Beauty & Makeup Monday: Clarifying Charcoal Shampoo
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I just had my first Drybar blowout — I can’t believe it took me so long to get there. (I’ve just been going to the salon up the street.) I was very impressed with the blowout and I was also very intrigued by this shampoo, which “purifies and deep cleans your hair and scalp [and is] capable of absorbing 100-200 times its weight in impurities.” So if you don’t like the smell of apple cider vinegar, which is what I normally use for clarifying, do give this one a try. It’s $26 at Nordstrom. On the Rocks Clarifying Charcoal Shampoo
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Sales of note for 2/7:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
- J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one item + 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?
Does anyone have any good insights on how to dress a 2.5 year old for a trip to Anchorage in late September without spending a fortune? We live somewhere with basically no weather, and if it rains we use hand-me-down boots, but I don’t even know where to start for potential snow, potential rain, but it’s certainly not worth *investing* since she’ll only wear it on this trip… Maybe she can wear her rain boots in the rain and snow, if we can get warm socks under them (do they make warm socks for kids?)… I guess I can try to thrift a larger rain coat and layer a hoodie under it…?
Random question: Is it me, or do stores now stock fall clothes much later than they used to? I remember fall clothes being in full swing by the time we did back to school shopping (around now). And it always seemed weird to be trying on sweaters when it was over 80 degrees outside. But now I’m kind of ready to start thinking about what I need for the fall but it seems like everything is still summer clearance. I’m always ready for summer to be over so maybe I’m just mis remembering the past. Or is it that there are more “seasons” now (I recently saw ads for “pre-fall collections” — what is that?)
I didn’t check the comments on these posts while I was on vacation last week, how are the ‘rette newborns doing?
I’m visiting from the main page. I decided to not post there because I don’t want to get flamed and because I don’t want to start a big debate about guns. My PSA is that if you are ever staying with friends or family with your children, don’t be afraid to ask if they have guns and if they are secured. I’ll start by saying nothing bad happened here but I’m just upset at my own train of thought.
I do not have kids and I was having an annual big party with friends. This is usually a big drinking party and we’ve never had kids at it. Actually, we’ve never had a kid sleep over our house before. Our friends decided to bring their 5 year old. We decided to give them our master bedroom so they’d have a private bathroom for the kid and more quiet/privacy at night, and we’d stay in the guest room. I had at least 10 people sleeping over. They were going to put the kid to bed around 8 and then come back and party with us.
Before they arrived, I tried to think of things a kid could get into and take them out of the room. I took out my gardening tools from my bedside table, the remote for my alarm system and a panic button we have in a closet. What I didn’t even think of removing was a bb gun that looks just like a real gun that is in my husband’s bedside table (so drunk friends don’t find it and play with it) and a real gun that is locked in a safe in my closet. I highly doubt the kid would have guessed the 5 digit code correctly and turned the key the right way to access it but I would have at least wanted to double check that everything was properly locked up. We had recently put our passports back in that safe. What if we hadn’t locked it right? The gun is unloaded and the magazine lives on top of the safe so even if the kid did get in the safe he’d have to load it. He can’t hurt himself with just the unsecured magazine but it would have been pretty scary for him to find it and have it. My closet door was shut and he had no reason to be in there anyway but who knows what kids will do when left on their own.
So, please, if your kids are ever sleeping in an adult’s bedroom, don’t be afraid to ask if there are guns in there. I tried to make sure I was thinking of everything. I thought of bedroom toys but I didn’t think of guns. The gun is very rarely used so it is something I rarely think about.
Good to know about DryBar. I tried Blo and was super unimpressed. My hair is very easy to style too if you know what you’re doing so I’ve always been happy with haircut blowouts or even just simple random corner salon ones.
I know this has been discussed plenty, but I’m curious for an update. How many of you have tattoos? Are they large? Are they visible at work? Have they caused any undue stress?
I have a few but nothing large. I am pregnant and once this little one is born, I am super excited to know that there will not be another pregnancy in my future. I am itching for ink but I’m also on the line between not caring what people think anymore and knowing better for my conservative office.
I’m glad/sad there’s not a drybar near me. I don’t get my nails done regularly (like… maybe once a year), I have stupid thin brows so I don’t wax, I don’t keep up with haircuts as well as I should, but I would LOVE to beauty splurge on a good blowout at least once a week. I have thin, straight hair but I’d like to have it blown out so it looks like it is styled/has volume. Probably for the best that there’s nowhere very close to me that does that.
What does it mean to have impure hair? What are the impurities being cleansed out? Anyone know? /removes tongue from cheek
Sorry for posting a question that has definitely been posted before but I am specifically looking for books/articles about young toddlers (so, just walking, pretty nonverbal) and their development and how to discipline (at what point are what tools appropriate?). We have a very opinionated 14 month old who already seems to throw tantrums and we are not sure the best way to handle it. TIA!