“What’s that on your face?” I was 15, at school and looking decidedly orange. I’d Tango-ed myself with a thick, greasy-looking layer of panstick foundation - a makeup freebie my mother had received while working on a beauty counter. It was probably the first time I’d ever used a foundation. And, for a long while after, it was the last. The person who spotted my ‘orangeness’ had to be a boy, of course. One of the most popular in my year group, as it happens. His reaction was c