so one of my fav bloggers is in charge of judging this contest: 

enter the shower april with colors contest to win your favorite pair of hunter boots! www.beso.com

once you get to the site, you have to choose your color, and then tell them why you picked that color. the explanation: “color is inspiration. it can liven up an outfit or a mood in an instant. it can also reveal so much about someone’s personality.” i found this to be wildly more interesting than just any old internet contest. and some of the responses were really good. i chose the beige hunter boots, and here’s why:

I can understand why some would think beige is a dull color, and similarly, why they’d think that anybody who would choose beige is a dull person. However, I think of beige in a completely different way, and therefore have no problem with people putting myself and beige in the same “category,” if you will. Beige is a color that literally goes with anything. I like to think that my personality is like the color beige. Like beige, my personality tends to go with anything…any situation…any conversation…any change in plans…and most importantly…any outfit. Beige, like myself, has the potential to make a really bold statement all the time, but instead chooses to do so carefully, and thoughtfully…so as not to “wear out its welcome,” unlike hot pink, turquoise or perhaps a bright hue of purple, where standing out in the crowd is much more deliberate and obvious, and takes very little effort to pull off.

Where others argue that beige is boring, I would counter that argument by saying that beige is the balance to any situation.

even if i don’t win… this exercise of thinking about things in such an obscure way was strangely liberating amidst a crazy day filled with a million straightforward (read: boring) details at work. i guess it just goes to show you…sometimes things are strictly black and white. and sometimes things are beige.