Witchcraft Wednesday #2 what we made on the summer solstice

Hi everyone,
It's now been a month since the summer solstice which was a particularly powerful one as it was also a full moon so I took the chance to do lots of spells and brew some potions!
Here's what I made
-Full moon water
-Full moon oil
- Rose water
- Wild Flower water
- Love potion
- A potion to invoke peace and calmness

I also did spells to attract happiness and prosperity, charged all my crystals, cards, pendulums, did a deep clean both personally and to my house.

Spooky box club enchanted forest unboxing

I've never had a spooky box club box before, but this appeared as a surprise!

If you don't know already, Spooky box club is a goth subscription box service providing a selection of exclusive goods that adhere to a monthly theme. The subscription is £21 per month. 

This is the enchanted forest box, which is a perfect match for me as I love anything magical! 

Upon opening this, you're greeted by brown paper wiggles

And you get to do a little hunt for your items! 

I loved the contents of this box! You get a little grey card telling you the contents and which charity the box raised money for. 

The Box also contained: 

•A small tub of enchanted forest tea and •a skull tea infuser. 

This tea comes in a really cute container and is also the nicest tea I have ever had. it contains: apple and orange pieces, hibiscus cornflower petals, dried currants, elderberries and rosehips. 

The tea infuser is so cute and just the right size! 

•A packet of white spell candles

I go through spell candles like there's no tomorrow so these are much appreciated. The tiny size means they are perfect to travel. 

•Swirly lollipop

My inner child is very happy with this! I think Spooky Box Club put a lolipop in every box 

• forest witch scarf

This is a gorgeous light beige and has hand drawn style patterns on of crystals, leaves and animal skulls. I'm not a scarf person, so I'm using this as an altar cloth 

• Crystal point necklace (flourite?) 

This is one of those pieces that every witch needs to own, it's really elegant and I love the short chain it comes on. 

•Branch and skull dangly earrings

These silver earrings are little ornate branches with skulls growing from them. They've rekindled my love for dangly earrings as they're so elegant but spooky

• Witchy Woman moon phase patch 

This is probably my favourite item, it's just so cool and relevant but I'm really struggling to choose what to put it on. 

• Dreamcatcher 

This is easily my second favourite item, I've wanted a dream catcher for ages and this one is really high quality and stunning. I've slept so much better since hanging it up too and I absolutely love it. 

Since receiving this box I have fallen in love with spooky box club and would love to subcribe to their boxes! 

Do any of you receive these boxes? 

 

Download festival makeup bag

I'm off to Download festival pretty soon and this post will be going up while I'm there, but I thought it would be really interesting for you to see what makeup I'm taking.

 I know some people wouldn't really take makeup to a festival but I like to have the option of putting on makeup, that said, I didn't want to take too much so I've narrowed it down to this!

Maybelline 'matte maker mattifying powder' // MAC 'Coppertone' blush

 Revolution makeup 'mermaids vs unicorns' palette // Collection lasting perfection concealer

Collection extreme liner // Urban decay de-slick spray (travel size)

MAC smoke and mirrors palette

Download festival doesn't allow glass bottles, and while I'm sure they mean alcohol bottles. I didn't want to risk taking a foundation so I've opted for concealer as a lighter and more practical option, I want my makeup to stay in place so I have taken my usual setting spray and powder, the setting spray will hopefully be nice and refreshing if I need to top up. I also wanted to take products in sturdy packaging, so I'm hoping my MAC products are up to the test, the Coppertone blush can serve as a blush and contour shade and also looks amazing on the eyes and the MAC palette has everything I need in for eyes and eyebrows which is a great bonus. For some variety I'm taking my Revolution mermaids vs unicorns palette as I enjoy doing colourful festival makeup, the pigmentation isn't the best but the colour selection is good and I didn't want to risk my beloved urban decay shadow box.

I'm also taking some adhesive gems, but I wanted to take as little as possible.

What would be in your festival makeup bag? 

5 top tips to being a festival tosser.

So recently I've been getting pretty annoyed with people who obviously don't understand festival etiquette, but if you really have a burning desire to be that person at a festival that everyone hates, never fear, you'll be the most unpopular person there with these great tips! 1: make sure you don't bring enough food and drink, and instead of buying yourself more, just ask everyone else for it. 2: alternatively you could just pester everyone for money 3: get absolutely wasted and attempt to start a campsite singsong at 2am. When no-one joins in, make sure to walk into the side of peoples tents. 3: set a fire and let it catch your tent at the end of the festival, it will then pass to the other tents and the whole campsite will be toasty and warm and not have to take tents home. 4: be that person who throws their drink 5: wake up really early and ensure the whole campsite is awake by being noisy.

If you have any other suggestions for what not to do at festivals, let me know!