I love to play with make-up, so I’m lovin’ the fact those fabu peeps at Orange have teamed up with YouTube phenomenon, Lauren Luke to create five Red Carpet ‘Make Up Look’ tutorials – hurrah!

To celebrate five years of the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award there are five stunning make up looks to copy, from 2008 Orange Rising Star Award winner Eva Green’s statement smoky eyes to 2010 nominee Carey Mulligan’s natural English rose make up. In true Lauren Luke style, the vids are shot in her bedroom and show Lauren applying the look step-by-step to her own face in order for us to work her techniques.

FYI: The 2010 Orange Rising Star Award nominees are Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholas Hoult, Carey Mulligan, Tahar Rahim and Kristen Stewart and the winner will be unveiled on Sunday 21 February 2010 at the Orange British Academy Film Awards – exciting! We love an award ceremony – the dresses, the make-up – le sigh. We’re team Kristen!

You can watch all five videos at: www.orange.co.uk/bafta

I heart Alice and as it’s the month o’ love, it’s only right and proper that I share the love. Alice and I met in Costa Coffee, she told me I had amazing hair, she made the best hot chocolate in the world AND gave me extra marshmallows – needless to say, it was an insta-mutual girl-crush situ!

Alice is now a blog-girl and chefette, think Nigella, only younger and a whole lot sassier – check out her recipes and cookery goodness at: amourandpsyche.blogspot.com but not before you’ve ooh-ed and ahhh-ed at her prettilicious ways AND baked her V-day cookies – if you do try them, we want to know whether they woo your beau!

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This is my first All You Need Is Love – a Friday afternoon Sassy feature o’ love that includes items, links, people, quotes, places and pictures of things that fill us to the brim with all that amazing love stuff – please share yours too, let the Sassy love-in begin!
 
(Me, Lisa and Lindsey) 

My friends across the world-here, there, near or far from Melbourne, New York, Hong Kong, Nantes, Nottingham and home, the messages of love, encouragement and general chit-chat fill my world with joy – Sassy Minxes rule!
 
 
 
I have just discovered Trixie Delicious. And me-oh-my is it delicious! I love the Seven Sins,  and she has an amazing range of custom-made reworked vintage crockery including a Sassy plate that I NEED.
 

 
This weekend, Disney’s new film The Princess and the Frog is released to cinema’s nationwide. I’ve kissed lots of frogs and I’m taking my five year old cousin to see it, but I can’t wait for my inner five year old/princess to see it too.
 

 
Say it, as you see it with a Dean Morris card. Witty, rude and straight to the point, it is what I will be sending to my beau!
 

 
I LOVE to make mood-boards – they inspire me and when I look at beautiful pictures, it makes me happy and vents my creativity after a hard day – why not try it?!
 

 
Whenever I feel sad/stressed/angry or anxious I listen to this in my head and visualise one of my icons, Barbra Streisand, singing it in Funny Girl. It’s just so full of hope and determination and when those trumpets come on, I feel strong.
 
“…I gotta fly once, I gotta try once, Only can die once, right, sir? Ooh, love is juicy, juicy, and you see I gotta have my bite, sir!
 
Get ready for me, love, ’cause I’m a comer, I simply gotta march, my heart’s a drummer. Don’t bring around a cloud to rain on my parade!…”

I’m a newbie astro-girl. For sure, I’ve read a gazillion books, I’m addicted to the David Wells forecast in Spirit and Destiny magazine and I’m currently on an astrology course that frazzles my brain with talk of sextiles and sesquiquadrates, but no one makes astrology more fun and accessible than the ever-so funny and – sssh, don’t tell him – ever-so hot, US-based astrologer, Matthew Currie.

Matthew has been a pro astro-boy and counselor for 20 years, with numerous appearances on television and radio. He writes The Daily Sky at Sasstrology.com, blogs the Clueless About Dating at Astrology.com, and writes his own blog matthewastrology.blogspot.com As if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s author of a beyond fabulous e-book series, and host consultations with people across the world – I’ve got one this afternoon, I’m all kinds of excited about it! Come meet him, he’s awesome. Fact.

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I am currently obsessed with Nigella. I can’t help it, I want to cook cupcakes in high heels and wear ever-so pretty retro-style aprons while I do it. Which is why I’m crushing on the Cupcake Provocateur. A super-fabulous Americano who has a fondness for vintage inspired styles, food and music of the pin up era. She’s inspired by the June Cleaver type of wholesomeness combined with the class and glamour of Donna Reed and the sexiness of Marilyn Monroe and Betty Paige – it’s like we were actually separated at birth. Come meet her, she’s simply dee-voom.

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This is our first minx-y interview with a British music gal, and I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am to introduce you to Jessica Spencer, the creator and lead singer of Hall of Mirrors. I’m not only so immensely inspired/amazed yet slightly haunted by her songs and lyrics, but also incredibly proud of her as she is my amazing friend and has not only got herself gigs, but a publishing and record deal too – wohhoo – with bigger things to come. So, in an exclusive interview with SM, here is the very Sassy and ever-so Minx-y, Ms Jessica Spencer.

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Now, it may be a new year but there are some things that just don’t change – my love of cheesy teev programmes – can I get a woop woop for Glee please? Have you seen it? Have you seen it? AMAZING. Galaxy chocolate, frosted cupcakes and Elemis beauty prodz.

I’m ever so excited because Elemis have intro’d a brand-spankin’ new Pro-Radiance Cream Cleanser – it’s not just any cleanser, oh no, it’s a super-swanky, new generation cleanser, dontcha know. It’s rich, luxe and anti-aging and also removes make-up, nourishes your skin AND boosts radiance. Also, for people like me with high colour – what can I say? I’m a blusher – it has the ’superberry’ Assai Fruit found in the Amazon forest that helps reduce the high colour to give your skin a boost o’ total fabulousness. It also comes with a cotton facial mitt that I have been working in a probably little untasteful homage to the King of Pop. My bad.

This is the good, good stuff. That’s a fact.

£27 from www.timetospa.com

Meet Michelle. She’s got more than a touch o’ the awesomeness. She has a fabu website www.wicked-whimsy.com and has just launched her unique brand of Style Therapy, because Michelle believes that your style tells a story and that you should make sure it’s telling your story and not someone elses.

Come see for yo’ self.

What is Style Therapy?
It’s not a “what not to wear” or “oh you’re an hourglass, you should buy this” or “this is what’s in this season” sort of thing. At all. It’s about figuring out how to express your style, while working around any issues or constraints you might have. It’s about you and your style being one happy whole instead of two pissed off parties fighting with each other.

Michelle, what is Style Therapy and why did you set it up?
Style Therapy is a new line of services I’m offering through my website, Wicked Whimsy. I came up with the idea because I was looking at a lot of the personal styling services I see offered, and it seems like most of them are all very much “this is what looks good on your body shape, never wear anything else” or “this is what’s in this season”. Which are both good and well for people interested in them, but it seems like that leaves a huge amount of people unfulfilled. People who care less about rhetoric like “apple shapes should wear this” and more about expressing themselves and who they are via what they wear. 

What does the term ’style’ mean to you?
Style is the flair with which you life your life, and I think that most stylish people let it show in every way that they can!

Tell us about the 4 different services you’re offering…
The “tune up” is the quickie service, or one for someone with a specific problem. It’s done via email so as to be more convenient for everyone involved. The “remodel” involves a 30 minute chat with three days of follow up services, and it would be for something more complex – a change in your style, a minor reworking of it, something like that. The “overhaul” is, as the name implies, for someone who needs some major help – totally reworking their style, for example. I also offer some personal shopping services, with a discount if it’s purchased with another service. 

What can the minxes expect when they talk to you?
They can expect to get new ideas and inspiration, and then walk away with a refreshed vision of their style & a clear direction to go in with it! 

The good news is that Michelle has given you fabulous minxes a 10% discount – woop, woop! Just head over to Style Therapy and type in the code ’sassy’!

All you need is love – a Friday afternoon Sassy feature o’ love that includes items, links, people, quotes, places and pictures of things that fill us to the brim with all that amazing love stuff – please share yours too, let the Sassy love-in begin!

The language of love.

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I heart Vivien of Holloway and want a swoonsville leading man to propose a Vegas wedding with Elvis conducting the service so that I can wear THIS dress – boys, please form an orderly queue.

I have been coveting this bag since the first time I visited the Me&Zena website and this very morning, the adorbz Miss Zena sent it to me as a present! I will wear it proudly as a reminder to the great British public that they ALWAYS have the right to remain romantic – j’adore. Get your own for £6.00 at www.meandzena.com

The gorgeous Kimberley Wilson, author of the fab new book Tranquilista, was the first person who intro’d me to the awesomeness of Anais Nin. I am a total journal-keeping geek girl and Anais was officially the queen o’ the journal writing, her published diaries spanned over 60 years and included a rather fruity frisson with Henry Miller in Paris – le sigh. I’m slowly collecting her diaries but s’far, this is one of my favourite quotes…

“…I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger than reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, & when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls…”
- Anais Nin

Ohmygoddess. Those hips don’t lie, Christina Hendricks, you rule.

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This is how my world should look at all times…

Me & Zena is the creation of London based designer Miss Zena Mckeown, who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA in Visual Communication in 2004. She moved to London in 2005, clueless and broke, with a dream in her heart and a teenager in her soul, shouting things about unicorns, gold and love. With these three things in mind, Zena created her first piece of jewellery and continues to satisfy her love of all things small, shiny and symbolic to this day. Miss L and I are HUGE fans and we are in good company, as Cheryl Cole, Sarah Harding and the Geldof Girls dig Me&Zena too.

If you missed it, we launched a competition earlier this month to win a Me&Zena ‘Should I?” necklace, so for a last minute enter, tell us what you are saying ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to for 2010 by the 31st January 2010…

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