Unless you happen to be wearing an eyepatch and a parrot on your shoulder, your hair is probably going to be one of the first things people notice about you.

This isn’t always a good thing, like in sweltering humidity, when you’ve just finished a workout, or on days when your strands have simply decided not to cooperate with your styling efforts.

TIGI offers an impressive variety of potions, lotions and unctions for your hair.

The point is that each is designed mainly for one job, whether this happens to be repairing damage caused by inferior products, protecting your hair from getting mutilated by the heat from your hair dryer, making dye jobs last longer, or “thickifying” your hair (we hope they are better at chemistry than linguistics).

Whatever you need to enhance your personal style, TIGI has probably got something for it.

One thing you may hold against this brand is that their brightly colored containers are probably best left in the cabinet if your idea of bathroom decorating runs to pastels. (This company tries hard to present a kind of rebellious, off-beat image).

That’s about the only real negative, though: the products work, they cost less (and often a lot less) than those from premium brands, and the level of versatility this range of products offers is nothing if not impressive.