Back to School Hair: The One Thing Worth Getting Right

Back to school hair is its own genre of chaos.

Different from regular chaos. More specific. More urgent. Happening at 8am while someone can't find their reading book and someone else has decided today is the day they don't want a ponytail.

Every parent of a primary school-age child knows the particular feeling of standing behind a small person with a hairbrush, negotiating. We're not here to fix that. We are, however, here to make sure you at least have the right accessories to hand when the moment arrives.

The back to school hair kit you actually need

It's not complicated. You need clips. Bobbles. Probably a headband for the days when everyone's running five minutes late and there's no time for anything ambitious. And you need them in the right colour - because nothing derails a school morning quite like realising the only hair ties you can find are glittery pink, and your school is a strictly navy situation.

Classette makes 15-piece sets in red, navy and green. That's it. We didn't expand into leopard print or florals, because this is about getting out the door on time.

Each set has clips, bobbles and a headband. Fifteen pieces. One canvas carry sack that, in theory, keeps them together. In practice, you'll lose two clips, which is why there are fifteen.

How to actually stay on top of it

The sack is the system. If the sack lives in the same place every day - bathroom shelf, coat hook, wherever you've decided - the accessories are findable. This is not a complicated system. It is, however, a system that requires everyone in the household to agree on where the sack lives. Good luck with that.

When a set is getting low, reorder. We're on Amazon UK and classette.co.uk, so there's  minimum drama involved.

Why back to school hair is worth thinking about once

The goal isn't to spend a lot of time thinking about back to school hair. The goal is to think about it once - get the right accessories, in the right colour, in enough quantity - and then not think about it again until the following September.

That's what Classette is for. Fifteen pieces. Plastic-free packaging. Ethically made. £19.99 with free UK shipping.

One good decision at the start of the school year. Job done.