Pastel Academia: Soft Girl Meets Schoolgirl Style for Back to School 2025
As we’re heading towards summer and soon headed back to school, we can all expect a fresh overhaul for our rooms. Whether that be your own bedrooms in your family home or moving into new apartments or dormitories, there are countless ways to make sure that your back to school experience feels homely and comfortable.
For Back to School 2025, we at Ever Lasting believe that this coming academic year would be great to start off with a pastel theme. We’ll call this the pastel academia theme, for all the soft girls who want to enhance that light feminine energy. The soft girl and pastel academia combination works so well in many ways as it allows us to view academia in a more positive light. On top of that, as pastel colours are brighter and softer, they allow us to feel energised at just the right amount without feeling like it’s overdone.
With the right colours, your room can become the best place to relax after a long day of studying. But it can also be a place to hangout with your friends while you’re reviewing homework or studying for a test. However, throwing colours together won’t miraculously create the aesthetic we are looking for. To find the best ways to create your pastel academia room, keep reading and see how we would create the best pastel decorated room.
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The Beginner Set: Soft Pink
If this is your first time using pastels, we recommend trying the soft pink pastel combo! This set is very simple yet versatile, it gives off the right amount of energy for softness and productivity, especially if it’s paired together with white.
Pastel pink is also reminiscent of the soft girl energy, which is what you want to keep in mind when creating the room of your dreams. We recommend that while shopping for soft pink pastels, you keep in mind where you want the pastels to be used and where it wouldn’t be used. For example, you may want a pastel pink bed sheet, but your pillows may be pink with white accents or your duvet/blanket may be mainly white with a pink pattern on it.
The idea here is to keep a balance of pastel pink and white, making sure that the pastel pink is not too overwhelming but also the white not overtaking the essence of pastel. We also recommend that for a more academia aesthetic, you try quilts instead of normal duvets or stripped patterns.
More soft pastel pink options for you:
A Cooler Colour: Soft Blues and Lace
Shifting from the warmth of pinks, cooler pastel colours are also a very valid choice. If pink is not your colour, then try using blue pastels instead. Pastel blues offer a more calming and focused presence when used properly. At the right time, the blues help you stay focused on your subject and also helps you slowly fall asleep so that you can rest well for the next day!
Blues are also a perfect colour to represent the academia aesthetic, even more so when it’s a pastel academia aesthetic. It may remind us of school uniforms, which leads us to our suggestions of using lace and ribbons to accentuate the pastel academia aesthetic. With the lace and ribbons, we may find ourselves being more productive in our room, combined with the pastel blue, it's the perfect private study place on earth. Make sure that you don’t overdo it, preferably you’d have a simple bed sheet paired with pillows that are decorated with ribbons, and blankets that are decorated with lace.
Other pastel blues for you to try:
Natural Colours: Light Greens for Productivity
If blue isn’t your thing either, we also have another pastel colour lined up for you: pastel greens. While blues are about cooling and productivity, pastel greens bring out a similar vibe where there is productivity and community.
This combination is great if you’re sharing your room with someone else, for example if you are in a dormitory or in a shared apartment. With pastel greens, you can foster an academia community in your room where you hold study dates to review for tests and quizzes. Pastel greens are great on their own but also great when paired together with minimalistic motives to enhance the pastel academia aesthetic.
For example, you may want to pair a basic pastel green bed sheet with pillows that are stripped or duvets that are checkered. Frills and ruffles also work great with green as it also brings out the softness of the pastel academia aesthetic. If green is your favourite colour then this combo is the perfect one for you!
Can't get enough of pastel green? Try this:
Mixing and Matching: Pastel Combinations
If all the above is something you’ve tried out before and you’re looking for something new, then this set is the perfect one to conclude this entry with! Mixing and matching pastel colours can be a tough job, but that's why we’re here to give you a brief guide on what kind of colours best work together.
Here are a list of pastel colours which we think may suit the pastel academia aesthetic:
pink and blue
pink and yellow
green and purple
green and pink
blue and purple
Alternatively, all these colours work well with white if you’re looking to channel more soft girl vibes into your academia bedroom.
Things that we think would match the pastels:
Final Thoughts
We hope that this read wasn’t as confusing or tedious as the readings you are about to have for your upcoming school year, however if you have made it this far we congratulate you! Now you know the power and existence of pastel academia. You’ve learned about how pink can recreate the feeling of being a soft girl with light feminine energy, how blues are versatile for relaxation and productivity, the usefulness of greens in creating a comforting space during community studies, and finally how mixing and matching pastel colours will help you create a more whole pastel academia aesthetic. With this upcoming school year, we hope that this pastel academia aesthetic guide is not only going to give you good grades, but also lots of productivity and lots of rest. The bedroom isn’t just a place of rest, but it’s also a personal comfort space where one can be vulnerable with themselves and allow focus when needed.
Pastels are not just for the soft core, but also for the hardworking and disciplined, for those who need to be reminded that succeeding in academia requires more than just studying. It needs the softness and calmness of pastels to help them get through the toughest questions and homework!
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n terms of sizing, most college dorms have Twin XL beds. In that case, we recommend going with a small size bed set and flat sheet. If you're looking for a fresh start or not sure where to begin, we recommend checking out our bundles! Each bundle will include a pillow, duvet insert and bedding set! It is also already pre discounted! Say heyyy to savings.
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