HD, or high definition eyebrows are reached in seven stages – tint, trim, wax, tweeze, thread (more on this later), after wax and makeup.

Combined, this leave you with eyebrows the Hollyoaks cast and Katie Price, amongst others, are falling over themselves to have.

The stage we don’t talk about is before your appointment when you have to grow, grow, grow your eyebrows out. Short of walking around with a bag over your head, this truly is the pain before the gain.

One of only three salons in the whole of Cornwall to offer this specialist eyebrow therapy, Top2Toe in Newquay is convenient, clean, and all about their customers.

Situated on the ‘golden mile’ of old on Henver Road, Tara May has been running her day spa for 23 years. She doesn’t look old enough, but I believe her anyway. Here, Newquay locals are greeted like life-long friends as they turn up for not just a manicure, but a good long gossip.

Beauty Therapist Natalie Edge is the lady you’ll be trusting to wax centimetres from your eyes. Trained by one of only two specialist centres in the country, she’s been HD’ing since April, and says demand is on the rise. “It’s definitely getting more popular”, she says.

“People get recommendations from their friends who’ve had it done. It makes your eyebrows look so different”.

This makes me nervous. Born of the 80’s my generation we plucked, tweezed and generally abused our eyebrows until there was pretty much nothing left. We spent the last ten years desperately trying to encourage them back.

“A lot of people are shocked when they first have it done, especially if they have light eyebrows”, Natalie explains, “but after a few days they get used to them and love them!”

As Natalie beings the therapeutic process of tinting and trimming, I’m left gazing at the ceiling to relish the feel-good factor of being pampered by someone else. Offering a range of therapies from facials and massage, to waxing and manicures, you’d never be short of things to treat yourself with here.

After the wax and tweeze Natalie explains the process of threading - lifting the softer hairs at the side of your eyebrows with what looks like a length of cotton wrapped in a mysterious cats-cradle way around your therapists hands. She twists it against your skin, targeting problem hairs.

Explaining each step as she works through them, the 45 minute treatment flies by and you blink back into daylight with eyebrows Natalie Portman would be jealous of. But it’s not like going to the hairdressers where you know you’re never going to achieve the same perfection until the day you next step into the salon, as your therapist talks through how to best apply makeup to retain your eyebrow’s immaculate look.

It really is amazing how different eyebrows can affect the look of the rest of your face. The recommendation is a single £25 treatment every 4-6 weeks – follow-up appointments become shorter as the shape starts to take hold.

It’s a great experience with a genuinely pleasing outcome. The only problem is I now can’t stop checking out my eyebrows in the mirror.