With the proliferation of brow bars, gadgets and expert advice, there is no excuse for those important hairs framing your eyes to be in bad shape, says Deirdre Reynolds

New York Fashion Week feels like a distant memory now — that’s the dream-like nature of fashion weeks — but there was one glaringly obvious trend that marched up and down those catwalks with relentless consistency.

The garish mascara of the 1980s frightened me, but the trend now is for subtle, conservative colours such as aubergine, plum, violet or moss green, says Edel Coffey.