Festival fabulous

Music festival season kicks off next weekend with Oxegen and then it’s a long hot summer with weekend revels packing out the calendar until the leaves start to fall.

Castlepalooza and Electric Picnic are also among the staples of the Irish festival calendar and lots of us head from one to the other as the summer sun (hopefully) shines on.

The key to packing your essentials for a couple of days camping — or glamping, depending on budget — is to plan ahead. Bag beauty bits that can double up, which have long-last capabilities and which you’re not going to be too upset about if you lose. Most of all, make ’em bright, fun and colourful, because if it’s going to be a weekend of hedonism, music and dancing, then it just makes sense that your cosmetics should match up.