All these hours spent on beauty blogs have given me two pieces of ultimate wisdom: 1) dry and dehydrated skin are not the same (I have covered this one extensively already) and 2) never use a brow product with any red in it – instantly dismissing most brown brow pencils out there. It’s time to address that second Truth.

I find brows and brow products tricky – it’s so easy to overdo it and look cartoonish, although if this is the look you’re going for, I of course completely approve. My brows have a very weird shape and if I don’t pluck them, they just spread everywhere like some invasive species. When I do pluck them, however, there will be random empty patches that tempt people – including me – to over-pluck. For a long time, I could not find a product to fix that: everything was wrong colour, wrong texture, just wrong wrong. But finally, I have found my solution.

As I said, any beauty blog will tell you to get a cool toned brow colour and stay away from red like it’s last season’s It-bag. Suqqu brow pen is so cool-toned that it’s more green than brown. On its own, it looks like a greyish watercolour. When I first tried it on the back of my hand, I thought it wasn’t working properly.

But it is, it very much is. You can draw on individual hairs, fill in bald patches and slowly build up a strong, modern brow. It is very difficult to get wrong and I say it as a person who has got it wrong with brows on many occasions. The colour cleverly makes the new hairs look like the shadows of the real ones. The result is a fuller, neater, but not scary-perfect arch.

The only downsides of this product, as far as I can see, are the price and the availability. I bought mine at Selfridges, but I understand this is not an option for everybody. Still, if your brows are of the darker variety and you are desperate to get them to look fuller, I would urge you to try this.

PS As you can see, I’m also keeping my promise and using more interesting make-up, in addition to my usual Chanels and YSLs. All for you.