Makeup & Beauty Monday: Protect & Prevent Spray
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I started coloring my hair and want to keep it looking great until my next touchup. Moroccanoil makes some of my favorite hair products so I’m going to try their Protect & Prevent Spray.
This lightweight spray prevents color fade and brassiness on all hair types and textures. In addition, ingredients like argan oil protect against heat styling and nurture dry, damaged hair. Simply mist on towel-dried hair and style as usual.
Moroccanoil’s Protect & Prevent Spray is $32 at Sephora.
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)
I’ve realized that in order to get where I’d like mental-health wise, I need to literally take a pause from work. Not that my job is triggering any stress, I just need the time and space to work through a few things. Ideally, I’d take a month of FMLA or something similar.
I can’t do this at this time. So now I’m giving myself permission to do the minimum. Not the bare minimum, because I do like the work, my boss, and colleagues. And I would like to stay employed here as long as they’ll have me. But my aim will now be to prioritize 2-3 things a day and that’s it, and show up strong where it counts (e.g. in-person office days, high-stakes meetings), but otherwise give myself permission to lean out, just for a bit.
Why do I feel so guilty about this?
Flying to colorado (from Texas) to ski this weekend and the forecast currently has a high of 8 degrees one day and 4 degrees the next. Which is definitely below average. Tips for keeping my 9 year old and 5 year old happy? Was going to send them to ski school (9 year old is good and skis at the top of the mountain so this may be brutal for her). Any warming products I’m not thinking of? They have warm layers and jackets, the neck warmers that cover their faces, helmets, etc.
I’m really struggling with my job/career: In the summer of 2023, I left a great organization as in house counsel with a toxic boss. Many of my coworkers were great humans who knew their stuff and trusted me as a reliable partner in the business. My boss, however, micromanaged my work and day. I was required to cc: her on any email to anyone my level or higher, and I was not allowed to attend meetings alone. We were remote, and I had to inform her any time I was away from my computer, other than lunch, for more than 15 minutes. I was promised a promotion for two years, and after covering for her absence for 6 weeks, upon her return, she received a promotion. One of her new reports refused to be managed by her and quit. When I finally received the promotion, my new salary was $1 above the minimum new range (if the range for a level 7 is 200,000-300,000, I was given 200,001.) When I left shortly thereafter, the GC admitted that they had taken advantage and treated my poorly.
My new job is fine, kind of? My boss is great in that she is kind and pretty hands off. The problem is that I now feel like a scribe, and I’m bored. In this role, the attorneys are not really at the table negotiating. The business negotiates and then tells us what to include. My particular business area has been slow since I joined 18 months ago, so I frequently have little to do, despite offering that I am available to help to others on the global team. I work remotely, so days go by where I talk to no one. I secretly hope to get laid off.
Since I have had the time, I have been doing a ton of pro bono work, and I genuinely love it. I was a litigator for the first ten years of my career, and I miss parts of that too. I miss working with people on a day-to-day basis. To add to my general distaste, my work is in an industry receiving a ton of rightfully earned negative attention, and I want nothing more to do with it. I know I should be grateful for the role that I have, especially with the difficulty of finding remote roles, but I feel a level of dread/holding on in my role that I did in my last months before leaving biglaw. Is this the time for a career coach? Not someone to find a role but to help me figure out options?
Talk to me about any arts and crafts projects your kids have done (at school or a party) that you didn’t want to throw in the trash as soon as they got home? Need to plan a Valentine’s craft for 5/6 year old girls and would love it to be something that isn’t just more clutter when they get home. Either something meant to be disposed of, or something that is reasonably cute/useful/inobtrusive.
TIA!
My 6mo baby has a bad diaper rash, which has spread up to her lower stomach. It’s been around for a few weeks now, and will look a little better after an application of desitin, butt paste, etc, but if she goes a while in her diaper (like overnight) it comes back all red and puffy, with little pimply dots on the outer edges. She’s very mobile so I’m sure there’s an element of chafing involved. I’ve been trying to give her a couple hours of airing out time each day, too, covered with just a loose cotton diaper prefold.
After consulting the ped, we started ointment for yeast about 5 days ago, twice a day covered by aquaphor, but it hasn’t improved at all and maybe is worse.
I’m going to give the doctor a call, but wondering if anyone has a silver bullet cure or a potential cause I’m not thinking of (another type of infection?).