Cool Finds: Too Faced Walk of Shame set

I love window shopping. But it’s been pretty damn cold here, not to mention the sidewalks were slippery from the sleet and I risked breaking my new a few times in the past 2 weeks. Add to that the fact that some of my favorite stores do not exist in Zurich (or Switzerland in general) and you see why sometimes the online version of window shopping just has to do, in a pinch.

While browsing though the Sephora website (have I mentioned how much I miss Sephora?), I noticed a cute little set, with a catchy name: the Walk of Shame set.

The set is by Too Faced, and the cute little lingerie-inspired pouch contains:

- a colorless face primer

- a colorless eye shadow primer

- a compact with eye shadows and bronzer

- a nude lipstick

- a travel toothbrush

- mints

Basically, all you need to look fresh-faced in a cinch when you find yourself away from home, possibly after a long night out. Hence the name.

Why am I bothering with this at all? Aren’t I married? (I can read your thoughts from all the way over here. I know, spooky.)

Well, I may not be one for Walks of Shame, however it occurred to me that this set would also be perfect to take on a long flight, say, like the one I’ll be taking when I go to New York later this year (you call it wishful thinking, I call it positive thinking. Potato, potahto.)
Have you ever been on a transatlantic flight? They are looong. Less so if you are lucky enough to be flying  Business or First Class, but that doesn’t happen super often to normal people, does it? Which means that at the end of the flight you might visit the tiny restroom and possibly have to staple your mouth shut to keep from screaming at your – ehm! – slightly scary appearance because of sleeping sitting up and all. Yikes.

Enter this cute little set: brush your teeth and hair, wash your face, apply the primers and then make good use of the elegant, understated nude makeup, then leave the tiny restroom looking like you had a semi-decent night of sleep and are an experienced, relaxed traveler, a citizen of the world really, barely touched by long flights through several time zones. Or, you know, at least you don’t look like this:

So yes. I will be grabbing one of these.

The set retails for $38 and is available at Sephora stores as well as online, Amazon.com, and of course at Too Faced. (They also have it at Urban Outfitters, but it’s $45 there. Pfffft.)