Makeup & Beauty Monday: Semi-Matte Lipstick
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This is the Goldilocks finish I’ve been searching for in a lipstick — not too glossy, not too flat, but just right.
Mented is a Black-owned makeup company that specializes in products for all skin tones, “from light to tan to dark” and everyone in between. If you’ve been struggling to find the perfect nude lipstick, this might be the one (available in nine shades).
These lipsticks are a blend of brown and pinks to enhance your natural lip color and are “vegan, paraben-free, non-toxic, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and proudly made in the U.S.A.” They’re also moisturizing — perfect if you suffer from dry lips like me.
Mented’s Semi-Matte Lipstick is available at Target for $14.99 or directly from Mented for $16.50. You can take a quick quiz on Mented’s website to find your perfect shade.
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?
For those with preschool-age kids who are required to wear masks at daycare/childcare, are the requirements taken relatively seriously? Kiddo is 3, so I expect lots and lots of slip-ups and kids not wearing masks properly or even all the time. However, my kid’s daycare doesn’t even seem to be trying. The parent handbook says there is a mask requirement, but the teacher has told me its just recommended. Some kids are dropped off without a mask and welcomed right in. My kid regularly comes out without his mask and has lost several. Is this typical? Before we were accepted in this facility, kiddo went to another facility for 2 months and never had these experiences.
Need some confirmation that I’m overthinking…or let me know otherwise.
DS #2 is 9 months and change. He is babbling and screaming (like, to communicate not in pain…it’s fun), but I’m not hearing a ton of consonants besides the occasional “hey” sounding-sound. No “mamamama” or “dadadadada”. He’s not pointing or clapping yet either. Otherwise, he’s crawling like a madman and starting to try to pull up on things.
Ped says these are all things that happen between 9-12 months and he’s still on the early side, and his school agrees. Thoughts from fellow mums?
Does anyone have a suggestion for a kids’ mask lanyard that will easily break apart if caught on the playground? Preschool is asking me to send my small 3 yo with a lanyard and the first one I got doesn’t break apart when we tested it at home. She’s a little over 25 pounds.
Good morning ladies! I live in the Lansing, Michigan area and have a good friend who is looking for a local divorce attorney to provide guidance on possible divorce proceedings against her husband as well as custody issues. If anyone has a recommendation that I can share with her it would be much appreciated!
Does anyone know how Seraphine sizing runs? I’m going to buy their maternity hoodie and I can’t tell if I should size up or not. I’m tall if that matters.
Hello, I’m expecting Twins in December (first kids, and we’re super super excited:-)). I live overseas working for an international organization, haven’t seen my family in forever, and we are thinking to try to make a visit home to California when they’re around 5-6 months old. (Let’s ignore Covid for the moment, but I promise I won’t take my babies into the world if things are still bad). I have to request this leave now, as part of my maternity leave plan. A few questions I’m hope some of you have answers to – what is a good age range to try to do this kind of long trip? (E.g., a few people have told me to do it at 6 months, not 1 year). How does it work with lap babies, getting a seat for them, etc? I’ll be traveling with my husband, and we’ll have 2 babies. I don’t want to hold a baby for all 18 hours of travel; can we bring a seat for them and put them in car seats for the flights? I’m an expert traveler in general (in a former job I flew all the time), but I’m not sure how to travel like a normal person (without my Platinum status anymore:-P) , and I don’t have a clue how to travel with babies. All words of wisdom appreciated.
Tervis sippies have been our ride or die sippies for the kids (3 and 6) to keep in bed for almost five years. They do not leak in the slightest, but they don’t hold very much, and I’d like to avoid getting up for refills in the night. We’re working on telling them the sippy has to last all night, but are there any cups with a larger capacity that don’t leak at all, even if the kids screw around with them? (which happens with the daytime water bottles)
This is a vent and an anonymous screaming into the void.
One of my employees let me know that a family member is dying in the ICU of COVID. I have no idea this family member’s vaccine status, but I would guess not vax’d given how sick they are. It’s the first time I’ve encountered this in real life, not a story online, and it’s hitting home and making me really angry. I am going to continue to be kind and supportive the employee, of course, because I’m a human, and also because I doubt she is antivax, but man. When do we get to wake up from this nightmare???
Hi all, hoping for some ideas! My niece is turning one at the end of October. Due to geographic distance (we just relocated to London but before that lived in SF; niece and brother/sister-in-law live in Florida), we’ve only met our niece once when she was about six months old. What do one year olds play with/what should we get her as a gift? Getting her yet another onesie/cute outfit seems kind of lame, but we are at a loss for what you might otherwise buy a one year old. (Probably obvious, but partner and I don’t have kids!) I am open to just asking my sister-in-law what they want/need but I also don’t want to add yet another thing to her to-do list (i.e., think of a gift that we can buy her daughter). Any suggestions?
Directly, to in-laws: “Why would you even say that?”
I would also work with your kids assuming they are old enough to let them know that you don’t have secrets. If grandma and grandpa have different rules, that’s okay, you won’t be mad.
It sounds like what might be hard is that these long distance in-laws don’t get visits on their own turf. For our kids, grandma’s house has different rules. We don’t insist that our kids [clear their plate/keep off screens/make beds/whatever] at grandma’s. Her house, her rules, within some realm of reason and safety. If your inlaws only see the kids at your house, I can see why they may want to have special grandparent time.
THAT SAID, the approach is, of course, terrible. I would address it directly: “Are you seriously suggesting you will teach our kids that lying to their parents is ok?” And let that sit in uncomfortable silence.
This is my absolute favorite lipstick. I have it in three colors!
What would you do? My in-laws told my spouse and I that they would encourage our kids to lie to us so that the inlaws could circumvent our rules. In this case, it was about screen time. We don’t allow it. In law wanted to babysit but said they would show the kids a movie and then tell them not to tell us. Both spouse and I immediately shut that down – to be clear, we didn’t ask them to babysit, they wanted to. But I take more of an issue with asking our kids to lie to us than the screen time frankly. I told my spouse that asking kids to lie to us is a grooming behavior and also confuses the kids. I’m honestly uncomfortable leaving the kids with them alone now. Like, if something happens, I don’t feel I can trust the inlaws to be honest with us. What would you do? These are long distance inlaws, but we usually spend about a month total with them per year, so this will crop up again. For this visit, spouse and I have simply not allowed them to be alone with the kids.
Is an Instant Pot worth it for vegetarians beyond cooking dry beans? If so, DH wants to know whether the air fryer lid is any good – we don’t have room for a standalone air fryer.
Gift question. My LOs have birthdays right around the holidays, so considering a playscape/swing set or a climbing dome. Kids are turning 2 and 4, and we have large yard. Any suggestions? What have your kids used a lot? Brands anyone loves? There’s also so many used playsets we could buy second hand but even sorting through all of those I want to make sure it is worthwhile to touch up, etc.
i need a large rug for our playroom. i would go with ruggable, but their softest pad doesn’t come in the largest size (why i don’t know) and since we will be sitting on this rug a lot, i need it to be comfy to sit on. i’m not looking for the best quality ever, but something that will last the next 3-5 years at least. i have a house of noa playmat that i love the look of and i’d get another one of those, but all the tiles keep peeling. any ideas?