The newborn baby phase is totally disorienting, to say the least. You don’t know if you’re feeding the baby right, or enough, or at the right times; you’re tired; and your hormones are going crazy. For me, that manifested in a lot of anxiety around feeding, weight gain, and dirty-diaper counting… night under the jaundice…
Fenty Beauty (by Rihanna aka Robyn Fenty) is supposed to be inclusive of a wide range of skin tones and colors; their foundation line has 40 shades. I recently saw a makeup tutorial where the artist used a single one of these color sticks to do an entire face of makeup: blush, eyeshadow, and lipstick. Although I probably would not be able to pull off one color on my entire face, I think that concept is really cool. I am also not a makeup expert, so I always appreciate when a product is designed to be blended with your fingertips. I could see myself buying one of the bronze-ish ones to use as an eyeshadow and contour stick, or a pinkish one to use as blush and lip color. They are $25 each at Sephora. Match Stix Shimmer Skinstick
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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently… The Strategist offered beauty products that can be used as alternatives to retinol. Fashionista reported that California is the first state to ban the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals. The Cut profiled Hollywood writer and mom,…
Lately when I’ve been scrolling through Instagram, I’ve noticed that headbands are coming back as weekend-wear. The ones that look most current to me are the ones that have a knot at the top, like this one — and these two on Emily Schuman of Cupcakes and Cashmere. I don’t know that I could successfully pull…
For this week’s installment of our Week in the Life of a Working Mom series, I’m happy to introduce CorporetteMoms reader Meredith, who lives in Georgia with her husband and four sons and was working as a trial lawyer when she shared her week with us. Our usual caveat applies: Please remember that this is is a real person who…