Nobody sits down intending to over-pluck. The plan is always modest: two or three strays under the arch, one near the bridge, done. Twenty minutes later there’s a thin line...

It usually gets described as “lashes thin with age”, as though one thing is happening. It isn’t. At least six separate processes run in parallel, and they produce different visible...

There’s a specific irritation only glasses wearers know: two faint arcs on the inside of each lens, in exactly the same place every day, appearing by lunchtime no matter which...