Makeup & Beauty Monday: Oil-Absorbing Volcanic Stone Roller
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If summer temps give your skin a little too much glow, try this volcanic stone roller from drugstore favorite Revlon.
This volcanic stone face roller quickly soaks up excess oil. Use it before or after makeup — it won’t smudge anything. Unlike blotting papers, this roller is reusable. And, as an added bonus, you get a mini-facial massage too!
This Oil-Absorbing Volcanic Stone Roller is $14.49 at Ulta.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- 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
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
Strong butt plug vibes
Not sure if I am asking for advice or a book recommendation, but need help dealing with a personality trait in our kid that we can’t quite figure out how to handle. Maybe just need to figure out what to even call it? She gets very quickly put off if you try to help her get better at something that doesn’t happen for her immediately. So for instance, she can swim but she is not a strong enough swimmer to swim independently without adult supervision and she will shut down when we try to help. She asked us to sign her up for swim class because she loves swimming but when we put her in a swim class that was for her level she refused to participate because she “already knew everything they did”and said that it hurt her that we put her in that class and it’s been a year and she still talks about it. Same with reading – when we talk about working on her reading, she gets mad and says she already knows how to read. She seems to think that you don’t need to work on things once you “learn” them but then gets very frustrated when she isn’t able to do what she wants or when her friends start to pass her by because they are practicing and she’s not. I know this is something we need to work on but she often shuts down when we try. She still can’t ride a bike without training wheels as a result is just example of how nothing happens when we stop trying with her. How do we deal with this? I feel like there are tons of books for talking to kids about tantrums but I don’t even know what to call this and whatever we are doing doesn’t seem to be helping this particular issue.
I feel a bit silly for even asking this question, but I’ve gotten some good ideas here in the past. We’re hosting a joint bday party for our kids, 4 and 6, in our backyard. We’ve got space and a big trampoline. There will probably be around 10-14 kids ranging from 2-7. If it were a smaller group, I’d be fine with just “trampoline and amuse yourselves.” But I feel like maybe I should be organizing an activity of some sort (or even if not an organized activity, maybe having a specific set of toys to spur play)? If anyone has done a low-intensity activity that was enjoyed by these ages (or even an idea of a separate activity for either the littles or the bigs), I’d appreciate it! No real theme to the birthday (I’m trying to relish what may be my last low-key birthday) but the kids are super into pokemon and dinosaurs.
I’m going to send a note to my PCP but would love some anecdata.
I got on a very low-dose SSRI (generic for zoloft) in February 2021. I was post partum (DS #2 was ~2 months). I’ve been on it since and it’s helped immensely. For Reasons, I’ve decided to go off of it, coordinated with my PCP, and have stopped taking it as of last week.
Everything is fine anxiety-wise but I’m definitely having very vivid dreams (which I read as a side effect of going off of one), which wake me up 2-3x/night despite being in deep sleep otherwise.
On top of that, it’s my first cycle without a SSRI and…I’m PMSing SO HARD.
I’m wondering if anyone has had a similar experience, and if so, how long did it take to get to a new baseline?
Thank you!
How did you decide which preschool to send your child to? I live in a a big city with a ton of options within walking distance (e.g., among others a French, German and Spanish immersion school (3 separate schools), there are 2 different forest pre schools, a regular Montessori school, a Spanish immersion Montessori school, a coop school where families contribute a lot to the school, a huge multi location school, and two very “prestigious” schools, multiple schools run out of local churches, etc.). I’m interested in how people start thinking about education decisions for their kids.
You are traveling with a toddler for a weeklong trip. Which option would you choose?
Option A: Flight to destination and return flight that has one layover
Option B: Nonstop flight to destination and back, but flights are late pm/early am respectively so must stay at a hotel near the airport on the arrival and departure days only
Has anyone had a toddler who was consistently following directions at daycare and responding to adults when spoken to suddenly stop doing that? My 3 y/o’s daycare told me that’s been happening for a couple of weeks. No major life changes have happened at home or school, so I can’t think of an explanation for a behavior change. 3 y/o doesn’t always listen the first time I say to do something at home but I thought that was kind of normal at this stage? Idk what I’m looking for here, maybe advice, shared experiences, or commiseration.
What water bottles are people liking these days for kids? Our current rotation of water bottles are all falling apart so we need to restock for the summer and there seem to be many more options out there than I remember.
Our daycare requires the spout/mouthpiece be covered.
I also don’t really want to spend a small fortune on something that at least one child will likely lose at some point.
We are firing our nanny and at a loss regarding what to tell our almost 3 year old. The nanny has been with us for a little over 2 years and has a good relationship with our child (although both my husband and I work from home and are involved throughout the day so she may not be as strongly bonded as she might otherwise be if we were away often). We are firing our nanny due to lies she has told us.
Has anyone been in this circumstance? We are debating telling our child that the nanny needs to take a break from working for awhile to help her family and new nanny will be joining instead. Given our child is in a “why?” phase, I’d appreciate advice!
Paging Cb — I submitted a week in the life! I used a burner e-mail so let me know if you didn’t get it!