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Eye Candy: Candy by Color Ideal for Weddings and Events

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Wedding Candy by Color

Whatever your passion, black, red, yellow, brown…. sweet, sour or just a tad spicy; colored candy is eye candy that will make your mouth water. The idea of colored candy is so simple and yet so sexy and why didn’t someone think of it sooner? White wedding candy, red valentine’s candy, black and white formal or yellow friendship candy are all the trendy rage of any shindig or sentiment worth its salt, or should I say sugar!

We took a look around the world to see what other people think of colored candy and we found some really great stuff! In New Zealand a lolly scramble is a tradition at any event with kids. This is an event where thousands of lollies (colored candy) are thrown from a moving vehicle where masses of children are waiting to scramble for as many as they can carry in their hands and pockets. Believe it or not, large bags of colored candy are sometimes actually thrown out of an airplane onto fields of rampaging children. What would be more amazing than a lolly scramble in a child’s party theme colors?

Of course the piñata is an old Mexican tradition in which children hit at a hanging paper-maché object until it breaks and candy falls. A great colored candy spin on this tradition is where colored candy is used that coincides with the colors of the donkey, or whatever other creature the kids have just bashed to bits – talk about a surprise!

Over on the other side of the world (an English political function) one grown-up event that was absolutely unforgettable was a high profile fundraiser. It had seat covers which became loot bags for raiding the spectacular colored candy tables at the end of the night. The entire candy buffet was laid out in the colors of the organization holding the event and the cloth bags matched to create a keepsake, parting gift and thank you – all in a single colorful gesture. The opportunities for colored candy themes are limited only by the imagination.

The colored candy theme idea has become so popular around the world that there are now color schemers who can, and will, put together a custom theme. Some examples of custom themes are emotive, like a love candy color scheme, or celebratory as with a christening candy color scheme. Some of the hottest schemes today are apparently; 20s, 70s, Brown, Vibrant and Zot. If you can’t afford your own personal colored candy schemer you may be relieved to know that you can buy color scheme software instead. While this might be a little over the top for some, the idea of color coordinating everybody’s favorite food with an event or feeling is popular.

On a more intimate note the colored candy theme is being used in more personal ways; to cheer up someone with a get well bouquet of rainbow colors or to say I am thinking of you in the recipient’s favorite hue. If the eye candy you have in mind isn’t edible, what will win her (his) heart more sweetly than bouquet of red colored candy? Multi colored candy really is the new black!

Candy Scents Popular with Fashion Celebrities

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Mariah Carey Candy Bling

Candy is hot and candy scents are even hotter. It seems that as long as it’s candy colored or candy scented it’s been on the top of the must have list this year. DKNY is just one of the fashion heavyweights who have jumped on board the candy express with Delicious Candy Apple fragrances. Like Mariah Carey’s candy fragrance line, DKNY has created a threesome of candy scents. The DKNY scents have been made and promoted with a candy apple theme. Donna Karan’s scented threesome is deliciously named Ripe Raspberry, Sweet Caramel and Juicy Berry.

The eau de parfum is gorgeously presented in apple shaped bottles of candy purple, candy red and candy green. Colors any self respecting sports car would be proud of – in other words racy. Racy is the perfect word for these candy scents that definitely target a young, sexy crowd. The purple pottle contains the magic Juicy Berry perfume that will appeal to those who enjoy a nice musky wood essence with fresh, fruity overtones.  Sweet Caramel Candy Apple is the green bottled scent and definitely the sweetest of the three options with hints of vanilla and marshmallow – yummy! Ripe Raspberry Candy Apple is of course the red bottle containing a fresh spring flavor, or rather smell, making it the brightest and bubbliest of the candy apple bunch.

DKNY fashion says class and sophistication. Coupling a candy scented threesome of perfumes with the DKNY branding creates a scent that gives the impression of fresh sophistication. Young people looking for a classy fresh scent won’t have to worry about any flowery old undertones with these perfumes – they are all youth and sunshine and candy!

Candy Cars

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If only they were smaller, the candy car trend makes cars look so sugary delicious you want to lick them like rainbow whirly pops! Candy apple red used to be ‘the’  hot race car color but the latest mouth watering options offer every color in the rainbow. Do-it-yourself candy paint kits make the transition from bland to candy as smooth as gumballs.

To sweeten the deal further those wanting to convert to candy colors can opt for a metallic or a clear candy look. Some great candy colors in the do-it-yourself range have some delicious sounding names as well. Some of these are fuchsia, lime green, mandarin orange and lemon yellow.

If you’re really keen and want to mix your own candy car color these are the basic steps, only recommended for those that know what they are doing though! Prime and block down as many times as necessary. Apply base coat and then candy color. For an added unique candy effect apply a coat of clear paint mixed with flake followed by another coat of straight clear.

For those that aren’t sure of exactly the candy look they are after, a number of websites offer palettes you can place on top of base coat colors to see what the effect will be. Alternatively candy color car bodies are available which you can purchase and actually place over your car (base colored applied already) as an overlay. In this way the car can be viewed in different light and the candy color finish seen clearly and accurately.

Candy color cars are fun and for the car hobby enthusiast, a neat addition to car color options. Other fun ideas for the enthusiast are stickers, motifs, creative hubcaps and knobs and of course all the great neon you can get for in and around the car.

Songs About Candy

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The most famous candy song is of course The Candy Man by Sammy Davis Jr., but you might be surprised at just how many songs have been written about the most favored of all treats. Other oldie but goodies are Lollipop by the Chordettes, Sugar Sugar by The Archies and The Good Ship Lollipop by Shirley Temple.

While the candy classics seem to revel in a love of candy enough to sing about, modern versions of candy music seem to exist exclusively to make sexual allusions. While both Madonna and 50 Cent have contemporary hits called Candy Shop, neither song has much to do with confectionary. Then there are songs about candy like Candy by Paolo Nutini, in which it is impossible to decide whether he is actually singing about sweat treats or the more modern ‘candy’ innuendo; it is a very romantic tune either way!

Perhaps the neatest song about Candy which marries the traditional love of the sweat treat with a modern tune, theme and beat is Lollipop by Aqua, with these slightly suggestive but fun candy lyrics…

Come with me, honey, I’m your sweet sugar candyman (oooh)
Run like the wind, fly with me to bountyland (oooh)
Bite me, I’m yours, if you’re hungry, please understand (oooh)
This is the end of the sweet sugar candyman

Oh my love, I know you are my candyman
And oh my love, your word is my command
Oh my love, I know you are my candyman
And oh my love, let us fly to bountyland

Oooh, you are my lollipop
Oooh, sugar sugar top
Oooh, you are my lollipop
Oooh, sugar sugar top

I wish that I were a bubble gum
Chewin’ on me, baby, all day long
I will be begging for sweet delight
Until you say I am yours tonight

I’ll bet everyone reading this can think of at least one favorite candy song!

Gummy Bear Colors Personality Profiles 


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Yellow is warm like sunshine and represents hope and happiness. Everyone has a favorite color of gummy bears candy so the question is does your favorite gummy colored candy reflect your personality or is it just coincidence? The following information about colors will help you to decide. Yellow, in addition to that already said, is also the most joyful psychological color, it instills a sense if well being and optimism for the future. It is also said that yellow generates energy and creative thought. So in theory yellow colored candy gummy bear lovers may reflect these wonderful and bright features in their personalities.

Red gummy bears are a whole different colored candy story. Red is passionate, vivacious and exciting. Red also represents beauty and comfort. If colored candy gummy bears can predict personality then red gummy bear lovers would surely be lovers of luxury, beauty and divinity. Orange gummy bears must then represent those who represent the best of everything lively, extreme and passionate because they are of course a combination of both these vivacious colors. It may not be purely coincidental then, that one can readily purchase packets of gummy bears with red, yellow and orange gummies only.

Blue gummy bears lovers may be equally happy but are probably more grounded. It is the color of calm, introspect and constancy like the sky and the sea. Blue is also the color of royalty and yet it is a steady and fulfilling color. Purple gummy bears are of course a combination of red and blue which surely indicates an interesting personality for those who choose these treats as their colored candy of choice. Passionate and grounded surrounded by beauty and comfort (royalty even); a spectacular colored candy combination.

What can we say then of those who most enjoy the rich yet colorless colored flavors of black and white gummy bears? Odd’s are that it’s better than you thought. Black is powerful and authoritative. Despite all of the sinister color connotations often associated with black as a color (or lack of) it is actually a peaceful meditative color. Black is also of course the color of sophistication. White is pure and clear, the color of simplicity and peace. White is clean and uncomplicated, a straight-up you know what your getting and what your getting is good kind of color. In that light both black and white seem pretty all right, and isn’t it interesting that many whose first choice in colored candy is black will choose white as their second choice and visa versa.

Other colored candy gummy bears available with equally tasty but less definite color connotations include green, panda, chocolate, swirly, anise, cinnamon, sour, peach and techno gummy bears. And for those who enjoy nothing more than a packet of multi-colored gummy bear candy, you must represent the generalist, the person who is above all fair, the epitome of moderation and equal representation. You are the well rounded diplomat of candy colored flavored gummies!

Cinnamon Candy: Mythology and Health

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Phoenix, the legendary bird that rises from its ashes in mythology, uses cinnamon, myrrh and spikenard (ever heard of that one?) to build the magic fire from which it magnificently emerges in rebirth. Remember Harry Potter!  During the Middle Ages the Arabians brought cinnamon and other spices from Asia to Egypt. They invented the story of the cinnamologus bird to hide the source of the cinnamon and to justify its scarcity and high price. Their mythical cinnamologus bird made nests of cinnamon sticks but the Arabs claimed they did not know where the birds sourced the precious cinnamon. They only knew, they said, that obtaining the cinnamon required them to dislodge the birds from their perilous, cliff-hanging nests and heroically steal their cinnamon branches.  Cinnamon candy is a bit easier to come by these days.

Cinnamon is also mentioned in Sanskrit writings and in the Bible. Ancient Hebrews it is said, used cinnamon oil as part of holy anointment. The Egyptians used cinnamon oil in ceremony and in the mummification process and to make an area holy. Stone records indicate that the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III offered 246 bundles and 86 measures of cinnamon to the gods and goddesses on one occasion, and on another occasion 3,036 logs of the same rare spice.

Cinnamon, it is believed by some, has the power to heal or to inspire love or lust, to invoke power, provide protection and bring about enhanced spirituality and success. As a psychological stimulant cinnamon is burned as incense and creates high spiritual vibrations which aids healing and also stimulates psychic powers. Cinnamon was used by the Chinese to purify the temples and the Egyptians to make an area holy. If a person is superstitious they will tie cinnamon sticks over the door of their home as a protective charm.

Medicinally cinnamon is a great source of manganese, fiber, iron, and calcium. It has been used for thousands of years in the East to help with the symptoms of cold, flu, digestive disturbances and as a physiological stimulant. Cinnamon has an anti-clotting effect on the blood, possibly because it stimulates blood flow. A Copenhagen University study of arthritic patients showed some interesting results. Patients were given half a teaspoon of cinnamon powder mixed with a tablespoon of honey each morning before breakfast. The study found that all had significant arthritic pain relief after one week and could walk without pain after a single month.

Several studies have shown that a 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon a day can lower LDL cholesterol. Other studies suggest that cinnamon has a regulatory effect on blood sugar and the ability to cure yeast infections. If those aren’t reason enough to put teaspoon in hand, there is some early research which may show cinnamon reduces the proliferation of leukemia and lymphoma cancer cells.

Of course today cinnamon is used widely as a flavoring in such future mythological divine products as Altoids sugar free gum, Xtreme hot salt water taffy, Hot Tamales candy, Horchata Licks lollipops and of course cinnamon toothpicks!

Candy Stripers

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While the term candy striper may conjure up visions of young women dressed in red and white handing out sweet chocolate candy trifles, the term candy striper actually and surprisingly, has nothing to do with candy (except that they make people happy!). Candy stripers are actually hospital volunteers who go around cheering patients up by offering a friendly face, a happy disposition and some company to those who are sick and possibly depressed or lonely. While the candy striper’s were a common sight in hospitals in the past it is only recently, with increased understanding about the relationship between psychological and physical well being, that they have once again begun to take on the role in hospitals.

Candy stripers are often young people who are able to lighten the atmosphere with their youthful vitality. They often also have an interest in entering the health care field. The candy striper job offers them excellent insight to what it is like to care for the sick and gives them a better idea as to whether they are suited to a caring profession. While candy stripers were traditionally female, the modern candy striper may be male or female without raising eyebrows.

The term candy striper of course comes from the outfit these girls traditionally wore which was a red and white striped, candy cane colored, uniform. Today candy stripers generally wear their own street clothes or if appropriate for the hospital area, regular hospital greens. While the primary job of a candy striper is, and always has been, to cheer up and spend time with patients most candy stripers also help with practical duties, usually under the supervision of the hospital nursing staff.

While the job of a candy striper is a volunteer position, for a student interested in health (or a student who has not yet held paid employment) it is also an excellent achievement to have on a CV.  Of course there is also the satisfaction of helping others which is fulfilling in its own right.