diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 15e6b80..5c00e6b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,6 +30,34 @@ const logger = pino({
 logger.info('hi')
 ```
 
+## Custom emojis
+When using pino-colada programmatically, you can define custom emojis. This is useful
+when you define custom levels and want to provide emojis for them or if you want to
+override any default emoji.
+
+```
+const pino = require('pino')
+const logger = pino({
+  prettyPrint: {
+    customEmojis: {
+      info: '✅',
+      success: '✅',
+      fail: '❌'
+    }
+  },
+  prettifier: require('pino-colada'),
+  customLevels: {
+    success: 31,
+    fail: 32
+  }
+})
+
+logger.info ('hi');
+logger.success ('hi');
+logger.fail ('hi');
+```
+
+
 # Install
 ```bash
 npm install pino-colada
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index da9b65f..eecd5fc 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -28,7 +28,14 @@ function isPinoLog (log) {
 
 module.exports = PinoColada
 
-function PinoColada () {
+function PinoColada (opts) {
+  const pinoInstance = this;
+
+  const { customEmojis } = opts;
+  if (!!customEmojis) {
+    emojiLog = Object.assign ({}, emojiLog, customEmojis);
+  }
+
   return parse
 
   function parse (inputData) {
@@ -47,19 +54,11 @@ function PinoColada () {
 
     if (!obj.level) return inputData + nl
     if (!obj.message) obj.message = obj.msg
-    if (typeof obj.level === 'number') convertLogNumber(obj)
+    if (typeof obj.level === 'number') obj.level = pinoInstance.levels.labels[obj.level]
 
     return output(obj) + nl
   }
 
-  function convertLogNumber (obj) {
-    if (obj.level === 10) obj.level = 'trace'
-    if (obj.level === 20) obj.level = 'debug'
-    if (obj.level === 30) obj.level = 'info'
-    if (obj.level === 40) obj.level = 'warn'
-    if (obj.level === 50) obj.level = 'error'
-    if (obj.level === 60) obj.level = 'fatal'
-  }
 
   function output (obj) {
     var output = []
@@ -128,7 +127,7 @@ function PinoColada () {
 
   function formatMessage (obj) {
     var msg = formatMessageName(obj.message)
-    var pretty
+    var pretty = msg
     if (obj.level === 'error') pretty = chalk.red(msg)
     if (obj.level === 'trace') pretty = chalk.white(msg)
     if (obj.level === 'warn') pretty = chalk.magenta(msg)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c94fa49..c7b815d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
     "@hapi/hapi": "^18.0.0",
     "hapi-pino": "^6.3.0",
     "merry": "^4.0.0",
+    "pino": "^6.9.0",
     "pino-http": "^4.3.0",
     "standard": "^14.0.0"
   },