IF AESTHETICS WERE PEOPLE 

Coquette gives the vibe of when gangs mark territory, when she puts a bow on it, it's hers.

Maximalism being a dragon makes so much sense. Because of course a dragon would collect and hoard as much treasure as they can, so translate that into an aesthetic and you get a really busy overfilled space

I actually really like the idea of aesthetics being MONSTERS, the two contrast a little which makes it interesting as aesthetics are usually thought of as fun little themes (most people think of softer cutesy ones)

sad beige really does make me so sad. i see pictures of sad and bland beige homes and its just :( you know? i feel the same about minimalism

When I step into a maximalist but well designed space, I feel like my soul takes a deep breath and wakes up

Sad beige always immediately reminds me of the old Velvetine Rabbit movie where it's very muted, gentle colors and the outdoor childlike vibes, but then it's kinda depressed thematically. It feels like a Victorian sick room where the mom always goes to die, idk.

In the line up, the Mena girl almost looks like she's freaking out about all the monster characters like, "Where the heck did you come from!?" lol I love it

i do like that you didn't make menhera a monster, there's still stigma around mental illness and some of the "scarier" ones are made out to make people seem like monsters i know this is just a fun concept video but still, it was nice to see that

I personally don't think the beige aesthetic is completely damned. It would actually be really nice if some pops of pastels were incorporated, not super saturated but alive and cheerful in an understated way.

The problem with sad beige is that it actually harms a child’s development by depriving them of color, which color can help them learn and develop

7:00 personally i associate being coquette with EDs because well coquette girls on pinterest are usually super skinny, a lot of pro ana blogs have this coquette aesthetic too. Unfortunately someone i know went from an emo look to a strict "coquette" lifestyle and she developped an ED and she's really not doing well so i guess that's what memories this aesthetic triggers for me

Art that is meant to comfort the disturbed will undoubtedly disturb the comfortable. That is not to say that art that disturbs you is bad or that you're bad for being disturbed; it just means the art piece isn't *for* you

OMG I THOUGHT I HALLUCINATED THIS VIDEO BECAUSE A COUPLE DAYS AGO IT SHOWED UP THEN IT DISAPPEARED AND I COULDNT FIND IT. I WAS SO CONFUSED

Ok the sad beige zombie is PRECIOUS and i love them so much

“Menhera” is a Japanese abbreviation of “mental health” and came out as an adjacent to the “yandere” character trope. As a Japanese, my understanding of the trend is that we put a lot of pressure on girls & women to be cute and appealing, and that the fashion is supposed to be a representation of a girl attempting to “mask” her true-but-struggling, self under ribbons & bows, or “making the most” out of a bad situation by literally and metaphorically“dressing up” scars with rainbow bandages to patch herself together. In the past, the take on the trend was rather shallow, but nowadays, it’s grown into something greater about a person’s mental health journey. As a society that almost always ignores invisible illnesses, some people find comfort in making some of it visible through the fashion. Personally, I like it a fair bit, as it really has brought the discussion of mental health more into the mainstream.

the smoke-made ghost on Mob Wife is **ADORABLE?!**

I LOVE the spider mob wife design. Could be a good pun on “a web of crimes” as well!

The way lavendertowne draws plus sized people>>>>>>>

Our concern with sad beige isn't because of what the child likes but what they need. It's good for their baby brains! That's why kids shows and books and toys are so colorful. It promotes stimulation and growth

I absolutely adore the Menhera character, and aesthetic. As someone who has spent an unhealthy amount of time around hospitals (pun definitely intended) for both physical and mental issues as I was growing up i find it comforting that people can take those things like being in and out of the hospital and make it so that they’re comfortable expressing that. Also there is just something comfy about a properly applied bandage, a sort of gentle pressure that I personally find quite comforting. As ever another fantastic video Lavender, thank you.

personally choosing to headcannon that the Menhera girl hangs out with the monster designs because she sorta views herself as a monster sumtimes

i really appreciate you not making the menhera girl a monster! a lot of times, people who are severely mentally or physically ill view themself as a monster or inhuman, so not playing into those negative thoughts is a good change! having chronic illnesses and needing to be in hospitals a lot is scary by itself and the ability to make it something cute and removing the scary aspects from it has helped me and a lot of other chronically ill people view their situation in a better light. i think the community definitely still needs to work on separating from the people who romanticize illnesses and s/h, but the fact that there is a space for chronically ill people to not always view themselves as doomed and alienated is amazing!

I've heard that Menhera also began as a form of protest against the social rules to hide mental illness (and later illness in general) and sadness, it's sort of an anti-masking and pro-expression of feeling and owning who you are. I always thought that was really cool, and as someone with chronic health conditions, I've found the concept empowering. Your art is so cool, as always!

Coquette is oddly unsettling but perfect. It really hits the nail on the aesthetics inside out, and what it does to yourself and what you want to hide.

Maybe it’s because I’m a huge fan of mobster themed stuff. Yes I know in reality they are terrible crime lords, but I still love the theme in a fictional setting. It’s still one of my favorite AU themes that I love to do in my fan art

I feel all of them are friends and coquette + mob wife comforting menhera while sad beige is making tea and maxi is making jokes that everyone is laughing at

I made a story concept once that was essentially an inter-dimensional clinic for monster children who were facing some form of abuse, neglect, etc. It’s cool to know now that the sort of vibe I was going for was called Menhera!

The menhera aesthetic reminds me of like, children's bandaids with cartoon characters, or that one brand of menstrual pads for teens - they're made that way to make the pain and the blood less scary. The cute aesthetic mixes nicely with such a dark and stigmatised topic

Bro i would like to see elements of the periodic table as characters, imagine hanging out with hydrogen and water and they help me with my hydration problems. That would be wholesome fr

9:51 *claws at screen in sudden impassioned effort to steal the ceiling lights, shrieking "SHINY" and "MY PRECIOUS" until spouse arrives with tranquilizer darts*

As a menhera fan, I really love the way you portrayed it and talked about it like we're not liking this because we think it's aesthetic, we're liking this because it's better for us to deal with our problems that way

you somehow managed to make sad beige appealing and cute ahaha

I really appreciate your understanding for the menhera aesthetic, I’ve felt kind of bad for participating in it sometimes but it also brings me a lot of comfort and helps me deal with crappy stuff. And your characters designs are super cute! :)

I want an au of all these girlies where they're all in a wholesome girl friend group together, I can already see it being wholesome and chaotic at the same time

I'd love to see a design with super glitchy or technology related aesthetics! Those are personally my favorite bc of all the bright colors, dynamic patterns, really cool effects, and use of negative space. It's really neat to me. 💜👾

In defense of the sad beige aesthetic, it's pretty good for people who get overwhelmed easily. Sometimes it's just nice to come home to a comforting place after dealing with everything that's overwhelming outside. It is kinda bad for kids who need stimulation and color tho.

it made me so happy seeing you do menhera , the whole aesthetic has always been really comforting to me through tough times and such. i like how you explained it and gave context to it as well !

These past few days have been amazing. Playing a bunch of dungeons and dragons, unlocking a annoying to get thing in a game, and my year long request of a tank as a character is happening. April and May are probably the best months ever. Edit: yesterday I got to go to Whataburger, today my brother (the correctional officer one) got me ice cream. This month is amazing.

not the beige 😭😭

I feel like the beige mom and maximalist characters would be friends... beige gets overwhelmed a lot, but maxi can help them calm down... but also maxi likes going on and on about their favorite topics, and since beige can't talk, they like listening to all that maxi has to say, especially because beige doesn't have many friends and is pretty lonely. aww this is so cute! I love your art!!

Maximalism my beloved, I love when there's a chaos that still has order. My room is stuffed full of posters, books, art stuff, jars, pillows, blankets, etc. I love thinking of how I can keep a calm environment but still shove more stuff on my bookshelves when I buy something new-

Personally, I feel like a lot of beige moms grew up in environments where nothing matched or they grew up constantly overstimulated so having control over the colors they fill their house with is cathartic.

I have always appreciated that tiny details are added and have meanings that make sense.

i actually kind of like 'sad beige', when i was a kid i had some colorful toys and stuff but the rest of our house was very 'dull' a lot of light grey and beige, and i would often just leave my own room for the 'sad beige' because all the colors and things kinda overwhelmed small me lol, to me it's not sad it's just calm, it's empty feeling but not in a sad way

I think her "aesthetics" videos are my fricken favs next to her creepy ones. :3

another issue with a lack of color around young children is that it doesn't allow their sense of sight to develop properly. Children have a hard time distinguishing colors and their ability to distinguish colors, not just by name but to visually distinguish them, is still developing in their early years. The bold, distinct colors help to develop their eyes' ability to percieve colors.

Hi! It’s always a great day when Lavendertowne posts☺️

i love the little descriptions/character traits for each character

Idea:art styles as people

The Sad Beige Baby looks like Minimalism's child. The Menhera character invokes so much moe. I understand how the fashion can easily be problematic but can also function as a kind of empowerment for people with chronic medical struggles. Not a fan of gatekeeping but this seems like one of the more justifiable cases of 'unless you are a part of that group (which I am not FTR), please be very careful and respectful if you're going to engage'.

As a former Nurse, Now disabled, I actually really appreciate the *Menhara? ( Spelling?!) Her top Kinda looks a bit like a hospital gown. She's certainly NOT a Monster, but probably feels like one. Bravo Lavender! You are AMAZING!! Love all of your art! The Prion Disease in your recent video also tickled my slightly twisted sense of humor! (Okay I was a Nurse for 28 years, my twists are very twisty!) Thank you so much for giving all of us reasons to smile! 😇😊😸🩷💜🩷💜🩷

the sad beige baby really was sad, you can see they really just are a doll to fit the parents "modern" perspective.

would love to see you do an aesthetic like vaporwave because it feels like theres so much potential there

Aaaa these designs are so cute 💄💀

I feel as though I always try to be a sad beige aesthetic kind of person, because that is what I see in my life as the perfect life. But when you were talking about the goblin core in the last video with a Maximalism core in this video you made it sound so positive (these are my aesthetics) and not critical like how people at my schools when I was younger, I love how you don’t judge the aesthetic or the people who fall under these categories when you make these characters

I actually love beige since I'm very sensitive to bright colours and can get overwhelmed. Beige decor makes a room look warm and safe and calming to me. I'm kinda sad that it's called 'sad beige'

MENHERA OMG I LOVE MENHERA SM I LOVE ITTTT

Watching these aesthetic videos and hearing the undertones of what they mean really puts words into why I might like them or find comfort in them

I could see this being an awesome webtoon of just aesthetics all goofing together and making there own drama 🗣️

I read the description. Hope you're doing okay, dude. Hope things get better, or more manageable, at least. 👍

The femme fatale comparison made me realize why I didn't see a problem with the aesthetic (to be fair, my relationship with aesthetics is drastically different from how the internet wants us to interact with it)

I think making the last one human really adds to it in a weird way, the aesthetic is very focused on humans and humanity so it genuinely makes it stand out in a philosophical kinda way ykyk

sad beige really fits me as a person the quite kid who just blends into a crowd nothing to special you know.... just the calming sense of nothingness to retreat after a long day of socializing... (For some reason I just noticed all my clothes are either beige, black or white with a few baby pinks and lavenders)

menhara reminds me of Omori, it's such a cute art style but tackles a lot of dark topics like depression, anxiety, ptsd, etc. It does an amazing job of creating characters you care about ❤

Menhara feels like it’s just making jokes and memes about having mental health issues, but as an aesthetic, which I totally relate to because I’m always making dark jokes and joking about my mental health state lol 😂

I personally have a Sad-Beige aesthetic, and though I’m not an adult, I would never push my visual preferences onto my children

I love how you added the popular Tiktok creator Addy, they're a very big part on talking about the menhera aesthetic and disproves a lot of misinformation about it. Menhera has became a big comfort for me and Addy becoming a comfort creator for me.

As someone obsessed with Steampunk, this video has inspired me to make a Steampunk themed monster, thanks Lavender!

Having some of the aesthetics being humans and others being monsters could have a backstory about how that's a thing and how they co-exist.

Have a wonderful day

Ur monster actually made sad beige mom more wholesome and cute :( I think if my parents took all the color out of our house I would SOB.

for me menhera feels like a half-escape, allowing myself to embrace the fact that im sick while also not letting it take over my life (its half-mental illness and half-physical illness for me)

As someone who loves Menhera for personal reasons, you designed a character based off of it so well, something about them and the aesthetic itself is so insanely comforting,❤

YAY NEW AESTHETIC VIDEO

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You should do the witch core aesthetic! It’s just so calming and ethereal. It really puts me into a mood, ya know? I feel like you would pull it off amazingly.

Your art is sooo pretty idk why people ended up throwing you under the bus because of one video I swear people o reacted with the hazbin video just because the drawings weren't the best.

i luvvvvvvv your designs

sad beige moms getting mentioned in lavendertowne omg!!

idk if we're still doing naming but here are my ideas! mob wife: helena, ruth, margaret SBB: fawn, mocha, balsa coquette: madeline, lacy, francine maximalism: maxie, echo, iris menhera: mimi, paisley, valerie

heyyy menhera got mentioned! (for context, i commented on the last video similar to this, listing aesthetics i would love to see. menhera was one of them.)

Woah i absolutely love the designs, love how you can make the clothes look stylised by still good looking, love your work!

I laughed so much at the beige rainbow, that is so creative

Did anyone else have a mini joy-attack when she mentioned thinking about an angel dust redesign? I really hope she makes part 2!! Her redoing of part one was top-tier redesigns, I especially loved Alastar and Husk!!

I love watching your character design process in these videos! And I feel extremely seen by Maximalism's personality 😊

> hates taking naps but often needs to oof. this is too relatable

Thinking on it maybe your subconscious want to keep menhera aesthetic a regular character design rather than a monster could stem from both the fact of mental issues being so monstrous in itself and that being a core principle of the aesthetic and/or the fact that you state that it did actually help you go through such a bad time because I know that at least whenever I use something to cope my brain will almost refuse to associate it with anything that might diminish it or keep me away from wanting to use it to continue coping (thankfully it hasn't done this with anything actually harmful in itself since I don't do drugs, smoke, vape, or drink alcohol but it does do this a *lot* with medias like video games, t.v. series, movies, etc.)

ooo I really like the sad beige baby monster! they're adorable and a lot of the pictures of the aesthetic you showed were adorable, but also the beige rainbow is weird and somewhat uncanny

hope everything gets better for you, Haley. don't push yourself too much

Im so happy you're continuing this series!

Was gonna say you should do steampunk, but then I remembered weirdcore exists and now I really wanna see that in your style!

13:45 TY, as someone who’s dealt w A LOT of mental n physical issues my whole life, I use to find sm comfort in this aesthetic bcuz it made me feel finally normal at least within some group of ppl n it made me feel like my situation didn’t have to be an overall negative experience :)

Omg 22 seconds ago! Amazing drawings The beige one is my fav it’s so cute!

I really enjoyed this video! It was interesting to hear some new aesthetics especially the last one and how you designed her. I think my fav of the monsters is maximalism with how much pop of colors they have ❤🎨

i rlly love the beige baby style 🥺 and the coquette girl is rlly pretty tooo

Honestly on the maximum aesthetic she did a great job drawing it,as she said it is quite hard to make a outfit or room or really anything with the maximum aesthetic look good and not to clashing it takes days for me to my colors right and the design.❤

Woooo new post, I love the designs they're so cute

Me: "I don't think I'm TOO maximalist--" Lavender: "Do NOT take her to an antique shop. Has 12 crafting projects going rn. Is hoarding all the hobbies." Me: "... oh."

I love your designs as always!! and don't worry take all the time you want, I hope things get better :').

Please please please do a video on the tma fears. The Magnus Archives is my favorite podcast ever and they have 14/15 entities that embody every big fear so i think making that into a cute girl would be super fun (i’ve been relistening to tma and your videos a lot recently so i’ve mixed them all into this) The Eye- the fear of being watched or having your darkest secrets known. also if someone is watching something horrible happen to you and decides not to help. lots of eyes, emerald green, upper class people, academics, archiving specifically. The Lonely- fear of being alone, not but literally just that like it’s not that deep (i mean kinda but not really). lots of fog, the sea, moreso physical loneliness but there are a few episodes about loneliness in juxtaposition to others, depression, light blue/desaturated blue. The End- the fear of death. usually a calm inevitability, moreso feelings of paralyzing fear bordering on apathy. black and skulls and red strings and random freak accidents are most common with this. The Dark- fear of the dark. in a literal sense yes but also in a lack of information way. not knowing what is lurking beyond. children, bedtime, ideas of monsters moreso than actual ones. The Vast- the fear of extremely large spaces. like space, the open sky, the sea. the idea that we are but specks in the face of the large expanse of the universe. The Buried- totally opposite from the last one: claustrophobia. more in the sense of dirt and being buried alive and choking suffocation. The Desolation- the fear of something destroying your life and everything you love in it so completely you are left with nothing, and all this for absolutely no reason, also fire. candles, wax, cultish stuff, it kinda reminds me of the Amish? lack of connections, and of course fire like a lot of it. The Flesh- body horror, also cannibalism. it’s really weird. also slaughter houses. meat is meat is meat is meat. also fun fact in one episode there was the meat apartment where someone just stapled meat to the wall. The Slaughter- the fear of meaningless violence. has a war (specifically WWI and WWII) aesthetic, if you need/want to listen to any episode then the piper for this one is probably the best. The Hunt- the fear of being hunted. being chased by something. although the hunt and slaughter are very similar since the hunt is the first part, the slaughter is the second part. so it’s not any actual killing, just the fight or flight of “oh my god it’s chasing me it’s gonna get me oh my god oh my god.” but one interesting thing is this can never be satisfied. this has animals of predation as it’s aesthetic, also werewolves, and weird enough the police (don’t ask). The Corruption- my favorite, the fear of infestation and disease. everything icky and things that make you want to take a shower. worms and ants and fleas and ticks and things that make you itch. mold and plague and disease and things that make you sick. also toxic love, the idea of things that just make a toxic mulch, of things that fuse together like wet books or wasps or a town of sick people. this has all those aesthetics attached to them, infatuation, the smell of a house with sick people, uncared for places in the house that grow more and more mold, making the rest of it unlivable. can you tell this is my favorite? The Spiral- the fear of insanity. delusion, things aren’t right but you can’t seem to parse what is and isn’t since it’s all confusing over saturated colors and doors and halls that have 7 right turns in quick succession. and of course spirals. fractals. chaos. the lightning fractal (it has a specific name i just forgot it. The Stranger- the fear of the outgroup. the idea that something just isn’t right with them. the uncanny valley. circuses and freak shows and dolls and people that are just piles of skin or literal dolls (i