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April horoscope, ask Sauce, open dialogue and more.
Hi Saucettes,
Welcome to our new newsletter home. We hope you stay along for the ride as we explore this fresh Sauce chapter on Substack.
Sauce is special. It’s a place where you can leave your heart on the paper and scratch your story into this tiny corner of the internet, knowing that someone might know exactly what you’re going through. This is where the lonely thoughts in your head can find friends.
Moving our letters to Substack will improve readability and you’ll be able to come back to some old gems on our Substack homepage. Over the next couple of months, you’ll be able to access exclusive content via our newsletters along with recommendations to tickle your senses.
We love keeping in touch with you via newsletter and we’d love it if you interacted with us in the comments or occasionally slid into our Substack DMs. We want to continue to hold space for you here.
Short, sharp and sweet. Let’s go.
Sauce makers,
Zeenat, Liam, Rina, Luke, Arna and Yana
Words by Cynthia Taylu
“I like your style” is back!
It’s the series in which we ask fashion lovers to share some of their favourite outfits and talk us through what inspires and influences the way they dress and shop. Then they nominate someone whose style they admire and so the style chain continues.
This week we have nominated Sydney-based model, creative and founder of Taylu platform Cynthia Taylu.
Answered by in-house saucettes and stylists Rina and Zeenat
New rubric, agony aunt style. Zeenat and I have decided to put into practice what we get asked in our DMs the most. So yes, this is a Q&A for all your fashion problems, burning questions, styling faux pas and embarrassing stories. What to wear to meet your boyfriend’s family? Where to find a perfect singlet or shirt? Whatever style-related troubles worry you, we’re here to help. Email all your questions with a title [ASK SAUCE — WARDROBE WOES] to zeenat@sauce-mag.com. Zeenat and Rina will split the questions and answer them at the end of each month. Keep them coming.
Words by Hannah Crerar
The theme for this month is POWER + PASSION. There is a lot of Aries fire fuelling us over the next few weeks. We also have some pretty significant cosmic events occurring so it will be a time of major change, new beginnings, and intuitive action.
Words by Nikirei
Exploring the rising talent of up-and-coming fashion designers in Aotearoa New Zealand, where our passion for craftsmanship, sustainability and self-expression blends with creativity.
Words by Tina Awny of Biet Jidu
The month of Ramadan is known amongst Muslims as a space to grow closer to ourselves, and through that, closer to our spiritual practice. While most people know about how we fast from sunrise to sunset, abstaining from the temptations and luxuries of life is an extension of the values of this holy month. Every year this time comes around, it feels like it couldn’t have come at a better stage.
Lastly, I have a few recommendations I need to get off my chest.
READ
I’ve been hearing everywhere about the book Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski. It seems like an essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works supported by some cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines. I’m going to read it as soon as I finish the five books I’m trying to read at the same time. The other three books I have on my bedside table are the play Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
WATCH
I just finished watching Expats, a TV series that looks at the personal and professional lives of a tight-knit group of expatriates living in Hong Kong. I really liked it. I also watched Good Grief on Netflix recently and loved it — I love everything Daniel Levy has done since Schitt’s Creek, what a genius writer and actor he is. Another good one is Three Identical Strangers, a documentary about a set of identical triplet brothers adopted as infants by separate families. They met by chance and later discovered that they had been intentionally separated and placed with families having different parenting styles and economic levels: one blue-collar, one middle-class, and one affluent, as an experiment on human subjects. Okay last rec for watching, I promise, I’m obsessed with Amelia Dimoldenberg’s YouTube show, Chicken Shop Date, where she meets celebrities for interviews at local chicken shops pretending they are on actual dates. Hilarious. I came across Amelia through her red-carpet interviews and I truly think she’s one of the funniest and most genuine interviewers out there. Watch her date with Paul Mescal or Cher, I bet you’d love these.
LISTEN
A podcast suggestion for the lovers of Table Manners. It’s called Stirring It Up and is similarly hosted by a mother-daughter duo Andi and Miquita Oliver in their family home. It leaves no stone unturned. I suggest to begin with the Lily Allen episode.