Festival Beauty Kit
It’s festival season, and this weekend Scotland’s biggest festival, T in the Park takes place at Balado in Perthshire. If you’re going, hope you have your wellies and waterproofs on hand!
You might also want to stock up on a ‘festival beauty kit’ – here’s all the essentials I think I’d be taking with me if I was going. But I’m not. I’ll watch it from the dry, comfort of my living room, I think!
1. Natio Mineral Lip & Cheek Tint, £9.60, debenhams.com. Brilliant multi-purpose product, perfect for topping up your makeup at T. 2. M&S Formula SPF50 Sun Stick, £5, marksandspencer.com. if the sun decides to show its face, you’ll need a handy sized high level sun protection that you can swiftly glide over skin. 3. Simple Kind To Eyes Eye Make-Up Corrector Pen, £4.99, boots.com Festivals mean going crazy and wild with your makeup, but if you make a mess of it, don’t despair, this handy little pen will instantly correct any mistakes and let your inner hippy run free!
4. Dr Bronner’s Green Tea Soap, £1.99 (59ml), biggreensmile.com. This little bottle of magic is really all you need – it claims to have 18 uses – wash in it, clean your teeth with it, remove makeup, and, well, sure you’ll find more! 5. FAB (First Aid Beauty) Ultra Repair Concentrate, £20, boots.com. A multi-tasker for the skin. A blend of oils, antioxidants and oatmeal help with things like sun burn, dry skin patches, cracked heels , and more. Excellent moisturiser with benefits. 6. This Works Clean Skin 5-in-1 Water, £21, thisworks.com. Perfect cleanser that works without water, alcohol free and rosewater based.
7. Simple Kind To Skin Cleansing Facial Wipes, £3.20, or £1.29 for a pack of seven, boots.com. THE essential festival beauty kit item. Do not leave home without some wipes of some kind! 8. The Body Shop Hand Cleanse Gel, £2.50, thebodyshop.co.uk. You MUST take a hand cleanse gel. This range from The Body Shop smells much better than the norm – available in lots of fruity flavours! 9. Famous Dave’s Famous Dave’s Self Tan Wipes, £9.99, superdrug.com. Need a bit of a tan top-up mid-festival? Than pack these. No mess, easy to use in your tent, and the tan develops in three hours.
10. Model’s Own WAH Nail Art Pens, £6 each, boots.com. Forget bottles of polish, top up your nail colour with thee easy to use pens to create designs or just fill in chips! 11. Bumble and Bumble Surf Spray, £19.50, bumbleandbumble.co.uk. The original and best – keep your hair looking festival messy but uber stylish with this brilliant spray – add it to wet or dry hair for a gorgeous wavy look. 12. Dirty Works Body Spray, £1.99, sainsburys.co.uk. Eww, what’s that smell?! Make sure it’s not you with this excellent body spray!
