Friday night is upload night… this can only mean one thing!

There's a new video for you to have a peek at!

I hope that this brightens people's miserable weather days and helps you to feel like summer is here (although looking out of the window you may not feel like it!)

I hope you all have lovely weekends, I will of course keep you up to date with the events of the weekend and will post a picture tomorrow of my OOTD for my birthday party tonight.


And if you want a reason to celebrate as well why not celebrate the fact that it's Friday!

Keep smiling and enjoy the weekend!

Xoxo E

Spring Clean

If you haven't cleaned your make-up brushes in a while... or you are a naughty person who doesn't clean them at all, why not have a spring clean.!

It will quite literally amaze you at what comes out of those 'not so dirty looking' brushes!

This was my sink round two!

 

And this is exactly why you should be cleaning them!

And it hasn't been that long since I last cleaned mine, if you are someone who hasn't cleaned yours in a lonnnggg time or possibly ever - why not! Get on and do it! :)

So if you feel like a spot of spring cleaning this week/end, why not clean out your make-up brushes, or wash your make-up bag out.

You'll be amazed at the difference!

We are on the count down now to my birthday.... If you were wondering, no I still haven't got my outfit sorted I promise I will do an OOTD (out of the day for those of  you not down with the lingo, yes that means you Mum!) :) 

But yes I will be celebrating big time... not only is it my birthday, we have reached 1000 views on here, which quite frankly is unbelievable, but also my YouTube channel has just top 500 views, it's only been going for something like 3/4 weeks!!

You are all amazing don't forget that!

As always keep smiling, and if you are on the count down to the weekend, we have passed the halfway point! Yay!

xoxo E

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

You're all amazing! Thank you so much for the continued viewing, you've helped me reach a milestone which I thought would take a lot longer to get to!

We've just passed the 1000 view mark on my blog!!!!!

I can't thank you enough for all your continued reading and loyalty!

This is definitely the way to start my birthday celebrations! :) 

I'm glad that I am keeping you entertained with my day to day life and all the goodies on my YouTube channel! 

Talking of which...

I was in the middle of filming you some goodies for this weeks installation... here I am, filming away, all of sudden a cello starts up outside. That's right, you read that correctly, a cello, someone is busking outside my house with a cello!

Can't say I have ever seen anyone busking with one of those before! Needless to say filming is on a break at the moment because every time I try to film she's there in the background, which as great as she is, I don't really want her in the background fighting it out with me for mic space on my video!! 

When I do eventually manage to get some more filming done this afternoon, I will have some goodies coming up for you including a make-up tutorial (obviously), a favourites video, as well as a review of M.A.C Products :)

As I mentioned in my last post my birthday celebrations are starting this weekend, so I have decided to do a lot of filming today so that I can still upload on Friday and the following Friday. So don't worry YouTube will not be on hold just so I can continue to celebrate!

Onwards and upwards though, since she looks like she's decided to set up camp with her cello for most of the day I will get on with all the boring things!

Shout out to all the people who are doing their ironing today! Whoop Whoop!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, and thank you again for helping me reach a huge milestone!

You're all amazing!

As always keep smiling,  I know that I am going to be smiling all week now!

:)

xoxo E

A wardrobe full of clothes and nothing to wear!

Sound familiar? This is my dilemma this week, it's my birthday on 2nd June as this falls on a Monday this year we decided that it was best for all of us (our group of friends) to celebrate on Friday. Giving us Friday night but also the Saturday together.

However if this was just a normal night out on the town I wouldn't be having quite the issue of finding something to wear. For a night out I have found a whole array of clothes I could wear and look the part in. Problem is we are off bowling and then having a house party! Ever tried dressing up for a birthday and then had to try and put those sexy bowling shoes with an outfit!? That's one interesting look!

So I have been trying to find ways around wearing just casual clothes and being able to dress up. But without looking like I am dressed up for a night out on the town, when we are no doubt going to be in a bowling ally full of students and families for the half term!

This is my dilemma... you see my problem now!

So dresses and skirts are out, bending over to throw a bowling ball in those is just not going to be the classy look that I am going for. So shorts and trousers are in. But I don't want to go causal, I want to be smart / casual, with a fashionable possibly edgy side to it. Needless to say hours of scouring the internet and I haven't come up with much. I am however swaying towards trying this new invention... the Skort.

If you haven't heard of the Skort already, its a pair of shorts which look like a skirt from the front. To begin with I wasn't convinced, but after having looked at quite a few websites and having seen fashion blogs on them I am starting to feel the love!

So possibly the Skort route, possibly a playsuit, maybe a playsuit with a skort bottom!

If it was just bowling, that would have been easy to dress for.
If it had been just a party, that would have been easy to dress for.
Put the two together I have given myself a hard task!

I know what you may be thinking, for those of you who are thinking its just a house party why not just wear casual clothing to both? The thing is I view birthdays as an excuse to wear something a little bit nicer, or quite frankly whatever you like! Go as a fairy godmother if you so please! I really think birthdays should be the excuse to dress up, down, go in fancy dress, whatever you like. At the end of the day the point in a birthday celebration is to celebrate the fact that you are alive, so why not go a bit nuts on the day, and make full use of the excuse 'its my birthday'. 

If you haven't guessed by now I like to take a lot of care over my appearance, yes there are days when I couldn't care less and I'll be in jeans and an old t-shirt. But on most occasions I really like to make an effort, and I find the whole putting an outfit together and wearing it fun. So for my birthday I want to look the best that I can to make myself feel good and confident, cause quite frankly why not!

I will of course keep you posted on progress, and the things which I find (that is of course if I find anything!)

Happy Bank Holiday weekend too all of you in the UK!

Happy weekend to all the international peeps out there!

Have a lovely weekend where ever you are in the world, and remember to keep smiling.

xoxo E

Smoke those eyes!

There's a new video!

This one was a request so I hope that this is helpful, I know my camera isn't the best and it really doesn't do this look enough justice. Smokey eyes are such a beautiful look and I hope this has helped people to find this a little easier.

Watch the video for info:

This look is really about proportions (if you are going for a blended out smokey eye).

So if you want the look of a smokey eye where you have a lighter colour on the inner corners, and then this fades out to black across your eyelid then this should help!

Remember your proportions, think of your eyelids in thirds lighter colour on the inner third, medium/darker colour in the middle third, your darkest colour on the outer third. This should help you to apply the colours evenly, then the trick to blend blend blend!

I personally don't think you can over blend with a smokey eye!

I am going out tomorrow evening and will definitely be using this as its my go to evening look! If I get a chance for a picture I will post over the weekend which will hopefully show you the look a little clearer than the still on the thumbnail of this video!

Have fun with this, and let me know how you get on!

Happy Bank Holiday Weekend!

xoxo E

Busy busy week!

This week feels like it has flown past so much quicker than the recent ones, I don't know why because I haven't been doing anything out of the normal, just clearly more of it!

So pretty standard week this week, work, couple of spray tan clients. Although I have seen family more this week which has been nice, filmed my next video, completed all the editing and have it ready for tomorrow night for uploading, and just other general every week things!

This weekend should hopefully be more relaxed! And I have just found out that we are going to a party this weekend :) Which I am very excited about, and may use the excuse to apply some acrylic nails! I have had mine off for around 6 weeks, but I am desperately trying to find an excuse to reapply them. I was going to use my birthday in a couple of weeks as my excuse but I have since been told that we are definitely going bowling for my birthday... some how I don't think bowling and acrylic nails are going to go together to well! And I am far to competitive to let anything hamper my chances! :)

Although having said that if I apply them now I will only have to remove them for my birthday so maybe I won't put them on, just paint them a nice colour instead!

I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend! I have most definitely got the Friday feeling!

I am filming lots this weekend, so stay tuned on my YouTube for all the goodies which are coming up soon!

As always keep smiling and remember to think of your 20 positive things a day!

xoxo E

Car Booting!

This weekend has been full of family fun!

Saturday we had a lovely walk in a forest and settled down for a picnic in the afternoon. Was a lovely day of catching up and finding out what everyone has been up to, as well as games of chase and hide & seek with my little M&M's.

Sunday was a true show of my sisterly love, I got up at 4.30am to help my sister with a car boot she was going to, so up at 4.30pm met up drove down to meet her for 5.15am and we started queuing to get in at 5.35am! Now that is dedication! What was most impressive of the whole weekend though was that my eldest nephew wanted to come with us to the car boot and he was so well behaved it was unreal, no one wants to wake a 4 year old up at 5am and then have them sit around until 1pm but honestly he was so amazing! We were both extremely proud of him :)

So onwards and upwards with another week, busy busy busy week this week!

I am trying to film as much as possible this week because I am now on the countdown to my birthday! And as a treat for my birthday I am hoping to upload more than usual in celebration, but that obviously means a lot of prep work! As we have learnt by now videos don't just magically happen over night! Not if you want to put a little effort into them anyway! So hopefully I can get a few things shot this week and then I am giving myself plenty of time to get them editing and ready for my birthday week!

Going to start product reviews later this week so stay tuned for that, looking at some fun summer colours this week.

Hope you all had lovely weekends and made the most of the sunshine (if you had some)

xoxo E

Friday Night is Upload Night!

It's that time of the week again!

This is how I apply my everyday foundation.

It's official I am naked on the internet! Arrgghh (makeup naked that is!)

As always I hope that this video is of use to people and you learn something new!

Here's my product list if you would like to go and have a look at any of the things which I used in this video.


Here's the product list for you to have a little look at!

Foundation - L'Oreal True Match

Concealer: Mac Pro Long Wear Concealer

Light Powder: Mac Mineralise Skin Finish

Skin Toned Powder: Revlon PhotoReady Compact Powder


Contouring Bronzer: Rimmel Compact Bronzer: looks like its been discontinued :( Alternatives

Blusher:  Mac Blusher

Highlighter: Seventeen Glow Block


As always come and visit me on my social networks I'm on Facebook & Twitter


Keep smiling its the weekend and the forecast is good!!!

xoxo E

A new look long time coming!

You may have noticed a slight change to the top of my Blog, maybe my facebook? Or even maybe my YouTube?

Tonight I decided it was time to add a little professional touch with customised banners, but without getting in the professionals! Trust me I am no professional and these banners may look like small changes but they have taken me 3 & a half hours to get sorted! But its like they always say you get out what you put in. And I can honestly say that I am extremely happy with what I have come up with!

I am also trying to add a more professional touch to the beginning and end of my YouTube videos. I am trying a few different touches on this round of editing for tomorrows video, so hopefully these will be changes that people like.

Just to keep you posted starting this weekend I am hoping to get some reviews up for beauty products, and at the end of May I am going to do a May Favourites video so you can see all the products which I am loving at the moment!

Short and sweet tonight as I have spent from 9am - 10.45pm (now) bar around an hour & a half (commute to and from work, plus walking to and from car, building, desks etc) looking at computer screens and now I am off to bed to only get up and do it all over again tomorrow!

Sleep tight

xoxo (Square eyed) E

Video Troubles!

I can see now why people have always said that making videos isn't always a walk in the park!

I recorded a new video last weekend ready for release this Friday, and I am having issues, my audio's all gone crazy and doesn't match the video clips! Argghh technology!

So tonight I have come to the conclusion that the clip is almost beyond saving, so I think I am just going to reshoot it and save myself a lot of hassle!

Regardless there will be a video of some sort up this Friday as per usual!

I have a few ideas for future videos, but if anyone has an requests feel free to let me know!

Foundation routine, outfits, products reviews have all been highly requested so I will get those up soon. But I am also going to do a summer make-up look, just to brighten the place up a little!

I hope everyone is having a nice week so far, we're almost half way through!

Not long to go now until this heatwave we keep hearing so much about is due to arrive, anyone else very excited but also not sure if this is just another rumour to good to be true?

Will keep you posted on the video progress!

As always don't forget to click Like on my business Facebook Page to stay up to date with all the fun!

Keep smiling

xoxo E

Little cuddles and kisses!

This weekend was my niece's birthday party. She turned 2 on Thursday just gone, and my sister held a party for her yesterday.

The day was filled with lots of laughter, mini make-overs and general happiness with the people who matter the most. It was a really lovely day, and I got lots of little cuddles and kisses with my niece as well as my two nephews.

This is me and the tiniest of the ultimate duo which are the M&M's

There's something really special about little people when they hold your hand or giggle at you, and something even more special about the little nicknames you have for each other. My first nephew couldn't say Emily for quite a while, so I have become MyMy, that was the closest we got for a while, so I am Auntie MyMy and they are my little M&M's. Some of my best weekends have been with my M&M's, and there's nothing better than a birthday party to make everyone happy!

It's also been another productive weekend I've recorded another video for release next week which is exciting! A highly requested one so stay tuned for that!

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend petals!

Keep smiling!

xoxo E

Beauty is all around

There are beautiful things every where you look, sometimes its not the exterior that you need to look at to see it!

Beauty is not always on the outside, how many times have we heard that? The thing is its true. There is beauty all around us, its just sometimes we are blind to it when all along its right in front of us. It can something such as a view, a good looking cake, or a personality. Things aren't always going to land right in front of you and necessarily be obvious, but I really believe that if you look for it through the rubbish, or look at things in a different light you will always find it.

I was driving through a country lane with my Mum, and we drove through a traditional old English blue bell wood. From the road you couldn't see that many blue bells by glancing, but when you stopped and paid attention is really was one of the most beautiful sights.

 

 So next time you want to fill your world with a little bit of beauty just look around and you'll be surprised what's around you.

xoxo E

Times ticking along!

I am spending my evenings after work this week editing my next video ready for YouTube, I hope you are all enjoying them. This weeks is based on tanning which has been highly requested, so hopefully people will learn something new even if it's just a technique you've not heard of before!

Even as my step-dad would say (he'll love that he's had a quote put in!) 'every day's a school day'. So hopefully I can depart some knowledge or a tip that will make your tanning easier, and help you get better results.

I'm including a range of products as you'll soon see in the video, but these tips really will work with every type of tanning lotion.

Short and sweet tonight, let me know if there are any videos which you would like to see I haven't quite decided what my next one is going to be... possibly a foundation routine.

Sleep tight

xoxo E

This skirt was made for walking... and that's just what I'll do!

Couldn't resist a song related title... yes I change the words, if you couldn't tell from that today, I wore my skirt which I made last week to work for the first time :)

This is what I paired it with today, my spotty dotty shirt, I am in loveeee with spots!

Very good feedback at work, a lot of people really like it. I wasn't sure though whether it was an actual liking for the skirt or sheer amazement that I had actually managed to make it! Got to have faith in the people... I am going with they liked it!

So sat editing my next video tonight which I am really excited about releasing on Friday (who can't be excited about tanning!) I really can't decide whether or not to put in a couple of the bloopers / out-takes. There's just two and their quirky but at the same time I think that the video is long enough. And quite frankly maybe the wider world isn't ready yet for me to release some Emily reality TV,  I think I need to ease people in to the uncut reality!

If you have thoughts either way drop me a comment below or come on over to Facebook and leave me a little post.

I am in a very positive mood this evening! (if you haven't guessed already I am all about the positive energy in life) I happened to be around a conversation today which was so negative and I just sat there thinking "if you keep talking situations down you are only going to make yourselves feel worse, why are you doing this to yourselves?!?" I was thinking that I was the only one who spends time wishing all the negativity away, I happened to catch a YouTube video tonight all about positivity and it only reinforced everything which I already believed/thought. Felt good knowing I am not the only one who is always trying to put a positive spin on things!

So stay happy, whatever is going on, just think of your 20 positive things and you will feel much better. (Cheese alert!) If everyone strived to spread happiness and positiveness around them every day then the world would be a better place!

Ever want inspiration or a challenge to try making a positive change, just check back here I will give you some ideas!!

Keep smiling!

xoxo E

Tea, Tootsie's & a new video!

Bank holiday weekend has come and gone already! As always it's passed too fast!

So this weekend was pretty great to be honest, my boyfriend finally came home from working away in South Africa for the past few weeks, and we got to celebrate his birthday which happened while he was out there, so it was a weekend filled with cuddles and cake! (which you've seen already!)

So with cuddles and cake done, (he never stops working!) it was off to the tennis to watch the junior matches, and is always where I sat in the sun it was a b-e-a-utiful day (I've just watched Bruce Almighty... got to love that film!) and painted my tootsie's and had a cup of tea!!

Hence the tootsies and tea which went up on my Instagram on Sunday!

I hope you all had lovely weekends. I have also been extremely busy this weekend and today filming videos ready to go up onto YouTube.

I have had quite a few questions with regards to my last video - make up for covering birthmarks and tattoo's, so instead of answering everyone individually I thought I would put it all together in one video. Chances are if one person is asking a question there are probably others who would like to know the answers to the same questions, so that's is going live this evening.

And then hopefully later on in the week I will have the next video up on tanning so stay tuned for that one!

Stay happy and why not paint your tootsies and enjoy a tea!

xoxo E 

It's time for a celebration!

It doesn't take a lot for me to smile about something. It can be something as small as having a milkshake, fresh bedsheets, or a game of catch on the beach with friends. However there is one small thing which makes me ridiculously happy.... wrapping presents. Everyone loves receiving presents but for some reason I have a freakish love for wrapping.... 

It's not just the wrapping its the look on peoples faces when they get really pretty looking presents. Christmas is like a heaven for wrapping, this year more than ever I had people asking me to wrap their presents for them, clearly it's not everyone's cup of tea!

But more than just wrapping a present, putting together something nice for someone and seeing how pleased they are with you when you have gone to the effort... surely not many things get better than that!

So this week was my boyfriends birthday, he's been away working but is finally coming home tomorrow (^^ hence the wrapped presents! ^^)  so I have set aside time today to wrap his present bake him a birthday cake...

and most importantly decorate the house ready for his return! (I would show you the decorations but just in case he happens to read this before he gets home I don't want to ruin the surprise!)

Why not join me and put some effort into something for someone else, it could be anything from baking some cupcakes, to just making the effort to pick up the phone to see how someone is, you never know how a small act of kindness can effect someone's day. Think of all the times someone has even just smiled and its made you feel better!

Lets spread some more happiness in the world this weekend! And don't forget to think of your 20 positive things! (if you haven't been reading my blog regularly then you need to catch up!)

:) have a lovely weekend, and most importantly keep smiling! :)

xoxo E

The Next Instalment!

The next YouTube video is out in the world!

This is a video based on make-up to cover birthmarks and tattoos. I hope that this is something which will be of use to people.

I spent many years when I was younger hating my birthmark, all I wanted to do was to cover it up or get rid of it all together. Now I am so used to it, and (not to sound too cheesy) at peace with it being on my face, I don't even notice it any more!

I know though that like me there may be something such as a birthmark or tattoo that you may want to cover for a special occasion, or if you are like I was and you want to cover it on an every day basis, then this is definitely a good starting point.

Veil Cover Cream which is the brand I have used do a fantastic range of products. I cannot rate the products high enough. When I first looked at covering my birthmark and got expert advice this is the brand they recommended and the products and advice they gave me quite literally changed my life. (Cheese again sorry I really should start a cheese alert... bit like you have spoiler alerts!) To be able to wake up in the morning and disguise it was such a relief as a teenager, or for a special occasion it was nice to blend in with everyone else rather than have people staring at you for something! And if you're anything like me and have a birthmark and you are (cheese alert!) at home with it (that worked well I think!) then you spend a decent amount of time trying to work out what it is that people are staring at. Half of the time I never realised until people said 'what's that on your face' 'lipsticks not supposed to go on your cheek' or something else to that affect, that they were staring at my birthmark.

So life story over! Please have a little look on my YouTube

Enjoy! As always please click the like button on YouTube if you liked it, please subscribe to my channel if you would like to see more, and for now I will leave you in peace!

xoxo E