Coffee Break: Yeux Paint
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For some reason I've been buying a lot of liquid eye shadow lately, even though I know from experience it tends to go on extremely heavy. I have neutral colors from several brands (recent purchases include RMS, GenSee, and now, Violette_FR) and I think Violette's is my favorite. I have it in the color pictured, “Petite Culotte.”
It goes on heavily, as they all do, but it buffs out pretty quickly with your finger or a brush, and I like the slightly unusual shade of beige (it has a touch of coral in there, I think). It's very matte, and stays all day. No complaints!
You can get the eyeshadow at Sephora.com or Violette_Fr.
Sales of note for 8/7:
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale ends August 9! Here's our big roundup of the best workwear, as well as everything we've selected thus far. Don't forget to check to see if their daily beauty deal is a good one for you.
- Ann Mashburn – Seasonal sale, up to 50% off – we just included them in our updated Top 10 Brands for Comfortable Heels!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase, $99 dresses, and extra 60% off clearance — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Anthropologie – Extra 40% off sale!
- Bare Minerals – Free shipping over $50! Love their Love thir OG Mineral Veil setting powder
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns (new lines added)
- J.Crew – Up to 30% off
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off sitewide
- J.McLaughlin – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- Lilysilk – Anniversary sale, save up to 70%
- Madewell – Up to 30% off
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added, exclusively online)
- M.M.LaFleur – End of season sale! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new markdowns up to 75% off! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work dresses from Calvin Klein, Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Saks Fifth Avenue – Up to $500 off your purchase! Great selection of Veronica Beard, L'Agence, Vince, and more.
- Talbots – Semi-annual red door sale, 50-60% off all markdowns, and free shipping on 150+.
- Theory – End of season sale is on! Love all the colors their best-selling sweater tee comes in, and some colors are on sale.
For the law people: is getting no-offered from a BigLaw summer gig a kiss of death? I feel that no-offer rates are rising and it’s because firms are scared to over-hire (or are going with 1L permanent offers, which really seems to up the crapshoot potential). Also, law schools can be awful about preparing students for actual paths of practice (they can be great, but often it’s a choose-your-own-adventure game where you are ill-suited to be your own guide) and some students have no clue how the work world works, but it seems like firms skate in their bad decision-making and the cost is bourne by students.
A kiss of death how? I was no offered after my 2L summer. I’m not sure anyone except my closest friends ever knew and no one certainly ever cared.
If no-offer rates are rising, are firms predicting another 2009-type economic disaster and trying to avoid deferring and rescinding offers?
I’d assume yes. Are there industries not predicting that kind of disaster?
i think it’s unlikely that you will get an offer after a graduation at that kind of firm without summering but you can still be a lawyer. public sector, government, smaller mom and pops….
I think they’re asking about summering at a firm and not getting an offer at the end of the summer.
3L big law recruiting is a thing, but you’re going to have to have a reason for participating in it, especially if your 2L summer firn is historically a 100% offer firm.
My husband didn’t get an offer from his big law summer associate gig but landed a prestigious government position. Many people in his role go to big law eventually, although he hasn’t. So, no, it’s not the kiss of death. There are many ways to be a lawyer.
As someone in the law school class of 2010, I don’t believe it’s a kiss of death. I got an offer and returned to the firm I summered at, but more than half my class was no offered (both my summer class and my law school class).
But that was a period when it was common to not get an offer. Not sure how it’s viewed now, as I left biglaw a few years ago.
And to be clear, all of the people I know who didn’t get an offer went on to have attorney jobs. Some have very prestigious jobs, some more your average legal job.
Not necessarily, but it sucks for a while. Elder millennial story time: I (and about half my class) got no-offered in 2009, because, well, 2009. I had a bit of a winding path but ended up at another fairly large (but not BigLaw) firm about 3 years after graduation. Fast forward to about a decade after law school; I’m working on a big MDL and turns out one of my codefendants is represented by none other than one of my fellow summers who had gotten an offer and was still at the firm I summered with. Other story: I had a partner I had worked with a bit at summer firm (who had moved on to another firm in the interim) join my firm a couple of years ago. Introduced myself: “you probably don’t remember me, but I was a summer associate at [BigLaw firm] a long time ago and worked on a project for you.” Response: “Oh, I think I remember you. How long did you stay at [BigLaw firm]?” So clearly they didn’t remember me and I had to explain the answer was 0 years because they had no-offered me. But the point is–I ultimately ended up doing the same work with the same people, even though I wasn’t at BigLaw.
For less money too, I’m guessing. I think that’s what OP is getting at.
I graduated during the Great Recession, and I won’t lie, it was rough. Things are great now, but they are different than what I expected. I had very good grades and always thought I’d work in a big or mid law firm, in a certain city and area. I didn’t get an offer after either summer. Believe me, I cried.
I attended all the 3L OCIs and sent so many resumes, and managed to land a state judicial clerkship for the first year. The economy just got worse, and I couldn’t roll that into a firm job, either. (Do you know how awkward it is for law firms to turn down the person who works for the judge? So many apologetic calls and personal letters.).
I was never completely out of work, but I spent 2-3 years at tiny firms making very little, before I landed a steady and well-paying small firm job (different city and adjacent area). Now I’m in-house and it’s great and I make fairly good money and have a great quality of life. But it was hard.
That sounded more grim than I wanted. To be clear, no one ever seemed bothered that I had been no offered; everyone I spoke to seemed to understand it was the economy, not me. I don’t know how that stands today, but the point is, it changes your plans, but it will work out some way or another,
Used to be. Guessing things may work differently in this market. Although I’d still be hesitant to hire someone who was.
out of curiosity does anyone here run a booster club?
I did once upon a time. It was a thankless job, but I was happy to support the organization whose club I ran.