Eyebrows - The shape of things to come

I BLAME Geri Halliwell. Back in the mid-1990s, just as I was entering adolescence, the Spice Girl’s over-plucked eyebrows suddenly became all the rage.

Such was the trend for barely-there brows that, armed with my big sister’s tweezers, I secretly set to work on my own piliferous pair.

Pretty soon, I was left with nothing but two lonely lines on my forehead.