Makeup & Beauty Monday: The Face Pencil
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I’m constantly on the hunt for the perfect concealer. It needs to stay put, match my skin, and be a breeze to apply. The Face Pencil from Jones Road might be what I’m looking for.
Available in 25 shades, the Face Pencil is a creamy, yet dense concealer that does everything: It covers blemishes, evens skin tone, and brightens the undereye area. As a frequent traveler, I also love that it’s a portable pencil rather than a liquid that takes up valuable real estate in my TSA-compliant baggie.
The Face Pencil is $28.
Sales of note for 9/5/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including new arrivals
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – Everyday styles from $34.50
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off fall faves + extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
- Nordstrom – Summer sale has started, up to 60% off top brands
- Talbots – 25-40% off select fall styles + extra 30% all markdowns
Here is your daily rant against unchecked capitalism. I just got a call from my insurance agent that I would be getting a “warning” letter because I had filed two glass claims. They were just windshield repairs, not replacements. In the past this would have had no impact on insurability or premiums because glass claims are no-fault under state law. Now they are threatening not to renew the insurance policy that I spent hours and hours shopping around for just a year ago. What is the point of insurance if you can’t use it? And why didn’t they warn me ahead of time that glass claims now [apparently illegally] count in underwriting? If I’d known I just would have paid for the repairs out of pocket.
My parents recently moved to the area, and wondering how folks have navigated the different approaches to parenting when you have older kids. We aren’t disagreeing about how much tv to watch or whatever – it’s much more how to talk to kids about certain subjects.
My mom is great, wonderful, supportive, and awesome about 90% of the time. When she’s tired, run down, and needs a break, like most of us, she is snappy and can be unkind. She and my 10 year old daughter are VERY close, but I think my daughter just…missed the harsher part of my mom’s personality when we lived far away. Now, it comes out more, as they are more regularly around each other.
Good example — my daughter found out she didn’t make a travel soccer team over the weekend, but she was encouraged after receiving some feedback from the coach (basically, work on X, Y, Z skill and try again in the spring). My mom offered to take her out for ice cream, and I guess I should have said no bc I could tell my mom was tired, but they both were really excited about it.
Well, ugh, my mom told her how she really should find another sport to play, she’s not going to make the high school team anyway, but she’s a really good public speaker, so she should try to focus on student council going forward. Ugh. My daughter went from encouraged to work hard and try again to completely crestfallen.
I tried to give some examples of other things my mom has said to me that were similar, etc., and I definitely will try to head off them spending time alone together when I can tell my mom is in this weird place, but I won’t always be able to. I remember having this voice in my ear as a kid from time to time, and it is hard to navigate. Any good tips here? Using the therapy lens I have, I don’t think we’ll change my mom here, so talking to her isn’t really a good solution.
Shana Tova to all those who celebrate! Wishing everyone a happy, healthy, sweet and safe celebration and year.
Any Monday work or home wins?
The term has started (I teach university) and it’s night and day different from last year’s dynamic, which had really worn me down. I told them I don’t want to see their phones, and they are largely adhering to this rule, and are much more chatty and engaged. Weirdly, I taught 90% of them in the spring… so it’s not a different cohort but is an optional course versus last year’s compulsory modules. The communist and fervent admirer of the French far-right left the class cheerfully talking to each other!
It’s only week 2, it could all go downhill, but choosing to remain optimistic.
My kid will be 5 in a few months and he is still sucking on the SAME fingers from when he was 6 months old. He will stop when reminded but it feels constant, and I hate nagging about it.
The only real downside (besides the fact he’ll 100% need braces) is that it’s gross and germy, and he gets annoyed at when his hand gets gross, yet does not stop the behavior.
This weekend, a family friend (adult) was about to give him a high five, and saw that his fingers were in his mouth and was like “Ew! Your hand was in your mouth, nevermind.”
The adult also has younger kids, so I was wondering if this means we need to do more to curb this behavior, like buying one of those finger guard things. Another friend had a son that did this (and still does while sleeping at 10!) and she said he eventually just grew out of doing it as frequently.
This summer we visited a state where smoking is legal and my husband brought some back home (sorry, I’m trying to avoid mod). He had stopped prior to us ever dating because it had previously been causing paranoia. Doesn’t seem to be a problem anymore and he’s using recreationally now.
I personally don’t enjoy using. Frankly, I don’t really like him using, but he’s also a grown man and can make his own choices.
I guess I’m wondering- do you use? Does your spouse? What’s your philosophy on one spouse doing an activity the other one doesn’t like them doing?
Thank you to the poster who recommended the PAWS books! My second grader loves them. I just wish there were more than 4.
What’s your approach to “making” kids do things for family time that they might not suggest themselves or might say no to when asked (but then they usually have fun once you go?) My cousin and I were just discussing this – her parents were way too far in the “ok, if you don’t want to go, then none of us will go, no problem, and you can watch tv if you want” camp (she called it too permissive) and my father was too far in the “we’re all going, no ifs ands or buts, fun is mandatory” camp. Both ways had their pros and cons, but obviously I’m looking for a “better” overall way now that I’m a mom. Assuming I’m not proposing anything most people would find unpleasant or anything truly dangerous, do you make your kids go and do you enforce any “no whining” rules once you do? Does it matter if it’s something the parents really want to do (let’s say take a family-friendly cycling vacation in Europe) that they would be truly upset to never do?