So long, summer face :-(

Summer makeup featured a lot of these...

Now that we're facing into the Autumn, I'm looking back on the summer and realising that, much as I love makeup, and the fun you can have with it, I really do wear hardly any of it in the heat - or at least as little as I can be bothered with/get away with.

But I ain't getting any younger and need some level of coverage for (a) decency (b) professionalism in my work situation.  So what did I actually bother with, then?

Trend colours: Corals

image thanks to furnish.co.uk

Coral-based shades are so summer-typical, they're usually the one shade I ignore the hell out of, roll my eyes, and wait for summer to be over so we can get back to more dramatic colours.  But this year, for some reason, I'm just loving them.  Probably because coral is ev-ery-where - do a google search for "coral trend 2013" and you'll see it.  Stir-in some rare great weather of late (possibly prompting my latest obsession) and you have a recipe for a summer trend-based post.

There are some really beautiful coral shades out this summer, and some really unusual takes on what constitutes coral.  Bear with me - I am not just talking namby-pamby peach-toned orangey corals;  I've moved on from NARS Orgasm (and its myriad of dupes - although this does feature in my corals collection).  I'm talking corals on a base of pink, or gold, or even yellow, or with a flash of a red undertone, or even a tangerine-apricot-shot-through-with-fuchsia.  Either way, I'm loving 'em.

Warning: image-heavy post.