Makeup & Beauty Monday: Major Headlines Double-Take Crème & Powder Blush Duo
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I love both cream AND powder blush for different reasons — now they’re together in this duo from Patrick Ta.
This compact pairs a rich, pigmented powder blush with a hydrating cream one. Wear them together for saturated, long lasting color or separately for a more subtle look. Unique pigments and a creamy emollient base ensure a luminous, yet natural, finish.
This blush duo is available at Sephora for $38 and comes in 12 colors.
P.S. Ramadan Mubarak to those who celebrate!
Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
Frivolous poll : Would I be a terrible person if I made cauliflower steaks for dinner tonight and gave the kids frozen chicken fingers even though they had chicken nuggets for school lunch? Husband is doing keto but claims he hates cauliflower, kids are beyond picky, and I am seriously burned out on making three different versions of dinner. A twelve-hour homework crisis kept me from grocery shopping and batch cooking yesterday so my whole meal plan for the week is shot. In scrambling to come up with something for dinner tonight I ran across this recipe and it looks so good and maybe mom should get something she wants for once in her life, right?
Any recommendations for kid friendly summer accommodations in the North Conway/Jackson, NH area? Must have good air conditioning for my DH, who runs hot. We stayed at Nordic Village Resort last year in one of their Chateau suites, but the central air conditioning did not work. My DH couldn’t sleep and was miserable. (otherwise, it was a very kid friendly resort.)
After dreading it for many months, I finally trained my third. He’s one month shy of 3yo (I have a personal threshold of that third birthday; after that they are a little more stubborn!) His brothers were both 2.5 and I was starting to despair because this kid showed no interest. But we did it, cold turkey. The first morning was a disaster; all accidents until 3:30pm. Then something clicked and he had success. The next morning was more accidents, and a successful afternoon.
Since then, we are on day 4 of ZERO accidents, and he initiates 95% of the trips. He even takes himself to poop, calling us over when he’s done! I am so relieved that it looks like we are basically done, so quickly.
We didn’t do anything official like Oh crp, though I did just put pants without undies at first since they’re easier to pull down and up. But he’s been in underwear for 2+ days now. I really think I’ve found the sweet spot — age 2.9 :)
Moms of kids with ADHD- how do you handle playdates? My 8 year old is just…a pain in the @ss sometimes. She gets invited to friends houses and it’s hit or miss if she’ll behave. Her problems are textbook adhd- dysregulation, inability to disengage from tasks, gets over-amped/hyper, etc.
I have an older daughter who had a friend like this and we ended up deciding carefully when to invite her over/to things. Other friends were “easy yes” playdates, but having this particular girl over required planning, and I never allowed her to sleep over. She moved in 3rd grade, though, so I don’t have long term experience.
My middle daughter is the one with ADHD and this all is coming up because she was invited to a friend’s house on Friday where she has been many times. When I picked her up she was just out of control- like running around the house, instigating stuff that should obviously be done outside, etc. If it were my house and I had a guest like that I’d be super annoyed. I didn’t want to get into things with the mom then, just let her know it’s been a long tough week and we will clearly be having an early bedtime, and thanked her for the playdate. I also texted the next morning with an “i owe you big for having Kiddo over last night- she had a ton of fun.”
Do I:
have any kind of conversation with Kiddo about it? She doesn’t take medication, and usually is okay, but when tired or otherwise amped up she can get like this. She’s like a dog that needs to “get out her zoomies” before passing out. She can’t help it, and I don’t want her feeling bad about herself, but also…8 is old enough to know how to act at other people’s homes and that you won’t be invited back.
Have any kind of convo with parents in advance of the playdate? I did disclose the ADHD to her girl scout leaders because I know she can be a handful sometimes. They let me know it was really useful insight to have and I noticed a big difference in how they treat her (pain in the @ss wild child vs kid that is trying but can’t help it). (separately, yes, I often help out so they aren’t left with her! and it really helps that one leader is a clinical psychologist who often can handle my kid better than I can!).
I tend to offer to host playdates with this kiddo’s friends to avoid it, but eventually parents want to reciprocate and I don’t want them to feel like I don’t want my kid at their house because I don’t trust them—it’s her I don’t trust sometimes!! And, so much of this is mood dependent.
For the older kid, how about Clue? My kids are 5/7/10 and my 5 y/o is on my team for clue. We also like chess- you can do “no stress chess” for the little one and the older one can play without the cards.
For card games, how about Trash (play with a normal deck), or “Taco cat goat cheese pizza” (available at target)? My kids learned that around 4-5. Guess Who, Sorry, Trouble, bingo are all good too.
We also like to play “picwits” as a family, which is a reading-free version of apples to apples. We are now all readers but my kids still love it. My 5 year old is actually often the winner because she has a fantastic sense of humor.
I could use some suggestions for card and board games for our 7 year old and 4.5 year old that we can all play together We already love sleeping queens, Uno, Boggle, Old Maid, etc… 7yo is smart as a whip so she can do more complex card games, compound addition, understands a “straight” or “full house” in poker etc…but 4.5yo obviously isn’t there yet. He knows all his numbers and some basic addition so he CAN play Uno and Sleeping Queens with us. Sleeping Queens 2 is over his head right now. We just need more variety!
Talk me into or out of taking an early detection pregnancy test at 4 days prior to expected period. All the health pages online seem to warn against it, but then it’s an opposite story on TTC forums on Reddit. I really want the answer to be accurate and am also very impatient.
What fun at-home things do you do with your kids that consistently produces joy? We often have a pocket of time (7 – 7:30) where the toddler has gone to bed and the kitchen is clean and I just want to hang with the second-grader and kindergartener doing something with minimal chance of arguments. So far, winners have been:
– hide and seek in the dark
– reading picture books they loved as a kid
– charades
– a walk if possible (often not if I’m the only adult home)
Board/card games too often devolve into fighting or sore losing. What am I missing? Mostly I just want to provide a strong dose of contentment and togetherness — school is long and one/both of them often has a minor meltdown at some point in the evening, so this is a chance to “reset” before bed.
Good morning all! I am trying to plan vacation for end of June on the east coast. We are based in CT and I would like something easily drivable that will work for a newly 3-year-old. We love the beach, but not sure the water will be warm enough by then to enjoy it. Does anyone have any reccs that could fit the bill?
Yesterday we were scheduled to fly to Disney World at 8:50am- we drive to the airport, board the plane, boarding is stopped bc flight is delayed, we deboard the plane, delayed some more and then the flight is cancelled (if you want to see a bunch of hysterical children be at the airport when a flight to Orlando is cancelled and then announce there are no flights to Florida until Tuesday or Wednesday, which turns out not to be true), huge shoutout to my DH instinct is “let’s drive” and we arrive at Disney at 4am. I’m often here venting about DH as many of us do, but felt the need to give him a shoutout (which he obv won’t see). Here’s to hoping the rest of our trip goes more smoothly