Classic blue might be the colour of the year, but when it comes to our make-up, we're loving seafoam - a pale pastel green shade.

Choose an eyeshadow that complements your skin tone - a pale pastel pink for porcelain complexions and more peachy tones for darker skins.

White variegated varieties have the perfect sophistication for pale pastel tulips.

The green picks up the garden outside and livens up the pale pastels.

While a certain relationship can be seen between his art and that of his illustrious step-great-grandfather, he was far from being an imitator or a pale reflection.

His contention has been much debated but it cannot be denied that he had demonstrated how provincial history represented much more than a mere pale reflection of assumed 'national' trends.

I suspect that family and friends will find the figure described in the obituary a pale reflection of the man they knew and loved.

Spare time can be spent boating, fishing or pottering about its lovely beaches (all pale sand and turquoise waters and relatively quiet).

We spent the day swimming in the crystal-clear sea and collecting tiny shells that were scattered across the pale sand.

But gaze out at the turquoise sea and pale sand and, frankly, you could be forgiven for thinking it was.

A mile away, perhaps, paler than the pale sands around it, a building shone in isolation.

Do you choose a pale shade of grey or plump for a darker, more moody tone?

Choose a light mineral powder in a pale shade.

Go for head-totoe tonal colours, and toughen up a pale shade with cool sliders.

Use the dark shade below the cheekbones, temples and jawline, highlight with the pale shade and blend.

Choose a pale shade and avoid anything with an orange tint.

This pale shadow of parenting may have been enough to protect his brain.

Despite being a pale shadow of what it promised, this still managed to garner a large following.

The powerhouse who used to grip games by the scruff of the neck was a pale shadow yesterday.

I, for one, will be living only a pale shadow of my life in expectation of the next instalment.

What happened last week was a pale shadow of that kind of scenario.

It sits on that, and in the late evening it looks like a miniature, brooding vulture silhouetted against the pale sky.

Above, the stars are coming out in a pale sky.

The tulips are swelling on their stems, the forget-me-nots competing with the pale sky for blueness, and grass, new-mown, gives everything the scent of summer.

The hedgerows showed their dark intricate detail against the pale sky.

The solemnity of these photographs with their deep chiaroscuro and pale skies are full of a melancholy pleasure, a conflicted nostalgia for something we never knew.

The look will be whitewashed and minimalist, with pale wood interiors, designer lights and lowslung furniture.

We carry on our tour, from level to level, up and down the pale wood staircases.

Sinuous and vaulted like a chapel, the lodge has been built in pale wood to resemble the shell-like shape of the pangolin.

Other structural features include the pale wood and glass panel staircase with shadow lines that make it appear to float away from the wall.

The converted houses, once large family homes rather than purpose-built institutions, are all similar - full of light, with pale wood floors and large, colourful kitchens.