American Accents All Purpose Enamel Gloss Finish, Berry Red, early 1990s: formerly owned by Lady Pink

By the 1990s, Krylon spray paint, which had been favored by writers in the 1980s, had fallen out of favor because it had become thin.  In the 1990s Rust-Oleum introduced their American Accents line.  According to New York graffiti writer Lady Pink, American Accents was still comparable to Rust-Oleum’s thickness but offered a greater variety of colors and was cheaper in price.  With the new color selections offered by paints of the 1990s, there was a resurgence of graffiti writing.

Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara, b. 1964), is an Ecuadorian-American graffiti and mural artist. Her career focused on using graffiti and murals as acts of rebellion, empowering women and self-expression. Lady Pink’s name was chosen for her aesthetics because the name “Pink” is feminine and she wanted other artists to know that she was a girl. She started calling herself Lady Pink because of her love of historical romances, England, the Victorian period, and the aristocracy. Lady Pink was nicknamed the "first lady of graffiti," because she was one of the first active women in the early 1980s New York City subway graffiti subculture.