Long Time No See....

Well Hello There...

Its been a very long time (slaps wrist) and I am so sorry! I have been totally wrapped up in my new job and new man and just didn't have a spare moment to blog. I would sit down get the blog up and just had no inspiration, fellow bloggers will understand that when the inspiration is lost its very hard to be creative.

Well, I am pleased to say that my creative juices have been flowing and that's mainly thanks to the lovely Sue from Love Makeup allowing me help her at this years UMAexpo. Low and behold seeing lots of creative people and of course the makeup I started to miss being so creative and all things that comes along with being a Makeup artist.

So, whats been happening I hear you cry well....

The New Job 

I have been at the new job for 9 months now and its amazing but, extremely intense. It has been great being back in the big wide world of work but, it has come with its struggles the main one being my stupid back. Taking my back out of the equation I no longer have to look at 4 walls and fight the government to acknowledge I have a disability which is such a huge weight off of my mind.

The New Man

Funny story after years of being on dating sites and going on failed dates I met him at Jury Service! Noooo he was not the one on trial haha. We have been together about 4 months now and had a few ups and downs mostly involving crazy ex's and people interfering but, things are getting back on track and its nice to finally be happy.

The Hair

Over the months it has gone from Red to Pink, Mink, Lavender, Purple, Blonde, Mint/Light Blue/Lavender (Think Unicorn), Platinum and finally back to Red. Lots and lots of hair dye, money and smelling of bleach but, I got to test the new Bleach of London range which is awesome! A more in depth review of the Bleach of London range will be posted soon.

Pic Monkey did something funky to my lips on the first image!

Tattoos

I got two new ones a sugar skull on my thigh and a pinup girl on my arm and I L.O.V.E them both. 

That's a snippet of whats been going on in Emma Land all very, very exciting :)

Ohhhhh and how could I forget I met You Me At Six!!!!!!!!

Over the next few weeks posts may be a bit all over the place whilst I try to get some sort of schedule in place so, please be patient I haven't vanished again.

 

Off Topic: Boys!

The Husband and I (Don't you love his crown?)

This last week has seen skeletons come out of the closet and huge regrets form!

I have a friend who I liked from a far for a while and when he was briefly single last year it became apparent he liked me too however, at the time I was firmly hung up on Mr Thomas and he was still pretty hung up on his ex so, nothing happened.

We both went about our lives he got back with his ex and I focused more on Tom to try and bury what feelings I had for this guy and didn't speak to him for a few months to make it easier on myself. It transpires after a drunken conversation (him being the drunk one) that in his words: "I would happily been yours" I responded saying he would have always gone back to his ex and that he would never have been mine and he responded with "No I wouldn't have had I not thought Tom would own you quite so much" :(

Its unleashed a whole word of regret and pain to think I've been single 3 years and the one guy I really and truly had feelings for would have been mine if I hadn't shut the feelings out and focused on Tom! Ive been over Tom for quite sometime but he is very much a part of my life being my best friend and the one I turn too when anything is wrong. To an outsider Tom and I seem very much like a married couple but its purely Platonic.

I'm not sure what I want out of posting this I suppose its just one of those need to air it to outsiders but, I totally hate feeling regret and having old feelings resurface when I cant do anything to change them. I have since been told that if he is ever single he would love to give it a shot but, that makes me feel 100 times  worse.

Guys say that us girls are mental but, I think they have just as many issues as we do if not more sometimes!

Anyway sorry for this unrelated blurb!

Highlights of The Week

Beautiful Brighton Beach & West Pier early evening

Morning Lovelies!

I thought I would try and bring a bit more of a personal post to you once a week so you can get to know me a little better and get a look into what I have been doing.

Here are the highlights of last week:

Tuesday I had a random evening out, I always find unplanned randomness is the most fun. My good friend Tom messaged and asked me to join him for an evening of Beer, Beach BBQ's and movies. It was a lovely night we haven't seen each other for a while so, it was great catching up with him and chatting about dates and other things going on in our lives whilst the sun went down. We went through a few beers, some Ben and Jerry's cookie dough and quite a bit of p*ss taking from him, no night with Tom is normal without some kind of p*ss taking.

Freshly burnt finger due to forgetting utensils #Idiot

Friday was Date night! I have been chatting to this lovely guy for a few months now and we finally managed to get together for a few drinks in my local, some food and then a few movies. I had been really excited about this one as we just seemed to click from the minute we started chatting. The date went really well and he has said he would like to see me again so, watch this space. 

Date Night Look

 I am a little sceptical when it comes to second dates because they never seem to happen for me so, I never get my hopes up or getting too excited because I would get really hurt on a regular basis. I think the only person I have been on more than one date with is Tom but that's because he isn't into me like that *Insert huge frowny face*, I suppose you could call them "Mate Dates". Tom and I initially met through a dating site we hit it off and have been very good friends ever since meeting around 3 months ago, I would totally date him and he knows it but its not going to happen! 

Anyway enough of that lets move onto Saturday, I had a surprise visitor who arrived with the most beautiful bunch of flowers for me. I haven't had flowers brought for me for at least 9 years so, for him to say " I was in the area and drove passed a florist and thought Ahhh I will get some flowers for Ems that will make her smile" did just that put a huge grin on my face. I cant name the person because he said if people find out they will think he has gone soft, it wasn't soft at all it just proved what an amazing friend he is.

So, that was my weeks highlights, I hope you enjoyed a bit of a look into what goes on when I am not blogging about Beauty etc and I will leave you with a picture of my beautiful flowers,

Ems xo

The last few weeks.....

The last few weeks have been pretty manic, I have been on so many dates I now call myself the serial dater ha ha! I have also been suffering a lot with my back which has really put me on a bit of a downer as it had been pretty good.

I have a busy week this week as the folks are away so, I am having to make sure that the boutique is ticking along OK for mum and get my sister to sort out any parcel's that need sending.

Tomorrow I have yet another date but the pessimistic side of me says it will go the way all the others have, i do hope not as he is a cutie and we really seem to get on!

As the lovely GetLippie said you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince :) as soon as i find that prince i am sure you lot will be the first to know!

I have be testing out some great products during the time I haven't been posting so I have quite a few reviews for you guys, a lot of skin care and a wonderful eczema relief product and I cant wait to tell you about them.

Ems xo

The Dirty Thirties Have Commenced!

As some of you may know it was my 30th on 19th April which plays a little part in the complete lack of posting. I spent the actual day with my Best Friend George and got reasonably drunk. I got some amazing presents including clothes, money, make-up (of course), amazing Tarina Tarantino earrings and a fabulous Wonder Woman mug.

Amazing earrings that I cannot wear as my sister forgot I have tunnels!

Amazing Wonder Woman mug from Ruby and James... We all know my fellow geek James chose this HA!

My amazing shirt from Sideshow Familia, I will post a better picture in my Merch Haul Post.

So, the birthday night in with George involved bottles of rose and pint glasses, I totally blame George haha. We spent the night eating pizza, taking millions of pictures and random videos, of which you lovely people will not be seeing as they involve me singing to myself!

Friday was a chill day, luckily I didn't feel too bad just really tired and i needed to conserve my energy for my party on the Saturday.

Saturday was an amazing evening, even though a lot of people pulled out at the last minute, the most important people where with me and I had a date too so not all bad. We started at my favourite pub in Brighton, The Fountain head where manager Kathryn, had reserved us a few tables and then the drinking commenced. We then moved onto The Haunt, my favourite dancing spot as on a Saturday night its always 80's night. Myself George and my date Dave were the last ones standing getting home at 5.30am.... I know, I know, dirty stop out, but I had such an amazing time and got a birthday kiss so I cant moan really can i? Although, unfortunately, we wont be seeing each other again as much as I would have liked too.

I then hibernated for the week, feeling quite sorry for myself but then Saturday 28th arrived and what a day that was, but you can read more about that in a separate post a little later on, for now i will leave you with some birthday snaps.

How the actual birthday started

What happens after a few too many!

George took advantage and took bum pictures whilst i crawled into the kitchen Haha

George and I ready to party

My gorgeous bestie George ready to party his ass off.

Still sober!

The Sister and the Godbrother

Not so sober!

George, Dave and Dave's Friend Simon

Darcy the nutter

Dave, Me (really not sober now!) Darcy and George

Dave attempting to eat my sister

Lizard Tongue Girl, Her super powers are to lick people with her incredible tongue haha

Ems xo

Off Topic - Internet Dating: Yay or Nay?

A few months ago I decided to plunge into the world of Internet dating because seriously dating is a pain in the bum! You cant meet a nice guy in a pub or club these days it just doesn't happen (oh dear I sound old) I joined Plenty of Fish initially for a laugh but its turned into a full time job in itself!

I am not blowing my own trumpet because a lot of the emails I get are from weirdos or people that I am just not interested in dating but, in the last week I have counted that I have actually replied to more than 200 emails! 

Can you really find a nice decent guy? So far only one that I would have dated unfortunately he turned out to be a player, yes there are lots of them too!

Is it worth the time and effort? In my case possibly because meeting guys here is hard, like I said you just don't meet a guy that's wanting to form a relationship in a club or a pub.

My family are actually very supportive my mum does say she cant see how I have had to resort to doing it but that's because Mum is bias and thinks her daughters are the most beautiful things to walk the planet! Mum wake up its not true!!

I kind of wanted to post about this because there does seem to still be a big issue with Internet dating, people still think its weird and unsafe. There are weirdos on there but on the whole I have encountered really nice guys but most of them live miles away.

At this current moment I think all that I could get out of it is a few more friends, but I still have hope I wont be single for much longer because its getting boring to be honest and I would like kids one day!

Anyway I hope you enjoyed my middle of the night/early morning lack of sleep random post! What do you think about Internet dating? Would you do it?

Ems xo