I’m having a Disgusting Green™️ summer.
Color names (like color itself) are open for some interpretation. What is chartreuse to you may be lime to me, but I think almost any shade of green could be qualified as a Disgusting Green as long as there’s a muddiness to it that makes it kind of icky.
While the Brat green of last summer was pure and saturated, a Disgusting Green has a tinge of yellow and less saturation to give it that edge of “ew”. It’s the embodiment of this emoji: 🤢.
It’s unclear if my crush on Disgusting Green is going to turn into a long term romance. I have not forgotten the season of my life three years ago where I thought I might embrace orange — I bought a bright orange vintage ashtray and a pair of orange shoes and quickly realized it was not, in fact, a color I liked for my own home or closet. (I resold the ashtray, the shoes I still wear as a reminder, lest I hear the tangerine siren song again).




Some of my recent Disgusting Green saves. Top right is a screenshot I took of Alyssa Waskso’s Instagram story, bottom right is the work of Barrie Benson.The other two are sourceless pins from Pinterest.
For those of us who are interested in dipping a toe into the yucky green waters, or for those which this shade of gross is already a tried and true favorite, may I present to you a selection of sickly delights:
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