Makeup & Beauty Monday: Slick Back Taming Stick
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Need to tame flyaways and baby hairs, but hate the stiffness and stickiness of most styling products? This taming stick looks like a promising solution.
The Slick Back Taming Stick provides a long-lasting, yet touchable hold for sleek ponies and buns. Castor oil, sacha inchi oil, and rice protein nourish and soften hair. The portable design also makes it easy to style your hair on the go.
The Slick Back Taming Stick is $20 at Ulta
Sales of note for 9/23/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off tops and sweaters
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything + extra 15% off
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles with code
- J.Crew – Extra 30% off sale styles, plus up to 50% off layers they love
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything + extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Fall savings event! Also get 15% off select beauty items and 6x points on beauty.
- Talbots – Anniversary event! 25% off entire purchase, plus fresh fall classics from $34.50
Our dentist encourages bigger kids to go back to the exam room without their parents, and my 7 year old did that for the first time today (she did great… yay!). But the weird thing is no one talked to me afterwards about the exam. I thought they would come out and give me a quick report. My daughter says she has no cavities and she’s generally a truthful kid but it seems wild that I’m supposed to trust a 7 year old about this. Am I off base about this? What do your dentists do?
Checking in on the parent of a five-year-old who can’t imagine staying married to your spouse until after kiddo goes to college. How are you doing?
dear retailers, please make your toddler style clothing up to size 8. my second grader does not need an ‘off the shoulder’ top as featured in the ‘girls’ section. nor does she need dresses with cut outs
Anxious mom here with an update. Had DS (almost 5 now) re-evaluated with his speech therapist and he’s officially cleared for discharge! We’re speaking to her later this week to better understand the eval (ofc my anxious brain has questions about the scoring). I’m so proud of him and yet have so many mixed feelings of my own about this chapter closing soon-ish!
I would like to use part of my time during my furlough to create a photo album of a recent extended family vacation for my parents. Any recommendations for platform to use? I’ll probably create it now and wait to order till there is a discount.
does anyone have this product? or something similar? I’m actually looking for something like this
Looking for advice from other moms. I have two kids two years apart, ages 1.5 and 3.5. When does it get easier? I feel like everyone said it would get easier after the first few months and it did for a while but then it’s gotten a lot harder recently. Before, the baby could be contained but now I have two high motion kids, both with limited self preservation capabilities, and devious sense of humor (like normal toddler). It’s so exhausting and overwhelming and I just remembered that age 2 with my older was really tough so maybe I’m still 1.5 years away from a breath? I keep thinking there must be a light at the end of the tunnel soon but honestly I’m not seeing it yet… when?!
Asking here because I feel like this is a very kid-centric car question – can anyone speak to the comfort level of backseat passengers in a Volvo XC40 recharge? I’m planning to test drive one this week, but this seems like one aspect that’s hard to test! I currently drive a 15-year old sedan that is getting less reliable by the day, so it’s time to start looking, and I would really love to reduce my 5-year old’s complaints about feeling carsick.
Just for fun, what are you and/or your kids being for Halloween?
Looking for advice/input for anyone who has been on either side of this.
It feels like a family member’s marriage is ending. This couple has no kids and have 100% played the role of ‘fun/involved aunt & uncle’. Regardless of what happens, I want to stay in touch with both of them. Adding to the complication, I feel like it’s likely the one I’m related to who is ‘in the wrong’ here (no abuse or anything, but some questionable decisions for sure).
This is not about us, but any tips on how to extend that olive branch to the spouse who I’m not related to? They’re out of town, but I was going to just send a thinking of you card and some kid art? Would a text be better?
Is this a common complaint with DH/dad when you’re on maternity leave? DH is a wonderful partner in many ways. He does all the cooking, grocery shopping, lots of house stuff. But he just goes rogue when it comes to baby care. When I talk to him, he says he agrees with me but then he just keeps doing it his way.
I really don’t want this to be a my way vs his way argument. I don’t want to be the default parent. But the things we’ve clashed on… I do it that way for a reason. His way creates chaos. He will finally relent after he repeatedly sees the chaos he’s created but it’s so, so frustrating to have to go through this. Can we just skip the part where I have to prove I’m right – more than once – please? Can you just trust me when I explain my reasons for doing it this way??
Examples:
– sleep. We had a night nanny who helped with establishing sleep routines. On nights she’s not here, DH wouldn’t follow the routines during his shift. He wouldn’t even put the baby in the bassinet. He’d let the baby fall asleep in the living room then stay out there until I get up for my shift. I started staying up later (during DH’s shift) to put the baby to bed. Now, if I ask DH to put baby to bed, he’ll put him in the bassinet but won’t do the bedtime routine (bath, feed, bassinet, read), which leads to more nighttime wake ups. When DH gets up with baby, he takes him to the living room, so now baby thinks he’s up for the day. When I try to put baby back to sleep in the middle of the night, he keeps getting up because he thinks it’s morning. All in all, when I put the baby to bed, he sleeps for 10 hours. When DH puts the baby to bed, baby is up all night.
– bottle cleaning. When I get up for my shift, there won’t be any clean bottles and the dirty bottles are all over the house. We have a bottle washer and 6 of baby’s preferred bottles, there’s no reason we should ever be out of bottles. I’ve asked DH to please make sure there is always a clean bottle available and please put the used bottles somewhere near the sink. He kept not doing that until I had a few nights where baby was screaming for a long time while I had to scour the house for a bottle, clean it, prep it, and then settle baby who has now been screaming so long that he’s just mad. Now DH has started putting bottles in the dishwasher. The bottle parts are so light and small that they go all over the place. So I have to take everything out of the dishwasher to get to the trap because that’s where the tiny bottle parts end up. I broke down crying over the weekend because baby was crying and I couldn’t find the bottle parts and DH was looking at me like I’ve lost my mind. He seemed sort of contrite.
I know DH has a stubborn streak but I’ve never seen anything like this before. I don’t get it. What can I do here?