HEAD Overgrip 6 Pack: Dry or Sticky?

If the overgrip on your racket has gone shiny, hard or smooth at the edges, it stopped doing its job a while ago. Overgrips are consumables: they exist to soak up sweat and give your hand a fresh, secure surface, and they cost little enough that there is no reason to nurse a dead one. That is the whole point of buying them six at a time.

The HEAD overgrip 6 pack costs £10.99 for six wraps in dry or sticky finishes and a decent spread of colours, with one exception on price: the dry orange pack is currently £10.58. It is marketed for tennis and padel, but an overgrip does not care what sport you play, and it wraps a badminton handle just as happily.

What you get

Each pack holds six overgrips in either a dry or a sticky finish. Both finishes come in single colour packs of black, white, blue, orange and neon, plus a purple in each range. If you cannot settle on one colour, there is a mixed pack in each finish. Worth knowing: the mixed packs vary the colour, not the finish, so you still choose dry or sticky first.

Dry or sticky: choose by your hands, not the colour

Dry and sticky, sometimes called tacky, are the two families almost every overgrip brand makes, and the right choice is mostly about sweat. A dry finish has a matte surface designed to absorb moisture, so it keeps a consistent feel through a long, sweaty session. A sticky finish holds onto the skin, which feels very secure while it is fresh and suits players who keep one grip on the handle and want it planted.

The short version: sweaty hands do better with dry, and players with drier hands who want a locked in feel tend to prefer sticky. Neither is better, they are different tools.

On a badminton racket

Overgrips sold for tennis and padel are cut for a longer, thicker handle than a badminton racket has, so you will likely have spare length when you wrap. You can either overlap each turn more generously for a slightly plumper handle, or wrap normally and trim the excess. Remember an overgrip always adds some thickness: if your handle already feels chunky, strip the old layers off first rather than stacking new over old, and if you like a thin handle, one overgrip over the base grip is plenty.

Wrapping one on properly

The method is the same as any overgrip: start at the bottom with the tapered end, overlap each turn by about a third, keep a light, even tension, and seal just below the cone. We cover the full technique, and how extra layers change your grip size, in our badminton grip size guide. When the surface goes shiny or the edges start lifting, swap it: with six in the pack, you can change grips when they are worn out rather than when you feel flush.

Where it sits in the range

This pack lives in our grips collection alongside the rest of our overgrips, so it is easy to compare finishes and brands in one place. At £10.99 for six, it is the kind of thing to add alongside strings or shuttles so a fresh wrap is already in your bag the day the old one gives up.

Related reading: Overgrip vs Replacement Grip: Which Does Your Racket Need?