Beautiful Blush Paint Colors

Blush can be a perfectly feminine, sophisticated neutral. Looking for the perfect blush paint? Here are some top blush paint colors to try.

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Growing up with three brothers, I was as much into baseball and spy games as I was into frills and princess dresses… But after years and years of ballet, blush holds a special place in my heart.

Blush can be a perfectly feminine, sophisticated neutral. Looking for the perfect blush paint? Here are some top blush paint colors to try.

Since my first two children were boys, and I’m a neutral gal at heart anyway, I’ve never ventured much into pink in my home… But if you saw our big announcement and the nurseries that are inspiring me these days, you may have noticed a fair share of rose.

Yep, I took the plunge. There are now pink walls in my home.

I figured that if I can’t go for it with baby #4, when will I?

But the beauty of blush paint is that it doesn’t have to be pepto bismal… It doesn’t have to be overly frilly or even girly. There are some amazingly neutral blush paints out there these days, and I have spent time (and quite a few chip brushes) testing various colors to find some solid options for you all. I’ve even categorized them by the general feel they have.

Before I share my favorites, though, I can’t resist a few inspiration images to show you just how gorgeous a soft, pale blush can be in a space.

Blush can be a perfectly feminine, sophisticated neutral. Looking for the perfect blush paint? Here are some top blush paint colors to try.
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Blush can be a perfectly feminine, sophisticated neutral. Looking for the perfect blush paint? Here are some top blush paint colors to try.
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Blush can be a perfectly feminine, sophisticated neutral. Looking for the perfect blush paint? Here are some top blush paint colors to try.
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Blush can be a perfectly feminine, sophisticated neutral. Looking for the perfect blush paint? Here are some top blush paint colors to try.
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Blush can be a perfectly feminine, sophisticated neutral. Looking for the perfect blush paint? Here are some top blush paint colors to try.
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So without further ado, my five favorite blush paint colors:

Blush can be a perfectly feminine, sophisticated neutral. Looking for the perfect blush paint? Here are some top blush paint colors to try.

1 – Behr Stolen Kiss
2 – Magnolia Home’s Ella Rose
3 – Behr Moxie
4 – Benjamin Moore Bashful
5 – Behr My Sweetheart

And because I know computer screens often make it difficult to make out the true hues, I’ve categorized and described each of the colors for you below.

Stolen Kiss: Pale Pink – A true pale pink, this would be charming for a nursery or lovely as an accent with textured neutrals or even offset with black. It’s sweet and soft.

Ella Rose: Dusty Rose – More of a weathered dusty rose color, with hints of warmer peach tones, this has a sweet farmhouse feel. It reads the darkest on the walls of the five I chose.

Moxie: More Mauve or even Lightly Lilac – The purplest of the group, Moxie still has a sweet pink feel but definitely gets a little spunkier with its cool almost purple hue.

Bashful: Nearly Nude – There is almost no pink to this pale “pink.” It has some similarities to Ella Rose with its peachier undertones (offsetting what very little pink there is), but it is lighter and reads more like that neutral ballet pink of some pointe shoes.

My Sweetheart: Palest Peachy Pink – They actually categorize this as a “white” with “red undertones.” Don’t be fooled, though, if you paint every wall in a room, no one who’s not color blind will miss the pink. This can read a tiny touch coral because of a little orange, but mostly just a very very soft pink.

As always when talking paint colors, I have to give the disclaimer that the lighting, furniture, and other accents in a room can completely change the feel of a color, especially ones as subtle as these. But I do encourage you to consider what overall feel you want (peach, pink, nude, etc.) and try these if they fit your end goal. If you have a fabric or piece of art that you plan to incorporate in the room, start by figuring out which general category best complements that. The options are practically endless, but these five definitely made it to the top of my list.

Now comes the real question: which one do you think I chose for our nursery? 😉

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26 Comments

    1. I love all the pink! I am having difficulty with the link for the image of the front door can you please tell me which color this is?

  1. Rachel- I haven’t read your blog for awhile so congratulations on your coming baby. The Lord just blessed me with one daughter, so you can believe she had a pink room. I am guessing you went with Stolen Kiss 🙂

  2. Bashful is pretty…color is so personal. Over the years I have come to the point of very neutral colors for walls and adding accents in a room for whatever color is inviting at the time. Whatever you do will be nice. That ceiling in a color was cool too, though the white was a little stark against it, but all pretty in their own way.

    1. Thanks, Jillian! I know what you mean… all the other walls in my house are white or gray. 😉

  3. I’m thinking you chose Behr My Sweetheart. 🙂 You did a great job in describing these, Rachel. On my monitor, they look exactly how you described, and much of what I was thinking before I read your descriptions.

    One other thing I was going to add to your disclaimer list, if I may. When windows are open, whatever ‘color’ is outside the window *can* reflect on the walls/paint color. For example, if you have a large tree (or trees) outside an open window, the green of the leaves can REALLY be ‘absorbed’ into or reflected by the color of the walls and make the walls look like a TOTALLY different color. O.o

    Love the blush colors you have listed, and I can *so* relate to your attraction to the color. 🙂 I’ve thought about adding some pillows in my white/blue bedroom for a bit of a soft glow.

    1. Thanks, Julie! And you’re so right; the outside colors (including even the time of day and angle of the sun) can absolutely affect color!

  4. I absolutely love these color choices! Can you tell me what colors were used in each of these pictures ? Thank you!!

    1. I’m so glad you like them! Unfortunately, not all the inspiration pics actually disclose the paint color. You are welcome to go to each source to see, but I think only one or two tell the actual colors. With lighting differences and camera differences, though, I think several of the options I listed could give a similar effect to these images. I hope this helps!

  5. Ella Rose, that baby girl will have a beautiful room no matter what you have chosen. I love what you do and your new house shows the loveliness you have done.

  6. I think you went for #5 Bashful. Enjoy your new baby girl and look forward to seeing your nursery reveal.
    I love all the inspiration ideas in the pinks. My favourite of these is #Ella Rose.
    Who makes these heavenly paints? I am starting with a blank canvas and absolutely have no idea where to start with colours. I keep changing my mind.

    1. Hi! At the bottom of the post, I list who makes the paint colors. A few of them are Behr, followed by Magnolia, and Benjamin Moore. So glad you enjoyed them!

  7. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. You made my life so much easier! I have now chosen the nursery colours for my 2 baby girls! Stolen kiss and moxie are perfect and just what I was looking for.

  8. Hi

    can you please tell me if the 5 pictures relate to the 5 paintbrushes of colour?

    I really love the pain in the first picture (looks like a study alcove) Can you tell me what that paint colour is please?

    thank you

    x

    1. I’m sorry! This isn’t my door but it looks like it might be a Farrow and Ball color! I’d check some of their pink shades.

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