Review - Tints of Nature Organic Hair Dye

Hey Lovelies,


Back at the beginning of March the lovely ladies at Tints of Nature sent some dye for my Mum to use and review for this blog. Normally I would review all products but seeing as I have bright red hair this product wouldn't have been suitable for me but, it was such an exciting product that I didn't want you to miss out on hearing about it.

Tints of Nature are Organic Hair Dyes suitable for Vegans and Vegetarians better still they are a UK brand and all of their products are made here. As the products are made used natural products you are less likely to get a stained scalp, have an allergic reaction and breath in those horrible peroxide smells.

When you first get the product it looks like any other dye until you start applying it, instead of it smelling like awful peroxide it actually smells a lot like whiskey and orange juice. Mum has used lots of different branded dyes from top brands such as Garnier to Superdrug own branded dyes so she knows what she likes.

We used a mix of  8C Ash Blonde* to mix with 8N Natural Light Blonde* (N shades are always advisable mixed with the fashion colours for grey hair to ensure maximum grey coverage/best colour outcome) and left it on for 30 mins. Once the dye had been washed out it was clear to see there were no stains on the skin and the dye had taken all over even on the stubborn dark grey at the back of mums head.

Mum was so thrilled with her new colour and received so many compliments the following day at work which made her feel great. Mum also said that the product didn't make her head itch like most of the others as she has a very sensitive and dry scalp.

Mum and I agreed on the one downside which was the packaging, we both felt the packaging looked quite dated with some of the models looking as though they were wearing wigs but, the product itself is simply amazing and mum is sold on the colour and will definitely be buying the colours again.

Tints of Nature dyes can be purchased from their website for £8.99 where they also stock Semi-Permanent dyes, Highlighting kits, Shampoo, Conditioner, Treatments and Supplements. I would love to try some of their shampoo at some stage as I am always on the hunt for a great shampoo.

The Duchess of Cambridge Kate is a huge fan of Tints of Nature so, if its good enough for royalty its good enough for us!

Have you tried this brand? Would you try the brand?

Massive Reductions Over At The Makeup Artist Boutique

Hey Loves,
 

I just wanted to let you all know that Kathy over @The Makeup Artist Boutique (AKA Mum) is doing massive reductions on all in stock items prior to some changes she is making in the store.


So grab a bargain before it all goes (OCC is nearly sold out already)

New Weekly Beauty Blog Hop!

Hey My Fellow Beauty Bloggers,

There is a new weekly blog hop over at BBloggers Global where you can share your blog links for free with fellow beauty bloggers. 

I hope you enjoy using it and that you find some amazing new blogs to read.

GFC Going Bye Byes :(

Hey My Beautifuls,


As of July 1st Google Friend Connect (GFC) will be going away so, to stop loosing the blogs you love, including mine :P, It would be a great idea to choose an alternative way of reading the blogs you follow.


You can follow this blog several ways the easiest being BlogLovin which is simple and free to use. BlogLovin works in a similar way to Facebook all of your blogs in one place and listed in date/time order. My BlogLovin link is: http://www.bloglovin.com/en/blog/1721929/the-pro-make-up-blog

You also have the option to import all of the blogs you follow once you have signed up :)

I will look forward to seeing you all over at BlogLovin :)


Much Love,

Two Funerals, A Birthday and a Head Injury.... Its been so long!

Well Hello My Gorgeous Readers,

It has been a fair few months since I have sat down to write to you and lots has happened some which you can guess from the post title.

Granny and her husband Stan

I started the year losing my ex's Gran she lost her battle with Lung Cancer and passed away on January 6th. I had a lot of respect and love for Granny she had been in my life since I was 16 so, It was a very hard saying goodbye and even harder seeing my in laws for the first time in 2 years. Thankfully my amazing best Friend Tom was there to hold my hand, wipe away my tears and cuddle me, I don't think I could have got through that without him.

I got a little wrapped up in family at that point as I am sure you can understand and when I was ready to come back and start bringing you reviews, looks and even videos I lost my Uncle Kevin and my world fell apart a bit. Uncle Kevin was my favourite Uncle I had an awful lot of love for him for things he had done for me throughout my younger years and I always used to stay with him, his wife and my two cousins when I was younger. The hardest thing about this situation was that my Dad and Uncle Kev weren't on speaking terms so, the lead up to his passing was very difficult having to see how distraught my Dad was especially when he thought that he may not get to make peace with him as Uncle Kev was unconscious.

Uncle Kevin and Olly his Grandson

Thankfully Kev did regain consciousness for a few days and even though we are not sure if he knew who we were Dad did get to speak to him before he finally lost his battle with Lung and Bone Cancer on 2nd March. I have never witnessed a funeral with so many people in attendance over 200 people came to show their respects and again Tom was there to drive me and my sister there and then to cuddle me afterwards.

My Awesome Cake :)

Then came my 31st, yes I am a year older as of 19th April! My birthday weekend certainly started and ended with a bang (literally) My Tom made me an amazing cake covered in hearts and skulls. On the Saturday we all went out drinking and dancing whilst Tom took some hilarious pictures and Sarah took a hilarious video which is below. I ended my night being a drunken idiot and falling over and whacking my head on the pavement queue the tears!

I thought everything was OK until I got to Monday and I was still rather spaced out, I checked my symptoms on NHS Direct and it said call an ambulance which I though was a bit drastic so, I called the non urgent number and indeed it ended with an ambulance being called for me. I arrived at hospital had an intial examination by a nurse and then a thorough one by a doctor, It was determined there was no bleed on the brain just concussion and a bit of whiplash. I wasn't allowed to be on my own for a further 24 hours so, Tom insisted he look after me and that he did :)

Its been a week since the accident and I'm still suffering with headaches but I don't feel spaced out anymore which is great.

I would like to take this time to thank the brands and people I was working with prior to my hiatus for being so understanding and for all the love my friends and readers have given me during these difficult months. I feel ready to start focusing on the blog again and I hope you will all enjoy reading it again.

I will leave you with some pictures from my birthday which I hope you will find as funny as we did :)

Much Love

Ems xo

Winding up the boys for giggles!

This Picture looks very wrong but so funny

The Ruby Pout

Tom and Yas were fascinated with my boobs!

Too much drunk laughter

Walrus Ems

Sisters

Drunk silly face 1

Silly face 2

My favourite picture of the night, Tom is a very bad man!

What do you want to know? And update!

Hi Gorgeous Gals and Guys,

I would like to do a question and answer post where you guys get to ask me whatever you like!

So, comment below or tweet me and once I have enough I will answer them :)

Have a great weekend and posting schedule will be back on track next week, I've been sick and had a few deaths to deal with hence the silence! All will be back to normal and the YouTube debut will happen soon :) on that note do you have tutorial/review requests?

Can't wait to get to know you all a bit more!

Much love

Ems xo

So, Summer Is On Its Way?!

Afternoon Beauties!

This post is aimed at my lovely darker skinned readers.

I have heard from a few dark skinned beauty guru's on YouTube that finding tanning products can be a bit of a chore for Asian, Black and Mixed race beauties. Now there is a London based company called Karamel & Brown who have created a range of tanning products specifically for you beautiful ladies of colour!

The company was founded by Cheryl Effiom who is of Afro-Caribbean decent she created the line due to the struggles of finding a product that would give her that just back from holiday glow all year round.

Karamel & Brown have created a range of goodies and the great thing is that they do trial sizes so, you don't have to lay out a huge amount of your hard earned cash to see if their products would work for you!

What products are in this range:

Karamel and Brown Express Glow Legs 50ml £6.95, 200ml £19.95

Karamel and Brown Glow Face Creme 50ml £6.95, 200ml £16.95

Karamel and Brown Glow Body Moose 50ml £6.95, 200ml £18.95

Karamel and Brown Glow Mitt Applicator £2.95

The pricing of the products are in line with many other self tanning products which, is great as a lot of specialised companies get greedy and put a premium on the product.

Now obviously I am not a woman of colour so, I cant vouch for the products from this company, if you have tried this brand I would love to know how you got on as I am sure my other readers would.

I hope that this post is useful to some of you.

Ems xo