Honey Mag

The Night Before: Bambi’d-out eyelashes, you flutter like butterfly wings to attract your prey. A perfectly painted scarlet pout that whispers sweet nothings in his ear. Artfully applied shimmer on your cheeks that foreshadows the glow you’ll hopefully be enjoying in nan but an hour or two.

The Morning After: Hurricane Mascara touches down on your lids. Cracked lips that’d make Tyrone Biggums blush. And the tasty sour mix that aided your dose of liquid courage is now just, well, sour breath.

No matter how much you looked like paradise by the dashboard light a few hours before, the dawn after a one-night stand is never as kind to the fairer sex (Andre 3000, please note: “Where Are My Panties” does not tell the half of it). Messy makeup, parched skin and morning breath are just some of the fine print you overlooked in your haze of lust to sign off on the deal.

Luckily, Honey’s jump-off beauty kit is rife with items you can mix and match (or carry them all) easily in your makeup bag for when you’d like to do the walk of shame in style. Practical, portable, and multifunctional, here are a few must-haves that won’t have you running from the dawn like the undead:

Evian Mineral Water Spray To Go: A purse essential for any situation — a quick spritz refreshes dry skin, helps touch up makeup, and removes any perspiration you acquired getting tangled in those sheets.

Bliss’ Problem Salved: Twenty uses and this Honey still doesn’t know them all. Bliss’ magic stick (no pun) does everything from tame flyaways to groom eyebrows to tackle chapped skin. Oh, and did we mention that with a few swipes, it helps fix wayward makeup, too? The one drawback is that it’s not made for lips, which leads us to…

Rosebud Salve: A tried and true beauty staple with some new offerings, this over-a-century old blend of essential oils and other magic ingredients nourishes dry lips, rough cuticles, and pesky rug burns.

Listerine Oral Care Strips: Forget life-savers — these are lifelines. Small enough to fit in the tightest jeans pockets or the smallest clutch, the feather-light strips start to work in less time (about 2 seconds) than they take to dissolve, and freshen from the inside out, giving you a whole lot more confidence (and a lot less awkwardness) for your exit tête-à-tête.

Ted Gibson Hair Sheet: A hair touch-up in a tight little package, this single-use sheet is packed with beauty dynamo Gibson’s signature amino complex that fixes the look of dry ends without making your hair greasy while simultaneously adding a healthy sheen. It also helps to absorb odors, so that the eau de club that might have skipped notice while you were busy moving your body like a snake doesn’t rudely introduce itself in the light of the day.

Yet, as always, the No. 1 item in the jump-off beauty kit: contraception. At the end of the day, we’d much rather someone confuse you for a “Before” in a Dr. Miracle’s ad if it means a choice between arming yourself for safer sex or post-coital grooming. Stay sexy but, most of all, stay safe, busy bees!

-Adriana Nova