Makeup Monday: Instant Age Rewind
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Readers love this concealer! It’s supposed to be great for erasing dark circles, and it’s got 3,000+ reviews on Amazon with a 4.3/5.0 rating — and the price is right! I’ve used it and liked it — I finished the container — but I think I had the wrong color for my skin. (There are several Amazon comments with tips on finding the right shade.) The options are fair, light, medium, and honey, as well as a neutralizer and brightener. You can find the concealer at Amazon, Ulta, and your local drugstore. Maybelline New York Instant Age Rewind
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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?
I did this twice. Both times I brought my electric pump with the battery backup. Once I pumped in the bathroom using the battery pack and then dumped. It was a 3 stall setup so i did use up the bathroom but I tried to pick a good time (toasts or a big dance, not sure which) and also, there were other toilets.
Second place was an old mansion setup with very few bathrooms. I talked to the caterer and found a nook/room. It was no big deal at all. I dumped them too, just because it was a hassle and my kid was already combo fed. Could have been fine with a cooler bag.
Any tips for pumping at a wedding? We are going to a wedding memorial day weekend. There is an early afternoon church, and then the reception is late afternoon. We have a babysitter (grandparent) where are staying about 20 minutes away, so baby is not close enough to leave to feed them (and that would be an unfair burden to the babysitter as they venue is downtown in a small city, no parking, grandparent).
I think I’ll need to pump once, possibly twice while I’m away from baby (~10 months old, eating about every 4-5 hours now). I bought a manual pump (can fit in a purse), and was going to just dump the milk. On work days I am gone 11 hours from baby and pump 3x. I can def go longer though… my body doesn’t really respond well to the pump and I only get ~2oz each time. I have not yet practiced with the manual pump. We’ll be taking a taxi too… debating if I should just suck it up and drive so I’d have a safe and clean place, then I could also have a cooler to keep the pumped milk?
I do not know the bride or groom, so I am not comfortable asking them to use the bridal suite. I left a message for the venue today to inquire. If the venue has only a couple bathroom stalls, I wouldn’t want to hold up people using the restroom either. It is a wedding/function facility, not a hotel.
I was thinking of the thread last week (main site, maybe?) where someone was complaining about upper income people taking rec center classes. I totally disagree with that complaint, but I have one that is maybe similar and I want a gut check.
It drives me nuts that stay-at-home moms register their kids for coveted rec center class times on weekend mornings, when the exact same classes are offered many more times on weekdays when working parents cannot go. I have several SAHM friends that do this for county swim and gymnastics classes, and the classes always fill up immediately so I get irritated if I can’t get my kid a spot. I’m sure if asked they would say they want their working spouse/partner to be able to attend, but I think I can count on 1 hand the number of times I’ve seen two parents participating with 1 kid beyond the first week of a class.
Am I being unreasonable?
A very good Mother’s Day present:
While out for Mother’s Day dinner, extremely picky eater declares that as a special Mother’s Day surprise for mommy, she will try a very small speck of guacamole because she knows it will make mommy happy. (Entirely her own idea, and a great sacrifice for a child who has heretofore strenuously resisted the idea of eating green mushy stuff.) She tastes the guacamole and her face lights up. Proceeds to eat many chips with guacamole and spends the rest of the evening talking about how much she likes guacamole and will mommy make some and can she have it in her lunch box.
Hi friends — I am here to admit that I had a cr@ppy mother’s day. In my head, Hallmark holidays like this just do not matter…but I’m still disappointed and feel like my husband did not bring his A-game. Other than going to our local farmer’s market as a family, we didn’t do anything special or out of the ordinary. At the end of the night, husband fell asleep putting our two eldest to bed and I could NOT wake him up — so I had to clean up the toys outside, shut the house down, make school lunches, etc. Felt crummy.
To be fair, on Saturday night he proposed taking our kids somewhere for the day on Sunday so I could have time to myself, but that wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted to hang with them! And if I’m being honest, I wanted him to have picked out a gift — something little — in advance, that showed he was being thoughtful. (Yes, I realize this is selfish and possibly weird. I do think my feelings are compounded by the fact that it was also my birthday this week and he was off the gift-giving hook for that b/c I arranged my own birthday present/festivities with three girlfriends.)
Can you help me buck up and not feel so yucky about this? Am slightly afraid I’m going to unload on him full-force once we get home tonight, which isn’t good for anybody.
Kat, you put the wrong date on the most recent “day in the life” post — the Atlanta mum. you need to fix it because it was a good one!
Awkward question – my daughter has started commenting about the hair on my chin, which has never worried me before but now that she’s talking about it All. The. Time, I’m self-conscious about it.
So, anyone have a favorite chin hair removal technique? I’ve tried those pre-waxed hair remover strips and they didn’t really work.
Thought those who haven’t seen/read this yet might appreciate it – a lot in here resonated for me as a kid from a working class/lower middle class background suddenly going to a fancy private school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/your-money/standout-college-application-essays.html?_r=0
Ugh — we are moving (for my job, about five hours away) on August 1. Last week we toured a house. It was PERFECT. Yesterday we made an offer, it was verbally accepted — and then twelve hours later, somebody else came in with a MUCH higher bid, waiving inspection, etc etc. Nothing we could match. So disappointed — especially since we had about twelve hours where we thought we had the house and told everyone about it. And “perfect” houses like this in the city we’re moving to are very rare (we have been looking for ~3 months and this is the first one we would even seriously consider).
Anyone have reassuring stories about how their dream house fell through and then they magically found an even better one? I could really use some reassurance.
Any suggestions on how to help my kiddo deal with her dad traveling all the time? It hasn’t seemed to really bother her before now, but he’s really ramping up into a lot of travel (three back to back mon-fri trips this month alone), and she’s starting to freak out about it. This morning she was clinging to his leg saying “I want to go to the airport wif you! I want to go wif you!” and crying. Ugh, so sad. She is also in a big daddy’s girl/mom sucks phase, so doing stuff like trying to cuddle her, etc are not well received at the moment.
Any recommendations for inexpensive pants that accommodate large thighs? I’m especially looking for cotton-ish skinny or straight trousers appropriate for business casual office and weekend wear and that are at least 28″ inseam, preferably 30″. I used Mother’s Day to go shopping alone at Old Navy and found that all of their Pixie pants just do not work for my apparently massive thighs. If they fit in the waist, they are too tight in the thighs (and calves too but I can live with that). I am not particularly pear shaped – more rectangle I think – but increased weight training + fat has brought me here. I’m in the process of losing weight and don’t want to invest too much in case my size changes again.
Semi-regular poster going anon because I’m paranoid about outing myself….
I’m 7 months pregnant with my first, and my maternity leave coverage was finally settled last week, because the VP of our org was planning on moving people around and promoting a couple of us (including me). I was finally feeling good about knowing who would handle my work while I was gone.
Then at the end of the week, the person who would have been my coverage left the company (took a better offer that our company didn’t counter). At this point, there are two open headcounts in my org above me. Other than the VP I don’t even know who I’d talk to about this (everyone else is a peer!).
Should I:
1) Do nothing. It’s not my job to figure out who is covering my work.
2) Talk to HR – mention that I have concerns about not only my coverage but about my planned promotion now that the org is in a bit of upheaval (this is true).
3) Go directly to VP – he is technically the one who has responsibility for my work at this point and should be in charge of assigning my coverage.
I’m trying to be patient in that I know HR and VP are scrambling since this guy really screwed them, but it’s making me a bit nervous as I have important deals that will be closing in the next couple months and I really want to know who to point people to. I don’t want to come off as whiny or acting like my maternity leave should be a big deal to them? However, doing nothing feels irresponsible. SOMEONE has to do my work while I’m gone, and at this point I need to know who that is.
Let’s talk about postpartum hair loss. I’m 15 months out, and still cannot believe what has been done to my hair. I’ve stopped losing it – I think the majority happened between 4-8 months pp – but have yet to have it grow all back in. While I’m assured that I don’t actually have bald spots, after a lifetime of thick hair it certainly feels that way. I chopped it to chin length hoping that would help, and instead it just made me feel like I have even less of it. Advice? Commiseration?
I have two same-gender children who have always shared a room even though we have enough bedrooms for them to have their own rooms. IIRC, I shared a room with my sister until I think I was in 5th or 6th grade (roughly puberty for me — I can remember charting my period (which I got when I was 11) in my own bedroom).
If you have had kids bunk together and then had them move into separate bedrooms, what seemed to be the turning point (other than moving)? Is there a natural one?
I bought this based on ‘rette recommendations a few weeks ago and I LOVE it. The finish is natural and doesn’t get cakey or settle into my fine lines the way other (much pricier) concealers do. It’s also super easy to apply if your makeup skills are merely average. ;)