Pink is used in home décor, fashion and soap. It's also used in branding, packaging and advertising from everything to food, beauty products and fundraising. And yet, you may not know pink as well as you think you do.

Pink climbed to the height of popularity as a pastel colour in the early 20th century, receiving a fuchsia facelift during the 1960s and a neon-revamp in the 1980s, before settling down to the dusty pink we know today.