When it comes to Halloween , you’re either the fully committed type (think Kim Kardashian as an albino alligator, Heidi Klum as a worm), or you lean more low-key, for what I like to call the Mean Girls approach: black cat ears, devil horns, or something similar you grabbed at the last minute en route to the party. Hey, sometimes you don’t have 12 hours and a 12-person glam squad to transform you into a lifelike exotic bird. (Looking at you again, Heidi). Sometimes, the real ones know, you’ve got to work with what you’ve got—and a small nod to the occasion beats nothing at all.

Proving that sometimes less really is more, Jennifer Lawrence applied her usual understated approach to spooky season, pairing a fancy-dress favorite—a pointy witch’s hat—with a more familiar fashion staple:

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