Splurge or Save Thursday: Style-Reviving Dry Shampoo with Vitamin C
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I love this brand’s blow-dry spray, so its dry shampoo caught my eye.
This dry shampoo from Kristin Ess Style freshens up your days-old blowout by sopping up excess oil. You can also use it to save your style if you go overboard with product.
It also has a strengthening complex that smooths split ends and damaged hair — perfect for hair facing the heat, humidity, and sun of mid-summer.
This Reviving Dry Shampoo is $15 for 4 oz. at Target. It also comes in a 1.2 oz. travel-friendly size for $4.99.
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
I need wardrobe help. I am working at a client site. Employees wear jeans, but I like to look a bit more polished, since I’m not an employee (don’t get me wrong I like jeans but I’m not trying to blend in). My current work wardrobe is: Pleione tops, j crew factory pants, or sack dresses. Should I reach out to a friend who is doing wardrobe consulting? I’m at a loss and frankly don’t have time to shop.
I’m a little at a loss for how to best parent my 5yo (about to start kindergarten). He’s such a sensitive, easily-offended kid, and often I can’t help thinking he would be much, much happier as an only child (he has sisters who are 7yo and 18mo, and a lot of jealousy of both of them). He’s apparently a dream at school, and he’s mostly fine if he’s on his own with one of us. But — especially when we’re all together as a family — he just takes everything so, so hard. The way his sister is looking at him. The fact that we won’t let him have a fruit leather after lunch. That he can’t find the sweatshirt he wanted. He’s not a tantrum-y or violent kid but he has what I would call “explosive whines” (“EEAAAUUUGGHHH!”) when this stuff happens that is like fingers on a chalkboard. And they are happening several times an hour, if not more. He just seems fundamentally unhappy a lot of the time (or at least, looking for reasons to become unhappy), and it makes me so sad. When he’s in a good mood he’s great — loving, funny, curious. But so often, he’s just so *dissatisfied* with everything. I’m thinking about this more now because I know kindergarten is going to be a tough transition and I want to be prepared.
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Anyone want to help me shop for two looks?
1 – maternity / family photos, now, outdoors, real hot
2 – newborn photos, later in the fall, indoors
Will probably wear a dress for 1, could do either dress or blouse / jeans for 2. Size 12 pre pregnancy. Need some inspiration!
What is a reasonable rate to pay a sitter/part-time nanny for: 2 kids – 4 years and 2 months, primarily in my home, nanny brings her own 16mo, 3-4 days a month (8am-4:30) and occasional evenings? Nanny is a former daycare director with 10+ years of childcare experience and has all clearances.
Got my first taste of navigating the K-12 school system with a (mildly) special needs kid and… oof. Kudos to those of you who have been dealing with this for multiple kids or more significant needs. It’s hard.
I would love some help articulating something to my spouse. He’s a great dad, our family dynamics are good, once in a while – maybe every 4-5 months – when the kids are being really absurd in some kid way – he will yell at them in this way that is just so loud that it’s kind of scary. To be clear – I am never scared he will hurt them, he is just so loud and generally not a yeller so when he yells it’s like a lion roaring all of a sudden. This morning our 5 y.o. was being an absolutely PIA, refusing to get dressed, saying he won’t go to camp, just yelling no at us and running away and after we both exhausted all our patience and tactics, husband just yelled at him about how we have to get to work, and you have to get dressed or I will dress you and I will drag you to camp if I have to… it worked but I really hated it! Kid was in tears, I was totally discombobulated, it wasn’t good. I tried to talk to husband after and he was like ok, ok, but I could tell he didn’t really agree and then he said something to the effect of “well, it worked, and nothing else is working and we need to fix this somehow” … I get that we all lose it sometimes, or at least I do, but at least I feel bad about it and even at my worst I am never this scary because I just dont have that kind of voice whereas he does . And I can’t figure out how to communicate how terrifying he is when he yells like that. I am also struggling to explain why fear isn’t a good healthy dynamic to develop because obviously a little bit of fear of consequences is necessary for discipline.
To extent it matters, we don’t generally yell at each other when we fight or ever call each other names. His dad was the strong, silent time but everyone had a healthy fear of his disapproval. They have a good if not especially close relationship, but I think husband is generally happy with the way he was raised.
Honestly I agree. It did work, it doesn’t happen very often, and your kid was objectively being obnoxious so this didn’t happen over nothing. I’d let it go.
I’m just grousing but ugh I’ve been trying to get an appointment to evaluate my almost 4 year old for behavioral issues — I’m the mom with the kid who’s been hitting in daycare and just generally behind socially. School started talking to us about it at the end of June and the earliest appointment we could get is next week, and I had to beg for that (it was initially going to be Aug 15). In the meantime he continues to have problems and I am really busy at work and just so worried we’re going to be kicked out before I can get him seen, much less get started with some help.
Working mom whine: My daughter started at our small public school last fall. My schedule allows me to usually be at pickup and dropoff, so I regularly interact with many of the other moms in her class. It felt like I became friends with many of them this year, or so I thought, and did regular playdates, parties, group outings, etc. The vast majority of them stay home or work as realtors/in jobs with very flexible “make your own” schedules.
Now that it’s summer and I can’t meet at the pool in the middle of the day or do regular daytime adventures, I find that I’m being left out of all of the activities. I just saw on Instagram that a bunch of them went to go see the Barbie movie together yesterday sans kids. This is the second time this month something like this has happened and I’m feeling like the kid who didn’t get invited to the birthday party.
I’m sure it will go back to “normal” when we are back in school and I see them more regularly but I also can’t pretend like my feelings aren’t a little hurt that they’re not even inviting me anymore (even if I can’t go).
Question – at what age could I reasonably expect DH to take our incredibly go with the flow, excellent sleeper anywhere, excellent water/not picky son (currently 4) on a guys weekend so I can have my house all to myself? If I asked, I could have a weekend or overnight at a hotel with great ease (for which I am incredibly grateful). I am just daydreaming about being able to do the random house projects and cook my favorite dishes he doesn’t like with my podcasts playing on a speaker vs. earbuds (my husband hates all podcasts or any category) and without him underfoot asking why I haven’t immediately finished the project or washed the dishes. Sigh, one day I hope.
Does anyone have experience with a conflict avoidant partner? DH is very conflict avoidant and it has started coming out in some counterproductive ways: i.e., getting defensive and argumentative when I try to talk about issues or, ironically, getting very upset in situations in which he thinks there may be conflict, even when there isn’t. I know I can be very direct when I communicate my feelings and have tried to work on that piece of it. However, even as I’ve started bringing things up less and being more go-with-the-flow, I’d like to know that he has the ability to constructively deal with conflict when it comes up. He also says he doesn’t bring things up that bothers him since it’s difficult. He’s in therapy to work on all of these things and maybe I’m overthinking it, but it is a bit stressful to navigate.