My business week v. 16

Good morning Sunday!

The sun is shining and I am very happy with the week that has been :)

Our Spain plans have received a push!
I have mentioned before that we want to live in Spain and work remotely, last week I also wrote that we had just got the idea to start a salon in Spain as well!

In normal cases, I do not usually go out with all our ideas before something is nailed down, but it can be a fun follow-up, I think, that you have been the only one since we hatched the idea and started dreaming as well :)

The update on the subject is that the law of attraction or the universe seems to like this idea!

1. On Monday I spoke to a customer who has lived in Spain (in different places) and said that Fuengirola is the best place to have the salon and that the best accommodation (for our wishes) is in Mijas Costa which is just outside. In Fuengirola, there is a great demand for Swedish services and from what she knew, there are not many beauty salons there either. I had never heard of Fuengirola before, we have mostly watched Malaga and Nerja :)

2. I torsdags började jag snicksnacka med en annan kund som satt i väntrummet medan jag servade med kaffe, gav bedövning (inför bryntatuering) m.m och efter en stund berättade hon att hon köpt hus i Spanien, “var i Spanien?” frågade jag, “vet du var Fuengirola ligger?” sa hon. Jaa! Och vet ni? Hon hade precis köpt hus i Mijas Costa! Fick se massa bilder och filmer :) Hon sa att vi kommer få massor att göra om vi har salong där!

3. Kunden som har bott i Spanien tidigare mailade mig med tips på en frisörsalong i Fuengirola som jag kunde kontakta, för hon har säkert koll på hur stor efterfrågan är. I samma veva pratade jag och Annika om att man kanska ska börja med att Annika hyr ett rum bara och kolla läget innan vi smäller upp en hel salong, fixar boende till oss och personal m.m. Och vet ni vad frisören svarar? “Jag har ett ledigt rum som jag letar hyresgäst till!” :)

Annika and this hairdresser have not had time to talk yet, so it may not be relevant anyway when we know more details. But still fun that the ball is rolling!

This is how I feel when I stay for exalted, if you can be! Then there will be staring, psychic smile and the brain wants me to run in several different directions at the same time haha :)

A productive week
Den här veckan har jag bara haft 7st kunder och inga “avbrott” i arbetsdagen så jag har fått riktigt mycket gjort!

Among other things, last week was not very productive with blog posts, but this week I have blogged every single day and am also finished with tomorrow's blog post! Nice start to the week :)

Among other things, I have worked from home in the make-up studio, made a beauty guide post to the webshop with swatch pictures on one of our eyebrow pencils. I have worked with the campaign pictures for May, event planning for our summer event (including goodiebags planning), rowed the schedule for the summer when one of our makeup artists is unfortunately on long-term sick leave :( and looked for a hair stylist who can help us this summer, decided and ordered a fun news for the webshop, fixed with before and after pictures for the salon's social media.

Alltså en hel del olika grejer, men mest roliga saker! Och så har jag stått lite extra mycket i receptionen på salongen också, men allt sånt “vardags-göra” känns inte så roligt att återberätta tänker jag :)

I have also tested a possible future eyebrow treatment - henna eyebrows! Have any of you tested or heard of it? I ran into it by chance and think it sounds crazy interesting!

So it's like a tan that also colors the skin! So you get a more make-up result. It stays on the skin for up to 2 weeks, if you have very oily skin, the durability will be much shorter, however.

I am very happy with the first try! Was a little scared only the first time so I did not let it sit for very long and took a very faint color in the inner edges, so will experiment a little more this weekend, I thought.

Would you like to do the treatment? :)

I have some straw + eyebrow tattoo so it is a bit difficult to assess the durability exactly. So I tested on the arm too! It still shows color and then I even took a bath in the bathtub :)

But there is a process left before we can decide whether to start with this or not. Try all the different colors and shades, test on different people, gain experience about durability, etc. But my hope (and first impression) is that it will work gallantly and that we can start doing the treatment at the salon during the summer!

But it can just as well be a flop and that we do not start with it at all, or find another brand or whatever. Continuation simply follows.

Take advantage of the commuting time
I live in Gimo which is 50 km from Uppsala = about 2 hours travel time a day depending on whether we travel by car or bus.

I try to be good at taking advantage of that time, so that you do not waste 2 hours every day! And that does not mean that I should always be as productive as when I work in the office (but sometimes I am) because I get nauseous easily if I sit and look down at my computer for so long. The mobile phone is lighter because you do not have it in your lap in the same way.

T.ex. brukar jag och Miska ha inspirerande samtal om framtiden – också jätteviktigt för utvecklingen! Eller så har vi “möten” om saker som behöver fixas direkt eller diskuterar arbetsdagen. Ibland brukar jag göra sånt jobb som jag aldrig prioriterar annars så som leta inspiration och kolla trender på instagram så att man t.ex. kan hitta nya behandlingar, t.ex. henna-ögonbryn ;)

Det jag vill säga är att man måste tänka på effektiviteten! Och att vara effektiv behöver inte betyda “jobba superfokuserat” för det är ändå svårt när man sitter på en buss och liknande, utan för mig betyder det att man ska ta vara på tiden och inte bara slösa bort det på att “sitta och ha tråkigt”. Två timmar om dagen blir så extremt mycket tid på ett helt år!

Or I take pictures of my make-up and post them on my Insta Story, like this picture I posted last Thursday;)

If you knew you were not going to fail, what would you do?
När jag sminkade mig här om dagen så lyssnade jag på Framgångspodden och senaste avsnittet med Kjell Enhager. Då sa dom meningen “Om du visste att du inte skulle misslyckas, vad skulle du gjort då?” och det kändes så extremt träffande. Förutom Spanien-planerna så har vi en del andra idéer som jag ser mig själv jobba med i framtiden och det är jätteviktigt att inte tänka “jag kan inte” eller “jag vågar inte” och diverse “tänk om-tankar”.

I myself am not at all particularly afraid of actually failing. I would rather fail at something I have enjoyed doing than succeed at something I find boring. But it's a great idea to keep in mind and dare to ask yourself that question!

Do it to yourselves, if you knew you would not fail, what would you have done then? And then you just do it! :)

Hugs are! ♥