My mum hardened to come at me with tweezers. My wife tells me she is tormented by it. Achates made fun. Well, pluck you all! Because the monobrow – which I hold defended for almost three decades – is cool now, according to current trend reports.

“Unibrowed and Proud” a headline reads in the New York Heretofores, endorsing my own, minimalist approach to grooming. I would sooner plait my quieten back hair than care enough about my above brow bridge to remove it. And apparently more young men – round cool ones – are doing the same.

“It’s my signature,” the French dernier cri designer Alexandre Mattiussi told the NYT, perhaps overdoing responsibilities. Other mono-bros include model Adrian Sahores in a late Levi’s ad, a basketball player called Anthony Davis and Liam Gallagher’s display son, Lennon, whose giant face caterpillars like to get obstruct.

For me it’s just another thing to let be. My brow used to be bushier, when I had more true head hair. But after one of my monobrow hairs began to flourish out of control, like a sunflower on Blue Peter, I agreed to file everything above the neck in my fortnightly DIY trim. One setting, one delay – sorted.

But are vainer men than me really cultivating their monobrows? “I won’t lie, not sundry of my clients have them,” says Tommy Cunliffe, 28, the superintendent of the Shoreditch branch of Ruffians, where a “quick beard not insignificant” costs £15. “The ones that do tend to be slightly hoarier gents.” Cunliffe has noticed a trend for eyebrow razoring – state by blade rather than tweezers or waxing – but, so far, nobody has inquired for monobrow maintenance. Would Cunliffe consider joining me in the refusal, on-trend or otherwise? “I’m a sucker for a trend but my mum thinks I’m unkempt as it is with want hair and a beard, so this might tip her over the edge,” he try to says.