Festival safety, no judgment

Heat, hearing, hydration, consent, and knowing where to get help matter more than any wrist stack. Check the current festival rules, stay with your people, and get medical help early.

If substances may be present, never use alone. Carry naloxone where it is legal and allowed, and follow current guidance from an established harm-reduction organization such as DanceSafe. We do not publish instructions, dosing, sourcing or anything about getting past security, and nothing on this site should be read as medical advice.

Every event publishes its own rules, and those rules win. As of the date we checked, one major US promoter lists sealed intranasal naloxone among the items you may bring through its gates — that is one company, in one year, and it is exactly the kind of line that changes between editions. Read the allowed-and-prohibited-items page for the event you are going to, the year you are going to it. Ourfestival guides link straight to it.

The boring stuff that actually gets people home

• Water, then food, then more water. Free refill stations exist at almost every large festival; an empty bottle or hydration pack is usually the thing you are allowed to bring in, and a full one is not.
• Earplugs. Hearing damage from a weekend of bass is permanent and boring and completely avoidable. Filtered plugs cost less than a shirt.
• Heat and cold. A desert or a canyon in August is a different problem from a field in Michigan in June. Shade in the afternoon, a layer for after sundown.
• Go with people who will notice. Agree a meeting point that is not your phones, because the phones will die. Say out loud who is checking on whom.
• Get medical early. Medical tents and roaming staff are there for this and you will not get a lecture from us about why you went. Going early is always better than going late, and it is always better than not going.
• Consent, on the floor and in a trade. Nobody touches anybody without asking — that includes reaching for the kandi on somebody's wrist. Seetrade etiquette.

What we do not do here

We do not sell, recommend or link to anything in this area, and there are no affiliate links on this page. We do not name substances, describe effects or combinations, publish testing instructions, or explain how to get anything past a gate. If you want that kind of information, get it from a harm-reduction organization that does this professionally and keeps its guidance current — not from a bead site.

Before you pack

Two pages worth reading the week before:kandi and the festival bag policy, so your stack goes in on your arms instead of getting pulled out of a bag, andhow many kandi to bring, so you are not carrying a bin you did not need.

Independent kandi guide. Not a craft kit brand. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any festival, promoter, venue, or artist. Festival names are used only to identify the events discussed. This page is not medical advice.