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Porcelain
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RGB
242, 232, 224
CMYK
0%, 4%, 7%, 5%
Moods & Keywords
delicate
cool
light
skin tone
Pigment & Material
Not a traditional pigment — a metaphorical colour. In cosmetics, created by blending titanium white with trace pink and warm grey.
Origin & History
A pale, cool-tinged blush named after the translucent ceramic perfected in Tang Dynasty China. Fine porcelain has a barely-there skin-like quality that fascinated European collectors for centuries.
Psychology
Porcelain suggests fragility and precision. On skin, it implies Northern European paleness — romanticised in 18th-century portraiture as a marker of nobility and indoor life.
In Culture
In Qing Dynasty China, porcelain skin (瓷肌) was a poetic ideal. Today it persists in Korean and Japanese beauty culture as "glass skin" — luminous, smooth, translucent.
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