TONES: Neutral — Jessiena Lake

**Neutral TONES**

Black, White, Gray, Brown
Food-Music-Movement-Clothing

Color affects us all in many ways from what we wear to the food we eat. Black is both associated with elegance, power and sophistication, as well as rebellion, fear, intimidation and the occult. Whereas another neutral color, white is associated with perfection, innocence, purity and cleanliness.

Surrounding yourself by the color black could helps increase the ability to resist negative emotions and makes us feel secure and protected, while surrounding yourself with white can have a calming effect, that promotes compassion and spirituality.

Naturally black foods are packed with anthocyanins, antioxidant rich pigments that produce the deep colors, they can help prevent cancer, improve heart health and make your skin glow and there are many options here to try.

A brown smoothie smoothie on a black background with chocolate, black grapes and blackberries indicating the flavors of the smoothie. — **WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU COCOA**

Cacao powder, black grape and blackberry smoothie.

**TACO ‘BOUT A CUTIE**

Wild rice tortilla with spicy cuban black beans, onions, wild rice.

A black background with an overhead view of a clear glass plate with black grapes, chocolate truffles, blackberries, black rice crackers with black lumpfish caviar and dried dates. — **LOOKIN’ LIKE A SNACK**

Black Grapes, chocolate truffles, blackberries, Blacklump Fish Caviar on black rice crackers and dried dates.

**HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH**

Charcoal detox cocktail.

**ENDLESS PASTABILITIES**

Black bean noodles with parmesan cheese and sauteed onion and garlic.

A black background with a black plate filled with chocolate truffles, chocolate caramels and crushed dark chocolate bar and a gray floral napkin. — **I LIKE YOU A CHOCO-LOT!**

Chocolate truffles , chocolate caramels and dark chocolate bar.

**NEUTRAL TONES: MUSIC**

Songs and artists in tones of black, white, gray and brown.
**Spotify**
**Youtube**
**Apple Music**

**NEUTRAL TONES: MOVIES**

Films in tones of black, white, gray, brown- because you’ve watched everything else already.
Check out a playlist of the movies **here**.

A black background with Jessiena dressed in a black vintage coat with a little black dress peeking out, black leather gloves and white sneakers. She is holding a record album covering her face. — **NEUTRAL TONES: CLOTHING**

I love music and playing records. I have collected and inherited from my grandparents and parents and enjoy exploring my music heritage. I loved incorporating them into my neutral tones portrait. Here’s more about wearing black.
Elegance, sophistication, death, rebellion, wearing black is a powerful color.
In modern western culture black is the color of mourning, formally worn at funeral. Its also worn at other formal events and occasions, famously so, the Little Black Dress is a staple in western wardrobes.
In Africa black represents maturity and masculinity. In the Middle East black can symbolize the end and beginning of life- death and rebirth.
Understanding what colors mean in other cultures can help us to connect to our increasingly global world.

A stop motion video of a yoga Barbie dressed in black doing various yoga poses with black record albums in the background. — **NEUTRAL TONES: YOGA**

The Third-Eye Chakra is associated with Indigo and will be used on our Neutral Tones day, because nothing’s perfect. By healing and balancing this chakra we are able to focus more clearly, move towards a healthy mindset and achieve our goals with a presence of mind and focus.
Please join my covid-friendly fitness model and enjoy these gentle movements. And like with anything in life, don’t force it.
Plank Pose
Four-Limbed Staff Pose
Cow Face Pose
Legs Up the Wall Pose