Makeup Monday: The Perfect Bite Amuse Bouche Lipstick Set

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The Perfect Bite Amuse Bouche Lipstick SetThis really cute Amuse Bouche lipstick set from Bite Beauty is great if you’ve been looking for a really good red or a dark plummy color. Bite Beauty lipsticks have a good consistency, wear well, and are easy to remove, and this set has small sizes of each of four bestselling colors: Honeycomb (beige nude), Sugarcane (pale pink), Rhubarb (rich plum rose), Cayenne (bright red). It’s $25 at Sephora (a $59 value). The Perfect Bite Amuse Bouche Lipstick Set Psst: Sephora’s Beauty Insider Event is going on now: Insiders get 15% off with code INSIDER15; VIB, 20% off with code 20FORVIB; and Rouge, 20% off with code 20FORROUGE. This post contains affiliate links and CorporetteMoms may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support!

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)

And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interestworking mom questions asked by the commenters!

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Oh boy. We’re supposed to attend a wedding next Monday afternoon and our 8 month old foster son’s only babysitter just cancelled on us (foster babysitters require a background check and fingerprints, which take weeks). I already called my mom and she can’t watch him as she lives 5 hours away and can’t get off work Monday. The wedding is for an acquaintance that neither I nor my Hubs are especially close to. Should I: send my hubs and stay home with baby, contact them and ask if baby is allowed, plan to skip the wedding, or just take him and plan to leave after the wedding? I realize all of these are poor etiquette but I feel like I’m stuck here. I don’t want to leave him at one of those 24 hour drop in care places.

OK, another potty question. I’m sure this has been discussed before. My 2-year-old is in a vicious p**p cycle. He got constipated, now he’s in a cycle of holding it in till it gets worse and worse. Same thing happened with my other kid around the same age, and I think it’s super common. I think the way to break it is to make sure he consumes lots of water and prune juice and high fiber foods, and maybe a laxative for a few days, although I’m kind of freaked out about the latter. What are your tips for getting enough water and fiber into your kids in this situation?

How long does potty training regression last? Our kiddo recently (2-3 weeks ago?) went from going to the bathroom on his own to now having accidents at school and while we are out (he will say “I’m peeing!!!”, and then start peeing immediately). He’s 3. Any insight? No changes at home, and he started this regression right before he changed classes at school from toddler room to preschool room.

You are in biglaw. You can afford to live in NYC.

Started registering this weekend (our first!), and I’m completely overwhelmed by the stroller and car seat options. Do I want a system? (I think yes.) You’d think with a master’s degree, I could figure this out, but all I end up doing (thanks, hormones) is getting overwhelmed and crying. We have two small cars, a Honda Civic and a Ford Focus, we live in the suburbs, so I’d expect the stroller to be used on local walks and other paved outings. Don’t have stairs or city streets to worry about. TIA for your recommendations!

My husband and I are brainstorming places we’d like to take a babymoon in mid- to late-February 2018. We’ll be traveling from the DC area and would like to go someplace warm/tropical and relaxing for a long weekend (4-5 days). We’re obviously mindful of Zika, but I see on the CDC website that the Cayman Islands and Martinique are “safe” (removed from Alert Level 2). I’m going to ask my doctor about travel to these places at my next appointment, but thought I’d see if anyone has recent experience traveling to those islands (and while pregnant!). I’d also like to find an adults-only hotel/resort if those exist. I’m also not opposed to going somewhere in the continental US – probably SW US for warmth. Any suggestions?

I think I made a bad deal in terms of flex scheduling. I have an infant and a toddler and an hour-long car-commute. We’re on a 35hr work week. I negotiated a 4-day work week, with plans to work an 8.75 hour split day M-Th. I.e., normal work day with some evening work to make up the hours. Pretty standard.

In reality, I do very little substantive work in the evenings because I am too tired. I will answer emails or other easy lift tasks, but I am not putting in much evening work. Instead, I am not leaving at “normal” work day time. I am in the office about 8.5 hours a day and leave at 6pm, so I don’t get home until after the kids have eaten dinner and sometimes the baby is already asleep. And that 5th day has become a work from home day instead of an off day. So, I still send the kids to daycare. I do less work and can run errands on that day (and save the 2 hours of commuting time), but I am still “on.” I have the kind of job and boss where I answer emails over the weekend, too, though nothing urgent or super heavy lift.

I should re-negotiate this, right? I’m definitely working well over the 35 hour week. (But is that the price I pay for being able to work from home one day?) My goal was to be home every night for dinner and to keep the baby at home on Fridays, but I am not sure how realistic that is given the work creep on Fridays. What should I propose?

Talk to me about divorce with a baby.

I’d like to give it a bit more time (and couples’ therapy), but there is a real chance I will want to file for divorce in, say, a half year. My husband affirmatively does NOT want a divorce, but after a series of events (including him leaving marks on me and me having him removed by the police), even if I am certain he will never be physical again, I don’t think I will ever love him or respect him.

I’m particularly thinking about geography. We are struggling financially in Manhattan, and have talked about moving to another (smaller) city. Realistically, it will be next to impossible to maintain two households and split custody in the city. I’ve considered (being transparent about my motives) seeing if he wants to move while we’re still married, knowing that I am still leaning strongly towards divorce. It seems harder to divorce here and then fight about where we’ll live. FWIW, I’m in BigLaw, and he works in a low-medium level IT job (which exist in more places than jobs like mine, but also pay less).

Ugh. Child Care.
Due March 1 and looking for daycare starting July 1 2018. My son goes to a great daycare for before/after school, but unfortunately they don’t take kids until they’re 2. There’s only 3 centers that take infants in our immediate area (and my husband and I commute completely opposite directions, so we need care close to our house) and they all have horrible reports from social services. That leaves in-home daycare.

I have a spot secured at one, where I am confident baby will be loved and safe which is the most important thing. however, she’s gone back and forth on a few things (hours, cost, etc.) that concern me and I just don’t feel great about “working” with her on logistical issues. Her hours are really going to be a struggle (7:30-5:15) but she follows local government closures instead of school closures for weather, which is a huge plus.

I visited another today that was wonderful, and her hours are great, but we’re second on the waiting list and she failed to mention (I later read in the parent handbook) that she closes on school system teacher work days, and also follows the school system for weather closures, which is an automatic no-go for us.

Hours and insistence on following the school closure calendar have been a huge struggle for us. So many in-home daycares around here have 7:30-5:00 hours which is simply not doable. My monthly budget for childcare for both kids is around $2,400 (more like $3,000 in the summers) which is not going to get a nanny in this area. The only solution is to just keep looking I suppose! Worst-case scenario we only deal with it until she’s 2 and she can go where big brother goes, but still. Any assurances that I can make it through this 1.5 year period???

I am cross posting in the hopes of several responses..

Bay Area ladies, talk to me about moving to the Peninsula. Husband has an opportunity in South San Francisco. Top priorities are great public schools and a place that has a cute downtown where we could walk to restaurants, the library. We have lived in large east coast cities for the last several years and the move to the burbs is a bit daunting. A high walking score is very important to us.

I’m likely going to be working in SF, so nothing too far south. I hate to drive so I need to be able to take the Caltrain. Based on my Google searches it seems like Burlingame, San Mateo, and San Carlos are all good options. Thoughts? Any other cities I should consider?

More generally, what should I be aware of about moving to the Bay Area? I’m originally from there but haven’t lived there in 15 years. Thanks!

Is there a 15-16 month sleep regression? My toddler used to sleep through the night reliably and has had a few bad nights culminating in a very sleepless night last night for all of us. He was also just super restless and had trouble even falling asleep in our arms. I don’t think he is sick. Don’t know of a tooth he is getting unless we are just missing it!

For anyone who sleep trained again at this age, did you CIO? I feel like that will be hard with our walking talking toddler!

Any tips for surviving 4-month sleep regression? My daughter used to wake up only once each night, but is now waking up every 2 hours. I handle most of her wake ups because (1) I am a light sleeper so I wake up even if DH puts her back to sleep and (2) I am nursing so it is much faster for me to put her back to sleep. I am back at work and so so tired all the time, even though I go to bed early. I have tried several swaddle transition products and use a white noise machine, but nothing seems to help.

I am obsessed with lipstick, and I have to say that I’ve not had good luck with this particular formula of Bite lipstick. It’s very smeary and feathery for me. I love their colors though and sometimes make it work with a primer, which helps with the feathering at least (not so much with the smearing– one time I found some on my neck!). I really prefer Bite’s high pigment pencils (which are on deep discount at the moment).

Are y’all getting anything at the sale? I got more of my usual hair oil and face lotion, along with a couple of lipsticks, because… yeah… more is more.