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Did you know that hairs on your body can sense what you’ve done to them? Snip them, brush them, crush them or pluck them and they can tell the difference. Well that’s the theory at least according to Kamini, the UK’s leading authority on depilatories. That’s hair removal, FYI. Kamini has shaped the brows of the likes of Jemima Khan and numerous royals and says that if you roughly puck a hair, it knows. The hair follicle reacts to the pain and thinks it’s under stress, thus produces more blood and then later a hair twice as think.

But wait, why are we chatting brows and tweezers? That’s because Kamini is on hand backstage at the BRITs to give the celebs’ facial fuzz a seeing-to. She’s got her own little salon bed, where she lays stars prostrated and goes at their furry eyebrows, lips and chins with her signature lighting-fast thread.

Kamini taught herself her unique threading technique after she received a superlative plucking in Kenya of all place. Three hours spent in the mirror and she’d grasped one hair in her wonky threads, 27 years later she’s perfected the method – it’s an art, she says.

Kamini says that she knows instantly the exact shape a person’s brows should be within moments of viewing them. The most difficult shapes to do are those that have to give the illusion of lifting a drooping eyelid, though no fluff is too much for Kamini.

After beautifying the facial fur of so many people over the years, Kamini has learned many interesting facts. The most profound perhaps is that the left side of a person’s body is always more acutely aware of pain or discomfort when being threaded. That’s because, she says, our heart is on the left side of the body, making that the defensive side that’s more sensitive. The right is tougher because it’s our offensive side, which we use to protect our heart on the left.

One part brow beautician, two parts spiritual guru, Kamini is on hand, and it seems, for all issues concerning the head.