Makeup & Beauty Monday: Ultra-Blur Talc-Free Translucent Loose Setting Powder
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I’ve been using the same basic setting powder for a while. However, this makeup bag essential received an upgrade in this version from Laura Mercier.
This loose setting powder reduces shine like any good setting powder, but also has hyaluronic acid for comfort. It even has amino acid and silica powders that softly blur imperfections without masking your skin.
Dust this on in the morning and you’re good to go — no need to reapply since this powder has up to 16 hours of staying power.
Laura Mercier’s Translucent Loose Setting Powder is $48 at Sephora. It comes in three tones as well as a travel-friendly mini size.
Sales of note for 7/15/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale is open for everyone — here’s our roundup!
- Ann Taylor – Semiannual sale, extra 50% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% off everything + extra 50% off clearance
- Eloquii – Limited time, 100s of styles starting at $9
- J.Crew – End of season cashmere sale, take 40% off select cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – All-Star Sale, 40-70% off entire site and storewide and extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Sitewide Sale, save 25% with code — 48 hours only! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Free shipping on everything
- Talbots – All markdowns, buy 2 get 1 free, on TOP of an extra 40% off (ends 7/15)
My 2nd grader is reading the “I Survived…” books and it’s crazy to me to think that to him, the 9/11 attacks are as historical (i.e. something that happened in the past) as other events like Titanic or WWI. I remember that day like it was yesterday.
PSA to anyone who is pregnant and hasn’t yet experienced morning sickness – keep a bucket in reach in your car! My very first round of morning sickness hit this morning…while I was driving…on the highway…and couldn’t pull over. What a spectacularly horrible start to my morning!
Do any Chicago/NW IN/SW MI ‘rettes have preferences for either the Indiana Dunes or the Warren Dunes for a 2 year old? We’ll be near both, but probably only go to one of them.
DD rocked her first week of K last week. On Thursday (day 3) she wouldn’t even let DH walk her to the door, as most K parents were, because she wanted to be part of the rolling drop off like the big kids – it was great to see her so confident TBH.
Today…. not so much. Sobbing at the door. We dropped her off at 8:10 so I’m certain if something were really wrong we’d have had a call hours ago. I’m also certain she was probably fine within 30 mins of walking inside the school (or way sooner than that) but man, that was hard. It’s 1:15pm here and I can’t stop thinking about her and hoping she’s having a good day.
I’m sure it’s fueled by (a) going back after the first weekend – just a lot to process, more new transitions, and (b) we had family in from literally the other side of the world stay with us this weekend and we had to say goodbye to them this morning. She met her little cousin for the first time this weekend and loved having her, so probably a lot of built up emotion. The weekend they visited wasn’t ideal given new routines/school, but timing was out of our control.
That’s all. Solidarity to any other parents going through it.
hi! I’m expecting my first in mid March and am interested in a baby nurse or night nurse. does anyone have tips for interview questions to ask as we secure one? also, will happily take any recommendations. We are in NYC, no family nearby (thus the need for help).
first full week of sending my 4 month old to daycare and I’m having the hardest time at drop-off. even though my baby isn’t crying. it kills me to leave him, especially when there are other babies crying in the room. tell me it gets better and that it’s normal to hear crying babies in the infant room?
My 2nd grader has been having a hard time adjusting to the new school year. We’re two weeks in and she dissolves into tears every morning when it’s time to go to school and tells me every evening that she doesn’t want to go back. We’ve never had this with her before–she’s always loved school. Any suggestions for ways to help her adapt?
I’ve been able to get limited information out of her about why she is so unhappy with school, but it seems to center around (1) being placed in a class without her friends, (2) being asked to do more and harder work than last year, (3) a reward system the teacher has set up where they get tickets if everyone at their table behaves and having an unruly boy at her table that costs them tickets, and (4) disruption from having to switch classrooms because of issues with A/C and rodents so workers can try to resolve the issues. No single issue, but together they are really stressing her out and that’s not normal for her.
Close in DC suburb in VA. I think it’s $610 per week so something like $2600/month up to age 2. Food is provided after age 1. Hours are 7:30-6pm. Older kid is something like $2400. Our tuition has gone up $100 per week with the increases for both kids at this center.
Can we do an updated roundup of what people are paying for daycare, especially infant care? If you could say the monthly cost and type of place, if it includes anything extra, and the city/region where you’re located, I think it would be very interesting. I’m curious if rates have gone up dramatically with the national childcare shortage and inflation.
We are about to secure this place for our first: $2350 per month for infant at a center, San Francisco Bay Area, extra annual fees of a couple hundred dollars for supplies. We have to provide prefilled bottles and food for the first year but can switch to paying an extra $150 a month for meals once the baby turns one.
On outsourcing- those of you that have someone now for you, what do you pay and for what size lawn?
When my kids were babies/I was pregnant we had a lawn service and paid $55/mow (weekly when needed, biweekly when the growth was slower). Our yard hasn’t changed but our lawn tractor recently died and we were debating buying a new one or punting til spring and having a service mow for the next few weeks. It went up to $110/week! More than double over 4-5 years (I think we stopped with the landscapers in 2019).
We ended up just replacing the tractor because we’d be $700+ into a lawn service by the winter.
Our lot is 1 acre but nearly half is woods, and we have a large house and a lot of driveway so there isn’t that much grass. It takes us maybe 30-40 minutes to mow and weed whack- a lawn service does it in 20-30.