Weekly News Update
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– Privilege talks about blazers for business casual.
– Paint it black: according to the WSJ's Juggle Blog, 51% of female executives report they wear black to work (compared with just 18% of men).
– Calling all Black Honey fans — Beauty Blogging Junkie reports that Clinique just launched SEVEN new colors of the same “Almost” lipstick line.
– Hmmn: Shopping's My Cardio reviews her personalized Hayden-Harnett silk scarf. I may need one of these babies.
– For this week's “Corner Office,” The New York Times interviewed Amy Schulman, executive vice president and general counsel of Pfizer. Above the Law picked out some tips on interviewing and, er, chair adjustment techniques.
– Keep on keepin' on — including job hunting — during December, SavvySugar advises. On the flip side: Lifehacker says to take vacations in the middle of projects, not at the end of them.
– Mint suggests 6 tax moves to make at the end of the year.
– According to NPR, everyone who needs contacts needs to reassess their cleaning routine. Yuck.
– Lifehacker tells you how to tweak your Facebook profile to adjust to the new “Timeline” feature, which easily lets friends see every post you've ever made on Facebook.
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Sales of note for 7/29:
- 7/29/26: Happy National Lipstick Day! Nordstrom, Ulta, Sephora, and more are all having great deals today on lipsticks! (Even Target has a “buy one get one 25% off” sale!) Here are all of our favorite lipsticks right now.
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale continues! 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 – e.g., 7/29 up to 40% off select lip products; 7/31 Bobbi Brown; 8/1 Jo Malone
- Ann Taylor – 50% off summer styles + 60% off clearance — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Banana Republic – 30% off your purchase (ends 7/31)
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns + extra 10% off
- J.Crew – Up to 30% off
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off sitewide
- 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
- Talbots – 25% off your entire purchase
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
And some of our latest threadjacks here at Corporette (reader questions and commentary) — see more here!
Some of our latest threadjacks include:
OMG as I was putting on my lipslicks today I was thinking, d*mn, I miss when clinique made the almost lipstick in more than black honey! I do like the black honey, but it’s not a color I want to wear all the time!
I’m losing it over this news as well! I just went to the Clinque and Sephora websites and it looks like the new colors aren’t available yet, but I am ON IT.
haha thanks, report back! I was just at the clinique counter yesterday!
I wonder if I’m the only one not on the Blck Honey bandwagon. I find both color and formula to be very “meh,” but then, I am one who prefers pigment and opacity in my lip products. If I don’t want to wear color, I’ll just dab on some plain ol’ lip balm.
I like the color, but hate the Almost Lipstick. I wish they still made Black Honey as a lip gloss – that was my favorite for years before they discontinued it.
A nail polish PSA – Sally Hanson “salon manicure” – is awesome. I’m awful at doing my own nails and this has a really cool U shaped brush and it also doesnt chip. I think I may have to switch from essie and OPI! Just wanted to share a great find with you ladies!
I swear by this nail polish it is the only kind I use now. I have perfect manicures every time. I find it does chip though, I use a top coat.
UGH! This Lifehacker article about vacations highlights what makes lawyering a difficult profession. I am NEVER at the end of a “project.” There is a deadline almost every day, and certainly every week, in one of my many cases. I would love a job where I have “deliverables” that take a year or 6 months or 3 months to prepare, then I get to move on to the next thing. I am sure if I did, I would realize that those jobs have their own special stressors, but right now, after working in law for 5 years, I feel like I NEVER get a break and there is NEVER a good time to take a vacation. Oh well, taking 2 weeks for the Olympics next year anyway. But I get to stress for the next 8 months over the fallout from it.