Splurge or Save Thursday: Mini Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer
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I don’t wear makeup often, but when I do, I love trying different colors and finishes. I need these mini glosses in every color.
These clutch-sized glosses pack a lot in a tiny package — the long-lasting, non-sticky formula includes conditioning shea butter and a delicious peach-vanilla scent. Less fussy than lipstick, they’re a quick way to finish your look.
Fenty Beauty’s Mini Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer is $15 at Target. It comes in six colors/finishes.
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+
Mostly a complaint, not really seeking advice- I’m coming out of a very busy season of work and right into a month of solo parenting while husband is deployed for a training exercise. This isn’t my first extended solo parenting, but coming on the heels of busy work period and now that I have a very rambunctious 3.5 yo I feel like I’m entering this already exhausted. My parents are local, but one is recovering from a major surgery and needs a lot of tending.
I already have a calendar laid out with weekend activities. I’m hoping I can squeeze in a day or two of PTO just to rest and do things without kid in tow.
Travel help question!
Traveling to Portugal (Lisbon, Algarve) and then to Seville for a 10th anniversary trip with my husband for 7 days in May. First trip abroad without our kids since kids. Haven’t been to Europe since before COVID but did study abroad in Spain (15 years ago…). We normally go off the Rick Steves guidebooks, slightly off beaten path. We’re very much the see everything people and get sick on the 4th day because we’re doing so much, but trying to slow down a little for this. As a perspective, most of our hotel reservations are $200-300/night, so not backpacker budget but also not super luxury.
a) What do I pack? It will be May and we will be doing lots of walking/ sightseeing/ perhaps some hiking on the Algarve. Planning on a pair of Athleta trousers, maybe a dress. Ideas for light jacket and shoes? Thinking one Euro sneaker, one good traction sandal – I think my Birkenstocks don’t have enough traction and my Chacos aren’t dressy enough .
b) Any must sees that people have loved?
Thanks in advance!
I have 5 year old twins who are in K in different classes. Some people invite both kids to their birthday and some just invite the class. I’ve received an evite that has neither child’s name on it from someone both are friendly with but only one is in the child’s class. Is it rude/invitation-grubbing to ask if the parents intended to invite both kids? I don’t care at all what the answer is and I don’t want to pressure the parents to invite both kids if they don’t want to, but it would be nice to know rather than tell one kid he can’t come when he really was invited.
Just a vent: I’m going on mat leave in a couple of months and I’m wondering how on earth I’m going to make it at work until then! I already feel like I have very reduced working capacity and that I’ve dropped the ball on more projects than I am comfortable with as a result. I both have no motivation to keep going but I’m also worried that my poor performance right now is going to take me out of the running for promotions once I am back from my mat leave next year, which I otherwise was on track for pre-pregnancy.
Baby is very, very much planned and wanted – it took several rounds of IVF and fertility treatments to get to this point – so no regrets about having a child, just so many conflicting emotions about career and priorities. On the one hand, I want to keep my foot on the gas pedal workwise to keep my career on track, but on the other, I am wondering if I have already torpedoed it beyond repair, so I might as well take a step back. I haven’t felt this unsure of myself and my career in years.
Ugh, I just accidentally ate a bagel that may have had mold. Mine didn’t have any, but my husband said another in the bag did. I’m six weeks pregnant so this is annoying. Does eating probiotic-containing foods help at all?
What are everyone’s plans for the eclipse on Monday? We are not in the path of totality and schools are on the normal schedule, so wondering whether it is worth it to pull the kids early to observe it.
My 10 year old has been swimming competitively for 3 years and is very good at it. She is now talking about quitting. Says the cold water annoys her and that she often looks forward for practice to be over. On a practical end the swimming has worsened her eczema and has caused repeat ear infections. It’s obviously her decision, but I wanted to help her be wise about this decision since she put so much into it rather than to quit on a whim. What are some ways to help her think through it carefully? Also, should I encourage her to try another sport? She says nothing else interests her but I don’t know that she has given anything a shot really. She has pretty much only swam bc practice is 4x a week and has other activities too that aren’t a sport.