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

Long Overdue Review - Ahava's Intensive Foot Cream

Just before Christmas the lovely people at Ahava offered me the chance to try out their foot cream and after trying their face mask/scrub I jumped at the chance.

Unfortunately my personal life got in the way hence the lack of most posts but I am finally able to bring you the review.

I have always had slight dryness on my feet so I was really looking forward to seeing if this would ease the dryness prior to Christmas period with the possible need to wear heels.

The cream is very thick and luxurious to the touch, not overly greasy, sinking into the skin fairly quickly. The smell is lovely and not overpowering at all, I actually found the smell very relaxing.

My already soft skin did instantly feel softer, the dryer parts didn't really have an effect but, this product is something to be used over time to improve the skin in that area which indeed it does. I used the cream daily after bathing and showering and did one intensive session by applying a thick layer prior to bed and adding a warm pair of socks.

After one week of using this product and the intensive session I noticed a major improvement on the heels of my feet. The dryness in that area had significantly reduced.

What Ahava say about this product: an ultra-rich, soothing formula that leaves dry, rough and cracked feet feeling remarkably soft, supple and comfortable.

This product is not the cheapest on the market but I highly recommend it for those of you that suffer with dry feet and haven't found relief thus far.

I plan on posting before and after images after a further weeks session as I never actually got the chance to do this before and as with everything the proof is in the pudding.

I hope you've enjoyed reading this and will look forward to the images once I get chance to bring that to you in the next few weeks.

You can buy ahava's foot cream from For £18 for 100mls of product and can be purchased directly from Ahava's website

Have you tried this product, what did you think?

Ems xo

149 down 1 to go....

Are you as ecited as we are?

Hi My Beautifuls

I just wanted to say thank you to all of my subscribers and once the blog hits 150 I will be doing a giveaway to thank you all for your continued support over the last year.

Ems xo