You beauty! Oribe dry texturising spray

You know those days when you would like your hair to tumble rather than hang? When you’d like it to be tousled rather than ratty, to make you look delightfully dishevelled rather than a bit unhinged? Or — worse — unwashed? Because if your hair tends to go from silky and slippery to lank and greasy, then those salty sea sprays — all coconut oil and beachy deliciousness — won’t work. They may mattify and rough up thick, porous hair, but a fine mop? Dank disappointment.

So, for that mermaidy coarseness, that brine-bashed muscularity, turn to Oribe’s Dry Texturizing Spray, which is a cunning hybrid between a dry shampoo and a butch hairspray. When it’s humid and my hair starts to flop and frizz, a few squirts of this and then a hasty scrunching frenzy and I’m left with rough ’n’ tumble, slightly trashed, stubbornly inflated follicles. It works with the faintest natural wave to give the hair movement. It’s the effortless allure of a three-day-old blow-dry with the grease extracted.

It revives freshly washed wisps and refreshes slightly grubby strands. It also works on slick stylings —anchoring the front section of a pony while beating up the tail to make it modern and sessiony, or turbo-charging a quiff. It’s far, far too expensive. But the bottle is big and the squirts can be sparing. What can I say? I’m sold.

Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray, £38, at uk.spacenk.com