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Good Morning!

It’s Monday! On Monday we list things we love. What are you loving at the moment? Do share.

As for me I’m loving…

Humans
You know what? The world is a chaotic mess but you have to love the humans out there spreading positivity. There’s a lot of ’em! On Twitter, on TikTok, on Facebook, etc….when you look hard enough you have some really good humans out there doing their best to spread good vibes and I’m here for it. Some of you really light my comments up with your support and sweetness. Thank you for that. It reminds me that good people are still alive and kicking out there.

Victoria’s Secret Semi-Annual Sale
I’m so sorry but I’m an awful, terrible consumer that’s eating up these sales lately especially because all this chaos makes me just wanna drown my hurt heart in retail therapy. VS’s Semi-Annual Sale started and I admit I grabbed a bra or fifty. I needed several new plunge bras and more fragrance mists like a hole in my head but the heart wants what the heart wants. I’ll rant about the lack of sillage on the fragrance mists later and make you listen to me. Did you shop the sale? Whatcha get?

Rewatching Fleabag
My friend The Beauty Alchemist recommended that I watch Flea Bag several months ago and I devoured Season 1 and 2 very quickly. I decided to re-watch it recently because Andrew Scott (Heyyy to all my gay readers he’s on Grinder! Go get ’em boys!)…ugh who would think I’d see him as anything other than Moriarty? But he was so great as the Priest. The ending of S2 is so bitter sweet. I’ll hold out that hope we’ll see a Season 3 even it’ll never happen. Go watch it if you haven’t.

Tabitha Brown
The greatest thing that came out of quarantine was discovering Auntie Tabitha Brown on TikTok. She is such an inspiration, so positive, so amazing. This is love.

Canmake Mermaid Skin Gel UV SPF 50+ PA++++
Summer is here peeps! SPF is a year round event but since we spend so much more time outside during the warmer weather we have to be sure we’re all protected well. I forgot how much I love Canmake Mermaid Skin. I hauled it out recently because I ran out of Allie. It’s lightweight, absorbs easily, and provides a high level of SPF.

NARS Orgasm Blush
I’m so sorry I’ve becoming a Summer cliche. I’ve hauled out Orgasm because NARS started in with their re-promotion for Summer 2020 and I’ve been wearing it everyday just to watch the news and clean the floors. I have no regrets.

NY Fashion Week Reruns
My heart is hurting NYFW has been cancelled (let’s not even talk about Comic Con because I’ll sob even harder) but come Fall I don’t think we’ll be ready for that level of closeness yet so it just makes sense to not hold it. I’ve been doing some reruns lately though. I pulled out some of my oldest copies of Fall Vogue issues and I’m having a blast with them. Some of the ones from the 90s are totally making my life right now.

Go ahead and make your love list and slap it up in the comments!

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Kimberly is one of my greatest supporters on Twitter. She’s not only a friend of the blog but she’s such a cheerleader for Musings of a Muse. She’s always tweeting me sale info or retweeting my posts. When you have a blog you need people like Kimberly in your life as she’s always doing her best to share my stuff all around the Internet. It means so much to me when someone shares or retweets something I posted and she does it constantly.

She posted something Donnie Wahlberg posted on Twitter recently (she’s a massive New Kids fan girl!) and it really struck a chord with me. Something I’m super guilty of. Allow me to explain.

With all this stuff going on right COVID-19, BLM, etc…it’s a bit overwhelming isn’t it? I’m pretty guilty of saying I wish things would go back to normal. I hate the new normal that’s for sure. The new normal of being scared to go grocery shopping. The new normal of wearing a mask everywhere. The new normal of no stores still not re-opening here in New York. It’s been pretty crazy isn’t it? We had over 378,000 cases here in New York and nearly 25,000 deaths. We were in complete lock down for 100 days until today when finally we are entering a Phase 1 opening that includes construction and manufacturing workers going back to work. No stores or restaurants are yet re-opening. At first I think some New Yorkers, myself included, were under the impression some stores would re-open but further news today reveals that’s not happening.

When George Floyd was tragically murdered the world spiraled into even more chaos with good reason. I think after two weeks of protests, violence, and an incredible amount of negativity across social media I was all, “I wish things would go back to normal”. I think most of us feel this way but this is where Donnie’s Instagram reminds us things shouldn’t be about returning to normal.

He posted: “When we say we just want to go back to normal. Let’s remember, that “normal” that we speak of, is what allowed so many black men and women to be unjustly killed.”

So, yeah, I’d love things to return to normal but we actually need a new normal. Not one that includes face masks and being scared to go outside but a new normal where when we say All Lives Matters it includes black ones.

So, even though we’re going to try for some beauty today on Musings of a Muse that doesn’t mean we’ll be silencing the fight for Black Lives Matter. I want to be able to create for you the safe environment I did when COVID broke out and you needed something to take your minds off of the daily news that was scaring the living daylights out of you. I’ll always be fighting the good fight over here but I’ll also do my best to stay on top of my beauty game as well.

I have a lot of comments to get through and I hope you’ll be patient while I get to them all. Thanks for always supporting me. Thanks for always being amazing humans.

I love you.

Be safe, be well, fight hard for what’s right. There are good days ahead keep that in mind!

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