Day of the Dead Festival

This weekend features the Day of the Dead Festival in Bristol.

Organised by the We Are: team (Bristol Pride, Black History Month) this is the first Halloween event they have put on and it looks set to be fantastic!

Featuring music from Heg Doughty, Siddy Bennett and the Wildflowers, Bashema, Baila la Cumbia, Vamos, Dr Meaker and Shambarber DJs there will be plenty to keep the crowd dancing all day and into the night, as well as dance workshops, hooping displays, a live fire show from the Bass Honeys and to close the festival, a firework display!

The website for the festival click here

If you come along this weekend do leave me a comment and let me know what you thought!

Brisfest... One month on

It is now one month since Brisfest happened, and years of extremely hard work by an exceptionally talented crew was launched to the city of Bristol in the shape of a weekend long extravaganza of music, circus, comedy, dance, cabaret, cider, sunshine, fancy dress, and unfortunately, rain.

It was the most fantastic event. We as a committee know that it was not perfect and there are most definitely areas to be improved, but on the whole I think it was pretty darn awesome!

I am so happy I was invited to be involved in this incredible project and helped the dream of bringing a festival back to Ashton Court come true.

I barely had a chance to see any of the festival with all the missioning about I was doing for the whole week I was there, so I was thrilled when I came across this video, shot by Ned Espeut-Nickless. It is so so fantastic!! Whenever I want to reminisce about just how fab it was, I stick this on.

Enjoy!

To find out more about Brisfest, either the festival or the organisation, please visit www.brisfest.co.uk

See No Evil 2012

See No Evil is "an art project of international standard based on Nelson Street in Bristol City Centre. It brings together a selection of the world's best street artists to create a huge outdoor gallery."

See No Evil comprises a week of international street artists doing their thang (fascinating to watch it come together if you're wandering down Nelson St towards Cabot Circus for shopping at the time!) and at the end of the week the public descend for music in the disused Westgate Building and dancing along to stages in the street, something Bristol definitely excels in!!

I was in Spain at the time so I missed this epic event but Olly, friend and Brisfest trustee with many many strings to his bow, including a film company, filmed the whole event and produced the video below

Video by Ozuki Films. 

I am definitely going next year!!

Eggplant

I am a big fan of rapper Azealia Banks, singer of the super catchy 212 which was a massive hit this summer, so I was very excited to hear she was releasing her own lipstick with MAC, called Yung Rapunxel.

Azealia herself describes the shade as 'eggplant', while MAC call it a deep, rich shade of plum.

Unfortunately as far as I'm aware it is not being released in the UK which is such a shame as I would totally buy it!

However I was rifling through my make up drawer today and found this: Black Cherry by Sleek which I think is somewhat similar!

Here is Black Cherry swatched:

Here is Azealia in Yung Rapunxel

And me in Black Cherry:

Total twins, right?!

Unfortunately not... But I do love this shade, so until I hear of MAC releasing this fab lipstick in the UK I will be rocking this on nights this Autumn/Winter. Was anyone lucky enough to see her on tour this month, or attend the fabulous Mermaid Ball?