The classic bead is dark blue, but the tradition grew a full palette — each shade assigned its own protective job. Ten colors, what each one guards, and how to choose.
The classic nazar. Guards karma and fate — protection from what you cannot see coming.
Open sky and clarity. Traditionally given to travellers and anyone starting over.
Courage and energy. Worn when a situation demands action rather than patience.
Balance and success — the shade most often given as a gift for a new venture.
Concentration and physical health. The least common color and the most specific in purpose.
The clean-slate shade: purity, clearing away what clung to you, and protection for the newest lives.
The heaviest guard: absorbs the worst, worn in the hardest seasons.
The gentle guard: friendships, tenderness and the relationship you have with yourself.
The mystic's shade: intuition, imagination and finding balance after upheaval.
The happiness guard: joy, playfulness and the motivation that makes things fun.
Buying your first? Dark blue — always correct. Life in motion? Light blue. Building something? Green. Hard season? Black. The full logic lives on each color's page; the tradition is forgiving, and combining shades on one bracelet is entirely traditional.