Pantone Color of the Year 2024: 10 Ways To Work ‘Peach Fuzz’ Into Your Beauty & Fashion
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Pantone's Color of the Year for 2024 will make you feel warm and fuzzy. Aptly named Peach Fuzz, the color is meant to inspire togetherness. Throughout 2024, you'll find Peach Fuzz inspiring all kinds of things from makeup and haircare products to women's fashion, shoes, and even home decor. Below are 10 ways you can embrace the 2024 Color of the Year through your beauty and fashion choices!
Peach Fuzz-Inspired Beauty and Fashion Products
Hair Tint Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : Unicorn Hair Tints in Sushi
Blush Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : Higher Standard Satin Matte Cream Blush in Kindness
Hair Care Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : Dae Signature Duo Set
Skincare Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : Combination Skin Cleansing Bar
Lip Balm Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : Raw Sugar Lip Balm in Almond + Agave
Sunglasses Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : Saccharine Pearl Orange Cat-Eye Sunglasses
Shoes Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : Yita Strappy Heels in Orange
High-Rise Leggings Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : lululemon Align™ High-Rise Pant 28" in Mango Dream
Fleece Jacket Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : L.L. Bean Mountain Classic Windproof Fleece Jacket in Soft Cayenne
Sneakers Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year : Oca Low Pantone Peach Fuzz Canvas Sneakers
Color of the Year 2024: Peach Fuzz
Pantone's color of the year for 2024 is 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, a color that captures the "desire to nurture ourselves and others." The gentle, warm peach tone is inviting, welcoming, and popping up across the board in products like makeup and fashion and even home decor and lifestyle products.
"In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance," Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute™ says. "A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless."
Why Peach Fuzz?
Peach Fuzz was selected as the 2024 Color of the Year because, as Pantone describes, it highlights our desire for togetherness. After the 2020 Pandemic, the world could use more feelings of kindness, tenderness, caring, and sharing — all emotions the color of the year celebrates!
According to Pantone, Peach Fuzz, is meant to invoke feelings of comfort and "peace from within" that impact our wellbeing for the better. "An idea as much as a feeling, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz awakens our senses to the comforting presence of tactility and cocooned warmth," the color experts say. In these times of growth and rebuilding, Peach Fuzz reminds us that "a vital part of living a full life is having the good health, stamina, and strength to enjoy it."
How does Pantone select their Color of the Year?
The Pantone Color Institute first introduced the Color of the Year in 1999 as a way to engage the design community. In doing so, the color connoisseurs were able to draw attention to the relationship between color and culture.
But who gets to decide what becomes the Color of the Year? That job falls on Pantone's team of global color experts at the Pantone Color Institute, who search the world looking for new color influences.
"This can include the entertainment industry and films in production, traveling art collections and new artists, fashion, all areas of design, aspirational travel destinations, new lifestyles, playstyles, or enjoyable escapes, as well as socio-economic conditions," Laurie Pressman, Vice President, Pantone Color Institute™, says of the process. "Influences may also stem from new technologies, materials, textures, and effects that impact color, relevant social media platforms, and even upcoming sporting events that capture worldwide attention."
Through careful consideration, trend analysis, and forecasting, Pressman says the team determines the Color of the Year in "a very pure way." Many a conversation take place among "color-attuned people" with varying backgrounds.
The name of the color also impacts the Color of the Year selection process (much like it does my nail polish selection).
Sometimes, the Color of the Year is two colors, which was the case in 2021. Other times, the color doesn't exist and Pantone has to create the Color of the Year, as was the case in 2022 with Very Peri (Pantone 17-3928).
Regardless, the Color of the Year is one Pantone sees reflected across multiple facets of design. It's a color that expresses the moods and attitudes of consumers; a color that reflects human nature; a color that represents "what's happening in the zeitgeist at a macro level."
Pantone Color of the Year 2023 (and beyond)
2024 is the 25th Anniversary for Pantone's Color of the Year. Here's what the Color of the Year has been in the past:
Color of the Year 2000: PANTONE 15-4020 Cerulean
Color of the Year 2001: PANTONE 17-2031 Fuchsia Rose
Color of the Year 2002: PANTONE 19-1664 True Red
Color of the Year 2003: PANTONE 14-4811 Aqua Sky
Color of the Year 2004: PANTONE 17-1456 Tigerlily
Color of the Year 2005: PANTONE 15-5217 Blue Turquoise
Color of the Year 2006: PANTONE 13-1106 Sand Dollar
Color of the Year 2007: PANTONE 19-1557 Chili Pepper
Color of the Year 2008: PANTONE 18-3943 Blue Iris
Color of the Year 2009: PANTONE 14-0848 Mimosa
Color of the Year 2010: PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise
Color of the Year 2011: PANTONE 18-2120 Honeysuckle
Color of the Year 2012: PANTONE 17-1463 Tangerine Tango
Color of the Year 2013: PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald
Color of the Year 2014: PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid
Color of the Year 2015: PANTONE 18-1438 Marsala
Color of the Year 2016: PANTONE 13-1520 Rose Quartz & PANTONE 15-3919 Serenity
Color of the Year 2017: PANTONE 15-0343 Greenery
Color of the Year 2018: PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra Violet
Color of the Year 2019: PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral
Color of the Year 2020: PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue
Color of the Year 2021: PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating
Color of the Year 2022: PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri
Color of the Year 2023: PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta
Color of the Year 2024: PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz
Unicorn Hair Tints in Sushi
Hair Tint Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
An ultra-conditioning hair tint that's damage-free and made with fatty acids and vitamins for extra moisture!
Note: works best on pre-lightened hair
Why You'll Love It
100% Vegan and Cruelty-Free
Sugary Citrus Vanilla Scent
DIY-friendly, damage-free formula
Higher Standard Satin Matte Cream Blush in Kindness
Blush Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
Highly pigmented, ultra-creamy blush that seamlessly blends onto the skin for a natural flush of color.
Why You'll Love It
Kaolin Clay helps reduce appearance of pores and limit excess shine
Avocado Oil penetrates to lock in lasting hydration
Vitamin E helps calm and soothe
Dae Signature Duo Set
Hair Care Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
Dae's best-selling duo formulated with desert botanicals to give you the healthiest, shiniest hair.
Why You'll Love It
Softens
Adds shine
Prevents breakage
Vegan, cruelty-free, and free of SLS, SLES, parabens, and phthalates
Combination Skin Cleansing Bar
Skincare Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
This award-winning facial cleanser smooths, hydrates, and restores skin’s moisture levels and improve the look of rough texture and dry, combination and aging skin.
Why You'll Love It
Aesthetician developed
Free of sulfates and parabens
Cruelty free and certified clean
Raw Sugar Lip Balm in Almond + Agave
Lip Balm Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
Crafted with rich Cold-Pressed essential oils to help care for sensitive, dry lips, ingredients like nourishing shea butter soften while vitamin E, safflower, and jojoba oils hydrate.
Why You'll Love It
Made with clean, good for you ingredients
Cruelty free and made without SLS/SLES sulfates and parabens
Cold-Press Technology®: preserves, extracts and delivers the purest, richest, most nutrient dense extracts to love your skin from the outside in
Saccharine Pearl Orange Cat-Eye Sunglasses
Sunglasses Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
These cat-eye sunglasses offer full UV protection!
Why You'll Love It
Inspired by the classics, but made for today
Timeless fashion
Thoughtful craftsmanship
Yita Strappy Heels in Orange
Shoes Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
Lace-up heels with thin straps that wrap around your ankle and continue around your foot for the ultimate on-trend look.
Why You'll Love Them
3" heel
Manmade materials
Pleather upper
lululemon Align™ High-Rise Pant 28" in Mango Dream
High-Rise Leggings Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
Buy from lululemon, starting at $39
Shaped to hug every curve and stay put through every move, these leggings give you the total freedom to bend, stretch, and move however you need to.
Why You'll Love Them
Designed for yoga but can be worn wherever
Feels buttery soft and weightless
Lined for coverage
Hidden waistband pocket
L.L. Bean Mountain Classic Windproof Fleece Jacket in Soft Cayenne
Fleece Jacket Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
Airshield windproof technology brings a new level of comfort and breathability to this grid-pattern-fleece jacket featuring a velour-textured interior lining.
Note: Customers say the fit runs slightly large!
Why You'll Love It
100% recycled polyester
Machine washable
Oca Low Pantone Peach Fuzz Canvas Sneakers
Sneakers Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year
Buy from Cariuma, $89 available for pre-order
These Peach Fuzz sneakers are an exact match to Pantone's Color of the Year 2024!
Why You'll Love Them
Buy 1 pair, plant 2 trees
Made of organic cotton canvas
Slip-resistant
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