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DIY Flower Crowns Perfect for Music Festivals and Weddings

Jen Wallace — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 07:00:36 +0000

DIY flower crowns you can make to adorn yourself with blossoms!

Spring and summer are the seasons of music festival and weddings, both at which it is completely acceptable to adorn yourself with flower crowns. Of course, we think it is pretty much okay to rock a floral crown any time of year you feel so inspired to do so.

To get the floral crown look, you could purchase a fresh version from a floral designer (at great expense to your bank account), buy a dried/faux version online from someplace like Etsy, or make your own from fresh, dried or faux flowers. Making your own is probably the most economical choice, as well as being the more creative option as well.

Making flower crowns isn’t really as complicated as it may sound. First, you must make the decision whether you will use fresh flowers or not. For a wedding, you may desire the ephemeral beauty of fresh blooms, while if you want a floral crown to wear at the festival circuit, a dried or faux flower crown might be the better choice. Make the decision, then purchase and/or pick your blooms. Fresh picked wildflowers are always a great choice–even if they don’t last long.

Supplies Needed to Make Flower Crowns:

Flowers (dried, fresh or faux), greenery, ribbons, and other additions
Floral Tape
Floral Wire
Wire Cutters
Scissors
Creativity

7 DIY Tutorials to Inspire You in Making Your Own DIY Flower Crowns

How to Make a Floral Crown – This DIY from A Beautiful Mess is for a pretty basic floral crown arrangement.
Easiest DIY Floral Crown How-to – This tutorial calls for making individual bunches and gathering them up with flexible twine wire.
Woven Wildflower Crown – This project is perfect to make while out a field of wildflowers. Your crown will wilt, but so will that field of blossoms soon enough.
Silk Flower Crown – This project calls for silk flowers and a glue gun and makes a much more permanent accessory that can be worn again and again.
Ribbon Tied Crown – The addition of ribbon ties adds some elegance to this project.
Fern Crown – Not every crown needs flowers. Consider making an elegant fern crown instead.
Frida Kahlo Inspired Crown – This isn’t a crown as much as it is individual blooms pinned in with bobby pins, but it is beautiful just the same.

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Music Festival Beauty Must Haves

Liz Thompson — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 07:00:36 +0000

What’s better than the arrival of spring and summer? Choosing which music festivals you’ll be going to.

It’s music festival season. Have tickets will party, right? Better make sure you also have your festival look essentials ready to go.

SXSW was in March. Coachella is quickly approaching on April 10th. And there are tons of other shows and festivals coming up, too.

Sure, you are going to hear great music and have lots of fun, but we all know music festivals are a fashion show of their own. You’ve located the perfect hat, comfy sandals, and adorable wellies for the shows. Want to know what makeup and hair to pair with them? Gotcha’ covered.

Music Festival Beauty Must Haves

Whether you go for the natural look or the whole Swarovski-crystaled nine yards, there are some makeup basics that will keep you party ready. Most important, sun protection. You will likely be catching some good sun time. Getting fried will ruin your experience, not to mention the long term damage. Be sure to use mineral sunscreen for max safety.

Suntegrity 5-in-1 Natural Moisturizing Tinted Face Sunscreen SPF 30

To get that modern festival chic vibe, black eyeliner is a must. A thicker pencil eyeliner not only lasts longer than the creamier kind, but looks great after a little (or a lot!) of smudging.

Dr. Hauschka Eyeliner in Jet Black

You may be able to pull off full on sparkle for Day 1, but the look has a shelf life. Shimmer is much more doable and can be easily reapplied. A highlighter stick gets your glow on in an instant.

Ilia Beauty Illuminator in Polka Dots & Moonbeams

If you only take one beauty item along this season, it has to be a glossy lip balm. One that hydrates and protects lips, while offering glam shine.

Suvana Beauty Paw Paw & Honey Organic Lip Balm

Comfort and longevity are key to happy festival hair. One word … braid. Simple, durable, and, of course, fest-worthy. Added bonus, hair looks great when taken out of braid too. Dry shampoo will be your BFF over a long, shower-less weekend to absorb greasiness and turn up volume.

Lulu Organics Travel Size Organic Hair Powder

And don’t forget a wrist full of cute hair ties and headbands for a quick up do. Double as accessories.

Free People Organic Braided Headband

Now make sure you’ve located your Camelback and solar phone charger, and you are good to go.

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Music Festivals Introduce Ecstacy and Ketamin into the Water Supply

Sara Novak — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:00:16 +0000

Music festivals leave their share of “fun drugs” behind along with other contaminants.

When music festivals come to town, there’s undoubtedly an influx of trash, traffic, and loud music. But the hope is that when the festival goers leave so too will the sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll. But new research shows that these huge music festivals are leaving some seriously uncook remnants behind. According to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, massive music festivals could also be introducing dangerous drugs to the water supply.

The study is taking a closer look at how illicit drugs like ecstacy and ketamin get into the water supply because only about half of these contaminants are removed once the water is treated. This means that not only can they impact the water supply, fish could also be contaminated. This study is the first to show that annual music events can pollute, other research has shown spikes in amphetamines in water supplies near universities during exams, for example.

But it should be no surprise when you consider the sheer number of people that attend events like Bonnaroo, Coachella, and Glastonbury. Hundreds of thousands of people hunkering down in one place, many doing similar things. The results show what all these people partying at once can do to the ecosystem.

Our traditional wastewater treatment plants were not designed to remove emerging contaminants (ECs), a large group of compounds that include pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs/controlled substances.

For this particular study, researchers looked at the Spring Scream in Taiwan, a festival that’s known for drug use and wild partying. For the study, 30 EC sites were analyzed in and around the event, which hosted 600,000 festival goers. Surrounding rivers were also sampled. Seasonal variations were observed with the highest concentrations in April and the lowest concentrations in October.

According to The Washington Post:

Daily sampling during the week of Spring Scream found big spikes in drugs like ecstasy, ketamine, and caffeine — exactly the cocktail of “fun” drugs one would expect hoards of young music festival goers to partake in. Meanwhile, more benign drugs — like ibuprofen — were fairly consistent before, during, and after the concerts.

Researchers aren’t sure of the long term implications of these contaminants on waterways, especially since the contaminant onslaught occurs once per year. But we have seen a growing problem with unexpected contaminants like endocrine disruptors and pharmaceuticals getting into our waterways. And because they cannot be filtered out by wastewater treatment facilities, we end up ingesting small quantities over long periods of time. Not to mention the way these contaminants can impact ecosystems and the marine species present.

According to the study, “[t]ogether with our findings, they implied that the problems of drug abuse and addiction during the youth festival, and consequent environmental issue are of concern.”

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30 Photos of Music Festivals Worldwide

Jessica Marati — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:34:15 +0000

Party time, excellent.

It’s the season for music festivals, that special time of the year when thousands of revelers crowd into grassy outdoor venues each weekend for multi-day, multi-act celebrations of rhythm, art, and food. Whether you fancy hard rock, house music, or the horn-heavy beats of New Orleans jazz, there’s a fête for you. And though some festivals have fallen victim to high prices and over-commercialization, there are still a fair amount of smaller concerts that offer the same great vibes, without the $11 cans of Coors Light. Take your pick from our photo collection of music festivals from around the world and hopefully get ready to attend one for yourself!

(above) Free Press Summer Fest, Houston, Texas, USA

Summer Sonic, Chiba, Japan

Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain

Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark

Tomorrowland, Boom, Belgium

Bonnaroo, Manchester, Tennessee, USA

All Tomorrow’s Parties, Somerset, England

Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Splendour in the Grass, New South Wales, Australia

Festival Rock Feminino, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Vive Latino, Mexico City, Mexico

Exit Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia