Makeup & Beauty Monday: Living Luminizer
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My husband and I knew we wanted to have one last big trip before having kids, and so we planned a trip to Japan.
While we were there, I was on a mission to try lots of different Japanese beauty products.
One item I picked up that I’m still using on a daily basis (but am running out of!), is a crème eyeshadow/highlighter that I wear as a base to my eyeshadow.
I use a dab of it on my finger to blend and blur any harsh makeup lines, and when dressing up, dab it on my cheekbones and under the arch of my eyebrow.
This product seems like a pretty convincing dupe. I am by no means an expert at contouring, so this is a way to get that look in a foolproof way. It’s $38 at Sephora, where it has a lot of great reviews as well as the site’s Clean seal. RMS Beauty Living Luminizer
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Sales of note for 11.25.24 (Great Black Friday Sales!!)
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Early Black Friday, up to 60% off — great deals on Natori, Vince, Theory, Boss, Cole Haan, Tory Burch, Rothy’s, and Weitzman, as well as gift ideas like Barefoot Dreams and Parachute — Dyson isn’t marked down at all but you do get 3x points on beauty purchases.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, plus extra 15% off full price styles
- Anine Bing – Shop more, save more (spend $200-$300, get an extra 15-25% off)
- A.P.C. – Shop 40% off
- ba&sh – Up to 40% off Fall/Winter styles, including select colors of reader favorite Gaspard & Guspa cardigans (also included in Tuckernuck’s sale)
- Banana Republic Factory – 60% off everything + extra 20% off (or extra 30% off with your Gap Inc credit card) ends 11/26
- Bloomingdales – Take $25 off every $100 you spend on items labeled BLACK FRIDAY; ends 11/24
- Boden – 30% off on 1000s of styles, including reader favorites like this blazer and these dresses
- Cuyana – Free shipping over $95 (and 10% off your first order over $150)
- Demellier – 20% off with code, free worldwide shipping & returns
- Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide (including reader-favorite office chairs Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- The Fold – Black Friday, up to 30% off everything
- Eloquii – 50% off everything + extra 10% off $125 or more
- Everlane – Up to 50% off everything
- Furla – Up to 50% off select styles
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off almost everything – LOTS of winter coats 40% off, down to $204-$230
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything, plus extra 25% off orders $125+
- Kule – 30% off sitewide
- Kohl’s – Earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 Spent – includes Travelpro luggage!
- LaLigne – 30% off in their ONLY sale of the year
- Lo & Sons – Up to 70% off – reader favorite laptop tote is under $200
- Macy’s – 20-50% off beauty brands like Clinique and Armani, 50% off designer handbags, 50-75% off sparkly jewelry, and 40-50% off women’s boots
- Mansur Gavriel – Winter sale, up to 60% off
- M.M.LaFleur – “20% off everything” (but exclusions apply)
- Ministry of Supply – 30% off sitewide
- Mulberry – Up to 40% off, including Bayswater, Islington, and more
- Neiman Marcus – Earn a $50-$1250 gift card, including on beauty and fragrance purchases
- Rothy’s – Everything up to 30% off (some also on sale at Nordstrom)
- Shopbop – 25% off storewide with code, including great blazers from Rag & Bone, IRO, Smythe, and select L’Agence (also lots of nice Black Halo dresses)
- Soma – Early Black Friday $29 bra event (up to 50% off)
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Sue Sartor – Week of Joy sale, 30% off sitewide
- Steelcase – 25% off sitewide, including reader-favorite office chairs Leap and Gesture
- Strathberry – Pre-black Friday, enjoy up to 30% off select styles!
- Stuart Weitzman – Extra 25% off full-price and sale styles
- Talbots – 40% off your entire purchase + daily deals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide + up to 40% off select outerwear
- Tory Burch – 30% off $250+
- Tuckernuck – 20% off sitewide
- Universal Standard – At least 30% off sitewide, up to 70% off all styles
- Victoria’s Secret – 30% off everything, and 7/$35 panties
- White House Black Market – 60% off clearance, 30% off sitewide for WHBM members
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- BabyJogger – 30% off sitewide
- BestBuy – Lots of deals on gaming consoles, including PS5, XBox Series X, and more
- Carter’s – 50-60% off entire site and store
- ErgoBaby – 25% off bouncers
- Graco – Up to 30% off sitewide
- Hanna Andersson – 50% off sitewide
- J.Crew Crewcuts – 50% off almost everything, prices marked
- Nordstrom – Lots of deals on Stokke, Maxi-Cosi, BabyJoger, Posh Baby, Silver Cross, and more
- Old Navy – Everything on sale
- SNOO / Happiest Baby – 30% off Snoo, up to 50% off sitewide
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?
I have a minor in-law vent. They have this way of being weirdly critical about stuff that really has zero consequence. DH posted a back-to-school picture of our kids on Facebook. Daughter was wearing shoes, because we needed to drop her off at preschool early, and older son didn’t, because he didn’t need to leave for another 45 minutes. Three of them (MIL, FIL, uncle) felt the need to make snarky comments about the kid not wearing shoes, how they should’ve sent money so we could buy him new school shoes. Major eye roll. Did they really think he didn’t go to school without shoes? Come on; of course he wore shoes. But it’s so typical, especially for my FIL, to nitpick the smallest, dumbest thing and make it out to be an issue that needs correction. For pete’s sake, the kid was wearing nice shorts and a polo shirt. A step way above the usual athletic shorts and t-shirt. I thought we’d done pretty well in making him look “respectable and respectful,” which is a phrase FIL likes to throw around when children are acting like children.
Just … shut up, already.
I have a night potty training question. Kiddo’s dad keeps telling me she wears undies to bed at his house and stays dry all night. He has gotten pretty intense about demanding that she wear undies to bed at my house too. BUT – she has never had a dry night at my house. And I have coin op laundry in a common laundry room, so washing pjs and sheets daily is both time consuming and expensive.
I asked him a bit more about it this weekend and he says he wakes her up twice a night to go to the bathroom. In my mind, that isn’t “night time trained,” and I don’t like the idea of waking up a kiddo at night for anything short of an emergency. Am I right in thinking that she isn’t ready if she has to be woken up for late night potty breaks? She is 4.5, so I understand that she seems “old enough” to night train, but….I just don’t think she is ready. In my mind, “ready” means she wakes up on her own when she has to go potty. (for clarification – if he wants to wake her up, I am not going to push back on that – I just want to be sure I’m on solid footing in insisting on diapers at my house)
I’m sure this has been discussed before, but search is failing me – any book recs for a 2-yr old to prep for arrival of new baby? DD is 2 next month, baby is due a month later. So far she knows “baby growing in the belly” and “I’m a big sister” (which she always follows with “Daniel big brother” – there’s a small chance she thinks I have baby Margaret in my belly). She adores books and I think one or two on point may help make things more understandable for her. Thanks!
My mother has a terminal illness, and likely doesn’t have more than a few months to live. I haven’t explicitly talked to my 2.5 year old about it, and wasn’t really planning on doing so until we’re near or at the end. (Kiddo has seen me cry, but I just say that I’m very sad right now, and that’s the extent of it.) We don’t live in the same area, but have visited several times since the diagnosis. I’ve seen threads on taking kids to funerals and family pets passing, but may have missed any about grandparents being very ill and/or passing at this age. Any resources to share for how and when to tell kiddo, especially at this young age?
My 5 y/o needs a raincoat. She got 2 good years out of her Hatley one (bought a size 3 when she was 2.5 and it lasted until 4.5!) but neither of us like the patterns enough this go around. The mini Boden ones don’t seem like they’d work for us- the lined ones are heavy. I love the LLbean rain jackets but the only color she likes is the pink one, which my other daughter already has in a 2T!
Any suggestions for brands or specific rain jackets? She’s a tall 5 y/o, so we need kid not toddler (eg a 5/6 vs a 5T)? We’re in Boston and use raincoats in summer, early fall and mid/late spring. She uses her winter coat once it gets too cold. Ideally it’d be lightly lined and she’d like matching rain boots but that’s a firm “nice to have.”
They’re flying here for a special event. If push came to shove, they *probably* could find another place to stay, but it would be a big inconvenience for them and the mutual friends they’d have to stay with.
I’m 36 weeks pregnant and my OB said they will do an elective induction at 39 weeks if I want since it’s my second (first is 2.5). With my first I was all about natural birth and resisted getting induced even though my doctor was pushing it because I was late. Ended going into labor on my own the day induction was scheduled. With this one I’m tired and over being pregnant and am considering induction. Any pros or cons to consider? I’ve seen recent study about inductions actually leading to less risk of csection. I am going back to work in January no matter when I have baby so if I have baby early I’ll just get one more week off (unpaid) which is fine.
I have a bit of a logistics situation that I can’t see my way out of. My sister is pregnant. It’s been a difficult pregnancy, there are issues with the placenta, and the doctor wants to induce at 37 weeks, which is Labor Day weekend. Since I’m one of the few family members in-town, I had already agreed to watch her 2 kids while she’s at the hospital, long before she knew she’d be induced.
Problem is, I’m also having house guests that weekend. DH is working overtime that weekend, and it’s a non-negotiable. And I have two kids of my own to entertain.
What now? Apologize to the house guests for not being super present, because I’m entertaining all 4 kids alone? (I’d planned to stay at my sister’s house, but I think her kids will need to come to mine instead.) Luckily, the house guests already have plans all day Saturday, so that’s one less day to think about, but … arg. Talk about being spread way too thin.
Pregnant with my 1st. What shampoo/lotion/diaper rash creams etc did you use with your baby? I prefer organic all natural products without much of a scent. What worked best? Any flops to stay away from
TIA
Thank you so much lala.
When did #2 start sleeping through the night? Just curious how it would look without sleep training.
When you brought him to your room at first wake-up, did he/she sleep in your bed or in a crib / playpen? Just asking for putting a crib in our room or not.
Lastly, did you have a bathroom attached to your room that you would brush teeth/shower etc. in? Did that ever pose an issue for baby as they get to be 4-6 months and more prone to awake with noise etc?
Playpen recommendations? Starting next month I will be solo-parenting a 2.5yo and a 6mo for a couple days a week (before and after daycare). The 6mo is almost mobile and I will need a safe place to put him while I run upstairs, take the toddler to the bathroom, prep dinner, etc. Slight preference for one that’s not brightly colored plastic.
Talk to me about 3 bedroom homes with 2 children and needing a separate room for office. I know it’s 100% doable, but I’m just a bit confused on logistics.
I have one child, currently pregnant with #2. 1st child will be 2.5 when #2 arrives. Currently, the nursery is across the hall from our master bedroom and she shares the bathroom attached to our bedroom. Our 3rd bedroom is on the next floor up, which has a full bath attached to it. Currently, it’s our guest bedroom and office. My husband works in evenings/weekends a lot, so the office gets a lot of use.
Options are:
Kids share a room – Questions
1) Baby #2 will be in our room for 3 months, but I’d like to move baby to it’s room by around 4 months. If kids share a room, I’m worried they’ll wake each up incessantly.
2) Also, how do you sleep train if they share a room? Sleep training did not work in 1 or 2 nights with #1, so I’m just not sure how to work this.
3) How do you stage who goes to bed first without waking up the other one?
Kid #1 moves up to the guest room – Questions
1) Is 2.5 too young to move up to a different floor and new room ahead of new baby arrival? We’ve had tons of issues with sleep and I still get up atleast once at night for a cuddle when she wakes up. Sounds exhausting to climb up the stairs when pregnant or with a newborn.
2) We have no place for the office except in our master bedroom and that sounds challenging if my husband has the light on while working late or on the weekends with the kids making noise and using the bathroom attached to this bedroom.
I know plenty of people only have 3 bedrooms for 2 or more kids, so would love to hear how you guys make it work. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Can anyone share with me their packing list for their hospital bag? Expecting #2 and cannot for the life of me get my act together to do this. I recall having a lot of stuff in my bag last time that I did not end up needing/using. TIA!
Hi ladies. I feel like my almost-9-month old isn’t taking in as much milk. Part of this is because my pumping output has slightly increased and I worry it’s because he’s not “emptying” (I know that sounds counter-intuitive…) He LOVES solids and pretty much eats everything he’s allowed to eat at this point.
Weekdays: Wake up and Nurse, 12 oz of BM at daycare (Breakfast, Lunch, and Snack served at daycare, plus a small veggie solid and oatmeal cereal I pack for him), Nurse at home before Dinner, and Nurse before bed (6 feeds total).
Weekends: Nurse on demand (about 6-7 sessions total), with maybe a bottle of BM or F if we’re out.
Any suggestions? Or is everything okay? I know folks may say “cut his solids”, and I’m up for giving him a lighter dinner, but I love how he’s grown since having solids so don’t want to overcorrect. Thank you!
I need help with a non kid related thing, but I like you ladies for work related things as well! (sorry for the book)
I was put in charge of a project at work that required a significant amount of initiative and heavy lifting by the people who volunteered to work with me (this was known in advance). I received 5 volunteers from my co-workers. This project did not have much visibility or “glory” so to say. So really required internal motivation and work ethic to complete. A few of the volunteers were not willing to put in the effort and so things were not getting done as needed. I tried a number of motivation tactics with the help of my manager to no avail. So eventually my manager had me take the work back from these individuals, but not before this was escalated to some higher ups so they could be made aware of the delay issues.
I had to have a really hard conversation with a SVP about why certain line items on my spreadsheet (that were clearly marked with the person who had not been following up) were not being followed up on. It was not fun.
I need help in how to interact with my coworkers that were pulled off the project (one of whom is a really close work friend of mine and I casually mentor her quite a bit). Once it was escalated they all started working really hard on it, and are now apologetic about how everything happened in the end. I don’t want to completely brush it off, because it was a huge disappointment for me to see the lack of work ethic and initiative plus now I have double the work, but I also don’t want this awkwardness to live on forever.
Thoughts on the best way to approach this when I see them all tomorrow for this first time since they were taken off the project? I am sure there are going to be a lot of “I am sorry this happened” etc, and I am trying to figure out what my response should be other than “it’s okay” because, well, it’s not really okay (but maybe it is not my place to tell them that and I should just say “it’s okay”?)