While reading a topic about web color contrast I found this interesting information:

 

 

 

As an art teacher, I have experienced first-hand one of the elements he [itten] mentions, the fact that people tend to prefer their own physical coloration, that is blue-eyed blond(e)s like blue and yellow specifically, and light, bright, pastel colours in general, while olive-skinned, dark-eyed people tend to prefer browns, blacks, and other deeper, more saturated colours. I was covering an art class once where a blonde student was being pressured by her brunette teacher into darkening and deepening the colours of her painting. I explained her teacher's natural colour bias, and exhorted the student to be true to herself (though I am dark myself, and have the same bias).

 

 

Is that true or just a simple myth? Can color bias really be so simple as the color of your skin and eyes?

I think it has more to do with preservation of species.

*bump*

 

I would like to get a more definitive answer. If I have blue eyes, then do I like pastel colors or not?

I would assume that preferences are highly dependent on sexual imprinting. Just to pick a random paper, Bereczkei et al. (2003) Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (2004) 271, 1129–1134 published a study with mating preferences of adopted children were investigated.

 

Apparently their husbands had traits similar to their step-father and this further correlated with the quality of the relationship between father and daughter. As such I would think that color bias could be highly dependent on with whom you grow up.

 

 

 

It definitely can't be as simple as this, but if the person (mentioned in the first post) as actually conducted a research, then probably eye color is a big factor in determining the color behaviors.