Makeup & Beauty Monday: Facial Cotton
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I have heard so much about these facial cotton pads throughout the years. Now that I am upgrading my skincare routine, I am using products that necessitate or are applied/removed more efficiently with a tool. I invested in one of those egg-shaped beauty blender tools for my foundation, and I recently purchased these to remove eye makeup. I wear long-wear eyeliner, and I am using an oil-based cleanser around the eye area for full removal. When I went to Sephora.com recently, I noticed that they are selling a pack of 40 for $5 (or 165 for $12). I picked up a few for the women attending a Mother’s Day brunch as a little gift. Facial Cotton
Mini-Deal Alert from Kat: I just saw that LK Bennett is closing all US stores so is having massive sales — and one of the top things we were going to recommend for Mother’s Day is on a pretty great discount at Amazon, the Nixplay WiFi Frame.
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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?
Can we talk about the Good Dads article in the NY Times this weekend? I get frustrated with my husband when he doesn’t take initiative on household or parenting things (it would never occur to him to buy our child clothes) but the dads who don’t care about getting their child to sleep or school on time blew my mind. There is definitely learned incompetence at play here.
I bought a set of reusable circle pads like these on etsy I think, and they have been awesome. I still keep some disposables on hand for traveling, but I absolutely love the reusable ones for daily use. I use for applying toner, etc. and also eye and lip makeup remover. They clean beautifully. I toss them in the wash in a lingerie bag so they don’t get lost.
The royal baby is coming!!
My husband is getting a CPAP machine today – any thoughts on what to expect as the bed-sharer? I’m actually hopeful that him sleeping better will improve my sleep as well. Is that too optimistic? Thanks!
I posted on Friday about giving a card to moms and MILS that says in lieu of giving them flowers, they were donated to a shelter and someone asked where we donate. We are Jewish and give through JWI (Jewish Women International) but the flowers don’t go to a religious organization as far as I know.
For those of you who used them, how long did your kids sleep in a pack-and-play? Referring to the basic bottom portion, not the newborn/changing pieces that some of the models have.
DS is 17 months, bigger/taller than average, but is sleeping fine in his PnP. Would like to keep him in it as long as possible, just wondering what the later end typically is age-wise. Hoping he doesn’t figure out how to climb out of it soon…
I don’t go to the main site often and just found the personal money snapshot series:
https://corporette.com/category/personal-money-snapshot/
I’d love to see some c-parents submit to this! I was blown away by the poster who saves $4500/month, and then I thought, hmm, we spend $3500/month on childcare alone so not that far off. (Of course, we didn’t save $3500/month before we had children, so the OP’s discipline is commendable!) Anyway, would love to see an honest picture of other families’ finances.
I have 10.5 month old twins. This weekend DH and I started talking about what to do for the first bday and I just got so sad. I dealt with some pretty terrible PPD/PPA for the first 6 months of their lives and I just feel like i missed their whole lives. I have a close friend who just had a baby and I can’t help but feeling jealous when I see all of the nice pictures she has taken in the first week of her baby’s life. I was just looking back and we have so few pictures of me with the kids over the past 10.5 months, let alone from the first week. DH and I are definitely not having any more kids and it’s hard to come to terms with the fact that i’ll never have a baby to snuggle again. Looking at her pictures, things look so peaceful and while i know a picture can be deceiving, our lives were SO chaotic at the beginning. Her DH has a month off from work ( mine had a week), her parents are here for two weeks and we were going to the NICU every day to visit our twin who was still there. Did anyone else have any of those bittersweet feelings as they approached their kid’s first bday?
My husband is considering a job in the Chicago suburbs near Lemont. We live in a LCOL city in the south and know next-to-nothing about Chicago suburbs. We’re taking a trip to visit in a few weeks and are considering Wheaton, Lisle, Downers Grove, Glen Ellyn, Carol Stream and Naperville – based on very basic research. Can anyone share their experiences or recommendations? I’d also appreciate daycare recommendations (we’re at a national chain now). For suburb selection, we’re looking for safety, good elementary schools, and a reasonable (30 mins) commute to Lemont. I’ll likely be working remote for the foreseeable future. TIA.
This morning DH got mad at me bc I canceled the mother’s day gift he ordered for me on our shared amazon account. who orders a gift for someone on a shared account!!! I had no idea it was a gift for me – I thought it was something I had clicked on accidentally so of course I cancelled it. aside from the fact that it was not something i would’ve ever wanted, he was mad that i was looking at the placed orders on amazon and it was my fault for messing things up- i look at those on almost a daily basis to see if things have arrived, to return things, etc. last year i was in the hospital on mother’s day bc i’d just given birth and so we were kind of counting this year as my first mother’s day and we’re already off to a rock start….is sunday over yet?
I had kind of a rough weekend. I finally realized that one of my early motherhood friendships wasn’t real and was likely based on convenience. She’s now part of the “cool mom” group in our neighborhood (barf, but it is a thing) and has pretty much dropped me like a hot potato now that she’s found more … like-minded individuals, I guess. At a few events recently, including a mutual friend’s birthday party on Saturday, she has gone out of her way to avoid interacting with me but will be all sweetness and smiles when others aren’t watching. It is so hurtful, like being in junior high all over again. We were besties, but we at least had a nice neighborly thing going: lots of gatherings with our families, we organized neighborhood events together, etc. I feel dumb for ever thinking that friendship was real or genuine.
After the party on Saturday, I unfollowed her on Facebook. Seeing her posts hasn’t been great for my emotional health lately, so might as well rip the band-aid off. Mom cliques suck.
Because I’m not quite ready to tell real life friends, but because I also have to tell someone. . . Positive pregnancy test on Friday! This’ll be #2; assuming all goes well, they’ll be 2.5 years apart which is both exciting and terrifying.
My almost 4 year old son has started having meltdowns every single morning when he’s getting ready for school. He goes to a sweet school and always has fun when he’s there. This started when we switched to a new nanny a few weeks ago. He does it with us too. Full on temper tantrums, refusal to wear short sleeves, refusal to change clothes, you name it! My mom said we should take him to school in his PJs and call his bluff when we get there and he’ll volunteer to change bc he won’t want to go into class in PJs. I’m also planning on having him agree on clothes the night before. Any other tips? Thank God summer break is only two weeks away!!!!! The old nanny had a strict morning routine and it seemed to work, but even that isn’t working now. We also are giving him more breakfast so it’s not hunger. Could be sleep related – we dropped naps the week before our old nanny left and he’s still not going to bed early enough, but he wakes up on his own each morning. Any advice?
Does anyone have a favorite toddler water bottle that a) doesn’t leak and b) doesn’t have a straw? I’ve found tons of toddler/kids water bottles, but almost all of them seem to have straws or other things you suck on, which is not what I’m looking for.
The backstory to this is that I have a 2-year-old who when given a water bottle with a straw will suck down the entire 10+ oz within 10 minutes. This was okay when she was still in diapers, but now that she’s potty-trained I’m looking for something we can take to the playground so that she can drink water when she’s actually thirsty but won’t get so hydrated she needs to pee every 5 minutes.
Where is everyone getting all the cute, patterned leggings I see everywhere? They don’t have to be for actually working out, just every day type wear. I already have plenty for working out that I like and don’t care about expanding that collection into “cute” territory. It’s more that I want to be cute when I’m outside playing with kiddo in the yard or running for coffee. That said, if they are workout quality, that’s fine, I just might not use them for that so they stay nicer longer.