Splurge or Save Thursday: Tinted Lip Balm
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When I want just a little color on my lips, I reach for Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm.
This drugstore bargain adds a hint of sheer color so your lips look like your-own-but-better, moisturizes with shea butter and botanical waxes, and features “all-natural” ingredients — no parabens, phthalates, petrolatum, or other things you don’t want to eat.
It comes in several flattering colors. (I like “Red Dahlia.”) Given the price, you can indulge in more than one!
This lip balm is available in a range of shades at Target for $4.79. You can also easily find it in many other stores like Ulta, Amazon, and drugstores.
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?
I hate WFH because there seems to be an exception of 24/7 availability that didn’t exist before. I work in a govt job that used to really respect vacation time, weekends, evenings etc. but I’ve had to explain to multiple people this week that no I cannot prepare a draft of a document or take video calls from my vacation next week. I actually had to bust out the “Sorry ,I’m going to be in a cabin in the woods with no internet” excuse that I haven’t had to use since I was in Big Law. Maybe it’s just my workplace, but it’s an awful change. I would much rather be in an office 9-5 but have my weekends and vacations respected.
Thanks to all those who recommended the how not to hate your husband book on the marriage post-baby thread the other day. I bought it and love it so far. I’ve read so many excerpts out loud to my husband, and I’ll probably encourage him to read the full book himself.
Totally random Q but how much “play” is there in kindergarten normally? I used the word “Kindergarten” in front of my 3 year old for the first time yesterday and she asked what it meant and I tried to explain what real school is (versus her play-based daycare) and she asked “Will there be any toys there?” and I realized I honestly don’t know! Probably not, right?
Would you fly next week from SEUS to NYC to visit family with a 1 and 4.5 year old? The 4.5 year old is very mask compliant. 1 year old obviously can’t mask. Parents and grandparents all fully vaccinated. Things are changing so fast I’m a little overwhelmed. Thanks.
Where can I buy adult sized school uniform polos? DD will be in 4th grade, but she’s 5’3″ and ~105 lbs. She typically wears a women’s size small shirts. Last year I got her polos from Gap and they were great, but they won’t fit her this year and apparently neither Gap nor Old Navy sells women’s sized uniforms. I checked out Land’s End, but I’m hesitant to spend $20+ per shirt. I will if I have to though. Any other options?
My parents have decided to plan a big family get together for Christmas in Destin, FL. Will it be too cold to do anything fun? We will be five adults and two 2-3 year olds.
We are in MA as well. The Globe has town by town data. Check yours out. If I start worrying too much, I look at mine and feel very reassured. We are not changing anything. Every single person we spend time with that is eligible for a vaccine has had one. I try not to drag my kids into stores, but if I do, they wear masks. We do indoor activities, masked. I don’t make them wear masks outside, or in the homes of friends & family that are vaccinated, though our social group is continuing to push for outside events. The weather has been so terrible recently that we’ve done some inside gatherings.
I am pretty sure elem kiddos will be in masks in school this fall. I’m not wild about this, but as long as they go to school 5x/week I won’t make a peep. I do hope that there is not a ton of quarantining/missed school as it would be really disruptive.
Looking for warm (ish) weather destinations in the US at the end of october. Thinking San Diego or maybe somewhere in Florida. We will have a 4.25 and 2.25 year old. What would you recommend and where should we stay? TIA!
Who else is just tired of constantly assessing risk? I guess we do it all the time subconsciously by driving and venturing out into the world, but with Covid, it just feels amplified now. With this new variant and kids being unable to be vaccinated until probably early next year now, I’m having to recalibrate my ideas of what we can and can’t do, again. I want to take my kids to indoor places (which we’ve been doing this summer, mostly masked) and have them do activities in the fall and winter, and I’m pretty sure that even with variants, it doesn’t affect kids too badly, but then I read all these stories about how we don’t know enough about “long Covid” yet.
Is anyone changing anything now that there are most cases in terms of what you’re doing? I definitely want and need school to be open full time come fall, and I think we’ll be there, just with masks, but in terms of optional activities and travel?
Oh wow, I haven’t thought about these tinted lip balms in years. I just got a sheer lipstick from Seph*ra (Tarte sea quench) and this looks like it would be the same thing but much cheaper.