Festival Advice: Dont Go Tapps Aff!

Sunburn is skin damage caused by UV rays in the sunlight. Your skin overheats, becomes red and blisters. Not a good look for anyone. With the amount of time spent outside at music festivals it’s important to take the necessary precautions in making sure you don’t do any unnecessary damage to your skin.

Festival Essentials

Sunscreen

An easily forgotten item when it comes to Scottish weather however with the summer starting nicely with temperatures of above 20 degrees and the UV index in the 4-6 range it looks like the weather may only get hotter. Therefore it is essential you stock up on sunscreen in order to protect yourself from sun burn and not let it ruin your festival experience.

After Sun

Hopefully you won’t be needing this if you've packed sunscreen but just in case its always wise to pack a bottle. You’re probably not sleeping in the comfiest of conditions so why make it worse? Being sun burnt at the end of the day is extremely painful and uncomfortable so ease the pain by slapping on the After Sun.

Painkillers

source: Cosmoplitan 

Same as above. If you’re already bringing along the paracetamol or ibuprofen for the sore head on the morning after it’ll double up as something to treat your sunburn with and relieve the pain. But follow MASScot's tips and you should have no need for it.

Umbrella/Parasol

You’ve got your tent and your pop up seat, why not bring along the umbrella. Use it if it rains or when it’s sunny. If the sun is beating down on you, an umbrella is the perfect foil to help cool you down by relaxing in the shade.  A whole weekend in the sun is too much for anyone so utilize the umbrella to keep you cool and avoid sunburn. MASScot encourages you to take shade between 11am - 3pm so put that parasol into action.

Sunglasses

Essential accessory when you’re out and about in the sun. Make sure the glasses are UV protected to ensure that they’re safe to wear. 

Protective Clothing

The Best type of protection from the sun is simply covering up and wearing clothing which hide the most likely areas to get burnt and are therefore protected from the sun. Sunsibility has a whole range of UV protected clothing.

UV index App

Although it might not be warm, the UV rays are often still there. Install a weather app on your phone and you can easily inspect the UV index and plan for your day out and about quickly. 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ultraviolet-uv-index/id445874481?mt=8