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Music festivals are the perfect time to think outside-the-box when it comes to hair and makeup looks.

Whether you’re going for a laid-back flower-infused breezy look or a neon-coated color infusion, there are beauty products that will make it easy to bring your idea to life. Remember that the best part about festival dressing is that it’s a time when you can truly exercise creativity without any judgment, so make sure you have fun with it!

We’ve broken down beauty products into face, body and hair categories. Think of festival dressing as a time to try out that thing you’ve always wanted to try. Dying your hair bright blue or pink? We found a day-only temporary hair dye that will help you create the look. Always wanted to wear face gems and temporary foil tattoos? We’ve found some great ones.

No matter what look you’re going for, remember that you’ll be in the hot sun all day so sunscreen is absolutely necessary. Luckily, brands like Kopari and Vacation have come through with non-greasy formulas that smell great and even feature glitter for an added dash of fun. Speaking of the hot sun, make sure you’re looking for products that are long-lasting. We’ve found eyeshadows, temporary tattoos and face and body glitter that will stay on until you want them off.

Shop our selects below, and remember that festival season is a time for self-expression and fun.

Festival Face Makeup

We’ve rounded up the best long-wearing liquid eyeshadows, face sunscreens and jewels and glitter that will leave you absolutely bedazzled.

Festival Body Products

The themes for festival body looks are sun protection and glitter. Go forth and conquer.

Festival Hair Looks

Whether you’re thinking flowers or iridescent sparkles, we’ve got you covered. Feel free to wear a few of these in the same look!

JP Saxe was planning a fall headlining tour for rock clubs in the 1,000-2,000 capacity range to support the second half of his two-part album Make Yourself at Home. But after tickets went on sale, the Grammy-nominated singer announced on a brutally honest TikTok earlier this week that if he didn’t sell an additional 20,000 tickets for the run of shows he would have to cancel the entire thing.

“If we’re just not in a place yet to sell yet to sell out these two or three-thousand-cap venue that’s fine,” he said in the video. “It’s always been my goal to connect deeply not widely and I stand by that.” The clip was followed by another super honest one in which Saxe described his friends encouraging him to ask for help moving tickets, to which he said he initially respond, “no, that’s scary, I’m a man, I must do it all by myself.”

The 27-date North American tour slated to kick off Sept. 9 in Edmonton, AB at Midway Music Hall was booked to play venues including San Francisco’s Masonic, Nashville’s Cannery Hall, Detroit’s Saint Andrew’s Hall, Toronto’s Massey Hall and Brooklyn Steel in New York through an Oc. 15 gig at the Beachman in Orlando.

Then, on Wednesday (July 30) Saxe offered an update, saying that he’d sold “a few thousand extra tickets” since his initial plea, which he said he was grateful for and praised as a reminder that honesty and “being transparent in failure” can be more powerful than the “facade of success.”

“But what those few thousand tickets are not is enough to save this tour,” he lamented. “I’m really sorry. I’m so sorry,” he added, offering refunds for all the tickets purchased for the tour. And while he admitted to being “a little embarrassed,” Saxe said he is also feeling “a lot of ambition” to make sure he’s never in this position again and to make the most honest music he can going forward so he can fill those rooms in the future.

Saxe further explored the tour’s failure to launch in an essay for Variety on Friday (Aug. 1), in which he said the quiet part that most musicians (and their managers) don’t often say out loud about why they’re pulling dates after they’ve been announced.

“Due to unforeseen circumstances… The circumstance: I didn’t sell enough tickets,” he began. “Last week, my team told me we were going to have to cancel my fall tour. Ticket sales weren’t where they needed to be. The suggestion was: take the L, try again next year.” And while he wrote that he knows this kind of situation is often met with press releases about “wrong timing” or “a scheduling conflict,” the reality is something he knows you’re not supposed to admit: “‘I guess people aren’t really f–king with me right now.’”

He noted that the 20,000-tickets-or-bust video got a “few million views” and his grassroots army of “emotional song-loving cuties showed up” for him. But, alas, it wasn’t enough. “If you’re only as successful as you appear to be, then success starts to depend on your ability to shape perception,” he wrote about the difference between how an artist is actually connecting versus the perception of their success.

“In scroll-world — where there’s no time for nuance — the flash becomes the fact,” he said. “That’s why if a show is over 80 percent sold, you call it sold out. It’s not a lie, it’s marketing. We’ve all seen it work. You create the illusion of buzz, people get curious, the crowd grows — and suddenly the buzz is real.”

By sharing that his ship was sinking, Saxe said some people jumped on board to help and what was initially embarrassing to admit began to feel “weirdly empowering,” with the honesty cracking something open. He said that fissure was filled by messages from “many other” unnamed artists praising his boldness, as well as calls to his team from others in the industry commending his truth-telling.

His action comes more than a year after the Black Keys abruptly pulled the plug on their 31-date fall 2024 North American tour and split with their management and Jennifer Lopez cancelled her 2024 This Is Me… Live arena tour in order to, as a release said, take time off “to be with her children, family and close friends.”

“It’s not just about making something worth caring about — it’s about knowing how to make people care,” Saxe concluded. “I’m scared I’m only ever as successful as I’m perceived to be. That to feel successful, I need to look successful — to my peers, my friends back home, my family, their families,” Saxe added, wondering how much of that brave face is just, well, lying.

“Very few artists want to be sleeping in their car eating ramen, but every artist wants to say they used to sleep in their car eating ramen,” he said about the RAV4-to-riches tales of other acts who’ve climbed from penurious obscurity to high-flying chart dominance. “So if I really believe (which I do) that I’m going to sell out arenas someday… then I also have to believe in how much better it’ll feel when I get there,” he wrote. “Knowing I can tell the story about that one time, in the fall of 2025, when despite the support of a few thousand beautiful strangers on the internet… I had to cancel my whole tour.”

In need of some new tunes from your favorite queer artists? We’ve got you covered. Billboard Pride is proud to present the latest edition of Queer Jams of the Week, our roundup of some of the best new music releases from LGBTQ+ artists.

From Chappell Roan’s long-awaited new(ish) ballad to Reneé Rapp’s rowdy new album, check out just a few of our favorite releases from this week below:

Chappell Roan, “The Subway”

After more than a year of patience from fans, Chappell Roan is finally ready to offer them a ride on “The Subway.” The plaintive ballad paints a vivid picture of Roan mid-heartbreak, as she recounts the mundane tale of seeing an ex on the train and going into a full-blown spiral of Big Feelings™. It’s easy to see why fans have wanted a full studio version of the song — the dreamy guitars end up pairing perfectly with Roan’s ethereal vocal, as she pines for the day her former flame becomes “just another girl on the subway.”

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me

Reneé Rapp is ready for a switch-up. Where her excellent 2023 album Snow Angel saw the singer getting vulnerable about the hard realities surrounding her, Bite Me, her raucous new album, sees her disengaging from the hardships and opting to have fun instead. Over pop, rock, and R&B-tinged tracks, Rapp revels in sex (“Kiss It, Kiss It”), parties (“Good Girl”), and petty breakups (“That’s So Funny”), all while giving some of her best vocal performances to date. The pathos and angst from Snow Angel is still present throughout, but as Rapp herself sings in the back half of the album: “If I can’t be happy, then at least I’m hot.”

Demi Lovato, “Fast”

Everyone, please welcome back Demi Lovato, Pop Star. After zigging and zagging into adult contemporary and hard rock on her last few albums, the singer steps firmly back into the pop space with “Fast,” their new dance-fueled banger. Plinking synths litter the background of the new track, alongside a beat that slowly ratchets up until bursting into an electric symphony on the chorus. But as usual, the standout on “Fast” is Lovato’s inimitable voice, as she flexes the power and versatility of her own instrument throughout this delirious new single.

Slayyyter, “Beat Up Chanel$”

If Lovato’s new song hasn’t quite slaked your need for a high-octane new club track, then Slayyyter’s should get the job done. Over a crunchy industrial beat, Slayyyter works her way through a nightlife scene packed with “sex, money, drugs, chains on my chest, vintage Celine” and just about everything else you can hope to encounter. But she’s not interested in the opulence of the scene, as suggested in both the lyrics and grimy production — Slayyyter’s on a mission to find the filthy underbelly of the club. And with a track like “Beat Up Chanel$,” she’s sure to find it.

Debby Friday, The Starrr of the Queen of Life

After spending much of her career sowing chaos into dance tracks, Debby Friday is having an introspective moment. The Starrr of the Queen of Life finds the underground dance star still firmly situated in the club, but this time she’s ready to tackle some more existential questions about her personal life (“Alberta”) and about life itself (“Arcadia”), all while still providing some of her most fascinating production to date.

Adam Lambert, “Heaven on Their Minds” (Jesus Christ Superstar cover)

Leave it to Adam Lambert to make a 55-year-old rock opera song sound new and vital again. Ahead of his performance this weekend in the Hollywood Bowl production of Jesus Christ Superstar alongside Cynthia Erivo, Lambert shared his rendition of the show’s opening number “Heaven on Their Minds,” letting his stratospheric voice go as far as it can. You can also hear his acting in the role of Judas throughout, as the performer brings a sense of desperation and panic to this rollicking new rendition.

Check out all of our picks on Billboard’s Queer Jams of the Week playlist below:

King Combs is relieved that his father’s trial is over.

The son of Sean “Diddy” Combs — who was recently found not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering, but guilty of illegal prostitution, for which he is awaiting sentencing — sat down with Billboard over Zoom to talk about his seven-song EP Never Stop executive produced by Ye (formerly knows as Kanye West) and the past year he’s had as his father was in jail awaiting trial.

Once the verdict was in, ABC News caught up with King Combs outside of the Manhattan courthouse where he was notably in high spirits and expressed positivity, which will be a common them in our interview. “We love y’all. We love everybody watching. I’m so happy,” Combs told the outlet. “Pops coming home. God bless the whole world.”

Combs has songs dedicated to both of his parents on his Never Stop EP that he dropped last month.

The song “Kim,” about his late mother Kim Porter who passed away unexpectedly at 47 years old in 2018, features lines like, “When it rains, I feel your pain, it got my vision cloudy/ Tryna keep my head up, but that watеr, it feel like I’m drownin’,” and on the track “Diddy Free” (about his incarcerated father), he raps, “Tired of n—as speakin’ on the family/ N—as claim they brothers, but they can’t be.”

The project also features Ye on the track “People Like Me” and his daughter North West on the intro “Lonely Roads.”

Check out our convo with King Combs below, where he talks about how the project with Ye came together and where he and his family go from here.

So, it’s been an interesting year for you. I know your father is still waiting on his sentencing, but how do you feel now that the trial is over and the verdict is in?

I feel good. The whole family. We feel good. We just, you know, humbly, just waiting for the sentencing and waiting for pops to come home. We got good expectations. My new tape Never Stop is out right now. It’s going crazy. I’m happy to be here with Billboard. Thank y’all for having me.

How did the tape come together? How did Ye get involved?

Shout out Ye, too. He reached out to me during a time where, you know, a lot was going on, probably the worst times in my life. And he reached out to lend support and we talked about a Sean John collab. A lot of people may not know, we’ve been was gonna do a Sean John collab. Then we were gonna work on some music and stuff, but we never got a chance to. So, we started talking about the Sean John collab and he said he wanted to do a five-song EP with me. And then from there, I was like, “Yo, it’s no brainer, of course.” And we just made it happen.

And whose idea was it to have North on the intro?

Yeah, it actually was his idea. She was just in the studio one day. We was at the warehouse studio, and she was just real eager to work and real eager to hop on a track. It came out dope.

There’s a line where you’re like, “When they needed our help, they didn’t have to ask for it.” Do you feel like you and your family were betrayed by certain friends during this process?

I wouldn’t say betrayed, but you know, Ye definitely showed love and showed support when it was needed. And it definitely was a little quiet out there, but I wouldn’t say betrayed.

Because you do mention the “No Diddy” phrase on “Pick a Side.” I’d imagine that a phrase like that bothered you. Did seeing it take off online affect you in anyway?

I never really heard it in person. I seen it on the on Instagram and stuff like that. That’s about it.

So, how does that stuff change now? Because people kind of left your pops for dead and you came out with “Pick a Side” trying to respond to things.

I think now that the truth is getting out and pops is on the way home, God willing. I think we just need to stay with positivity, spread love. I just hope all the hate and all the negative stuff is past us and we can just move forward and with just love and good vibes. That’s what we’re here to do: never stop. I get vulnerable on this tape a little bit but for the most part it’s just good music for people to feel good and get through whatever they’re going through.

Do you regret releasing that track? You had some lines in there that had people talking.

Just creative expression, you know? But like I said, sometimes you can speak from emotional places. Let the truth just come out. Sometimes it’s better.

There’s a track named after your mom where you mentioned that she cried during one of your first performances.

That was a theme with my mom. Every time she seen me do something, even if it was something little she would start tearing up, start crying, especially when I perform, she always would cry.

You also mentioned that you didn’t know the difference whenever you watched her cry. How did she react when you told her you wanted to be a rapper?

She was just proud of me and really excited. She was my No. 1 fan. There would be times where I would perform in front of her in like the bathroom and stuff like getting ready, showing her what I’m gonna do and she would just start crying, like, bawling out.. And for me, it was just confusing that’s why I said I didn’t know the difference. I didn’t really understand.

What advice did she give you that you still think about and cherish?

Some advice she gave me that I still think about is to follow my dreams. The album title is called Never Stop. It’s one of my mottos I kind of get from her too because she always taught me to be myself, and just keep going. In life there’s going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of people trying to doubt you, a lot of people trying to push you in different ways and just to stay focused and do what I want to do.

How do you guys plan on moving forward once the sentencing comes in?

Like I said, we feel like just moving forward with positive vibes, love. Me? My tape just dropped. I got videos dropping. My sisters got a clothing line coming out. My brother Quincy’s into acting, Justin business. My little sister Chan, she’s in college right now, going to NYU. Baby Love is growing up. So, yeah, just, you know, continuing to live life and just bring positive vibes to the world. I think that’s just the main focus.

You’re in town visiting your pops, right? Have you gotten a chance to see him yet?

Yeah, I saw him. Of course, it wasn’t in the ideal place. Was is it in person or was it like a video call? In person. We dapped up and all that. At least it’s not like behind the wall, but it’s definitely not it. Any advice that he gave you while he was inside this past year? You had came out with “Pick a Side” trying to fight back at the narrative a bit. It was really just to be positive and not let everything that’s going on get to me. And, you know, don’t react off of emotion. Just be me and do what’s true to myself.

Do you think the Bad Boy and Diddy brand can bounce back from this?

Yeah, for sure. We’re definitely gonna keep going. Like, I said, “Never Stop.” We can’t stop, won’t stop, and we’re going to just continue to spread love and hopefully receive that back.

What you got going on in New York now that you that you’ve seen your pops, you’re gonna, you’re gonna stay out here for the weekend?

Yeah, we here in the city, but I’ma just be here, be working, cooking up some new heat, cooking up a video. Billboard might have to come get the behind the scenes.

Never Stop dropped about a month ago. What other plans do you have in store?

After this, we never gonna stop. We’re gonna keep going, keep dropping hits. We got some videos coming out for this tape. I can’t tell y’all which one, so it’s a surprise. We’re just gonna keep it going.

Is there any anything else you you want to talk about or add?

Goodfellas is my new record label. We’re going to go crazy starting my entrepreneurship at an all-time high. Also want to say, I love all the supporters and fans who stuck with us through this hard time, through this dark time, who stream Never Stop, all the people who showing love, spreading love, that’s what it’s all about. And I want to say, Thank y’all. Love y’all so much. Thank you, Billboard. Yeah, Never Stop out now, Goodfellas, Bad Boy. CYN.