what is the correct term for this colour?

Am I the only one who remembers "tea rose" ?

Or English rose come to that. That’s what they used to say about Princess Di. Flesh coloured always made me think of old frumps with bad taste.

There’s a lipstick called Tea Rose that suits me perfectly but for discontinued. People are selling it on eBay etc but I don’t think I can buy a second hand lipstick!

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There’s a lipstick called Tea Rose that suits me perfectly but for discontinued. People are selling it on eBay etc but I don’t think I can buy a second hand lipstick!

Yucky yucky poo, I agree! I am also suspicious of online perfume in case they have filled the bottle with something cheap and nasty .

ballet shoe pink? Although these days they come in different shades too to fit the skin tone of the dancer wearing them.

Most of us have a clear idea of the shade of pink used for satin ballet shoes.

peely wally is how I used to look when I was wearing a suspender belt or girdle and a sanitary belt at the same time!

"Washed oot -looking" sums it up too.

i'd never heard of flesh as a colour descriptor, nor nude, until i saw it on something recently and was puzzled.
i didn't realise it was referring to the colour tint of the garment.
i somehow thought it meant you wear it when you are nude; which doesn't make much sense.
i find both terms faintly repulsive. and sexist somehow.
i don't think they should be using terms that are suggestive of female undressed-ness.
so i am all for banning them.
i don't think they are very traditional anyway, are they ?
or i would have heard of them growing up. maybe.

I think they are old and traditional, Welbeck and I certainly knew them when I was growing up eighty years ago. Perhaps you were born later than me, or lived in a different area.

Nude was a colour for stockings, flesh-colour for lots of things.

To me, 'wabbit' is how I feel (weary) and 'peely wally' is how I look (pale and worn). Literally 'scunner' means vomit. To be if something 'gars ye scunner' it makes you throw up.

Well Nude won't describe the colour because they now do various shades of nude!

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We'll have to stick to Crumpled Linen 3 for the colour of European skin, as per the Dulux chart! ??

Or perhaps it should be 'Northern European' skin because Southern European is a shade darker.

I can understand why the term flesh would be offensive.

I asked a dog owner if her animal was a dog or a bitch and she was mortified.
I heard her tell her children it's a girl dog or a boy dog .

I don't see anything wrong is calling an actress an actress .

The whole world has gone silly .

Chestnut

We'll have to stick to Crumpled Linen 3 for the colour of European skin, as per the Dulux chart! ??

Don’t they do Natural Hessian anymore?
I’d go for that. If I stood next to my walls you wouldn’t see my legs.

But Naples Yellow is also a "white flesh" tone.

There are so many ‘flesh’ colours, though, even in so-called ‘white’ people - if we’re talking faces, that is.

A sort of pinky-beige, a greyish-beige,, a purply-red (esp. old men fond of the booze) a toasted walnut (very outdoorsy in all weathers types) plus of course the honey-cream or porcelain-cream for the very lucky ones (not me, alas).

I used a light beige yarn for the faces of my Nativity set figures, not the prescribed ‘light pink’, which didn’t seem right for the area, and a darker beige for the 3 kings, since they’d come ‘from Persian lands afar’. ?

Pale peach?

OMG this has brought back so many things. American Tan stocking and tights- I always liked Mocha better. Nail varnish to stop ladders! Thank goodness for thick tights-hide everything and don't ladder!
As for the colour I spent years trying to change my skin colour from pale almost white to deep tan, it never worked all I got was rosy pink/red and then a few weeks with a lovely honey-gold until it faded and washed off. I've given up now and only sit in the sun lathered in factor 50.
As for the name pale pink will have to do

A so called white person isn’t white at all. The colour of my skin could never be called white even though I am a white person. I would never have used the term flesh coloured either. Nor am I peach coloured or pink. In fact I’m not sure that I can think of an appropriate descriptor.

@ElaraWynn this thread is nearly 4 years old!

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Must be an alien as she thinks it's called teal or turquoise!

Bodach

I don't know about the rest of you, but the various different parts of my body are entirely different colours - ranging from pasty whiteish with flecks of grey, through purple blotched to dirty brown. Take your pick!

I daren't look some days.......

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I’d go for Crumpled Linen 3. I recall flesh-coloured as being more beige than pink. There’s a hollyhock shade that exactly fits it.

The ‘flesh’ colour yarn I buy (seemingly a mix of pink, soft yellow and cream) is called ‘Toy’ on the Wool Warehouse website.