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Just in case if someone is still confused, I'll add in some more explanation. They took pictures of their makeup box with their phones to determine which shade to use. A typical red translates to a grey when it's in monochrome (when I first learned about that, I found it interesting because it's such a deep/bright colour, you'd think it's closer to black). I'm not sure if this method would work realistically, since each camera's quality is different, but that's probably the concept the author was going for. So in other words, they went for that green colour for its closeness to a red when displayed in grey tones.
Colour really drives our perception so much, I'm glad they talk about it here. This is similar to an experiment I saw in a doc where people were asked to identify an object's colour under a red light. The object was a (fake) banana, and everyone said that it looked yellow, but when the white light was flicked on instead, it was actually white. So people saw a yellow simply cause of the object. And in this case, most people will see red lips because that's what we're conditioned to see.
Colour really drives our perception so much, I'm glad they talk about it here. This is similar to an experiment I saw in a doc where people were asked to identify an object's colour under a red light. The object was a (fake) banana, and everyone said that it looked yellow, but when the white light was flicked on instead, it was actually white. So people saw a yellow simply cause of the object. And in this case, most people will see red lips because that's what we're conditioned to see.
