Makeup & Beauty Monday: All About Eyes Cream
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Lately, the delicate skin under my eyes has been dry and irritated. Perhaps it’s time to return to an old favorite.
This classic eye cream/gel from Clinique holds makeup in place while reducing dark circles, puffiness, and fine lines. It’s also free from a range of questionable ingredients including fragrance, parabens, and phthalates.
In my experience, a little goes a long way — just a few little dabs under the eye and on the eyelids do the trick.
Half an ounce of Clinique’s All About Eyes Cream is $35 at Sephora and Macy’s.
Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
jealous of those who Covid has been minor for. We’ve been on the cautious side and now have it and it’s brutal. I don’t regret our caution even though we did get it anyway as I’m glad we got a milder variant (i don’t even want to know what an original one felt like) and this is our last week of school and first time quarantining. But listening to my 4 year old daughter scream and cry that her head hurts, begging me to “make her better right now” while being unable to keep down any medicine is not fun
Wise hive, my oldest is getting beyond the age of “everybody is everybody’s friend” and I don’t know how to help her navigate. Please advise, here’s the situation, TL;DR – pls help parents with some social anxiety help tween DD navigate tween-hood drama without helicoptering.
There’s a group of girls in the neighborhood that are all about the same age and hang out organically, a lot (riding bikes, hanging out in backyards, eating all the snacks, all good clean fun). One of the older ones is a bit Queen Bee-ish, has a tendency to misbehave and feed drama… nothing extremely worrisome though. She started middle school this year, abruptly dropped the younger girls, and then tried to pick them back up when she had social problems at school (I am interpolating some of what’s going on, she hasn’t specifically told me this). My DD in particular was like, nope, you are not a great friend and I see that we have zero in common and so she’ll be polite but definitely does not seek out Friend A any more and tends to drift away from the group when A shows up. DH and I are not heartbroken about this – we’re glad DD has the backbone to break away from the group when she wants to. SO… the issue is that A continues to come around and the rest of the group is… easily co-opted. Case in point, DD specifically invited one girl to our house after an activity. Friend B came over… A came over… before we knew it A had gathered up all the girls including B and literally walked them out the door, leaving DD trying really, really hard not to cry in front of her parents :-( We are good friends with B’s parents… they told us that B was really upset when she heard DD’s side of it, definitely didn’t mean to be mean, etc.
DH and I aren’t going to intervene, but we know we need to support DD and give her some tools to navigate this. She definitely has a little bit of social anxiety, nothing crippling, nothing out of the ordinary for early-tween girls. I definitely have some childhood scars from my own personal Queen Bee demons, so I’m not sure I’m looking at this completely objectively. Do I ignore? Encourage DD to socialize with other non-neighborhood friends (see: other post asking about non-planned summers…)? Address it directly? Ack.
Has anyone tried the Big Little Feelings potty training guide? Any thoughts/feelings/results?
How did your daycare support potty training your toddler?
Since this weekend Our 2 1/2-year-old is not wearing diapers at home anymore but we still put him in diapers for daycare Because he still has accidents from time to time.
This morning when I dropped him off I explain to him that he no longer wears diapers at home and they said that they would show him the kid toilets.
when I picked him up today they did show him the toilets but didn’t encourage using the potty in any other way. How does your daycare handle this?
I have two separate birthday parties for one-year olds coming up, for the daughters of two of my closest friends. Both parents have said no presents, they don’t need anything (although conceded that books would be ok if I really wanted to get something).
I’m single and childless, and have no idea what books to buy- I think they have the standard ones (good night moon, etc). Any recommendations, preferably on Amazon?
Is there anything else I could get that isn’t toys or clothes for the baby? Both families are very well off financially, so the savings bonds I used to get as a kid may not be as needed (if those are still a thing). Wine for the parents? I want to bring something celebratory, but not sure what.
It depends on your daycare. I could send 16oz of milk in 2 large storage bottles, which they would decant into little bottles for feeding. But some will want you to send premade bottles.
LO is starting Daycare next week, at almost exactly 12 weeks old. Could anyone explain to me in extra stupid detail how to pack milk and bottles for him? I’m EBF, I have a good freezer stash, and he takes bottles just fine. But I’m baffled and nervous about storage and volumes etc etc. I don’t want them to overfeed him for convenience, but I obviously want him to get as much as he needs. WWYD?
Curious from a previous thread on daycare needs: how many hours do you and your partner (if applicable) work each week and how many/age kids do you have?
I’m now working 35-40 a week (down from 50-60), my partner works 50 hours a week and we have an almost 1 year old.
Travel car seat help? We’re flying for the first time in a loooong time and will need car seats for the rental car for my small five year old and very large three year old. We are old and weak so as light and easy as possible is a priority — what should I get? I had hard cosco scenera next but it looks like my five year old is just at the height limit for that seat.
It seems there are more than a few of us house hunting in this crazy market, and I wanted to start a thread for venting/encouraging/sharing observations etc. We saw a house on Friday and I’ve been stressing over what to do all weekend…it hit almost all the right notes and then some, but layout isn’t perfect and it’s missing one of my two non-negotiables. Priced decently, we would be able to go well above asking…but am I just getting caught up in FOMO for considering it even thought it’s missing something I *know* I want?
For reference, we are in the NYC metro area which has always been hot and expensive. I’m seeing more things come to market – for the past several months we’ve seen about 10 houses/week that meet our price parameters (and nearly none that appeal to us beyond that), but last week there were about 30 new options in the course of three days! So that’s giving me a bit of hope and I feel like taking my chances. It’s an amazing house but doesn’t quite seem right for us (family of 5, possibly more kid(s) down the line). Am I crazy?
Am I a mean mom for refusing my 4 year old a backyard swingset/jungle gym? She really wants one and most people in our suburban neighborhood seem to have them, but there’s a park two blocks from our house that we go to basically whenever she wants to. DH and I both think going to the park regularly is better than playing in the yard. She’s a bit of a homebody (like me) and I kind of worry if we had a swing set she’d literally never leave our house/yard.
Well, school gets out this week, and I still feel unprepared for summer break. Younger kiddo has a day camp that runs the entire summer. It’s easy, and thank goodness for that. Older kid (going into 7th grade) has some camps lined up, but there are several weeks where we have nothing lined up for him. He is old enough to stay home alone (and we’ll probably try to squeeze in some more WFH hours), but this is not a kid who is going to roam the neighborhood on his own accord unless forced to. He has really turned into an indoor cat, and it’s a total bummer. Please tell me this is going to be okay, and that a few weeks of excessive screen time isn’t the worst parenting move ever? He really does need the downtime. Last year, we had a different camp lined up every week and that just about killed all of us, so this is where we landed.
I feel so much self-imposed pressure to give my kids a great summer even though I work full-time. I rarely have working mom guilt anymore … except during the summer. My mom stayed at home until I was in junior high, and when she went back to work, she was on a school-year schedule so everything lined up without much effort. I feel equal parts guilty that my kids don’t have carefree, unscheduled summers. Except when they do, and then I feel like I’m abdicating my parental duties.
Since having my baby a few weeks ago, my skin has been super dry. Any suggestions for a face moisturizer for dry skin? I’m also focusing on hydration generally but feel like I’m doing a pretty good job on that front.