Getting Ready Faster: Secrets From Stylish Women

Simple hacks that busy fashion insiders use to cut their morning routines in half. (For starters, prepping the night before is overrated)

JESSICA PALLAY, co-founder of the pregnancy and parenting website Well Rounded, puts her eyeliner on in the subway. “I do everything I have to do for the kids first,” said the 39-year-old Brooklyn mom of two. “I get whatever time’s left.”

And stylist Nicole Chapoteau isn’t above sartorial trickery to streamline her routine. After dropping off her 7-year-old daughter at school in Queens, and squeezing in a boxing class, she hides her workout leggings beneath a cotton-candy-pink and black-striped Bottega Veneta statement coat...