Coffee Break: Hydrobalm Sheer Lipstick
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I've spent way too long today combing through the Sephora sale to make some recommendations (occupational hazard) and love the look of this gorgeous sheer lipstick from Westman Atelier. I think my color is going to be “ballerine,” but I'm open to suggestions!
Other things I'm getting in the sale personally: Manucurist nail treatments (anyone else stalked by them on social meda?), Violette (I'm trying the lightest color of this eye product), the viral Kulfi lip stain, and I was pleased to see a smaller size of Good Genes, which I love but don't use often. I just got a new tube of this, but I really do love this highlighter so I'm getting another one since it's marked down and so often out of stock. (Oh and if you're a perfume girlie, the Replica free sample is in a lot of the perfume kits for this summer…)
Here's everything I would recommend in the sale… readers, what are you getting?
Here's a link to the collection, or hopefully you can view it in the widget below…
Sales of note for 4/10:
- Nordstrom – End of Season Sale – Spring styles up to 50% off – lots of great deals from Natori, Boss, Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss, Spanx, True & Co., Hanky Panky, Commando, Tory Burch, Theory, Zella, CeCe, Eliza J, Halogen, Vince Camuto, and more.
- Ann Taylor – 30% off tops and sweaters, and (4/10 only) 25% off dresses, skirts and shoes
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code
- Brooklinen – 15% off sitewide, plus up to 50% off bundles
- Brooks Brothers – Friends & Family Event, 25% off sitewide. Lots of cute florals and stripes in the sale.
- Evereve – 1000+ items on sale, including lots from Alex Mill, Michael Stars, Sanctuary, Rails, Xirena, and Z-Supply
- Express – $40 off $120, $100 off $250
- J.Crew – Midseason sale: Extra 40% off sale styles, 200+ new styles just added!
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything
- Lands' End – 50% off full price styles and 60% off all clearance and sale – lots of ponte dresses come down under $25, and this packable raincoat in gingham is too cute
- Loft – All jeans $41, 40% off entire purchase
- Macy's – 25% off already reduced prices + 15% off beauty & fragrance
- M.M.LaFleur – Spring Sale Event – Buy More, save more! 10% off $250+, 15% off $500+, 20% off $750+, 25% off $1000+ (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off if you find any exclusions.)
- Sephora – Spring sale! 20% off for Rouge members starting today, and 30% off the Sephora Collection for everyone — if you're looking for a really muted everyday eyeshadow, I like both 106 and 301 here!
- Talbots – 40% off regular price tops + 30% off everything else
- Vivrelle – Looking to own less stuff but still try trends? Use code CORPORETTE for a free month, and borrow high-end designer clothes and bags!
Interesting that Orban was a big funder to CPAC – no wonder Vance wanted to campaign for him.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hungary-leader-reveals-victor-orb-151540991.html
I keep thinking about how Magyar (Hungary’s new leader) stayed quiet on LGBTQ issues on the campaign but in his acceptance speech was clearly in favor. Is there any way for American politicians to do that? instead of falling into the cesspool of dumb republican questions and made up “issues” can they just… stay silent?
It’s always been an option. But if they want to take money from and make promises to all the people who are ruining voters’ lives, they need something else to talk about and a cheap way to maintain the moral high ground.
So are you saying Democrats should stay silent on LGBTQ rights? Just abandon those constituents because it’s politically expedient, at least until they get elected? Also, Kamala essentially did stay silent on trans issues while she was running. It didn’t matter, she still got framed as some insanely out of touch progressive who was only for “they/them” not “you/yours.”
I’m not who you are responding to, but if you identify their needs as the needs we all have and make sure everyone is in the fold, you can get out of the grasp of identity politics. At the end of the day we are all human beings trying to build a life and a future.
we let a deranged, demented, narcisstic grandpa fascist get elected because the republicans are able to make it all about how democrats want to take your tax dollars and use them to transition prisoners to women so they can do drag brunches. in every debate or interview republicans bring it up over and over.
maybe i just wish the news media wouldn’t report on it? there has to be a better way. clearer messaging than a 30-point plan for policy wonks? it feels like they’re sidestepping the obvious “the other side is insane” option but that’s me.
I’m a lesbian. I’d rather a democrat not campaign on LGBT issues and win and then be supportive than be outspoken on these issues and lose.
If that what it takes to get elected, yes.
Respectfully, IIRC think you’ve previously posted about having a husband. As a lesbian I’m okay with the Dems changing their rhetoric if thats Whats needed to win.
My marriage, family and community are at risk if republicans keep winning and continue to implement project 2025.
I frankly don’t need a straight ally to get caught up in purity tests and culture wars to ruin this for us.
They can if they have stuff of substance to talk about, and are able to tie in how their proposed policies impact everyone’s lives, no matter their orientation or ideologies.
Republicans will continue to make strawman arguments accusing democrats of supporting all sorts of positions that they don’t support. I fail to see how it helps if Democrats simply say nothing. It is extremely naïve to think that staying silent will some how stop the Republican propaganda machine that’s been working to divide people over “cultural issues” since, idk, the 70s.
It would take more than saying nothing for sure. But Democrats have been encouraging the culture wars at least since the 80s.
I just can’t agree that fighting for LGBTQ/minority/women’s rights is “encouraging the culture wars.”
Fighting for LGBTQ/minority/women’s rights is great, but selling out on workers’ rights, housing, healthcare also hurts marginalized people disproportionately. The whole idea that letting Silicon Valley concentrate wealth by exploiting regulatory loopholes would create a new progressive west coast cultural force that would lead the Democrat party to lasting victory has not gone well at all. I’m not even sure it hasn’t fed into animus against minority groups who have sometimes been tokenized pretty cavalierly (and sometimes been betrayed and abandoned pretty cavalierly too).
Agree. This was something I thought Governor Walz was actually really good at during the last election. No one is particularly interested in a 35-step plan about how to handle a student name change at a public high school. What I want is a Democratic politician who will say something like, “Mr. Vance, why are you so obsessed with something that involves a tiny group of people and doesn’t hurt anyone to change?”
+1
Gay liberal democrat here: the problem is that voters have wayyy too many purity tests for our candidates and (young progressives especially) won’t vote for a “good enough and likely to win” candidate. The left eats their own here. So, instead we pander to the young progressives and lose the independents.
This happens. But it’s also a problem that the candidates try to sell the voters on what’s popular with donors and end up being perceived as either duplicitous or dangerously out of touch.
Even though I often hold my nose and vote for generic white dudes I’m not sure it really matters. Nothing binds quite like republic hate.
OK but Swalwell was pretty far from “pure”
– a Californian
I like the Sephora house brand shea body butter and sugar scrubs.
does anyone make chia jam? i think i’m going to try it tonight
Please report back! Chia pudding is really easy. I bet jam is similar.
Any recommendations for lightweight blazers, preferably in a color? I’m mid-manager level and need some spring/summer options that are not oversized style. I tried an olive green one from BR Factory, but it was intern-level quality. A lot of options are unlined, which gets easily wrinkled and frumpy looking on my curvy figure. I have a few JCrew schoolboy blazers, which fit well but don’t have many color options. Prefer under $200.
JCrew schoolboy fits me well, and I also have good luck with more colorful options from Talbots. I’m not sure the style name, though, since I mostly buy my blazers secondhand.
Consider looking for options in a “crepe” fabric. My all time fave is the khloe blazer by cinq a sept in the crepe fabric. I have a couple of others from aritzia; I think the brand is babaton. They don’t hit your price point unless you buy on a resale site though I think. Maybe the Babaton might.
Does anyone know of a dupe for Aesop Resurrection? I looove the scent but not the price.
try Element Brooklyn! I fell in love with Reverence in a restaurant bathroom in Paris and was shocked at the price. got element brooklyn and really happy with it.
Thank you!!
I tried the Element Brooklyn dupe and found it to be fine, but not a real duplicate of the Aesop product.
has anyone tried this Westman Atelier brand? seems wildly overpriced
I have. I really like their blush and highlighter and eyebrow pencil. Very expensive but it lasts a really long time (both in terms of the day on my face and months in my makeup drawer).
I like the Super Loaded Cream Highlighter, which is more of a blush than a highlighter. The fancy compact is difficult to open, though. I found the blush stick and contour stick to be dry, and the available shades of both are not great for my pale, cool-toned skin. I love the Squeaky Clean Lip Hydrating Balm, which is really a gloss, in the color Ma Puce, but it’s very expensive and the container holds very little so I save it for special occasions.
Sephora has the stick products in mini sizes, if you want to try them for a lower investment.
I have her mini contour set in biscuit and petal. They’re nice. But the biscuit was always a bit muddy on me. Now there’s a contour color in a shade called Au Lait that is much more suitable for my very pale, cool toned skin. It only comes in full size. I actually love it.
Is anyone familiar with the brand Ballerette? They seem to be Italian? I feel like this is my classic ideal of a shoe — traditional pump looks, but with a low block heel. Like the Ferragamo Vara, but less expensive (and Ferragamos run a hair narrow, which is my concern with any European brand; one foot had a broken toe which means that that part of my foot can find many shoes too snug unless they are the soft type of leather that gives a bit).