Makeup & Beauty Monday: Translucent Loose Setting Powder

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It’s getting steamy here, and while I like a subtle glow, I don’t care for the glow that comes from running after the bus on a hot day. As the temperature rises, I’m considering adding Laura Mercier’s Translucent Loose Setting Powder to my makeup bag.

I’ve never been great at matching setting powder to my skin tone, so I find myself gravitating towards “translucent” powders. This perennial favorite is a long-wearing, loose powder in a matte finish. It has “no flashback in photos,” and claims sixteen hours of wear and up to eight hours of shine control. Perfect since I like to apply my makeup in the morning and forget about it until evening.

This setting powder is available at Nordstrom for $33.15 (marked down from $39). It’s also available in two other shades and a mini size (at Sephora)for $23 — perfect for travel or those who just want to try before committing.

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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How do you guys feel about vacationing with extended family? Long story: my husband and I are both immigrants with family outside the US, except my BIL who moved during the pandemic to now live in the same city as us. My sister’s family visits US every summer and was planning a trip in 2020 and asked us in Feb to do a week long trip with us in summer. I told my DH who said it’s our 10-year anniversary in summer and I want us to do something with just our family. We can’t do two week-long trips, so after some back/forth he said he’s disappointed that I picked vacation with my side family over an anniversary trip with just us/kids. Of course, neither one of those trips happened in 2020. Fast forward now, we have booked travel over 4th July week. Now my sister family and my parents want to come visit us and asked if we would be open to having them join us over 4th July week. My DH was not happy about it – he said sister family can join, but having parents there will change the tone of the trip and he’s burnt out and he’s looking forward to this trip and he wants it to be just us. I said, my parents will stay with my sister in a separate place, there won’t be any expectation to spend all time together (I cleared with my sis our concerns).. DH said yea right, I know how that goes. He said a reluctant yes to them joining us. Sister and family thought some more and decided against joining us. But I’m still upset with my DH — mostly because he said hes “so relieved” to hear they aren’t joining us.

Keep in mind that when we initially thought about vacation in July, we asked BIL family to join us. Then we changed the location to someplace further away, still told BIL family to join, but they said no. I think DH would’ve been ok with my sis/family (without my parents) joining us, but I/my sister didn’t want to exclude my parents.

I think there is a bigger problem here that comes up every year — for my sister this is her time to travel/vacation when they visit us and want us to join them. But for my DH, he doesn’t want a family reunion trip every year. He told me last year, he would be ok with a weekend/long weekend trip, but a week of vacation is precious time. In the past, when I didn’t work and could go visit my sister in her country, my DH would get upset if I went too often/too long (2-3 weeks) coz he missed the kid(s) too much. DH wants us to travel together as much as can and not separately, but then he doesn’t want to spend too much time with my family (or his family tbh, though his brother he’s closest to and they are local now so we see them 2-3 times/week). I know and agree that my family has strong personalities, and his is more chill, but family is family and I love mine and get selfish about spending/maximizing as much time as possible with them.
My sister and parents will still try to visit and stay with us for a few weeks every summer (so my family doesn’t have to take vacation and visit everyone at my parents house (my parents live in US, other part of the country thiugh). My Dh wants my parents to come visit us rather us all 4 of us traveling to see them. Basically, I get the impression that dh wanted to use vacation time for just our vacations, and prefer our families visit us instead of us (or me/kids) traveling to visit them.

He’s told me in the past that i prioritize my family over him every time they are visiting/I visit them.

I want to make stuffed animals out of my kids’ baby blankets/sleepers. This is clearly a job for Etsy. I’ve found a ton of sellers but was wondering if anyone had personal experience and could recommend someone specific?

So as a followup: the dawn got the Neosporin out of my sheets beautifully. Thank you all.

Next up: any suggestions for how to handle when a pull-up goes through the wash?

I swear, I’ve been successfully doing laundry since I was like 10 years old. But have you seen/heard that thing going around that says that if you get lulled into believing you’re a good parent by your first child, your second will be a no-limits soldier? Definitely true over here.

I posted last week about tension (which I suspect is due to my Covid risk aversion) with my sister who recently had her second baby boy. People had a lot of helpful advice, which I really appreciated and followed.

The update is that at this point it’s pretty clear that we’re being intentionally frozen out, which really hurts. They’ve done a variety of social events, etc. that make it clear that it’s not about recovering, wanting privacy, etc. That being said, I also want to respect that for whatever reason, she does not want me around right now, so I’m not going to push it.

So any advice on coming to terms with a family member giving you the cold shoulder? I have a hard time not constantly trying to figure out what went wrong, etc.

Has anyone ever used one of those online interior decorator services? While I wish I had an eye for decorating, I’m slowly but surely accepting that I just — don’t! (Or maybe I would if I had more time to learn/spend/search?)

The field day comment had me thinking….. anyone have bright ideas on how to boost wifi in the backyard??

In search of summer beach reads: I have a three week sabbatical from work starting next Monday. I am in search of light-hearted beach reads. Bonus if it features a strong female character. I made the mistake of thinking that “light-hearted” was the same as “inspiring” this past weekend, which is how I ended up sobbing to the movie “The Art of Racing in the Rain” with my arms draped around my confused but loving Newfie.

Can someone give me tips to manage my newly turned 2 year old son? He’s such a good kid solo, but when he’s around my 4 year old, he gets really overwhelming. I think these are all age appropriate things for a new 2 year old, but of course with my first, there was no one else to bug.

Things he does that highly annoy my (mostly patient) 4 year old:
1) Pull her hair for attention while she watches tv
2) take any toy she’s playing with because whatever she has is most interesting
3) Want to wear the clothes she’s wearing
4) Pinches or hits her
5) Wants to sit her tripp trapp when she’s eating even though he has his own chair
6) Destoy anything she’s working on in her bedroom i.e. magnatiles, imaginative baby doll play etc.

Now that I’m typing this, I realize it’s probably that he wants her attention and loves her, but I’m just not sure what to tell him to engage more positively that’s age appropriate. He’s been home with us, but maybe PT daycare this fall will help? I do keep them seperated a ton, so he doesnt bother her, but I want them to have a better relationship. Any tips from moms with this age difference and wiser will help (awayemily??)! :) TIA!!

Ok folks, I now have full proof that we cannot listen to our moms / mom aged figures about milestone timing. My mom told me “Oh, I was watching a video of T when he was 10 months, and you were telling him it was time for bed, and he said “I eat my dinner, I read my books, no bed!” Nope, nope, nope, my kiddo was an early talker but definitely not talking in full sentences at 10 freaking months. I suspect she’s even less reliable about my milestones (her story is potty trained by a year…reading at 3)

Good morning! Posting after a long, long time.

DS #1 (now 3.5) was exactly on/early for all movement related milestones – crawling, walking, etc.
DS #2 (6 months this Saturday!), not so much. He can sit supported, but isn’t exactly rolling over – he just kind of rolls over on one (preferred) side, sometimes to belly, not belly-to-back yet.

When I asked the ped last week (DS #2 had to go in to get antibiotics), she said as long as he was progressing, it was fine, but of course because I’m me I’m still concerned. Anyone else have any advice and/or can y’all tell me it’s going to be ok? :)

Some activities I’m looking to sign my 3 y/o up for say ‘must be potty trained. no exceptions.” DD is trained #1 and 50/50 on #2. When we send her to gymnastics, for example, she’s in a pull-up for insurance. She’s also never had an issue while we’re there – she reserves the #2 accidents for specific times of day and only in the home. Does this suffice for the requirement for potty training? She starts preschool in Sept so we’re working on getting closer to 75/25 in the near term so she’s ready for preschool in a few months. Not trying to push boundaries – just not sure what’s the true expectation! TIA.

Pandemic learning just keeps on giving, doesn’t it? Our school system is still mostly virtual and scheduled a virtual field day for today. They encouraged kids to get together at each others’ homes and for parents to act as coaches. The catch? It’s a work day and we both have to work. My 7 yo is in tears because she’s stuck trying to do group activities on her own while videos posted by her friends of them having fun. I couldn’t exactly invite over kids over when I can’t supervise and didn’t feel that I could impose on other parents by asking them to take her. I just didn’t have bandwidth to network for an invite. This sucks.

How are you feeling about indoor (masked) activities for kids now that cases are low? As of now I have been doing mostly outdoor other than grocer store trips, but it would be nice to take the metro north into NYC, go to outdoor museums etc just trying to assess risk.

in the summer, if you swim twice in one day or go to the beach and then go back out again post-nap (which requires sunscreen, bugspray again, etc.) or live in a super hot climate, when do you bathe kiddo? kids are 3 and get sweaty when we go outside and we cover them in sunscreen/bug spray, but then they nap in their beds. it seems gross to put them to nap without bathing first, but then if we want to go outside again in the afternoon, do we bathe them a second time?

What’s the best time of day for a 2 year old birthday party? It will just be in our backyard, with a couple of other 2 year olds and their parents and a few other friends.