Beauty & Makeup Monday: Bamboo Beach Breeze Dry Balm
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If you’ve seen a million articles online lately about how to air dry your hair — and you’re thinking, “I just let it air dry — what’s the big deal?” — that’s because there are a slew of new products that are air-dry creams. I wrote a few weeks ago about my favorite Alterna product for curly hair, and they also have an air-dry product that’s getting rave reviews. I ordered it, and I’ll report back! Readers, do you have a favorite air-dry styling product or any other tips? Do you air dry more in the summertime? ALTERNA Haircare Bamboo Beach Breeze Dry Balm
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Sales of note for 4/24/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 7,710 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including 100s of new arrivals
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Spring Clearance: Up to 75% off + extra 50-60% off sale
- J.Crew – Mid-Season Sale: Up to 60% off sale styles + up to 50% off summer-ready styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100 + extra 20% off $125
- M.M.LaFleur – 3 pieces for $198. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off entire purchase, includes markdowns
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Vent-
Hit the point where people that are due after me are having big, healthy, squishy babies. Happy for them (really, although it doesn’t sound like it) but I really hate it when that happens.
Grade school mamas- what are you favourite lunch bento boxes for grade school kids? Any tips?
I want to send them to school with a hot lunch but the thermos thing seems pretty cumbersome to eat out of for a preschooler.
Any suggestions/tips/hacks?
Anyone have fun Last Day of School ideas? I’m trying to come up with a very last minute idea to make the day feel fun for the kids, when it’s going to be just a normal Tuesday for my husband and me!
Bumble and bumble don’t blow it! It leaves my hair softer, shinier, and less frizzy than air drying without any product. I’ve been using the original formula since it launched, but looking forward to trying the new version for thick hair.
I have what may be a “dumb” breastfeeding question. DD is 13 weeks and just dropped her 11pm feed. So she sleeps from 7:30-2am. I feed her on one side (ex: right breast), and then she sleeps for another 2-3hrs and feed her on my other side (say, left breast). The issue is that by the time I get to the second side I’m really full. I also don’t know if I’m “supposed” to be going that long without emptying one side. So my question is, at what point do you start pumping in the middle of the night?
How do you keep yourself from getting every bug your baby gets (or carries around and doesn’t get). I feel like my five month old stealthily sticks his fingers in to my mouth, and between going back to work, sleep deprivation, breastfeeding, and constant sickness, I am a mess.
I was so sick on Friday I tried to leave the office, and only made it fifty feet before I blacked out and threw up on the street in midtown Manhattan. I went to the ER and was rehydrated and tested, and by Sunday my stomach was better, but now I have an awful sore throat/cold thing.
With all of this going on, my milk supply is dropping precipitously and despite pumping 2.5-3 hours after nursing Saturday and Sunday, I’m still not producing everything my baby is drinking in a bottle. Helpppppp
Here’s a specific/weird question. I need a new way to carry baby’s bottles and (soon) food back and forth to school. What we have is too small. Does anyone have the LL Bean insulated lunch box (the one that’s just called “lunch box” online, not the cooler shaped ones)? I like that it’s relatively flat and it looks like it could fit 4ish bottles. Open to other recommendations. Thanks.
I understand where you’re coming from as I think some of those things are more personal and for the care of mom that I would hesitate to register for them as well; however, there are a lot of great reasons to go ahead and add them to the registry. Most places offer registry completion discounts for the expectant parent to buy anything that was not purchased by a certain date. Some people also use them as a checklist of what they need to buy with no expectation that anyone else will actually buy the cream, etc.
On today’s product suggestion – I air dry my hair at least partially every day because it’s curly and heat styling all the way to dry makes it a frizzy mess. I’m hesitant to add a cream like this in case it weighs my hair down; I have a pretty long, loose curls and have to work hard to get volume at the crown. Has anyone used one of these?
I’ve been invited to a bunch of showers recently and noticed, looking at the registries, that the parents registered for a lot more intimate stuff, for lack of a better word, than I have typically seen. Stuff like nipple balms and compresses, butt paste, gas relief items, booger tools, breastfeeding books, nursing pads, etc. I don’t think these are inappropriate gifts and I suppose there is nothing wrong with being practical but it just seems weird to put these items on a baby registry. Does anyone else find this weird or is this just how things are done now?
*I’m trying to figure out why this feels off to me and the best I can come up with is that a lot of people at work/your boss may see your registry because they want to get you something and it’s easy to find them online and it just seems better to stick to things that are a little less visual-inducing. It’s never struck me as odd to have one or two stray items but seeing a long list of all of the above did.
Reassure me that I’m not the only weirdo who disliked their prenatal classes? I’ve had a strong reaction to it – nearly started crying when we were trying out birth positions and then came home and had a good sob. I’m fairly crunchy but jeez.
Sticking with it as my husband is finding it really valuable (the one thing I like is that they try and get the dads-to-be to become experts on specific components – diapering, safe sleep etc). It also cost a fortune, but finding it a bit challenging.