Hair accessories have a strange way of taking over a house.

You buy a package of hair elastics and somehow, a few weeks later, you can only find three. Bobby pins disappear almost immediately. Hair clips end up in bathroom drawers, backpacks, purses, bedrooms, and the bottom of the dance bag. Then, on the morning you actually need something, it is nowhere to be found.

If you regularly style your own hair or your kids' hair, you probably do not need more hair accessories. You need a better way to organize the ones you already have.

A good hair accessory organization system can make getting ready faster, keep small accessories from disappearing, and make it much easier to see what you actually have. The secret is not creating a complicated organization system. It is giving every little thing a place.

Why hair accessories are so difficult to organize

Most hair accessories are small, and that is exactly what makes them difficult to store.

Hair elastics get mixed together. Bobby pins disappear underneath larger items. Clips get tossed into drawers. Small plastic elastics are especially easy to lose because they often come in large quantities and multiple colors.

A traditional bathroom drawer does not solve the problem because everything still ends up piled together. You might technically know where your hair accessories are, but you still have to dig through everything to find the one you need.

The best way to organize hair accessories is to separate them by type and keep them visible.

When elastics, clips, bobby pins, and styling tools each have their own compartment, getting ready becomes much simpler. Instead of searching, you can see what you need and grab it.

Why a clear hair accessory organizer works so well

Visibility makes a bigger difference than you might think.

When hair accessories are stored in an opaque bin or drawer, it is easy to forget what is inside. You buy another package of elastics because you cannot find the ones you already own, only to discover them a month later.

A clear organizer changes that.

You can see your hair elastics, clips, pins, and colors at a glance. Individual compartments prevent everything from mixing together, while a portable case allows the entire collection to move with you.

That is especially useful for families who do hair in more than one place. Maybe weekday hair happens in the bathroom, Saturday hair happens in the kitchen, and competition hair happens in a hotel room. Your organization system should be able to go wherever you do.

Organize hair elastics by color

If you use small plastic hair elastics for braids, bubble ponytails, sports hairstyles, or detailed styles, organizing them by color is one of the easiest ways to speed up your routine.

Instead of pouring out an entire package looking for the right shade, give each color its own compartment.

This also makes hairstyles more fun. When you can actually see all of the colors you have, it is easier to coordinate elastics with an outfit, uniform, team colors, holiday, or hairstyle.

It sounds like a small change, but those few minutes saved during a busy morning add up quickly.

Keep everyday hair ties separate

Not every hairstyle needs a tiny elastic. Ponytails, buns, and quick everyday styles usually call for a traditional fabric hair tie.

Keeping larger hair ties in their own section prevents them from getting tangled with smaller accessories and makes it easy to grab one when you are rushing out the door.

This is particularly helpful if multiple people in the house share hair supplies. Everyone knows where the everyday hair ties belong, which makes it much more likely that they will actually end up back in the right place.

At least, that is the goal.

Give bobby pins and hair clips their own home

There may be no object better at disappearing than a bobby pin.

Because pins and small clips are usually finishing pieces, they often get tossed into whatever drawer happens to be nearby when a hairstyle comes down.

Giving them a dedicated compartment solves two problems. You know exactly where to look when you need one, and you know exactly where to put it when you are finished.

The same applies to decorative clips. Keeping them visible makes it easier to remember to actually use them instead of rediscovering them six months later at the back of a drawer.

Create a hair kit that can leave the bathroom

One of the biggest mistakes people make when organizing hair accessories is creating a system that only works at home.

Hair does not only happen at home.

There are dance competitions, cheer events, sports, vacations, sleepovers, school mornings, recitals, weddings, and weekends away. If you have ever tried to pack hair supplies for one of these events, you already know how quickly things can become chaotic.

A portable hair accessory organizer allows you to grab the entire collection instead of packing individual bags of elastics, pins, and clips every time you leave.

When you get home, the case goes back to its usual spot. There is no unpacking five different bags or wondering where the hair supplies ended up.

The hair accessory organizer we wished already existed

This exact problem is why we created the PONYPICK® Hair Accessory Organizer Kit.

We wanted one place for the things we actually reach for when doing hair, not another empty organizer that still required buying everything separately.

The kit comes ready to use with 12 colors of PONYPICK® plastic hair elastics, 16 soft fabric hair elastics, 20 black bobby pins, 12 star hair clips, two denim hair clips, and The Original PONYPICK® Hair Elastic Remover. Everything is separated inside a clear, refillable compartment organizer, so you can see exactly what you have and grab what you need.

The organizer itself measures 10.5 by 7 by 1.12 inches, making it compact enough to take along for dance, cheer, travel, sleepovers, competitions, or weekends away.

And because the organizer is refillable, it is not meant to be something you use once and throw away. As you run out of your favorite elastics or accessories, you can refill the compartments and keep using the system.

Do not forget about taking the hairstyle down

Organizing your hair accessories makes creating hairstyles easier, but there is another part of the routine that often gets overlooked: taking everything back out.

Small plastic elastics are incredibly useful for detailed hairstyles, but pulling them out can tug on the hair. That is why we included The Original PONYPICK® Hair Elastic Remover in the organizer kit. The patented tool is designed to make removing plastic hair elastics quick and easy, so the tool you need at the end of the day is stored right alongside the elastics you used at the beginning.

It completes the routine. Choose your elastics, create the style, add your finishing touches, and when the day is over, everything you need to take the hairstyle down is already there.

A simpler way to do hair

The best organization systems are not the prettiest ones or the most complicated ones. They are the ones you can actually maintain.

Hair accessories need to be easy to see, easy to reach, easy to put away, and easy to take with you.

When every elastic, clip, pin, and tool has a place, you spend less time searching through drawers and more time actually doing hair.

That was the idea behind the PONYPICK® Hair Accessory Organizer Kit. All the little things you are constantly looking for, finally together in one place.

Because busy mornings have enough problems already. Finding a hair elastic should not be one of them.

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