Ahead of the Curve with Color Trends

As the global manufacturing and R&D leader of color materials, we understand color trends. Explore the wide range of trendy and exciting stylings for automotive coatings that we’ve developed as well as trending formulations for cosmetics.

 

Color of the Moment

Let your creativity flow with our Color of the Moment series for coatings and make-up and personal care. Uncover featured formulations with our latest pigment innovations rooted in the exploration of novel color spaces.

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Coatings

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Makeup and Personal Care

Featured Trends

Color Beauty Trends of 2026: SOULSTICE

Amid natural disasters and human crises in an ever-changing world, we look to preserve and enrich what makes us human, both physically and emotionally. We explore methods to find meaningful purpose and drill down to our essential needs for a healthy quality of life.

As seasons change, each solstice offers a unique opportunity to align our rituals with the natural world. Colorful care and beauty routines are a means to discover new textures and ingredients that stir our senses.

Take a journey into wellness for the soul with two seasonal stories that breathe in vital energy and fuels our passions.

“THRIVE” with Color Beauty Trends of 2025

In times of uncertainty, we have tapped into self-support and preservation methods. We enter a new era and look for ways to transform our worries into positive energies. The purpose of our journey is to THRIVE collectively and as individuals.

Color is a catalyst and beauty offers us an opportunity to explore novel spaces with products that awaken our senses. In “THRIVE” color trends, we dive into two liberating stories that channel our anxieties into empowering drive.

Discover how color becomes your Spirit to revive and Resource to survive, igniting a state of wellbeing that thrives with fortitude.

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Pretty in Peach

Inspired by the 2024 Color of the Year, peach is a graceful, caring color with depth and affection. Its relaxing color moves between rosé pinks and soft oranges with golden tones, inviting connection and enhancing natural beauty.

As a versatile and flexible color, peach works across a wide range of skin tones by warming, contouring, brightening, and highlighting facial features. Its complementary color pairs well with monochromatic palettes of light beige and rich terracotta shades, making it easy to create effortlessly clean looks that are Pretty in Peach.

Explore formulations that bring Pretty in Peach to life for your cosmetic applications.

 

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Global Color Presentation

Looking forward to a new horizon clears the mind and moves the decisive goals into focus. This is especially true when rapid changes make us feel like the world turned up-side down.

Shaping the future by balancing our connection to “Nature”, “Technology” and “Virtual Freedom,” the latest Global Color Trends for automotive coatings show how pigment innovations enable new design possibilities.

Apply the digital effect shades to your designs!

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“What’s IN Asia” Beauty Trends

Straight from the Eastern Hemisphere, the new trends program offers insights to explore “What’s IN Asia.” The semi-annual trends program provides customers outside of the Asia Pacific region with insights on the latest colors, textures, and movements.

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Two-Wheeler Color Trends

Welcome to our Trend Styling Show for motorcycle coatings! With three themes, we showcase how new pigment developments enable outstanding motorcycle aesthetics.

Extreme Ambition captivates the adventure of surpassing limits with our latest innovations, adding extra chroma and sparkle. Ultimate Lifestyle explores wonderful worlds with unique stylings of high-chroma pigments. True Commitment embraces solutions based on connection and care, achieving full formulation impact with mindful color choices.

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Cosmetic Color Stories: Seasons Change; Color Remains.

Cosmetic trends are everchanging, but color is constant. Color has the unique ability to elicit emotional connections and encourage creative self-expression. Color is a powerful tool for harnessing inclusivity and celebrating diversity.

Beauty is colorful. We are the color experts. Together, we support your colorful journey with timeless color combinations, inspiring formulations, and the most comprehensive pigment portfolio in the industry to bring your beauty formulations to life.

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Tour Our Pigment Gallery

Step inside our colorful world. Explore our Pigment Gallery, which includes three rooms with displays and applications for cosmetics and effect pigments, plastics and packaging, and automotive coatings as well as a creative space to be inspired.

Find out more about trends that you may be interested in.

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