This is a guest post by Bee at Bee Loves Beauty. Since the sun is well and truly out and long holiday weekends beckon, I thought it might be a nice idea to share some tips and recommendations for make up survival at festivals. Based on trial and (considerable) error, I’ve come up with some golden hints I swear by. Hopefully these will help us to avoid the third-day-leprous look that can afflict the make up wearing festie-goer.
This is a guest post by Aldo Torner. Sometimes it is easy to identify new parents just by looking at what they are carrying. Simply size up the baby bag. As the oldest of six siblings, I remember watching my own mom’s baby bag evolution over the years. It seemed that shopping for just the right diaper bag – and it had to be HUGE – was only important during the early years. Once it came to baby number six, my mom had packing baby’s stuff down to an art, and everything she needed fit into her oversized purse [...]
If it can’t take anything large or heavy, then what is the fucking point of a luggage rack?
Although the temptation may be to pack light, when you’re going on holidays it’s important to make sure that you’ve got all of the fashion essentials.
Hunt the Food. When your darling little one drops half-chewed snacks into the mysterious cavities of the upholstery & luggage, you’re gonna play this one anyway. Might as well play for laughs.
Gods, I’d forgotten how peaceful it is. Lovely walks, amazing food (steak de cheval, fresh asparagus, a fresh apple juice with lime at Apple A Day in Luxembourg city) and an all-encompassing sense of calm and order. Everything was… nice.
At the weekend I was pissed off about being too ill to make it to a shoot, and when I feel like shit I always get desperate to run away. So I booked an “executive double room” at the Donnington Grove Country Club for a pretty decent last-minute price and we legged it sharpish. Before we’d even reached the motorway I was already feeling the curative effects of buggering off out of the suburbs with a couple of bottles of wine & a bunch of sexcessories. The prospect of wandering round a castle in the morning could only add to [...]
