Makeup & Beauty Monday: Camomile Eye Makeup Remover
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Somewhere at the top of my “beauty empties” list (the products I use up and then buy again) is The Body Shop’s camomile eye makeup remover. (My spellcheck doesn’t like “camomile,” but apparently that’s the British spelling.) I love it! I’ve tried other makeup removers, and they either had an unpleasant smell or just didn’t work very well, or both. This one is gentle to your skin, has no added fragrance, and removes eye makeup quickly and easily (including mascara that you slept in . . . oops). It’s been around for years and has a ton of good reviews, both at The Body Shop and at Amazon.
At Amazon, the 8.4-oz. size, which lasts a long time even when used daily, is $15. The smaller, carry-on-friendly size (2 oz.) is available at The Body Shop’s website for $5. (I haven’t tried the other version, Camomile Waterproof Eye and Lip Makeup Remover, which appears to only have one size — 5 oz. for $15.) Readers, do tell: What are your favorite makeup removers? Camomile Gentle Eye Makeup Remover
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Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
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?
My now 6 yo first grader was like this. We sent him to private school so he could start kindergarten at 4 years, 11 months. It was for both academic reasons as well as social (all his friends had spring birthdays and were moving on), and he had not made friends with the younger kids in his mixed age class so we thought being left behind would be hard. He is the youngest kid in his class but is doing great, so I think we made the right choice. For reading, he really liked Bob Books when he was 2-3 and learning to read. From there, we moved on to Dr. Seuss and Elephant and Piggy. Not long after that, he was devouring Magic Treehouse books.
It’s probably too late for comments so I might repost in the morning but I am hoping for some wise words and advice.
I have 2 boys, 8 and 6. The 6-year-old is pure sweetness. The 8-year-old is sometimes the most loving and caring kid and sometimes an evil, mean, bully, mostly toward his brother. At school he’s a model kid (exceptionally bright and well-respected by peers and loved by teachers). The bullying and meanness toward his brother has been escalating in the past few months and we just don’t know how to handle it.
This is also a kid who is anxiety prone – he bites his nails to the quick, STILL uses a pull-up at night (although we suspect he pees in it in the morning instead of getting out of bed), and doesn’t like to sleep by himself. So…he sleeps with little brother (they share a room). And it’s so, so so cute. Except. Today little brother calls out to me: “mom, brother pulled down my pants and is touching my privates…”
And then I find out he has done this in the past. Sometimes while little bro is sleeping, and it will wake him up.
WTF Little bro doesn’t seem too bothered by this, just annoyed today.
I lost it on big bro this morning. I was full on yelling and telling him if he was a grow up he would go to jail and if it was someone else who did this to my kids I would kill him.
I don’t know where this is coming from and I don’t know how to handle it. Who can I talk to without getting CPS involved? Should I get CPS involved?
I should note that I have no reason to believe big bro has been a victim himself (I asked him point blank too). But, we do yell a lot in the house and DH and I have some pretty poor communication patterns that may contribute to the kids’ stress…maybe this is a way of dealing with anxiety? I don’t know. I am just so, so sad right now, that I failed to protect my little guy and that something is so wrong with my big guy that he would do this.
My kid is 4 and depsarately wants to read. Because of the way birthdays and cutoffs fall here, she is not going to kindergarten next year. She in Preschool-3 now and will do Preschool-4 next year.
1. For those of you who had kids read early, what are some good resources? I’ve just been kind of winging it and I don’t want to mess things up. I’ve asked her Preschool teachers and they haven’t been super helpful beyond some basic worksheets- but I don’t really want to do “worksheets” as this isn’t school, she’s just really into it.
2. She misses the kindy cutoff by 2 weeks. Our town makes it very hard to push kids forward, and in fact, there is a huge red shirting trend. I recently learned that 25% of all kids with June-Sept birthdays are red-shirted, and there are even some May kids that are red shirted (May!). So if we did push her forward, she’d be in school with kids that are almost 18 months older than she is. If it were another district with a Dec 1 cutoff, she’d be headed to Kindy no question. We are heavily leaning towards keeping her on the schedule but this reading thing and a few other things are making me have second thoughts. How on earth am I going to keep her amused for the next 2 years?! FWIW o have 2 other kids, both are younger and both have midsummer birthdays, so I’ll have the opposite problem with them (though not really…barring some kind of not yet diagnosed leaning or social delay, their butts will be on the bus to kindy ASAP!).
I’m headed to see a fertility doctor next week. What should I expect?
After all the tests on my and husbands end, everything appears normal. We are at a loss. I have also gone through 3 rounds of Clomid.
Coordinating and paying for 2 different day time summer camps plus the arrival of a new au pair is making me long for the days of daycare with their like 15 days of vacation plus some random snow days. Why did nobody tell me how awful school is on two full time working parents?!?
Hello all-
THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to share their C-section wisdom with me on Friday. Especially the multiple people that said stay on top of pain meds and that moving around helped them heal. Seeing multiple people say moving really helps is the only thing that motivated me to power through and get out of bed yesterday, so thank you all!!!
Birthday gift ideas for a 7 year old girl? I don’t know her very well (extended family that lives an airplane ride away). Bonus for availability on amaz*n so that I can ship directly to them…
Just got back from maternity leave and am feeling like I’m hitting a mid-career/post-baby slump…I am so unmotivated! It wasn’t this hard when I came back from baby #1. Any books or advice on how I can get motivated?
My partner is going to be gone for eight weeks, leaving me flying solo with the 16 month old. Tips? Tricks?
Tips for feeling your best: keep exercising to the extent you and your doctor are confortable (I especially loved doing prenatal yoga); massages are also wonderful if you can make them work. I don’t think there’s really anything you can do about stretch marks since they are genetic, but the belly oil might make your skin feel nice (and help with the itching that can come with your skin stretching, especially toward the end). Otherwise, I would just recommend wearing comfortable clothes as soon as possible—don’t force yourself to stay in your regular clothes past when they’re comfortable. You will probably also feel better about yourself with better fitting clothes. :). And talk to a nutritionist or your doctor about what foods will make you feel good without gaining a lot more weight than necessary (a lesson I learned from my pastry habit during my first pregnancy). And most of all, congrats! Pamper yourself as much as possible and to the extent you’re feeling well, enjoy whatever moments you can.
I’m 5 weeks pregnant (first time!) and the news is still sinking in. I’m so distracted at work. This is kind of a vain post, but please don’t attack me…
Do you have tips for feeling (and, well, looking) better physically during pregnancy? I’m already so bloated and while I realize my body is going to change drastically, I want to feel like I still have some control over anything!
I’m aiming to keep doing the elliptical 3x/week, and add in pre-natal yoga. Unfortunately I’m already overweight (BMI 27.5), so want to gain within the recommended amount (15-25 lbs).
I’m going to take (with doctor’s approval) a cow-based (mercury free) collagen supplement in hopes of minimizing stretch marks, and I also got some Beli oil that’s supposed to help. In hopes of easing labor and minimizing tearing, I’m going to do a lot of pelvic floor exercises (has anyone used weights for these?) and try per*neal massage. I am small-busted but they are already feeling larger – should I wear a bra to bed to minimize sagging?
What else can I do? I posted a few weeks in the main forum about trying to lose weight while TTC – I got pregnant really fast, so didn’t lose any weight. I’m 30 lbs heavier than I was 6 months ago (nothing medically wrong, according to my doctor), and am just kind of terrified of becoming obese at this point.
I like Sephora’s eye makeup remover for waterproof makeup. It reminds me of the Lancome product which is also great. No greasy residue.
Good morning! Anyone have experience with young children biting their nails? My 4yo bites hers to the quick. She started when we moved and changed schools, so I just let it go because I figured it was helping her cope / I didn’t want to be riding her about it when there was so much other change. But now it’s been six months and over the weekend she bit so far she bled. I really do not want this to become a lifetime habit. She understands it can make her sick (because germs) and that it can make her fingers bleed. But it’s definitely a fullblown self-soothing habit now.
For eye makeup, my favorite is neutrogena eye makeup remover lotion. I find most liquids leave behind a greasy residue and wipes never get mascara off sufficiently for me, but this is my Goldilocks perfect middle ground.
I’ve also had good luck with the miscellar water for removing eye makeup in a pinch but this feels better, esp. if I wore more than just a coat of mascara.