Wilderness Festival Azzy Salon

Wilderness Festival, on the beautiful Cornbury Estate in Oxfordshire, is a must-do if you are looking for a festival that strikes a balance between relaxation and revelry, artistic refinement and simple pleasures. This year the festival was headlined by Robert Plant and The Flaming Lips but so many other things are going on simultaneously from erudite speakers to meditation gurus to cool jazzy Ronnie Scott type bands in small watering holes to early morning yoga on paddle boards, a dance your naked truth workshop, delicious amazing food tents from well know upscale restaurants like Hix to small quirky food stalls serving vegan Indian food in an American yellow school bus. 

The late night revellers flocked in their thousands to dance to the DJ Mix till dawn in, what is called, The Valley. DJ Goldie pulled the largest crowd and funnily enough we met Goldie in the Vegan Indian restaurant on the yellow bus and gave him a pack of tattoos for his daughter. 

The Azzy London stall was set up in the exclusive Boutique Camping Section of the festival. Here we ran the Boutique Salon offering more than just metallic tattoos but a full make-over service that included hair braiding, blow dries and straightening, festival make-up and glitter. We had a superb team of hair and make-up professionals, many of whom work for high end magazine shoots, celebrities and TV. Heading up the hair braiding was Jöel Benjamin, famous for his instagram campaign #100BraidsofHappy.

The vibe was uber cool and relaxing in Boutique Camping in the sunshine. With the lounge music playing from the Swedish inspired Finca cafe and the Neal's Yard massage pods next door to us, the area was a refuge from the sensory overload of the main arena. If we hadn't been in a field in the Cotswolds I might have closed my eyes and thought we were in Ibiza. 

By Thursday afternoon the Azzy Salon was already fully booked for the Friday and Saturday. The theme for Friday was Kaleidoscope but it was the Saturday Gold Rush theme that most people really went all-out for.  Boutique Camping attracted guests from all over the world. Bloggers like Naomi Smart, Tv personalities such as Jonathan Ross and we had Teen Wolf actress, Holland Roden, come in for hair and glitter make-up. She was really friendly with us and we were delighted when she posted this photo below and tagged Azzy London to her 2.5 million Instagram followers!

AMEICAN TEEN WOLF ACTRESS - HOLLAND RODEN

On Sautrday night, Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, came in at closing time for some  last minute blue glitter make-up around the eyes! He grew up in Wimbledon, where Azzy London is based, so we got chatting. Here is the video he posted on the Mumford & Sons instagram!

IMG 1075 from Mary Hanover on Vimeo.

Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons came to our tent where I put some glitter make-up on his eyes. 

Just like the Wilderness website says on the tin - Yes people really do swim nude in the river and I personally loved the the end of festival fire walking ceremony on the hilltop which had an almost ritualistic pagan feel as the sun set.

We will be back at Wilderness Festival 2017 hopefully with an even better salon with even more festival hair and make-up services in boutique!

JENNIFER SAUNDERS WEARS AZZY TATT TO ABFAB PREMIERE

When Jennifer Saunder's make-up artist put one of our gold temporary tattoos onto her arm, who would have thought that Jennifer would love it so much that she'd decide to forgo wearing real jewellery to the Red Carpet Premiere of her new Absolutely Fabulous Movie and wear an Azzy tatt instead! 

Jennifer wore our tatt to all her Breakfast TV interviews including Loose Women, interviews with all the newpapers and then on to her movie premiere that same week! In fact, the red carpet was a gold carpet in Leicester Square and the event was the talk of the town making the front page of every national UK paper.