Makeup Monday: Makeup Travel Kit 2.0
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When I’m on the road, I’ve occasionally used Sephora samples for my makeup. The Makeup Travel Kit 2.0 from Jones Road would be a step up from my current routine of digging through my shoebox of samples for something flattering.
This kit has everything you need for an easy, glowy look. The kit includes six products for your complexion, cheeks, eyes, and lips. The included brush and case make it easy to take everything with you wherever you’re headed.
This kit is $98 and comes in light, medium, and dark.
Sales of note for 8/6/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, 8/6 ONLY: Extra 60% off sale and style steals starting at $25
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – 30% off wear-now styles & up to 60% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything and extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off all previous flash sale items! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
- Nordstrom – 9,800+ new women’s markdowns
- Spanx – Free shipping on everything
- Talbots – $15 & up all markdown tops & 50% off all other markdowns
Why do you think the main page has become so negative, nasty, and judgmental? I started reading the page over a decade ago. I remember people could be harsh but now it’s over the top… like the rants against sleep training the other day and equating it with child abuse. It’s like some people have lost touch with reality and don’t mind being hurtful either. Have more sane people stopped going to the page because it is so toxic, and then it just becomes more and more negative, or have loyal readers become more negative/toxic with all that has been happening in the world?
I had my first mammogram on Friday (hi fellow 1985 babies) and they found a nodule so I had an ultrasound this morning. I didn’t think too much of it, because I’ve had breast ultrasounds before for lumps my OB felt and they were fluid-filled cysts, which are always benign. Today they said it wasn’t a fluid filled cyst. They think it’s probably a benign mass like a fibroadenoma so they aren’t going to do a biopsy now, just repeat the mammogram in 3 months to see if it’s grown and if it has, I’ll have a biopsy then. But I feel like “probably” is doing a lot of heavy lifting and I’m kid of freaked out — what if I’m among the unlucky ones and the 3 month wait is significant? Would you get a second opinion? Anyone have anecdata about an experience like this?I know it’s hard for doctors to speak in terms of certainties but I felt much more confident being told lumps were definitely benign!
My 8-year-old has really gotten into music lately. His cousins have a Yoto and he’s obsessed with it when we visit them.
I’d rather get him a CD player and turn him loose in the CD section at the library or let him use the CDs I have from high school and college.
Thoughts?
we go back tomorrow. as someone who is NOT a morning person, i’m dreading waking up 45 minutes earlier. DH usually does drop off on the first day, but he has an early meeting, so I’ll be doing the morning solo. My kids generally like school, but are super anxious about starting tomorrow. Sending good vibes to anyone else starting this week!
I am feeling a bit conflicted on how to approach money/spending with our tween. As background, both my husband and I grew up in a lower-middle class neighborhood and while our parents didn’t make much, neither did our friends parents. So we grew up dressing at like Marshalls, not having a ton of nice things etc but didn’t think much of it since that was the norm (maybe in my case I did notice my friends had a few things that I didn’t, but it wasn’t much). We now live in one of the wealthiest suburbs in the US.. think where the average income is 1M a year, everyone takes multiple business class trips to Europe, kids have the latest and greatest clothes, etc.
We are very much average in this town, but maybe not so average when it comes to how we spend (probably bc we didn’t grow up this way)… we save a lot more than most and while we do buy a lot of nice things we are very thoughtful with our spending. So we are struggling because our tween is constantly asking for very expensive things (just a few examples from the last couple weeks.. she was asking to fly business when I took her to Europe, to attend concerts that are 500+ per person, 200 dollar shoes, constant lululemon and other similarly expensive clothes, a new backpack when we bought her one last year, extra horse back riding lessons when we are already paying a small fortune for a 9-12 horse back riding camp, the latest iPhone). I am having a hard time figuring out when to say no/yes. We say no a lot because we want to have some lessons about money and some of this is something we wouldn’t even spend on ourselves no matter how much money we have, but we say yes a lot too bc we love our kids and what better way to spend money than to buy what makes them happy and also she feels like she doesn’t fit in if we don’t spend (e.g., she was crying yesterday we wouldn’t buy her a new backpack bc all her friends are getting a new one.. but I am like we bought you one last year and its nice and perfectly fine!). We ended up saying she can spend her own money on it, but she wasn’t happy about it because she is trying to save for a phone (I am against phones before 8th but she’s going into 7th and as an attempt to teach her saving I said you can have one earlier if you save for it and buy it yourself). I guess I am asking for help when when to say no to all the endless $$ asks and how to explain it (I can’t say we can’t afford it because it’s not true and I think she must know it).
What’s your house policy on closed doors for kids? I don’t really have one, but also don’t knock or anything when I go into a kids’ room. I recently learned a couple families I know have very strong feelings that doors are never to be closed and it surprised me a little. Mine are 9 and 7, the other families have a 3 and 7 and four from 5-12. Should I be setting a policy?
Ugh, dragging today. We arrived home at 11pm, son woke us up at 7 to open birthday presents (his birthday was while we were away), and feeling the back to school panic with school starting on Wednesday.
Give me all your best back to school tips. We’ve been away from home for a month and I feel rusty.
There have been a few comments lately related to adventuring as a family/as a mom (I remember some about having an adventure buddy in a son, which is my dream for my son) and I’d love to start a dedicated thread on the subject. How do you structure your mom lives to make more adventure happen? I’m great once we’re out having the experience, but I tend to default to routine when we’re home and struggle to fit mini adventures into the schedule. In some ways, it’ll get easier when we’re out of the bottles, naps, and diapers schedule, but in other ways, it’ll take more deliberate effort. Our main sports as a couple were hiking, mountain biking, skiing, river rafting (with guides – we’d maybe do another private trip if we had the right people to go with), and rock climbing. I’d love to do all of these and add surfing, which my brother has promised to teach my son, to the list. Any tips??
Barring tips, what are your favorite family adventure destinations and trips?