PINK

Pink…The color of compassion, nurturing and love. Pink is intuitive and insightful, showing tenderness and kindness with its empathy and sensitivity.

A combination of red and white, pink contains the need for action of red, helping it to achieve the potential for success and insight offered by white. It is the passion and power of red softened with the purity, openness and completeness of white. The deeper the pink, the more passion and energy it exhibits. Here are a few facts about the color pink:

Madame de Pompadour, a mistress of Louis XV whose favorite color was pink, is said to have first made the color widely popular. The Sèvres porcelain company, also beloved by Madame de Pompadour, created and named a shade of pink after her. Their fine porcelain was a prized status symbol in the eighteenth century and this rich hue of pink came to be associated with the opulence of the royal court and all its trappings. Even so, it was not yet associated with a particular gender.
The color pink was recognized as a concept in 800 B.C. in Homer’s Odyssey.
The term was coined in the 17th century by a Greek botanist for the ruffled edges of carnations.
In the mid-18th century, pink was a fashionable color among male and female aristocrats as a symbol of class and luxury.
In the mid-20th century, men started to wear darker colors to reflect their World War II service. Bright and pastel colors like pink were rebranded as feminine as part of a postwar effort to remove women from the workforce and reestablish their traditional homemaker roles.
In a 1927 issue, Time Magazine printed a survey of several U.S. stores on gender-appropriate colors. The results were nearly split, with 60 percent ascribing pink to boys. During this period, it was not unusual for fashion and department store editorials to run stories on colors and how they should be used. Some described pink as a shade of red, arguing it was fundamentally masculine and therefore best suited for baby boys—especially when the only other option is blue, a gentle color and symbol of virginity. Other publications recommended blue-eyed babies be swaddled in blue because it is flattering and still others proclaimed brunettes looked best in pink.
Symbolism of PINK in Different Religions and Cultures
Few colors are as politically charged as pink. Though today it is considered feminine throughout much of the world, up until around the mid-twentieth century, Westerners viewed the color as either genderless or masculine.
During he Holocaust, the Nazis created a system of markings to identify the different populations that were eventually taken into concentration camps. The pink triangle was assigned to those they deemed “sexual criminals.” This included homosexual men, bisexual men, and transgender women.
In medieval religious art, artists like Cimabue and Duccio occasionally clothed figures of the Christ Child in pink, symbolizing the flesh of Christ and divine innocence.
In Japan, pink is tied to cherry blossoms—evoking beauty, renewal, and transience. It also conveys good health and vitality .
If your favorite color is PINK
If pink is your favorite color, you are loving, kind, generous and sensitive to the needs of others.

You are friendly and approachable with a warmth and softness others are drawn to.
You are the nurturers of the world - you love to give nurturing and to receive nurturing in return.
You are romantic and sensual and sensitive.