Danai Gurira was on Talking Dead last week? I just watched it so I think it was last week! And man she looked divine. Total girl crush! She’s smart, she’s talented, she’s beautiful! She’s possibly one of the best guests Chris has been able to land on that show aside from Greg Nicotero. P.S. When do you Andy Lincoln is going to sit on that couch? Sometime in this millennium?

The fact is she was shining brightly in her interview and contributed so much to the show it boggled the mind. Plus I was blinded by her juicy, shiny lips. Please Danai if you’re reading this share with us what your mirror mirror on the wall gloss was! She’s very understated in her beauty. She had a little bit of blush, a really low key naked eye, mascara, and big beautiful bare lips that were super glossy. It’s fun seeing her transform from kick your zombie ass slightly tom boyish Michonne to sexy, sultry Danai.

I’m not Danai that’s for sure but a little crystal clear Clarins Prodige Lip Gloss might make my lips look as good or at least one can hope!

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Have you ever mad a list of beauty products you should try? I do! Sometimes I have lists of the most basic products that everyone uses but I never, ever tried! And the product remains on my list for literally years without me every buying it.

And mind you it’ll be a product that a certain brand has had in their general catalog for ages. A product that might even be a cult favorite and again, it just sits on my little “to be tried” list but I never get around to trying it.

I took the liberty of creating a little list of 5 Beauty Products You Should Try today. Perhaps they might be on your little list of “I need to try this” one day.

Take a look!

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Hey, did you enter to win my massive Spring giveaway on Luvocracy? Hint, hint, nudge, nudge! It happens to include the Tarte Be Mattenificent Palette?

I�ve teamed up with Luvocracy to create a really fun Spring 2014 Giveaway which includes some of my favorite seasonal palettes and products that launched this Spring.

If you sign up for Luvocracy you�ll not only be entered to win the ENTIRE Spring giveaway that features:

• Too Faced Chocolate Bar Palette
• Urban Decay Naked 3
• Tarte Mattenificent Palette
• 2 Shades of Clinique Cheek Pop Blush
• Sephora In the Topics Moonshadow Palette
• Laura Mercier Enlightenment Palette

To enter to win sign up through my page and ‘trust� me at www.luvocracy.com/musingsofamuse. You will only be eligible to win if you do both. The giveaway will end as of 2/25.

Good Luck!

For official details on this giveaway please see this post.

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I’m so scared someone is going to throw a rotten tomato at me if I don’t do a swatch comparison of Maybelline Bad to the Bronze, Sleek & Spice, and Nude Compliment. I’m probably doing you a complete disservice but unfortunately I rarely have time to dig through my stash and just list every single dupe there is for another shade I review. If I blogged full time I’d def try to commit to doing something like that but I don’t and I find it a real chore to search through my stash and try and find dupes of everything I post about.

*head desk*

It’s exhausting.

What’s equally exhausting is people asking me is that a dupe for this is this a dupe for that. Oh lawd. It seems like everything has to be a dupe for everything else. Most recently I get a lot of questions about the newest Maybelline Dare to Go Nude Tattoo Eyeshadow shades so I decided I’d end all the discussion about the most popular shades being dupes for a shade already in the permanent collection, Bad to the Bronze, as I feel like it isn’t a dupe of the two newest shades and I’m unsure really why people might feel they are similar. I’m probably missing something here but I suck at shade comparisons anyway so don’t take my word for it but here are some swatches so you can decide for yourself.

Plus if I’m honest at $5.99 each I’m almost positive the world won’t end if maybe sorta kinda Bad to the Bronze resembles something you already own! It’s not a $30 eyeshadow so we should be ok! 🙂

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