Coffee Break: Active Smooth Nail Polish Strengthener
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If you’ve been looking for a solution for ridged nails – or just like a quick-drying “your nails but better” look, I’ve been liking this nail strengthened and polish from Manicurust.
I feel like the color is perfect, and it dries in under 5 minutes. I’ve been meaning to compare it against my old favorite years ago, Nail Envy – can anyone speak to which is better?
The nail polish is $19 at Sephora, Ulta, and Manicurist.com.
Looking for healthy nail treatments? Readers love Burt's Bees lemon butter cuticle cream, CND Solar Nail & Cuticle Cream, OPI Nail Envy, Deborah Lippmann's The Cure Ultra Nourishing Cuticle Repair Cream, Lush Lemony Flutter, Dior Creme Abricot, and Sally Hansen's cuticle massage creme.
Sales of note for 6/12:
- Another Tomorrow – Seasonal sale, 50% off select styles
- Ann Taylor – Last day 6/12: Extra 60% off sale! Readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Athleta – 40% off tees, dresses, tanks, linen, and swim
- AYR – Ooh, good sale section — but lots on final sale. Readers love (LOVE) these comfy work pants and these jeans.
- Bare Necessities – Semi-annual sale, up to 60% off, plus get an additional 40% off clearance swim. Readers have sung the praises of these cooling pajamas and their bra-sized swimwear
- Boden – 15% off new women's wear styles with code
- Glossier – 20-25% off almost everything (including subscriptions!)
- J.Crew – 50% off tops, dresses, skirts and more
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 20% off 3+ styles
- Jenni Kayne – Semi-annual warehouse sale
- Loft – 50% off everything + free shipping
- M.M.LaFleur– This weekend only, 25% off jardigans (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom – 6900+ new markdowns added – nice selection from Boss, Vince, Veronica Beard, Theory, Beyond Yoga, and Zella
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new arrivals up to 75% off! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work basics from Calvin Klein and dresses from Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Talbots – Tons of markdowns, extra 60% off 2+, 50% off one
Looking for a new hand soap for my kitchen and bathrooms. I’ve been using Williams Sonoma’s Winter Forest in the fall/winter and Meyer Lemon in the spring/summer, but I’m looking for something new. Those are the types of scents I like, though – woodsy, citrusy, vanilla (not too sweet, though) – nothing too strong or floral. I already have refillable soap bottles, so it needs to be something I can buy in a large format to fill my bottles.
Look at Brooklyn Elements. They have a lot of Aesop dupes, I love the one that is vetiver-scented but it does have a lot of pumice in it. Got it for Xmas and had it in the main powder room off my office (wfh) and it’s almost time to empty what remains from my original bag, so I’ve probably got another 4-6 months at least.
Look at Mrs. Meyers scents. Geranium or Tomato Vine may be a good one for you.
I want to find a gradual self-tanning lotion. I’ve tried the Tanologist and Jergens ones and don’t love them…has anyone used the Bondi Sands Tanning Milk or the Loving Tan lotion, or has other recs? Preferably one that isn’t too stinky. TIA :)
For those of you in BigLaw, do your firms pay for CLEs that are in-person? Or just think: you can watch 5000 PLIs (which are great) on your screen and never interact with a human and that is fine (preferred even). I feel that I am going to struggle to ever develop into a better lawyer (or maybe I should bite the bullet and just pay for what seems to be good or to stretch my knowledge; it is expensive but so was law school and I paid for that).
I’ve had a firm grasp object to the cost of a CLE, big or small. In-person CLEs are good networking.
Yes, mine pays for in-person CLEs despite us also having free access to all the PLI CLE materials and videos. We each get an education budget annually.
Same.
I’m at a boutique so similar vibe to Biglaw and yes, they do. I usually do CLEs online at this point in my career just for efficiency’s sake, but there were some in person ones that I found really useful as a junior (I remember a really good deposition skills boot camp in particular) and my firm encouraged that.
We have a CLE budget. It’s enough to cover probably one of those multiday expensive CLE conferences you’ve got to travel to, or plenty of local CLEs. We also have free access to PLI.
I am largely an inside / wear a shirt sort of person. Haven’t hit the pool this year, so no chest sun exposure yet. I feel that the skin between the top of my arm pit to my shoulder (sort of a narrow stripe of skin) has darkened? It’s not tanned. It’s maybe an inch at the bottom / armpit end and then lightens and tapers as it goes up. I’m white and this area is a darker / tannish shade. Does this happen to anyone else and does it have a name (so I can consult dr. google)?
Does it look at all like acanthosis nigricans?
It’s not dark like that. It’s just more tan vs my usual pinkish-white color. But symmetrical. I rotate among different bras and spots bras and sleeping camisoles and it’s broader at the base than straps. If it were a tan line, it would be lighter than my skin. This is the reverse-ish.
What crafty hobbies do you like?
I like knitting during boring meetings to keep myself awake. I keep things pretty simple, since it’s kinda functioning like doodling and if I have to think about what I’m doing I’ll lose track of the meeting. So I’ve got a lot of hats and fingerless gloves.
Also a knitter. I haven’t mastered knitting in a meeting though — does it ever annoy people that you are knitting? I do it while the TV is on or (rarely) with a craft group while talking.