Brilliant wit happens occasionally, and I love when that happens. Of course, what I think is witty may not be so much to someone else. Nevertheless, I think I came up with the perfect name for my Pink Paint “brand”. And as I mentioned here and there before, I’m not even that fond of the color pink personally, but I like what the name represents and stands for, regardless of my feelings of quick stereotypes.
After I launched Pink Paint, one our paintball friends commented on it, but had a different idea of what it meant. I see it as representing combining females and 
paintball. He saw it in a literal sense and told me about actual pink paint that he had used before and thought it was a good idea for the local field owner to get some in stock just for lady players. Before that moment, I hadn’t thought about even the mere existence of actual pink paint before.
It makes sense, though. How many things come in pink for females? How many pink things represent breast cancer awareness? How many things that are most often not pink are, just so they stand out? Paintballs come in every color, so of course pink would be one available. And there’s pink markers of course, and trimmed goggles, and…well, everything. It’s a classic go-to option to cater to females in any product line.
I did a little further 
investigating more recently. I did a one-shot Googlethon with “pink paint paintball” as my choice of searching. Um…ok, I confess. I was actually Googling “pink paint” to see what came up referring to my blogs, just to see where in the listings they came up and to make sure I was still the only such named person/place/thing out there. And as always, I learned something new.
Pink paint was banned by the NPPL in 2004. (What? I didn’t know! I’m still catching up on paintball in the ‘90s.) It’s pretty much a no-no everywhere because it has a reputation for staining clothing and skin, and leaving residue on lenses. Interesting. I should probably mention that to my local field owner before he orders a pallet and us gals stain the boys.
I find “Pink Paint” more appropriate than ever now, because women always leave a lasting mark.
By Richelle Shattell
