
