26 Inches by 10, and a Listing That Warns You It Is Big

The measurements sit on YoulerTex's own labelled diagram: 26 inches long, 10 inches wide, a solid button on the back and a fabric loop that hooks over it. The same image carries a line most shoppers skim past and then remember later. "Also suitable for big head (60cm +)".

That is an unusual thing for a hair towel to advertise, and it is the most relevant spec on the page if your hair is thick. Miss CK Ferguson, five stars, puts it to the test: "Ive got long thick hair which goes over halfway down my back and it fits in with no problem, unlike using a towel which is also heavy. I can put this on and walk around doing things for hours as its really comfortable."

Brenda W, whose review picked up more helpful votes than any other in our sample, opens with the same verdict: "Really good size, which is perfect for longer and thicker hair." J.Harris is blunter: "If you have long, thick hair this is a perfect product." And Janinio, who awarded only four stars and found the towel merely "ok", still concluded it was "more suitable for long thick hair" than for whatever they had. When the lukewarm reviewers are pointing at thick hair as the right buyer, that is a fairly loud signal.

Not everyone gets every strand in first time. One five-star buyer with low-porosity hair says: "I still need to fold my hair in half to fit them inside but there's plenty of fabric." Lara, four stars, has to "fold in the ends" of long hair. Neither treats it as a dealbreaker, and neither should you. Very long hair goes in doubled over, and there is room for it.

The one dissenting voice on thick hair does not say the towel is too small. Paula, two stars, says it is too thin. That is a different argument, and it gets its own section below.

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What a Microfibre Hair Towel Wrap for Thick Hair UK Buyers Rate Actually Does to Drying Time

The listing claims the turban absorbs "almost 75% of water" and cuts drying time "in half or more". Treat that as marketing, because YoulerTex is the only source for the figure. What the reviews describe is a step change from dripping to damp, which matters far more than it sounds when you have a lot of hair to get through.

Dee, five stars, gives it a clock: the wrap "allows my hair to dry quickly to a level of dampness then I can use the hairdryer within an hour". Nook, five stars, sets expectations better than the product page manages: "Now, do they completely dry, style and straighten your hair..... No." They do, Nook goes on, pull a decent amount of the excess water out. Danielle values the gentleness as much as the speed, noting that the wrap "doesn’t pull my hair out" the way a rubbed towel does.

It does not land for everyone. FRW, one star: "Doesn’t do anything to help dry your hair. Won’t dry it faster, in fact in leaves it wetter. Useless." Z. Mckenna, four stars, lands in between: "Not quite as absorbent as I'd hoped." In a sample where 80 of the 100 reviewers gave five stars those are outliers, but they exist, and you deserve to know about them before you commit.

The practical reading for thick hair is that this is a pre-dryer tool, not a replacement for one. Wrap it, do your skincare, empty the dishwasher, then come back to hair a diffuser can finish in a fraction of the time. Several reviewers keep it on for an hour or more while they get on with the day, which is a thing you simply cannot do with a bath sheet balanced on your head.

The Loop Is Fabric, Not Elastic, and Wet Thick Hair Is What Tests It

This is the part that matters most once your hair is heavy with water, and it is the one real fault in the design.

The wrap fastens with a sturdy button and a loop, and that loop is a strip of fabric. It does not stretch. Wrapped properly, plenty of people prefer it that way. Z4_Persian, five stars, calls it a "great idea which is very effective and which prevents the towel from unraveling and falling off, only to have to be tied up again!" BethJ83 sums up the appeal: "No more towel falling from my head."

But a fabric loop cannot take up slack, and a thick, wet, twisted rope of hair creates slack as it settles. Three reviewers in our 100 say the wrap comes loose. A three-star buyer explains the mechanism exactly: "the tie to the button at the back is not Elasticated (like all my other hair wraps) so it’s not very secure unless you have wrapped a certain way and left room for the tie to have some tension. Otherwise it just comes loose and comes off the tie button." warwje, one star, describes the consequence: "Towel doesn't stay fixed. You end up with your hair and this towel dripping down your back!" And Ilex, dwarfed by the thing, had nothing to cinch it down with: "There is no elastic to keep it tight like my previous towels had."

Two more buyers fell out with the hardware rather than the hold. Jules B, two stars, found the loop "a piece of stiff material rather than elastic", threw both towels away, and signed off: "Perhaps ok for people with delicate nimble fingers." david f, two stars, received one with the "Button missing".

Set against that, nine reviewers in the same 100 say the opposite in so many words. Lara: "stays in place the whole time". PH: "Nice thickness, stays secure when on". William Judge: "Really comfortable and secure once it’s on my head." Brenda W again, still the most upvoted voice here: "The turban is comfortable to wear if applying treatments, and does not slip off or dislodge." And Melanie Smith, who has clearly lost this fight before: "I can never get a normal towel to hold my hair in place, these two are perfect, finally my wet hair will stay up in a towel for once".

The reconciliation comes from julie, five stars, who walks through the routine and then adds the sentence YoulerTex should have printed on the packet: "But you need to be firm to secure the button." That is the whole trick. Twist it tight, pull the tail down hard and hook the loop with tension in it. Fasten it lazily with a heavy load of wet hair inside and it will find its way to your shoulders.

YoulerTex's own listing images show the turban being worn through sport, housework, reading and a make-up routine. That is the promise, and with the button done up firmly it is one this towel keeps.

"Not as Thick as the picture": The Fabric Row, and Why the Most Upvoted Reviewer Sides With the Towel

Paula's two-star review is the only voice in the sample telling thick-haired shoppers to walk away, and the reason has nothing to do with capacity: "If you have long or thick hair, don't bother. It's ok for shorter hair though. Certainly nit as thick as the photos make it appear!!" Triple B, three stars, agrees about the look: "These do not look like the picture - thin and small. Would not recommend. The Colour is nice though."

They are reacting to something real. The fabric is 80% polyester and 20% polyamide, and YoulerTex's own comparison chart on the listing makes that ratio the whole selling point, setting it against rival towels at 87% polyester and 13% polyamide and claiming better absorbency and no shedding. Whether the chart is fair is YoulerTex's word against nobody's. What matters to you is that this is deliberately a light fabric, not the plush bath sheet the photography implies.

The person best placed to settle the row is Brenda W, whose review collected more helpful votes than any other we read: "Though the material appears thin it is exceptionally absorbent. They wash easily and dry much quicker than the towelling types." Brenda W was impressed enough to buy a second set a couple of weeks later.

And the thin-fabric camp is smaller than its volume suggests. Five reviewers in the sample describe the fabric as thick and mean it as praise. Carolyn Nulty: "It's absorbent material is thick and perfectly shaped." marion fergusson: "Lovely thick quality". PH: "Nice thickness". Max: "thickness perfect size". Shnookums, on the teal colourway rather than the Haze Blue reviewed here, manages both readings at once: "Good for long hair and lightweight even though its quite thick." Two reviewers call it thin and feel cheated. Five call it thick and are delighted. Your hands may disagree with the photos, and it will still dry your hair.

One objection is tactile rather than structural, and it is worth flagging if you are sensitive to microfibre. A two-star buyer writes: "Horrible texture, makes my skin crawl to touch it! It's that kind of microfibre that catches on every little bit of dry or tough skin on the palm of your hand." That is a fair warning rather than a fault. If snagging microfibre sets your teeth on edge, buy cotton and accept the frizz.

Curls, Locs and Treatment Days

Speed is not the only reason people trade a bath towel for microfibre. Friction is the other one. Rubbing cotton terry through curls or coils is how frizz gets manufactured, and this sample is full of buyers who have stopped doing it.

Cliona, five stars: "Really good on my curly hair, nice and gentle and doesn't cause any damage." AS, five stars: "Excellent for my curly hair routine." Karen Fawcett: "Hair feels softer with no frizz after towel drying." Mary L.: "It absorbs water from hair without causing any frizz." Tinee Shrubb, whose review is titled "Prefect for thick wavy hair", keeps it to five words: "Dries well and no frizz."

If you wear locs, Cocoa's review is the one to read: "Great for Locs, starter locs or mature. Dries hair quickly and holds a lot of water".

Then there is the treatment day, which is where a 2-pack starts to look shrewd rather than merely cheap. Steff1708, five stars, has "very long hair which has taken me years of growth after it all broke off due to medication", and works in two stages: wrap straight after washing, unwrap after twenty minutes to put the treatments in, then re-wrap for another twenty-five while everything absorbs. Brenda W makes the same point in a line, calling the turban "comfortable to wear if applying treatments". Lyn1 uses one to keep the head warm during a treatment, which is a job a heavy cotton towel does badly.

None of this asks much of the towel. It just asks it to be light enough to forget about for an hour, which is the thing microfibre does and terry cloth does not.

One Review Pool, Several Colours: Read the Star Ratings With That in Mind

A word of caution about the 57,715 ratings and the 4.6-star average on that page. Amazon pools reviews across this listing's colourways, so some of what you read was written by someone holding a different coloured towel to the Haze Blue 2-pack we looked at.

You can watch it happen in the sample. Shnookums's four-star review, quoted earlier, signs off with "Nice teal colour." jayne's two-star complaint is about a variant and a packing error rather than the towel itself: "the plum colour came as a single one", jayne writes, while being charged the two-pack price. Sarah J. Nicholas owns "both colours in the large size" and rates them 10 out of 10 for very long hair.

None of this should put you off, but it does mean two things. Read colour-specific gripes as belonging to that colour. And check what is actually in the pack you are adding to your basket, because at least one buyer in our sample did not get two.

The Verdict for Thick Hair, and Who Should Walk Away

If you arrived with thick hair and one question, the answer is yes. The wrap takes the lot, holds it, and gets it from dripping to damp without a bath towel hauling on your neck. The buyers in this sample with the most hair are the ones handing out the most stars, and the loudest size complaints come from people who found the towel too big for their head, not too small for their hair.

The caveat is a design choice rather than a defect, and it costs you three seconds to work around. The loop is fabric and it will not stretch, so twist tight and fasten firmly, especially with a heavy load of wet hair inside. Do that and it stays put, as nine reviewers here confirm. Do it carelessly and it will end up round your shoulders, as three others found out. If you want a wrap that clamps itself on with elastic and forgives a sloppy twist, this is not that towel.

Skip it if you have a small head and no appetite for the technique, if snagging microfibre makes your skin crawl, or if you were hoping to leave the shower and skip the dryer altogether. Buy it if your hair is thick, long, curly or loc'd, if you do treatments and want something light enough to wear for an hour, or if you have simply had enough of a bath towel unravelling before you have found your moisturiser.

You get two, so one goes in the wash while the other is on your head, or in the gym bag as Georgina_x does. Lisa has been wearing them for six months and says they "keep their colour, shape and look great after loads of washes". For a pair of towels at this money, that is an easy call. Check today's price on Amazon before you decide.

Our score: 4.4 out of 5. Marked down for one thing only, a loop that should have been elastic.