Emer Hawkins is a makeup and hair artist with over 10 years of experience working across beauty, editorial, TV and more recently the bridal industry.

After deferring her university place for a year Emer went and trained in beauty make up at a local institute of beauty therapy and here began her journey to the artist she is today. Emer went onto work in retail as a makeup artist which made her love of makeup artistry grow. After that year out came to an end the time came for to go and study what Emer had originally qualified in Marketing and Media, although this took her away from makeup for a time the love for this industry pulled her back. Emer had won awards for her marketing campaign and event skills and worked her way up the career ladder and by chance through working on a campaign she bumped into a makeup artist who she had met years before. This reignited her passion and she recommended she go and train further under the guidance of her colleague David Horne who had just moved from MAC Cosmetics to be director of education at Jemma Kidd Make Up School. Emer went onto be part of the makeup team, working at events, shows and for Jemma Kidd make up brand as one of their retail artists.

Emer furthered her education in makeup by training at the London Makeup Academy where she learnt her hair, male grooming and nails skills. Emer is also trained in airbrush make up as this was a required skill to work within the television industry.

Within her first two years working as a full time as a freelance makeup artist she had worked and assisted on tv shows, London fashion week, photoshoots, look books, editorial and had her first front cover on a well-known men’s magazine. Her passion has led her to work on and with some great brands, campaigns, actors, presenters and high-profile clients for personal appearances, fashion week, events, press junkets and photoshoots.

Her career has taken her all over the UK, Europe and Australia working as a freelance makeup artist, makeup and skincare brand ambassador and more recently for a growing British makeup brand called Delilah Cosmetics as a national trainer and event makeup artist.