Color cosmetics are products that are highly influenced by situational and social factors and tend to be trend sensitive. Despite the overall social recession, the consumption of color cosmetics is increasing day by day, and while recovering daily lif...
Color cosmetics are products that are highly influenced by situational and social factors and tend to be trend sensitive. Despite the overall social recession, the consumption of color cosmetics is increasing day by day, and while recovering daily life as the epidemic gradually subsides, the size of the eye makeup market in China is expanding due to the wearing of masks. As the consumption level of Generation Z, a major consumer group, increases, China's cosmetics market is expected to continue to grow into a promising market. The Z generation consists the main force of the Chinese market. Their consumption behaviors are characterized by rapid collection of information through social media services, and active use of e-commerce platforms. The recent pandemic resulted in the rapid growth of the online market as well as its user base, which is why the eyes and ears of the world are focused on the online market. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to present overall color trends in color cosmetics in the Chinese online market and to propose the best color guidelines in an objective way through case studies of domestic and foreign online markets.
The research color range for the survey was based on the results of the current status of color cosmetics in the representative online market in Korea and abroad. The subject for color analysis was set based on data provided by representative domestic and foreign online markets. In foreign markets, the top five major eye makeup brands were selected as color brands of China in 2020 based on data provided by Tmall, China's largest B2C platform under Alibaba. In the domestic market, it is based on data provided by Olive Young, the largest H&B store in Korea. and the color brand nominated for the 2020 Olive Young Awards color makeup has been set up as the representative color brand of South Korea to compare the market.
According to the study, a total of 97 colors were collected from the three domestic color brands, with 30 main colors, 37 sub colors, and 30 accent colors, except for overlapping values. The five foreign color brands also collected a total of 249 colors with 33 main colors, 152 sub colors, and 64 accent colors, excluding overlapping values, and 346 domestic and foreign colors were finally collected, with 63 main colors, 189 sub colors, and 94 accent colors. The Y-R color range, which shows the trend of R in common in domestic and foreign markets, showed the highest distribution, and the color area in the Y-R and R-B range, which has a strong color trend of R, showed an overwhelming distribution. While foreign color brands were evenly distributed in all color areas, domestic color brands were mostly distributed in the light-gray range with high brightness and low saturation, and the white & pale range with medium and low saturation. In addition, in the color ratio of domestic and foreign color brands, accent colors were used in the most hue area. Because the accent color is a point color, and high and low colors are used to express the eyes that stand out depending on the purpose of use, accent color area was larger than the main and sub colors.
From the macro perspective of color, the trend of the domestic and foreign cosmetics market was investigated and proved as a result, and color guidelines were presented based on the color survey results. As the purpose of this study is to suggest the color area of eye shadow among color cosmetics items to domestic color brands and related practitioners, for various applications, the study presented colors corresponding to Munsell and CIELAB values, which are the basis of KS color system. Based on the colors extracted from the color survey results, the value was calculated as the L*a*b* value at 10 degrees of view to calculate the color value of the NCS color system as the value of the Munsell color system. Then, based on the Munsell color values produced by applying them to Munsell convergence, the study suggested them in main, sub, and accent colors.
Although there is a color area that does not appear because the color value is calculated from the current color system to the color mixing system, there is no problem with the flow of research because the color extracted from the NCS color system is used as a tool to calculate the color to suggest. In the color cosmetics items, the eye shadow's color suggestion was based on similar color 2 and 3, which is selected as a similar color harmony among NCS Harmony Rule 5 in Adobe Illustrator CC 2021. And the study calculated the CIELAB value with Adobe Photoshop 2021, and finally presented the color guidelines by entering the corresponding value to the Munsel Conversion. The color of eye shadows is generally unified, so the colors placed on the palette are harmonized when users make their own makeup. In order to highlight the color of this unique and beautiful eye shadow, a color guideline should be set that utilizes the natural and practical aspects, and if it is adjusted and applied within the range, color uniformity of color cosmetics will be promoted, and it is expected that it will contribute to strengthening the competitiveness and enhancing the quality of the beauty and cosmetics industries.
What makes this study different from the previous study is that it derives the current status through an analysis of the impact on cosmetics trends due to changes in consumption patterns and analyzes the correlation of the keywords on the color of eye shadows. Changing consumption patterns due to various changes in society, environment, culture and economy, and analyzing the color trends of eye shadows will help propose colors of eye shadows that best meet consumer needs as consumption trends change in the future.