Pastel Scorpio stickers
Still water runs deepest.
Pastel Scorpio stickers, 12 zodiac designs in a soft mauve palette. Waterproof die cut vinyl, printed and cut in my studio, shipped in 5 to 7 days. $18.
- 12 individual die cut designs
- Soft mauve, dusty pink and pale slate palette
- Pastel scorpions, butterflies, a Scorpio Babe piece, a soft phoenix and rainbows
What the pastel Scorpio stickers bundle contains
This is the version of the sign that almost nobody makes: pastel Scorpio stickers in a soft mauve palette, meaning pastel scorpions, butterflies, a Scorpio Babe piece, a soft phoenix and rainbows, rather than black and blood red and a warning.
The colour story runs cool and muted. Soft mauve, dusty pink, a pale slate, and enough negative space that nothing in the set fights with anything else. It sits well on things that are already quiet, which is most of what people actually put stickers on: a journal that lives in a bag, a laptop lid with one thing on it, a water bottle you look at forty times a day.
The pastel Scorpio stickers are the version you can put on a work laptop without anybody deciding something about you first. Every other set of Scorpio zodiac stickers on the internet is dark, which is exactly why this one exists.
Who the pastel Scorpio stickers are for
- The Scorpio who is quietly tired of being treated as a threat by people who have never actually asked them anything.
- Anybody who has searched aesthetic Scorpio stickers and found nothing but skulls, daggers and the word obsessed.
- People who want the sign present without it announcing itself across a room. The butterfly and soft phoenix designs in particular read as a nice piece of art first and a zodiac thing second.
If you want the version with the fire in it, buy the Bold bundle rather than the pastel Scorpio stickers. It is a genuinely different look rather than a louder one.
Where the pastel Scorpio stickers actually end up
The honest answer about where pastel Scorpio stickers go is that almost all of them end up on three surfaces: a laptop lid, a water bottle, and the front of a notebook. I know this because people send me photos, and it is the same three things every time.
The palette matters more on those surfaces than you would guess. A laptop lid is usually silver, white or space grey, and a soft mauve scorpion sits on that like it was always meant to be there. A near black phoenix on the same lid reads as a statement instead. Neither one is wrong, but only one of them stays quiet in a work meeting.
Water bottles are the surface people worry about most and the one this stock handles best. The lamination is what survives condensation, a bag and being knocked around on a desk all day. The one thing I would say is to hand wash it, because a dishwasher drying cycle ages laminated vinyl faster than anything else you can do to it.
Journals and planners are where the smaller pastel Scorpio stickers earn their place. The butterflies and the smaller pastel pieces sit around two inches, which is the size that works on a page without taking the whole page. If you already own a drawer of phoenix stickers, these go in beside them without clashing with any of it.
The one surface I would think twice about is a car window. These are fade resistant rather than fade proof, and full sun across a summer lightens a pastel faster than it lightens a deep colour. That is a physics problem rather than a quality one, and I would rather say it before you order than after.
How these pastel Scorpio stickers are made
Every one of these pastel Scorpio stickers is printed and cut by me, on my own machine, in my studio. Nothing goes out through a print on demand service, which is why the turnaround is 5 to 7 business days rather than same day.
The stock behind these pastel Scorpio stickers is waterproof laminated vinyl. The lamination is the part doing the work: it is what lets them survive a water bottle in a dishwasher and a laptop that lives in a bag. They are fade resistant rather than fade proof, and I would rather say that plainly. A sticker on a car window in full sun all summer will lighten eventually. One on a laptop, a notebook or a tumbler will not.
Sizes run roughly 2 to 3 inches on the longest edge, die cut to the shape of the art rather than left on a square. Each design arrives as its own individual sticker, not a sheet you have to cut apart.
If you want to know what that means in practice: the pastel Scorpio stickers in your order were made in the week you placed it, on a machine I own, in a room I pay rent on. That is the entire supply chain, and it is why I can tell you exactly what happened to them.
Every one of the pastel Scorpio stickers is printed fresh once you order, so nothing has been sitting in a box losing colour for a year before it reaches you.
Putting them on so they last
The pastel Scorpio stickers go on best on a surface that is clean, dry and not textured. Wipe it with rubbing alcohol rather than a household spray, because most sprays leave a film that stops the adhesive gripping properly. Let it dry fully.
Peel from a corner, lay one edge down first, then press outward from that edge so you push the air out rather than trapping it under the middle.
Give it a day before you get it wet. The adhesive keeps curing for about 24 hours, and the most common reason a corner lifts is a water bottle that went straight into a bag and then into a fridge.
The pastel Scorpio stickers use a permanent adhesive rather than a repositionable one. You get a few seconds to adjust and then it is committed. Hand wash anything you put them on, because a dishwasher’s drying cycle is what ages laminated vinyl fastest.
Buying pastel Scorpio stickers as a gift
Most Scorpio gift ideas lean on the same joke, which is that the person is dangerous. A dagger necklace, a candle called Revenge, a mug about grudges. It lands once and then the person owns a mug that says something about them they did not choose.
Stickers get used, and that is the case for them. An $18 set of pastel Scorpio stickers turns into twelve small decisions over the following year about where each one goes, which is a great deal more attention than a candle ever gets.
The timing is obvious once it is said out loud. Scorpio season runs 23 October to 21 November, so a birthday gift means ordering inside that window, and so does everyone else’s. Everything here is printed and cut to order in my studio rather than pulled off a shelf, which is why the window is 5 to 7 business days. Order in the first week of October if you are aiming at a late October birthday and neither of us will have to think about it again.
If you are choosing between the two $18 sets for somebody else, look at their desk. Beige, wood, one plant and a lot of white space means this one. Anything already committed to a strong colour means the bold one. The soft scorpio sticker bundle is the safer read when you genuinely do not know, because a quiet design on a loud object still works and the reverse does not.
Why Scorpio is like this
Scorpio sits in the middle of autumn, at the point where things are visibly finishing in front of you and no amount of effort reverses any of it.
So the strategy is going through rather than around. Letting the thing end, because propping it up costs more than starting over does, and everybody can see that except the person still holding it.
Scorpio is not cruel and it is not obsessive. Scorpio is standing at the one point in the year where refusing to look away is the useful move, and from the outside that reads as intensity.
Not because Scorpio enjoys the hard part. But because at this moment in the year the ending is happening whether anybody names it or not, and somebody has to be willing to say it out loud while the rest of the room is still pretending.
Also in the Scorpio collection
Twelve dark designs with phoenix, firebird, raven and tarot art. Built to be seen from across a room.
$18See this bundle
Twenty designs across both aesthetics, plus Scorpio Mom, which is only in this box.
$32See this bundleCommon questions
Are these pastel Scorpio stickers waterproof?
Yes. They are printed on laminated vinyl, so they hold up on water bottles, tumblers and anything that gets wet regularly. The lamination does it, not the ink.
How big are they?
Roughly 2 to 3 inches on the longest edge, die cut to the shape of the artwork. A tall design and a wide design will not come out the same dimensions.
How many stickers do I actually get?
12 separate pastel Scorpio stickers, one per design. It is not a sheet, so there is nothing to cut apart and no backing grid to peel around.
Will they fade in the sun?
Fade resistant, not fade proof. Indoors on a laptop, a notebook or a tumbler they hold colour for years. On a car window facing full sun, expect them to lighten over a season or two.
Can I buy single designs instead of the bundle?
Singles are on my Etsy shop. The bundle exists because buying six singles costs more than buying the set, not because I am hiding the individual ones.
How long does shipping take?
5 to 7 business days from my studio, because the pastel Scorpio stickers get printed after you order rather than before. That window is real production time, because your order gets printed and cut when it comes in rather than pulled off a shelf.
What if they arrive damaged?
Tell me and I will fix it. The refund policy has the details, but the short version is that I am not going to argue with you about a bent sticker.
Do the three Scorpio bundles overlap?
Partly. Complete is my pick across both aesthetics plus a couple of exclusives, not a straight merge. Soft and Bold together come to more designs than Complete does, so if you want literally everything, buy those two.
Are the pastel Scorpio stickers the same size as the bold ones?
Yes. Every design across all three bundles runs roughly 2 to 3 inches on the longest edge and is die cut to the shape of the art. What changes between bundles is the palette and the mood, not the scale.
What exactly is in the soft bundle?
Twelve designs: pastel scorpions, butterflies, a Scorpio Babe piece, a soft phoenix and rainbows. The colour story runs cool and muted the whole way through, so nothing in the set fights with anything else in it.
Will pastel Scorpio stickers show up on a dark laptop?
Less than the bold ones will, and that is usually the point. On a black or dark grey lid a soft mauve scorpion reads as soft rather than invisible. If you want real contrast on a dark surface, the bold bundle is the one built for that job.
Can I put these on a phone case?
Yes, as long as it is smooth rather than textured. Grippy matte silicone is the one material vinyl struggles with, because there is not enough flat surface for the adhesive to grip properly.
If you want the reading rather than the stickers
The pastel Scorpio stickers are the light version. If you want to know which stretch of the year your own sun, moon and rising are each built out of, that is a different thing.
The Seasonal Blueprint Mini covers those three placements for $29, written for your chart rather than for your sign in general. The Resource Vault is free if you would rather read a complete sample first.
Keep reading
- All three Scorpio bundles
- Things people get wrong about a Scorpio sun
- What zodiac traits actually mean
Singles and other signs are on my Etsy shop.