Coffee Break: The 6 Peptide Skin Booster
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As a teacher, I want to strongly encourage parents to start questioning your schools/camp emergency plans. I am horrified by what happened at Camp Mystic, and feel awful for the families who lost a loved one. There is no excuse for lack of emergency planning, and if parents ask me about our schools plans, I can explain all the different plans in place. No one ever asks. Plans are detailed on the family handbook, if parents read it. Being prepared won’t entirely prevent tragedies, but parents continually pushing for quality emergency preparedness and training will encourage places that don’t see the need for plans to put them in place. It will also help you weed out places that don’t meet your standards. Parents asking questions and pushing the school administration would get us more resources, and more trainings. Ask about severe weather, fire drills, lockdowns, everything. Don’t wait until something happens.
Ask the administration, don’t bug the teachers.
I would hope the teachers know the plans, too.
Eh, there are always subs and new people. Never assume it’s 100%.
I assume 2:35 is saying that teachers don’t have time to respond to this type of request.
In our school district, parents’ asking administration these tough questions would result in retaliation against their children, not better plans.
To be honest, all plans are likely good plans. But plans are theory and then there is where the rubber meets the road. I am a summer camp chaperone at scout camp. To wit: youth and adults often carry pocket knives and go to classes where they shoot arrows and rifles. Maybe also shotguns? And also ride ATVs. Then there is the pinkeye and the COVID and the twisted ankles, blisters, vomiting, first period, etc. Then there is weather. The solution for me is to basically carry a CVS with me, do many Wilderness First Aid classes, and start getting my EMT. It’s a lot of psychological burden to go into the woods with other people’s children.
As a parent and a Girl Scout leader, written plans are helpful but training + having leaders that are competent is what matters the most to me. You have to have leaders that are willing to deviate from the plan if necessary and leaders that are willing to learn from the past then change things the next time around.
FWIW, in K-5, I drilled into my kids that they were to listen to teachers and admin no.matter.what. But once they hit middle school (then high school) in a big public school district, I emphasized that they were to be polite and helpful to the adults, but if they were called into the principal’s office or interviewed by security/the police, they were to ask for their parents and stay silent until we arrived.
Some of the parents whose daughters died at Mystic said they regretted teaching their kids to be obedient to authority, unfortunately. Devastating to think of.
+1000. The entirety of Camp Mystic’s flood plan was “stay in your cabin” (literally – that’s what was written down, nothing else). Every single girl could have survived with hours to spare if only the camp had had an actual evacuation plan and then implemented it when the flood warning was issued at 1:14 am. Girls died within 20 steps of shelter because they were told to stay where they were. More would have died if quick-thinking counselors hadn’t defied orders and evacuated themselves.
3:11 chiming back in and this “quick-thinking counselors evacuating themselves” is where I stand. We absolutely rely on others and then at some point, we need to know what we need to do to self-rescue. My teen volunteered to be a camp counselor for one weekend and I was honestly impressed with how much training she had to do for months leading up to it. So much of success is this invisible planning that no one sees and that we hope gets done behind the scenes every time. But if you don’t know what to even look for, you won’t ever know when it is lacking.
For me: I always have a map (on paper, in a zip-lock), a headlamp, and try to keep my phone charged. You can’t check the weather enough before you go somewhere. We don’t camp next to water and never at the bottom of a hill. Sh*t matters.
I wish people understood better what happened at Camp Mystic. Obviously in hindsight they should have done more. It is an absolute tragedy. But I strongly believe no one could have prepared for that. It was entirely unprecedented. Don’t tell me there were other floods in that area; of course there were, but not like that. Most people in prior floods died from evacuating over low water crossings. Look up the bus that flooded evacuating from a camp in Comfort. As a result, the conventional wisdom has always been to hunker down. No one could possibly have imagined what was coming or that it would hit precisely on Camp Mystic. Imagine waking up little girls at 1:15 and telling them to march uphill. Now imagine if they had done that and it didn’t turn out that an inland tsunami parked over the camp; imagine the little girls writing home and how mad the parents would be about that. Obviously in hindsight that is what should have happened at Mystic, but it isn’t so easy to do. And in fact, no other camp did that; they just got lucky either not to have campers in session or not to have had the tsunami park on top of them. Also, the cabins by the river had never flooded, and the camp actually flooded from the creek, not the river anyway.
Ah, that “inland tsunami” phrasing rears its head again – the defense was suddenly all in on that phrasing at the hearing and the couple of Mystic supporters on R3ddit are using it now too! Not very subtle for you all to zero in on that just in the last two weeks.
The conventional wisdom in flooding has never been to “hunker down,” but the opposite – “seek higher ground.” Other camps did this (Waldemar, Mo Ranch) and got their kids to safety. Obviously you don’t drive a vehicle into an already flooded area – something Dick Eastland knew and ignored when he loaded an entire cabin into a Tahoe and ensured it met a 100% fatality rate.
While I’m positive that parents who lost their girls in violent, terrifying drowning deaths would have preferred that they get a little rained on during a walking evacuation after 1 am, you know what the absolute best way to avoid any discomfort or fear would have been? Evacuate the girls to James Hall on the Cypress Lake side the night before for a massive slumber party. Would have made a lot of sense given how Camp Mystic’s layout cut off staff from campers and campers from evacuation routes very early on in the flooding, which was very predictable given its location in the floodway and floodplain and its history of flooding.
Camp Mystic will never reopen.
Wow, you’re fired up. I have been saying inland tsunami since July, as have meteorologists. So I’m not sure what you mean.
July 3rd was sunny. The weather report was showing a risk of local flooding for a list of counties that makes up 12,000 square miles (yes, I was watching the hearing last week so I saw the defense put it up, but that doesn’t somehow make us in cahoots or whatever you’re implying). So yeah, they could have done a slumber party for hundreds of little girls who slept on floor and realistically nobody slept but again, just doesn’t seem that anyone would have reacted in that way.
I’m not sure where you’re getting that about Waldemar, but:
AUSTIN, Texas — Camp Waldemar, located in Hunt, was directly in the path of the July Fourth flooding. A leader at the camp received a text at 1:30 a.m. alerting them to the danger.
Camp owner Meg Clark told lawmakers their staff were on high alert throughout the rest of the morning and they did move some canoes—but they didn’t move their kids out of the cabins.
That phrase still just makes me think of Okawa Elementary, where it was an actual tsunami and the same mistakes were made for many of the same reasons (inadequate preparation, leadership issues, concerns about blame and liabilities).
Waldemar moved either one or two cabins of girls in the cabins closest to the rivers. Those cabins will not be used for future campers either.
Camp Mystic wasn’t prepared for a minor, moderate, or severe flood, since it had no evacuation plan of any kind and no communication devices with counselors. The criminal negligence probe is (IMO) going to result in charges.
this is absolute bs. did you watch the testimony last week or read any of it. why was there no siren installed at the camp or some way to communicate with the cabins? Didn’t the owner themselves vacate their home with their kids?
Not the defender poster, but yes, two of the directors evacuated with their own kids/grandkids to higher ground. They did not attempt to help or communicate with any of the camper girls they left behind, nor any staff left behind who were in a position to help. They never called 911, ever.
Did they act perfectly?? God no. Obviously no. There were horrible consequences from their mistakes. Heartbreaking ones. Ones that ruined families. I just can’t imagine that anyone would have acted perfectly in those emergency unprecedented circumstances.
I don’t know how you’re saying Waldemar evacuated when the owner said they didn’t.
Don’t just ask about plans. Ask if those plans have been exercised. The plan has to be written down, but people also need to instinctively know what their role is and what that first step is.
+1. Ask about when/how often drills are and who is responsible for communication with the parents (another huge area where Mystic failed).
I agree for camps, but I’m surprised this information isn’t continually pushed to parents by schools. It certainly is at our schools, both in communication from the Superintendent/board at the district level, and at the school level in Back-to-School Nights and newsletters.
My area has seen some more parental pushing related to wildfires – there was some kind of incident (before I lived in this exact town) where a school wasn’t prepared to get kids off-campus when they thought a wildfire was heading their way. Now I believe they have school buses on standby during red flag warnings.
I’d like the parents who text yelled at me for cancelling a Scout backpacking trip due to 100% chance of storms with lightening to read this. And think about how they treat adults who decide to exercise caution.
Stuff like that is 100% why I’m cycling out of volunteering with Girl Scouts when my kid ages out (some people do stay). I can put up with the occasional insane parent when my own kid is getting something out of it, but not on my own psychological dime.
Im 44. I care about how I look. Lately I been on camera a lot for a few reasons and it’s probably time to look into cosmetic surgery. I can’t stand the laxiety in my lower face. I have a great life and feel young and don’t want to look as old as I do.
The other thing that has been really really bothering me is my nose. As a kid I never liked it but everyone acted like I was crazy when I asked for a nose job as a teenager. It’s not big nose but it is not a cute shape. I kind of forgot about it for two decades. These past few years seeing it on zoom have really really bothered me because it’s just not a cute nose or profile.
I mentioned to my husband I’d like to get my nose fixed when I get whatever age related lift fixes my lower face and he was pretty crestfallen saying he likes my nose. Again, it’s not like a Streisand nose. It’s objectively silly to say it adds character. It’s just ugly in that its bridge is not shaped nicely.
He kind of rolls his eyes at the Botox and the facelift talk. He was actually upset about the nose job. Should I care? I feel like he just defaults to hating change.
I would care. It would also hurt me if my loved one disliked a face that I dearly loved.
My nose bridge is a bit wonky too, but as far as I know, no one has ever judged me negatively for it.
How does he feel about the expense of cosmetic surgery? I would really like to do Sofwave, but my husband is dead set against the expense and honestly I can’t really blame him because it is a selfish expenditure.
Oh no. He will swear up and down that he doesn’t think it’s necessary but he’s never call it selfish. He fundamentally understands that I want to like the way I look and it’s important to me. His hang up isn’t the money it’s the difference between restoring and changing my face I think. Obviously I wouldn’t consider it if we couldn’t pay our mortgage or something but we hare have the money.
Well changing your face is a really big deal. I think I would hesitate if my spouse reacted as yours has. But I’m not you.
I mean, your face is a face he loves. It’s not surprising that he has an emotional attachment to it. Whether you should care about it is a question for you and your relationship, but it’s something that I personally would consider.
I feel like this is a form of control and it’s generally not a good thing assuming what you want is within the realm of ‘normal’.
Maybe, but I’ve known couples to divorce post cosmetic surgery because they lost the visual link of the person they knew and loved and the new face/body.
This is hard for me to understand. Does this mean they would have divorced over scarring from an accident or a disfiguring medical condition? Or is it because it was elective that they can’t get over it?
I really don’t think that (as OP described it) having emotions about your partner’s proposal to change their face is “a form of control.” Can we not assume the absolute worst of all people all the time please.
I’d say it’s equally likely that people who start to pursue cosmetic procedures often don’t know when to stop and their spouses may not want that. Surgeons are quite happy to take your money. Just look at everyone with Mar A Lago Face.
Yes, I think you should care about your husband’s feelings. That doesn’t mean your own feelings are not valid, but I think a conversation about the whole thing is the healthy approach. If he’s not aware of your internal thoughts, that matters. If you aren’t aware of his, that also matters. If he’s struggling to fit such a cost into your budget, that matters. If you have the money saved up and can pay for it with no impact on your household, that matters.
I would honestly feel the same way as your husband here. A facelift is restoring your appearance. A nose job is changing your appearance so you look more like someone else entirely. There just is not an objective standard for what a cute nose bridge is, and “the one you were born with” does have some advantages. It’s obviously still something you can do, but I think his reaction is understandable when you’re already this far into a relationship with someone who is attracted to you the way you are. It also sounds like it didn’t bother you until Zoom, so another solution is to turn off your self-view on Zoom and forget about it again.
Maybe the officially correct answer was “whatever makes you happy, honey,” but since it’s permanent and not something like a hair cut or color, I feel like it’s better to express that it’s hard to wrap his head around than to just go along with it.
Completely agree with this. I would also be a little worried about body dysmorphic disorder and psychological health if my spouse of many years who had never mentioned this before suddenly started talking about needing multiple cosmetic procedures. Are they just going to find one thing after another to fixate on and have a never ending list of things they need to change, when I already love them the way are?
Op here. I don’t know. I’m 44. I’m no great beauty but I was always pretty. I don’t ask permission for lasers or Botox or injections or hair extensions. He always says they’re unnecessary but then admits he thinks I look better with them. Ok he does look at me crazy when my face is bright red but then he comes around. He’s extremely supportive of my glp-1 use after being skeptical at first.
I don’t feel as bad as I look and it’s time to remedy that so I can be pretty going forward. We’re talking some pretty subtle tweaks here, not a whole new face. Will there be more to tweak in the coming decades? Most likely, yes. But I’m half convinced he’ll come around once he sees the results.
There is a difference between asking for permission and getting on the same page about permanent restructuring. Of course he has questions, concerns, and opinions.
I’m more sympathetic to him in this telling, tbh.
Honestly, I’d be worried about my spouse if he wrote this. It doesn’t sound like something a mentally healthy person says.
“so that I can be pretty going forward”? You just said you were always pretty. I’m simultaneously confused and sad to read this. Confused because its contradictory and sad because it’s just sad to hear someone talk about themselves this way. And a nose job isn’t a pretty subtle tweak.
You know, your husband may feel sad that you don’t see yourself as pretty. Mine will call himself fat (he is not) and it breaks my heart to hear him be so hard on himself.
IDK, this does sound like a pathway to a whole new face. I care less about what your husband thinks (though I completely get where he’s coming from) and more about what’s going through your mind. Look, I get it. I’m 45. Things look different than they used to, and it can be unnerving. But also? Once you start changing things, where’s the line? It sounds like you’re already doing quite a bit of cosmetic stuff. You sound like you need self-acceptance, not a nose job.
I would be concerned about your attitude if I were your spouse – “so I can be pretty going forward” is a very abstract goal to chase. Have you talked to any friends or people other than your spouse?
+1
I think it’s nice your husband likes your face the way it is. Isn’t that what marriage is partly for–acceptance for who we are, imperfect nose and all?
Can you bring him to a consult with you? I had a rhino/septoplasty as an adult and fixed the appearance of my nose in addition to the horrible breathing issues. My doctor did a 3D render of my face and offered me different options for how I wanted the nose to look.
Fwiw I LOVE the change and wish I’d have done it sooner. It also took me nearly 2 years to find a doctor who was able to do a subtle job and preserve my more ‘ethnic’ features vs. a cookie cutter instagram nose.
He’s probably worried you’ll die on the table for what he sees as no reason.
I feel like there are a lot of Dallas-area people here. I’ll be there for work this week, leaving Thursday from DFW at 4:20 p.m.
I have tickets to the Sixth Floor museum at 10 a.m. that morning. Giving myself around 2 hours there – what should I do after before heading to the airport? I will have a carryon with me. I know I can store it at the museum while I am there, but otherwise stuck with it unless I use bounce.
I’d like to grab lunch and then maybe browse some local shops. Should I use the bounce luggage storage, Uber to Bishop arts for a little bit, come back to get my bag and then head to the airport? Or will that be cutting it close and wasting a lot of time? FWIW – carryon + pre-check.
If you’re suddenly really tired during the day, do you nap? How long, where, etc?
Very rarely, but I have never been much of a nap person. Usually when that urge hits it is a sign I am coming down with something.
We have wellbeing rooms in my office that can be reserved by nursing mothers, diabetics, people who need to change a dressing, etc. I have a colleague with a new puppy who keeps her up all night, so she will book one for a short nap in the midafternoon.
In my car in the parking lot, I put the seat down and set an alarm.
A caffeine nap works best. Drink a coffee, then take a 20 minute nap while it starts to kicks in. If your office has conference rooms without windows, those. If not I’ve honestly closed my eyes in the bathroom for <10 minutes. Doesn't work as well but it helps.
Never. It’s so disorienting to me. I don’t know how anyone naps. I wake up feeling confused and sick and all my limbs feel too heavy. It’s just the worst feeling.
If I’m feeling crummy enough to fall asleep midday it’s a sick day because I’m toast anyway. I just go home.
Same here. If I go to sleep during the day, it’s all over for me. I may as well head to bed for the night.
Same here.
I am a total nap person and I’ve napped in my office with the door closed or my car in the parking garage when I was in open seating.
I almost always feel the need to nap after lunch, but I usually only do it on the weekends. During the work week, I have a cup of coffee after lunch and go for a walk or run to re-energize. When I work from home, I will sometimes nap for 30 minutes if I have nothing urgent going on.
Can anyone recommend a decent-looking solution for an outdoor chaise lounge cushion storage box? We have a new-to-us pool this summer, and just ordered 6 chaise lounge chairs with cushions. We want to be able to store them somewhere out of the rain / sun but don’t want to have to bring them indoors or into the garage every time, so it would need to be some kind of storage chest/box that can sit on the pool deck. I’m struggling to find something relatively attractive that is waterproof (or nearly waterproof) and can also fit larger cushions.
Also welcome any recs for pool floats for both kids and adults. TIA!
Waterproof seems the wrong way to go here unless you want moldy cushions. Protected from precipitation, sure, but something that allows air movement seems vital.
The blog Design Darling wrote a post about that – don’t have it handy but if you google her blog plus outdoor toy storage or something like that, I think you’ll find it!
waterproof is not necessarily good here – the cushions will have some moisture in them and they’ll mold on their own without a breeze.
FWIW we just donated all of our cushion-requiring outdoor furniture and replaced it with mesh, if it’s not too late to choose something else. We use the furniture so much more often already without the obstacle of Cushion Management.
we just leave ours out all summer and pack away in the winter. they get soaked at times if we don’t pull before a rain but they’ve lasted for almost 10 years. they were cheap and pretty thin but packing them into one deck box (spider heaven!) is still hard.
Yeah, it’s the spiders for me. I just leave mine out.
I appreciate how delicately we all are when discussing pregnancy and babies with women struggling with infertility, but I’ve noticed single women don’t get the same treatment. I really want kids but am single and not in a position to be a single mom by choice. It feels like all of my friends are pregnant and I’m watching my biological clock tick away and it just sucks some days.
I’m sorry, that’s so hard. You’re right that some days just suck whenever situations like this happen.
Agree that infertility isnt the only circumstance in which people may not be able to have children! All situations should be treated with compassion
Do you have a therapist to talk this through? I worry you might explode at an inappropriate time.
It does suck (and solidarity!)
That said, I don’t want my friends to self censor themselves about their babies around me so I dunno that I actually want anything to change (other than, y’know, my singleness). But if I need to vent about how terrible the apps are, I know my friends who are parents are going to have my back, because they’re good friends. And if they need to vent to me about how they haven’t gotten a good night’s sleep in three years, I’m going to listen to them too, not jump in with “sounds like a problem I’d love to have!”. Life is just hard sometimes, and we all need a little (lot of) grace
Here’s what is hopefully a fun question. Can you help me dress my husband? He has finally realized that his 90’s khakis and button down work shirts are so out of style they might be back in style if he keeps them around a few more years. Since he is retired, he no longer needs work clothes. Where should he shop? It seems like linen is in these days but he needs style guidance. Any websites or blogs that could help? TIA!
Marine Layer, Outerknown
What activity is he dressing for?
My spouse, left to his own devices, will dress on the cutting edge of 80’s high school fashion. In lieu of that, he is happy to wear and looks nicely put together in reasonably current outfits that I suggest for him from GAP.
My husband’s default is Orvis.
This is so hard without knowing his style or budget or lifestyle. That said for my husband, whose lifestyle goes from midtown business casual to suburban dad clothes, Todd synder strikes the perfect balance between modern and preppy. The boutique near me has great salespeople who helped us a lot.
IMHO, men often do better with a store that they can buy the outfit in the window than blogs. Peter Millar is great for stretchy but structured attire (especially if he decides to not skip leg day).
Anyone ordering anything for 4/20? My husband likes CANN and they had 30% off today.