Makeup & Beauty Monday: Eyebrow-Enhancing Serum
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I’m a total skeptic when it comes to claims that makeup/beauty products make. However, due to that aforementioned overzealous eyebrow threader I encountered, I was desperate for something to fill in a bare spot on my eyebrow. I saw this product online, and across a bunch of sites it had positive reviews.
I diligently applied it AM and PM, and I just finished my first tube.
You guys.
This worked for me!
{related: is microblading worth it? (from guest poster, Adina J. of Blue Collar Red Lipstick)}
It made my eyebrows grow longer, faster, and MUCH darker. Too dark actually, so I am going to lay off of it for a while. Since my eyebrows are growing so fast, I am able to get them reshaped, as if I am starting from scratch.
I am shocked, but this product worked for me. It is $39.99 at Ulta but also available at Walmart for $28.90. Eyebrow Enhancing Serum
{related: here’s Kate’s Browvo! review}
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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
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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?
tips for 2 adults working from home in a 2 bedroom apartment with 21 month old twins and no childcare? we plan on taking shifts, but our kids are at a challenging age where they are very mobile so need 24/7 supervision and even screens don’t keep their attention for more than like 7 minutes. this honestly would’ve probably been easier a year ago when they couldn’t walk and didn’t require so much entertainment. we’ve tried some of the busy toddler activities but so far we haven’t found any that both kids like, so even if we have one kid entertained the other one is not.
Good morning! Inadvertent nanny questions. Our daycare is closed, and one of our teachers is going to be providing childcare for us in our home. The understanding is that this is temporary, until the crisis is over and the daycare center re-opens. We agreed on a daily rate to be paid in cash. However I realized we didn’t talk at all about taxes, health insurance, etc. Do I need to think about these things? Or is this more akin to a babysitting arrangement in which case I would not worry about that?
Thank you for any guidance – we never saw ourselves having a nanny so I do not know how this works.
How is everyone hanging in there?
Update on my End: Schools are now closed until the end of April. The ex visited with the kids this weekend by taking a walk in my neighborhood and then going to the beach for a walk on Sunday. The ex wished me good luck with the school closings. I’m trying to just stay sane while working full time with two elementary aged kids.
Does anyone else feel like chores are taking over their life? Between our cleaning service not coming, our whole family eating almost every meal at home and our toddler being home all day every day, it feels like we have 10x as much housework as before. We’re running the dishwasher at least twice a day and barely keeping up. We are doing toddler-watching shifts, but it feels like whoever isn’t on childcare duty is pretty much always doing housework. We have nowhere near enough time for our actual jobs, to say nothing of having any free time. I know people will probably say to lower my standards but trust me they are pretty low to begin with :). Any hacks or ways to throw money at the problem (other than a cleaning service)? My BFF suggested buying a Roomba but we don’t really vacuum (see, low standards) so I’m not sure what that would do.
Can we discuss this article? Link to follow but it’s the Atlantic article called “the Coronavirus is a Disaster for Feminism.” – how are your households adjusting to this sudden forced childcare responsibility? In mine, my husband switched to part time hours (his suggestion) so that he could take on more of the childcare during our workdays, but I can see a lot of households where a lot of this already unpaid work will fall more to women. When faced with this kind of situation where you can’t outsource a lot of this hard work, I can see it either forcing dads to take on more housework and childcare, or just force women further out of the paid workforce.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/feminism-womens-rights-coronavirus-covid19/608302/
For those those living where schools are closed (I assume that’s almost everyone by now), what communication have you gotten from your teachers or schools?
Our schools shut down for the year last Tuesday (we’re in KS), during spring break week. We’ve had minimal communication from the school district, and none at all from our daughter’s elementary school. I’ve heard rumors on social media that the earliest we’ll receive lesson plans is April 6, a full three weeks after school closures. I’m disappointed that there’s been no acknowledgement from our school that they’re at least working on a plan for our kids. I don’t necessarily care about the academics, but our kids need something to DO during the day. If the libraries were open, I’d just let her read all day. We’re creating our own lesson plans but who knows if they’re effective/related to what was happening in school.
Just curious what others are doing if you’ve had no guidance from your schools?
Sharing some Camp Covid tips that seem to be helping, in case they help others:
Two preschool (3 and 5), and one first grader
I’m stealing the preschool schedule because it’s familiar and it’s pretty clear my kids are craving anything that resembles normalcy right now. There’s free time before “school” to watch cartoons, get dressed, make beds, etc, and then
1. Family circle time (read a book aloud, talk about the day of the week, date, weather) ~15-20 min
2. Centers – older kid does school work for at least 2 center timeblocks, younger kids get to choose among blocks, trains, art, puzzles, computer etc. All toys we already have, the key is to get them to pick ONE so they don’t all end up on the floor at the end of the hour. Grownups have “work center” which seems to be helping the kids understand that we stay in our respective spots. I turned on Disney music in the play centers room, which seems to be keeping them engaged/contained better.
3-# etc etc, blocks 45 min to an hour with outside time, lunch, quiet time, snack mixed in at times that work for us. Then the “school day” is over and it’s free time.
I blocked circle time and one hour of center time on my work calendar hoping I can supervise art, science experiments, etc at least a few days a week. *fingers crossed*
Anyone have a recommendation for cartoons/shows to teach kids foreign languages? Trying to make the increase tv time a little more productive these days. I keep seeing adds for Muzzy but wanted to know if there is anything else out there. Thanks!
I might get flamed for this but, are any of you still sending your kids to daycare? My DH is in state government and I am in disaster-related services, so we have been continuing to send our kids to daycare while we work from home. Daycare is small– 2 teachers, 8 families (12 kids total with maybe a couple extra older siblings now)– so, it’s a pretty closed environment, though I know I have no idea or control over who those families are interacting with. We live in a small town with no confirmed cases, though like everyone there are cases across the region. I recognize it includes some risk, but I am also balancing that risk against the emotional health of me and my kids– having a routine and normalcy, rather than being at home with us, panicked as we do our very COVID-related jobs. Anyone else out there still sending kids to daycare and what are your considerations?
I am trying to order groceries for pickup or delivery, but depending on the store either there are no windows available or they are so far out in the future that it’s not likely the items I select will be in stock. Nothing is in stock for shipping. I can’t concentrate on work and don’t want to be on calls or videoconferences. I have a four-week stash of food, but I don’t want to start tapping it yet because I know things will get worse. I’m afraid the power will go out and everything in my fridge and freezer will spoil. I am genuinely worried that I won’t be able to feed my family. I don’t know what to do.
Is anyone already feeling a bit of a economic pinch? Despite not getting daycare, we are still on the hook for tuition (small coop, so I understand if we don’t pay, the teachers don’t get paid). I’m trying to continue to support the services I pay for despite not getting the services (gym, restaurant takeout, etc), while also paying A LOT more for groceries because we are eating at home more, feeding the kids all day instead of daycare doing it, etc. Also paying more for electric, water, and probably going to need to buy more toys to get through this. The only savings I could come up with is not putting gas in my car as much. We live in DC, and relied on the free entertainment, museums, zoo, etc around town for fun, and don’t have access to that anymore. We are lucky in that my husband and I have plenty of paid leave, have worked out a work schedule that works for us, but man my bank account will be light by the time this ends. Sorry I guess there is no question to this, more of an observation- not sure if anyone else has looked hard at their budget to get through this.
School Attendance – My kids’ schools are taking attendance for remote learning (1st and 3rd grades). They send out an email in the morning and the form shuts down at some point in the evening. We are supposed to go on and log attendance for the day during that period. I just got a call from my kids’ school asking whether my kids did school work last Wednesday (first day of remote learning) when I was in the middle of helping my company navigate its own issues. Is anyone else’s school doing this??