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I thought I had the whole brow thing all sewn up BC (Before Cara) ...

Cara Delevingne, owner of the most famous eyebrows in the world

Life often throws up new mysteries, and one of them is this: what is the big fuss over eyebrows?

Magazine are jammed with eyebrow tips. Teenagers are transfixed by what’s going on with their eyebrows. Make-up counters are heaving with “brow kits”. Every teenage girl I know got one for Christmas.

Eyebrow-plucking has always been a thing, of course, but tweezers only represent the thin end of the wedge when it comes to ...