The sun is out, as are our pins and tootsies, as well as the film that usually pays homage to shoes in more than one way-SATC2. Now your feet may not be the prettiest things in the world, but a little bit of TLC and a good pair of shoes can work wonders, so here is the Sassy List, to make your plates of meat into right Bobby Dazzlers!!
PS;see down at the bottom, for Scholl’s competition that can win you and some friends, 1000 quidders!

Preparation is key, and every girl wants pins that are silky smooth and a joy to look at. I love the feeling when Ive moisturized my legs and slipped them under clean sheets, it makes me feel all fresh and seductive. I don’t need to tell you-I hope I don’t anyway-that a hairless leg is where you need to begin. Which brings in Nair’s Pretty Party Sparkle! With a tropical scent and glittery gel, this is for the utmost of girly-girls.

4.99 from Boots

5.99, Scholl

Fake Bake from John Lewis, 24.00

Pretty toes are of course, a must. And with all the fabulous nail colour’s out there, its easy enough to achieve. But stronger nails are the best-and with the extra stress from holiday sand and sea, they usually take a bit of a hammering. I swear by Ruby and Millie’s crystal nail file(16.00 from Boots) to get them in shape, and Collection 2000 for the base and top coat-its cheap enough to change your colour every week, too!

2.99 from Boots/Superdrug

My favourite nail colours this summer, is Nails Inc; Kings of Neon range. A lotta brite, and a little pastel, its a good all rounder and can do all the trends from Romance to Jet-Set. At 22.00 for eight, its a sure-fire hit.

Maintainance;-Its no good prepping and polishing, if you aren’t going to maintain. And with these handy blaggers, it is possible to do in the minimum of time.
Remember those crusty heels we were talking about earlier? Make sure you banish the hard and dead with one side of this Alida foot file, smooth and polish with the other side. Changing your shoes from winter to summer is bound to change the soles of your feet, so this is a good all rounder.

Alida foot file, 9.99, victoriahealth.com

Soap&Glory Heel Genius, 5.00, ASOS

Clear Gel Blister plasters, 4.39, Scholl

A few monthes ago, a parcel landed in my lap. The gift, from Ms L, was a press copy of The Carrie Diaries, the new book from Candace Bushnell which documents on Carries life, before she moved to NY, before she met Manolo and Big, and more importantly, the rest of the girls.
I had already been warned that I was not allowed to disclose the book to anyone, as the details of the storyline were so secretive that there were legal implications if I lost it or it found its way out of my hands into wherever. So full of anticipation, delighted with excitement, and slightly gutted I couldn’t read it on the bus due to its secretive nature, I snuck into my bedroom and read the full book from front to back in a Saturday morning.
I want to say it was reminiscent of the show overall, but this was a bit difficult, due to the fact Carrie is seventeen. It was abit more Sweet Valley High, than Salvatore Feragamo, and as a die hard fan, I found it a little hard not to remove SJP from narrating, and acting the storyline inside my head. Which is a bit hard, when she is snogging Sebastien Kydd, the hot badboy comes to Castlebury, to stir things up with her and her friends. I also thought that Carrie said in the show, that her father left her mother when she was younger, yet in this book he is the mainstayer-I don’t want to reveal too much, so it is best to read it!-so it made me have my own “I couldn’t help but wonder” moment.
Regardless of all of this, it certainly gave an insight into an American teenage girls life, white cowboy boots, an’ all. True to the theme of the show, Carrie makes mistakes and learns through these, the most important relationships are with her friends, is confused by the kingdom of male, and begins her in-awe marriage with NY early on………………

Meet Carrie Bradshaw before ‘Sex and the City!’

Before Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was a small town girl who knew she wanted more. She’s ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now, Carrie and her friends have been inseparable. Then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture, and a friend’s betrayal makes her question everything.
With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Carrie Diaries is the story of how a regular girl learns to think for herself, and evolves into a sharp, insightful writer. Readers will learn about her family background, how she found her writing voice, and the indelible impression her early friendships and relationships left on her. Through adventures both audacious and poignant, we’ll see what brings Carrie to her beloved New York City, where her new life begins.

The Carrie Diaries
By Candace Bushnell and published by Harper Collins, 6.49 from Amazon.co.uk

As you know, The Sassy Minxes love to accessorize with a piece of two, and here is one of our new favourites; Hannah Makes Things. Quirky, Cute and just a little bit adorable, Hannah Nuttall the createur, shares some of her favourite things….

Tell us more about what you do?
I design and make jewellery under my brand, hannahmakesthings.com-we specialise in making jewellery that’s gorgeous, shiny, eye catching and just that little bit different.

Hannahs favourite piece

What do you love about being a woman in the world?
That there is limitless possibilities to what you can achieve, as long as you work hard, learn from your mistakes and never give up then you can always make you dreams come true.


Where are your five must-go destinations for inspiration, life..?
1)New York- its all about the shopping!
2)Manchester, as its got a really great selection of independent shops and a brilliant music scene.
3)London- I studied there and learnt, so much about design and running my own label.
4)Blackpool – Its like a cut price Las Vegas! Great for some seaside sun and fish’n’chips
5)Hong Kong – Its next of my list of “must visits”

What has been your proudest moment so far?
Seeing my designs featured in magazines like Look and surviving our first Clothes Show live at the NEC in December last year, its was mad busy but so nice to meet customers old and new and the reaction to our label was brilliant.

Which five tracks make your day?
1)You Overdid It Doll – The Courteeners (fab new Manc band!)
2)Long Distance Call – Phoenix
3)Spooky- Dusty Springfield
4)Ceremony – New Order
5)How Soon is now? – The Smiths


What are your five must-have, can’t live without fashion and beauty items?
1)Clinique Foundation
2)Vivienne Westwood/Mellisa Jelly Shoes
3)Batiste Dry Shampoo (total hare-mare fixer!)
4)My vintage jewellery collection, always great to dip into when you need that finishing touch to an outfit
5)Chanel lipstick

What makes you jump-in-the-air happy?
Having time off with nothing to do but bake cakes, read books and take my dog to the beach

What is your life Motto?
“Everything happens for a reason”

White Rabbit Down The Hole 16.00

Russian Doll&Flowers 26.00

Quick fire round: What is your favourite?
Shop: Magma
Book: Bringing down the house – Ben Mezrich
Website/blog: Failblog.org (always cheers me up)
Hang-out: Northern Quarter, Manchester, Full of nice bars and fab little shops
City: Manchester, my adopted home
Must-have beauty item: Its all about mascara
Food: pizza (has to be from NY though!)

What does the term Sassy Minx mean to you?
A lady who knows exactly where shes going and how to do it in style!

I’m Dita Von Teese pale. Fact.
Partly because I like rocking the ‘pale and interesting’ look but mostly because I don’t want to be freakin’ orange…but this summer it seems things might be a li’l different in the world o’ me as that hotster hair dude, Lee Stafford has launched a new, temporary and instant Fake My Tan range with OLIVE not ORANGE undertones – ah-mazing.

All eight products in the Fake My Tan range have been designed with a prescriptive approach using two different shades – light to medium and dark so there’s a shade that’s perfect-o whatever your tone! Fake My Tan is made up of a collection of sprays, matt lotions, lotions with added bling-bling and mousses with gorgeous olive undertones for an ultra natural effect.

Not only does Fake My Tan give an incredible colour and glow, it’s also been created to compliment any existing skincare regimes by using ingredients that enhance, moisturise and care for skin – I am ALL about the Brown My Bitz Tanning Spritz in light/medium (£8.99) which will gives an all over, sun kissed glow – without the tango!

Lee Stafford Fake My Tan is available exclusively from Boots stores nationwide and is priced between £8.99 – £9.99

They say that the best teachers never stop learning, and here, at The Sassy Minx, we love to find new things and have a go at them for ourselves. Whilst I’ve indulged in pole-dancing and cookery, and Lisa in tarot and hula-hooping, it’s fair to say, we are big fans of educating ourselves.

Here are our top tips for this springs uniquely fun and crafty salons…

Super Swingers and Fascinators…

We have mentioned Ruka@ Sugarlesque and What Katie Did, a few times on Sassy already, so we are quite excited that they’ve decided to team up on nipple-tassle and hat making classes at the Portobello Road boutique. Pastie swingers can learn how to embellish and create burlesque nipple covers for £30.00, and top-hat or fascinator lovers can go wild with feathers, ribbons and trimmings for £45.00. The classes on Sunday 6th June and Sunday 4th July, run from 12.30 to 5.30 and if you choose to go to both, they are available at the lower price of £65.00.

Find out more at www.whatkatiedid.com, or to book, email sugar@sugarlesque.com.

Neck-a-loada this…

We told you a few weeks ago, that one of our favourite jewellery makers, has shut its doors to the public, but this is still not stopping Leona Baker at Lady Luck Rules OK!, from sharing her wisdom with the world. From personalising glittery broken hearts, printed acrylic pendants, fuzzy wooden animals and learning about techniques that can be applied to not only jewellery, but clothing, stationary and homeware, her workshops promise to teach you about the beginnings of product making, like where to buy materials and sampling, to finishing and detailed production information. The three hour classes run on the 23rd, 25th May and 12th June at Superette, Off Brick Lane, in London and are only £25.00.

For more information, email; leona@ladyluckrulesok.com

Beauty-Queen…

Nadira Persaud AKA the Make-Up Mistress, has made up the faces of many: Jaime Winstone, Beverley Knight, Denise Van Outen to name a few, and has also created the make-up and hair for Agent Provocateur and various ELLE and Marie Claire shoots. Now she’s on-hand to offer her expert advice, with her Makeup Mistress Makeover.. Teaching you how to perfect your makeup, she will educate you how to get Lush luxurious Lashes, and show you how to achieve an instant face lift with her High Brow lift. Not only this, she will go through your makeup bag and show you what works-and doesn’t work, so you have star quality all the time.

Contact Nadira through her website;www.nadiramakeupmistress.com

Please Yourself…

Getting to know yourself is one of the most intimate and expressive things you can do, and those clever people at Coco De Mer in London, have formulated a whole range of erotic-based salons from Tricks to Please a Man, Spanking and our featured Please yourself, which is all about female masturbation. Rachel Foux is on hand to teach how to do this and show you how to make the most of your, uhm, potential. Apparently even the staff at Coco De Mer, who are highly experienced in the sexual arts, learned a lot from this lecture, so it’s surely saying something!
Find out more at Coco De Mer.

The New York Times call her “the next generation guru.” I call her “freakin’ awesome.”
She’s a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, life coach and author of my new favourite book, Add More ~ing to Your Life. Gabrielle Bernstein rocks. Fact.

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AIMEE IS LOVIN’

The Disney caricatures that appeared in Spanish ELLE by illustrator Ulrich Schroeder . Daisy Duck as Donatella Versace, Marc Jacobs as Donald and D&G as Goofy and Mickey aren’t just super cute, they are also super cool too. With Adidas Originals teaming up with Jeremy Scott, and JC De Castelbajac featuring Bambi sequinned dresses, it appears Disney really IS couture now!

It must be hard to be hip-or not, so much- in Coco de Coeur’s tees. Are you a ‘Wild One’? or a ‘Trouble Maker’? Do you say ‘Hell Yeah?’? Wear it on your chest!

We have always been a big fan of Siren, and at the end of this month, comes their new bag range. From skull tattoos to jewelled animal print, the new collection is foxy AND ferocious and definitely, arm candy. Check out the OPI nail varnish competition, on their site, too!

www.sirenlondon.com

Picture by Jill Greenburg

This week I quit something that I never really enjoyed, always struggled to do, and always made me feel guilty whether I was there or not. I cancelled my gym membership, in favour of yoga and pilates dvds, which I can do from home and I have taken up one my favourite activities again – swimming. Instead of aggressively weight lifting, I am now doing exercise that won’t be too hard on me, and make me become too hard on myself.

And just because it is Friday Love, this is what I’m loving this Friday. Ring, 85.00 at Zoe and Morgan

I am all about list-making, so, have made a list of the things that inspire me on a daily basis…

1. Journal writing – every day, in every way, it makes my life sweeter ★ 2. Pugs – I WILL own one. I will, I will ★ 3. Tarot cards – blow me away every single time ★ 4. The smell of rain ★ 5. A really good night’s sleep under my goose-feather duvet – bliss ★ 6. Benefit make-up ★ 7. gypsy magick – charms, spells and all the Romany goodness ★ 8. stationery – l heart it. Fact. ★ 9. a pay check ★ 10. Reading a Francesca Lia Block book ★ 11. pink ★ 12. kissing – love me the kissing ★ 13. chocolate ★ 14. colouring-in ★ 15. Cupcakes ★ 16. Rainy days spent watching DVDs under a blankie ★ 17. Adventures ★ 18. Buying new books ★ 19. My Ipod on shuffle setting 20. Listening to Kelianna on full blast ★ 21. the sunshine ★ 22. Dancing to the Glee soundtrack ★ 23. making a full moon vision board ★ 24. Panthers – new favourite animal ★ 25. The smell of cinnamon and ylang ylang ★ 26. Pesto pasta ★ 27. Bubble-filled baths ★ 28. Elemis products ★ 29. Tattoos ★ 30. Getting lost in a book o’ magick ★ 31. Glastonbury ★ 32. New pyjamas 33. A long and laughter filled convo with my favourite people ★ 34. Watching Glee on repeat ★ 35. walking ★ 36. Spending WAY too much time in bookshops – are you sensing a theme?! ★ 37. bubbles ★ 38. speaking to people who are passionate about what they think and feel ★ 39. San Francisco ★ 40. learning – love learning new things ★ 41. crystals ★ 42. A good massage ★ 43. Sleep ins on a Sunday morning ★ 44. Pink retro typewriters – I really want one ★ 45. writing books ★ 46. self-love ★ 47. Workshops and classes and the people I meet in them ★ 48. People watching ★ 49. Money in the bank ★ 50. Hot chocolate with marshmallows ★ 51. The beach ★ 52. Emails from girls who have read my book and tell me how it’s changed their life.

What inspires YOU?

Exercise from: 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity

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