You beauty! Bobbi Brown Rich Chocolate Eye Palette

Do you have, in your make-up bag, four eye shadow quartets, each with one tablet worn down to the metal casing beneath? Do you have a single eyeshadow pot that someone gave you six years ago that is a sort of mid-brown/greige and you pop it somewhere on your general lid area because you feel you should, of an evening? Do you buy ‘this season’ colours every few months (say, turquoise last May and purple last February) and then stare at them in terror, occasionally lashing them on at home, alone, bit drunk, late at night? Or are you just scared of eye shadow?

Turn to Bobbi Brown. Every season it produces the most useful, flattering palette of browns. This August it’s the Autumn offering of a Rich Chocolate selection with a brilliantly balanced range of texture, sparkles and finishes in everything from cream to taupe to glittering russet to deepest Bourneville. This is all you need in the way of an eyeshadow wardrobe - an edited assortment designed to help you architect an eye whether it’s Sunday morning, Friday night or somewhere in between. The pale mushroom will contour, the dark coffee will smoke things up and the gentle shimmers are playful and light reflecting. Just get your hands on a fatly appropriate brush (perhaps MAC’s tapered No. 224) and blend and blend. Then blend a bit more. Don’t be scared. Trust me.