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8. WEAR A HAT, HAIR BAND OR HEAD WRAP If there ever was a season to do less with your hair, this is it. Aside from air-drying, scrunchies and claw clips (also known as jaw clips), hair bands

and hats provide another time out. A straw fedora like the Madewell Packable Straw Fedora Hat ($40, nordstrom.com) looks stylish and not too casual or obvious (like baseball caps and beach

hats) for streetwear and socializing away from sand and pool. Wide printed, pleated or embellished head bands like the Anastasia Knotted Headband in Black & White ($20,

anthropologie.com) or Anthropologie Woven Knotted Headband in Cocoa ($20, anthropologie.com) are polished enough for work or dinner out thanks to neutral colors, and the broad band provides

coverage and control. Jones Road Beauty / Nars / Illia 9. PARE DOWN YOUR DAILY MAKEUP TO ONE THING Who needs a soup-to-nuts look when the temperature soars and our lifestyles are more

casual? New hybrid formulas and light high-pigment colors make this an easy less-is-more fix. All you really need is a skin booster like the Jones Road Miracle Balm in Dusty Rose, Bronze or

Tawny ($38, jonesroadbeauty.com), Nars The Multiple in Maui, South Beach or Orgasm ($39, sephora.com) or the Ilia Multi-Stick Cheek & Lip in At Last, All of Me or Cheek to Cheek ($34,

sephora.com) to add some warmth and color to cheeks, lips and lids. Mango Buttons / Kiyonna / Gap 10. WEAR COMPLEXION-BOOSTING COLORS We love our neutrals, but a colorful top can give your

look a real power surge. Remember: Most people focus on us waist-up, whether that's across a table, a desk or on a screen. If your skin has gone ashy or pale with age, energize it with

vibrant reds, roses and corals like the Violeta by Mango Buttons T-shirt in Coral Red, Plus-Size ($35, mango.com/us). If brown spots, blotchiness and undereye circles are the issue, a softer

pink or peach like the Gap Wrap T-Shirt in Modal in Pink Fig ($30, gap.com) can restore a blush-like glow. If your skin is sallow or ruddy, cool fuchsia, violet and lavender shades like the

Kiyonna Femme Fatale Faux Wrap Top in Orchid ($58, coedition.com) can counteract yellow and red undertones. Hollywood Fashion Tape / Singer / Foot Petals / Gal Pal 11. HANG AN “EMERGENCY”

KIT IN YOUR CLOSET We waste way too much time changing clothes at the last minute. Make like a fashion stylist and keep a styling kit in your closet. Include a lint roller for clothes and

clearing crumbs from handbag linings, double-stick fashion tape to secure necklines and wraps, rubber bands to expand jeans waistbands on “bloat” days (loop around button, through buttonhole

and back around the button), extra earring backs, scented dryer sheets to deodorize stinky shoes, shoe inserts and cushions, a deodorant-removing sponge, a mini solid deodorant, a mini

sewing kit with threaded needles and a nail file. _Lois Joy Johnson is a beauty and style editor who focuses on women 50 and older. She was the beauty and style editor at_ Ladies’ Home

Journal _and a founding editor of_ More _magazine._ _She has written three books:_ The Makeup Wakeup, The Wardrobe Wakeup _and_ The Woman's Wakeup.