Monday Mood: Brown 🤎
Brown is often overlooked. It’s not the flashiest of colours, not the one that immediately comes to mind when we think of beauty, inspiration, or creativity, but brown is the colour of grounding, stability, and quiet strength. It’s the colour of earth that holds our roots and wood that carries our history.
Growing up, I hated the colour brown.
Even though I was an earthy child — happiest outside in the garden, making mud pies with soil on my hands, I was bullied so much for my brown skin that all I wanted was to be pale. I wished I could hide the very thing that made me, me. This disconnection from my own reflection became part of the messy middle of my story.
In my early twenties, life mirrored that inner struggle. I was heartbroken after a long-term relationship ended in betrayal. I attended university lectures with tears rolling down my face but carried on anyway. Resilience has always been in me, even when I didn’t yet see it as strength.
Those years became a blur of working, partying, and repeating. I had my own flat in the city, lived my “best single life” on the surface, but inside, I was barely getting by. Another relationship came and went, leaving my heart fractured. I felt lost, unanchored, searching for something deeper and then, one day, I booked a ticket to India.
That trip shifted everything. When I came home, I stopped drinking, stopped partying, and started choosing myself. Soon after, I found love with Charles, and a year later, I founded Studio Kynd.
Now, brown has become one of my favourite colours.
As we transition into winter, my wardrobe naturally shifts into shades of caramel, chestnut, and coffee. The colour I once rejected is now the colour that feels most like home — warm, rooted, steady.
Brown reminds me that growth isn’t always glamorous. As Robin Sharma says: “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.”
Every heartbreak, every chaotic season, every solo adventure, and every moment of resilience became part of my becoming.
What I once saw as weakness is now my greatest strength. What I once wanted to escape has become my grounding. Brown is no longer something I shy away from — it’s a colour that carries me, a colour that whispers of resilience, and a colour that reminds me that the messy middle always has a purpose.
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As this new season begins, I’m also looking forward. My books for 2025 are now full, but I’ve quietly opened the waitlist for 2026. If you feel called to create a soulful, intentional brand together, you can [ join the waitlist here ], I would love to hold space for your story when the time comes.
With warmth,
Niobe x