HOLI ONE festival comes to Plymouth!

HOLI ONE Colour Festival is a worldwide event and lucky enough for us it hits UK cities this year! The festival is running a 16 city UK tour (check the cities out here) with the Plymouth event taking place on Saturday 19th July at Newnham Park! 

You may have seen the HOLI ONE festival circulating around various social media sites recently but I'm sure many of you are still thinking but what is this festival?! So, the festival itself is influenced by the original Holi in India which is a spring festival known as the festival of colours (although, these two are not related).

 The HOLI ONE Colour Festival travels all over the world bringing people together to experience the music, dance, performance art and visual stimulation; providing an amazing and colourful time for all involved! Festival goers turn up dressed in white, and each hour everyone throws coloured powder, the idea of going in as a blank canvas and coming out in an array of different colours sounds awesome! 

This day festival provides such a quirky take on a stereotypical festival. The idea of this festival is simply amazing and I cannot wait to take part in it next week! Hopefully the pictures of previous events speak for themselves in just how colourful,bright happy and fun the festival looks, I'm really looking forward to getting some amazing snaps myself which of course will be covered in a blog post after the event!

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What can only be described as a cacophony of colours, the pictures from previous events really are phenomenal and it's only what I can imagine being inside a rainbow feels and looks like!

I'm even more excited due to the fact that A) I absolutely LOVE festival fashion and B) I have never been to a festival before. This is partly due to the fact that i have never been camping either, so being a day event means that this is the perfect way to ease myself into a festival, and what could be better than attending the HOLI ONE Colour Festival which I have previously heard so much about. As soon as I received the invite I already started planning outfits in my head as to what I could wear, so I've put a few festival style outfits together to anticipate the event!

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My staple pieces are of course white, from the pictures I've seen it definitely looks best if your main body of colour is just white as the colour takes to it a lot better, the powder is meant to be washable but I won't be wearing my most expensive clothing there. It just means it's a good excuse to shop for something else! The two dresses are only around £5 making it the best choice for this festival as if it does get ruined it doesn't really matter. As I'm working from a white outfit it means that I want to go completely overboard with bright accessories,think huge floral crowns,jelly shoes, oversized hats, bangles and neon nail polish,the possibilities are endless! A white outfit definitely doesn't have to be boring!

If you are in Plymouth and fancy coming along (why wouldn't you want to?!) then you can purchase your tickets here. Roll on next weekend and expect many instagram and twitter updates live from the event, if you are local, I hope to see you there!

Have you been to a HOLI ONE festival before? Will you be coming to the Plymouth one? Would you go to a festival like this? What would you choose to wear?

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Holiday Lookbook: #3 Neon cut out dress

Dress* - Missi Clothing

Heels* - Peacocks

Clutch - New Look

Bracelet* - Sparkling Jewellery

This was without a doubt my favourite dress of the holiday! It also looks a LOT more neon in real life,its so eye catching and its just perfect for a holiday dress when you have a tan. This is from Missi Clothing but i cant actually find the direct link to it on their website anymore, if you saw my first holiday lookbook i first introduced you to the brand Miss Clothing then. They really do have some lovely pieces for summer, i also have a gorgeous kimono to style up for you soon! These were the only heels that i could take on holiday with me as i just had no room, luckily they went with all of my outfits though!

In other exciting news i finally made the move and purchased a Canon 600d online eeek!! I am super excited for it to arrive and to have a play around with it as well as hopefully improve my blog photography,if you have this camera any tips would be greatly appreciated! Whatever you're doing i hope you are all having a fab weekend!

What do you think of this dress? Would you wear something this neon? Whats your favourite dress for holiday?

*Products marked with an asterix (*) have been sent to me for review. However, all opinions in this post are 100% my own

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Travel | Celebrity Reflection Eastern Mediterranean Cruise

Last week i returned home from an Eastern Mediterranean cruise on board Celebrity Reflection. It was my second cruise but my first one with Celebrity cruise lines. It was an 11 night cruise which stopped off in some of the most spectacular port of calls. Starting in Rome we travelled to Santorini, Istanbul, Kusadasi, Mykonos, Athens, Naples and then we finished off back in Rome. There really is nothing better than waking up in a different city/country each day. I've decided to do several different posts on all of the gorgeous places that i visited as i have so many pictures and things to tell you about the place,the itinerary of this trip was just fab. This post will be dedicated to the cruise itself and let me tell you it was the most luxurious fortnight possible, since I've cruised i don't think i will ever go back to a normal holiday again. Grab a cup of tea and a biscuit,its a long one!

I didn't actually end up with many pictures of the inside areas, but you can definitely see how luxurious it all was!

 One of the many gorgeous bars on the ship,with lovely,friendly bartenders!

 There was two swimming pools on the ship, an outdoor one and an inside one for adults only! It was the perfect hideaway from the glare of the sun and it was perfectly tranquil and peaceful! 

Seriously the most comfy lounging chairs EVER!There were also amazing hammocks too which i never got a try on as they were always occupied!

Sunbathing on the solstice deck, one of the highest parts of the ship, technically closer to the sun for added tanning purposes! If i wasn't here i was in the buffet restaurant.

This year we opted for an inside stateroom, the balcony rooms are lovely but truthfully we hardly spent anytime in our rooms as we were either at a port of call, taking part in the many activities onboard,eating,eating some more or sunbathing,but probably eating. Compared to Royal Caribbean the stateroom was a lot more roomy and the bathroom was will kitted out and the shower was actually big enough to stand in and wash my hair!

Every evening you got the celebrity today delivered to your room with a chocolate each night which was such a thoughtful touch, i'm still eating some of them now that i saved! The celebrity today is a daily newsletter type thing that tells you what activities are going on each day and at what time, as well as food recommendations and details about the next port of call. You may have noticed i'm not actually called Natalie (my sister!) but like the eager person i am i had already looked through mine before realising i had forgotten to take a picture!

Every day you could tune into the cruise directors channel to find out what was going on that day as well as the Captains channel (as shown above) highlighting where you were at sea,the current temperature as well a live video stream from the bridge!

Ahh my second favourite part to the cruise after outfit changes and food is the towel animals! I always looked forward to coming back from dinner or the evening shows to see which towel animal we got next, our lovely stateroom attendant always laid our pjs out in various different styles too,so cute!

Dining with a view in the Opus dining room. There literally is nothing as perfect and relaxing as eating and watching the sea/land go past you,it feels so serene and looks beautiful!

Grilled chicken breast in the dining room,one of the meals i grew intensely familiar with..

The most delicious New York cheesecake!

Yummy sweet treats from the buffet at lunch times!

Well moving onto the most important aspect of the cruise. The FOOD! Seriously if you want to eat 24 hours a day then you can, with one of the restaurants/cafes practically always open. By the end of the cruise i was eating almost triple the amount i would ever dream of eating at home,  i dont know where the food was all going! The buffet restaurant was open literally all day catering for breakfast,lunch,afternoon snacks,dinner and the chefs late night selection. The food is everything you can dream of and more, for a picky eater like me its perfect as i can have a bit of everything. 

In the evenings we dined in the formal dining hall, the food is definitely too fancy for me, resulting in me eating grilled chicken every night, the waiting staff were convinced i was on a diet, well they should have definitely seen what i had been scoffing at breakfast and lunch each day!! But hey, i went there to dress up nicely every evening and of course for the best course being dessert! The waiting staff tended to your every need, sometimes bringing two meals if you couldn't decide on the one! I could not fault the restaurants on the ship at all, i came home a few pounds heavier which did me the world of good but it was quite nice to come home to some plain beans on toast! There's a few pictures above of some of the amazing food i ate.

The Reflection theatre held the shows every evening. A few of my favourite performances were Gareth Oliver who was a ventriloquist and appeared in BGT 5 years ago with Susan Boyle,seriously SO funny, google him on youtube if you cant remember him! I also loved the reflection performances which included a circus style show.

 The activities and evening entertainment were another amazing part of the cruise. There is always something going on. I even attended a hair braiding workshop which was amazing! The acrobats on the ship were sensational as you can see above!

Shadow dancing Las Vegas style in the Martini bar!

This was one of the activities which took part in the day which was a cooking competition against a chef on board vs a cruiser, it was so fun to watch!

There was so many amazing shows and themed nights on the ship but the best had to be the liquid nightclub which saw the indoor pool area transformed into a night club. It was a great atmosphere with lots of stuff going on as well as acrobatics dancing around and there is proof above that mermaids DO exist! I was in my element, if i could be anything mythological it would be a mermaid!

There were also two formal nights on the ship which allowed you to dress as glamorously as possible! They always say wear your best dress first because you probably wont fit into it by the end of the cruise haha! The last formal night i donned my favourite Scala USA dress and felt like a bond girl the whole night as well as becoming one of Charlies angels (my dads actual name)!

It was really difficult to get a picture where you can see the whole cruise ship as its just so big! I think i mastered it with it in the background whilst i was at the beach in Kusadasi though!

Well there you have it! A whirlwind stop tour of my amazing holiday onboard celebrity cruises!In the words of Alexander the cruise director 'Whatever you're doing have a fantastic day on board the gorgeous, Celebrity Reflection'!

I hope you all have a fab weekend! What do you think of my travel pics? Have you cruised before? Are you off on any holidays this year?

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