6 No effort habits that will make you look incredibly put together

Wear Natural Makeup

Part of looking put together is simply looking fresh. Bags under your eyes do not equal “put together”—but neither does overdone eye makeup. It’s as easy as a dash of tinted moisturizer, a dot of concealer and a sweep of mascara to take yourself from “just got out of bed” to “ready for this meeting”.

Red Lipstick

Women in meticulously-applied red lipstick always look so in control to me. With barely there makeup on your face, bold lipstick makes several statements: “I am here,” “I know I am here,” and “I cared enough about being here that I made my lips look this hot.” Bright lipstick is an easy way to make an entrance without spending a great deal of time or effort. For the minute it takes to apply, it will bring back put togetherness upon you 100 fold, because lipstick is that extra little touch that just screams “I’VE GOT IT ALL WORKED OUT.”

Do Your Hair

I know the much sorted “effortless” look requires messy, partially dreadlocked, I-don’t-care-about-my-matted-flyaway-hair hair. But I promise you, 99.9% of women don’t look glamorous when they attempt to pull it off—they just end up looking like a gypsy who doesn’t own a hair brush. At the very least, brush your hair in the morning. If it’s kicking out in a weird way and you don’t have time to fix it, or it’s oily and dirty and you don’t have time to wash, pull it into a low pony at the nape of your neck, or a high bun. Takes 30 seconds to make your hair look presentable.

Shower

This might seem obvious to you but there’s a strange breed of people who shower before bed rather than in the morning. Don’t be that person. Always shower in the morning. I realize that I’m about to spark some intense debate with this statement, but I stand by it. Team Shower In The Morning for life.

De-Crease

As with lint, creases in your clothes are a dead giveaway that you’re struggling. For a quick fix, take your clothes into the morning shower with you and hang them up somewhere away from the water but where they will catch the steam coming off it. Better yet, use the steam function on your iron or buy a steamer because steaming is fast and far less arduous than ironing.

Wear Black

Black is the new black. Black on black on black on black. All black everything. Black leather boots, black tights, black skirt, black jeans, black sweater, black blazer. If you’re a normal person, you probably have some variation on all of these in your wardrobe. Black instantly makes you look cool, and wearing lots of black is the simplest way to look sophisticated, but like you didn’t try too hard to look that sophisticated.