My Business Week v. 8

This week has basically only been spent with two of my funniest areas - customers and pictures :)

Rowing in the webshop
This week is the week when I finally got to grips with the big project of tidying up the webshop properly!

Our range has been updated quite a bit lately and I have not really kept up with the turns with the material around, which has made the whole thing a big project, instead of having maintained it continuously. And when things get big projects, it takes time before you have such a big gap that you can sit down and grab it all.

As you know, I am a beauty writer on our website / webshop Creativemakeup.se and if you click on Beauty Guides, you will find lots of posts with before and after pictures of how to use the products, make-up tips and step-by-step make-up made with the products we sell.

And if you go into a product in the webshop, there are also links to beauty guides where that particular product is included.

For example: If you go into the mineral foundation gloMinerals Pressed Base in the webshop, I have done this nicely under the usual product description:

Detailed description of the shades - a film where you see application with this foundation and on the far right two products to supplement with which for this foundation is either a kabuki brush or buffed base brush.

And just below this there are links to 3 beauty guides where I used this foundation:

Sovereign huh? :)

My sister Malin who works for me helps with a lot of basic things, but exactly how I want it, only I know (picky haha) so it will be a lot of work for me anyway.

Men det som tagit mest tid är att gå igenom alla inlägg som varit publicerade och antingen ta bort eller redigera dom som inte är helt aktuella längre. T.ex. “bassminkning för rödflammig hy” varav två av produkterna inte finns att köpa mer, då tar jag bort hela inlägget. Det var riktigt många sådana haha.

Or as in the swatch image post with Pixi Shea Butter Lip Balm, where Pixi has ended up with two of the shades that I had to cut out of the images and change images throughout the post:

Här laddar jag upp nya bilder. “Utvald bild” är den som blir framsidan av inlägget i flödet sen.

Same with gloMinerals lipstick pens that have both new and removed shades + changed packaging.

But now all posts are updated anyway! :) I still have a lot to do in the webshop, but when you browse through the beauty guide posts, everything is ready! Wiho! And so from now on I will do all this immediately when we get changes in the range so that this problem does not come again.

And a new front page for the beauty guides page I have redone too! The most common is to hold the arrow over the Beauty guides button in the menu and directly go into the right category, but if you click straight into the Beauty guide you will come to this page:

All posts are divided into three categories :)

Or you can browse through all the posts by continuing to scroll down this page:

Doing things like this technically can look so much easier when you are on a website, but the appearance is deceptive, you may think, and sometimes you get stuck on things for a very long time. Especially when you are as stubborn as I am;)

Work from home
Den här veckan känner jag verkligen att det är tur att jag anpassar mitt jobb mycket själv. Att kunna jobba hemifrån, att kunna byta arbetsuppgift till någonting praktiskt när det är svårt att koncentrera sig, och tvärtom en stund bara grotta ner sig i jobb och “terapi-jobba” när man behöver släppa vardagen en stund.

It is namely that I had a really tough period at home now that 3 of my 4 wonderful cats have passed away in a very short time… It feels completely unreasonable unfair. Two of the cats now died within 4 days, one on Thursday last week and the other now on Monday. I've been completely devastated!

So on Monday I worked from home while Miska was at the vet - and I still thought / hoped that it would end well.

Then I could not work from home for several days even though I had actually planned it, because it really had not been possible to focus at home. Happy customers and colleagues mixed with being able to sit and cave down in front of the computer under a blanket in the office has been a perfect mix to make the days!

Now we only have Viktoria left ♥ Here we sit in front of the fire and work with pictures at home in the evening after work. IF she gets spoiled now haha, I'm used to spreading my love on 4 small hairballs and now she gets everything herself.

Beauty is wellness
I veckan när jag behövde “terapi-jobba” så skrev jag ett långt inlägg om att skönhet är friskvård! Ni kan läsa inlägget here if you missed it.

Att skriva långa blogginlägg tar längre tid än man kan tro, för mig i alla fall. Jag skriver ofta i omgångar för att få bort “ordblindheten” som kan uppstå, ibland är det omöjligt att se om en mening make sense för den som inte varit inne i min hjärna och läst mina tankar innan haha. Då måste man pausa och sen läsa inlägget när man typ glömt bort vad man skrivit och läser som en “ny läsare” :)

Image publishing & dropbox
I have edited many before and after pictures from the salon, which you saw in the picture in front of the fireplace where Nicla's beard and haircut customer was in the picture. The actual publication of our photos does not work in a particularly smooth way today, so we have figured out how to improve it and come up with a good layout! Love when you can streamline things :)

At present, I get pictures from different places, some I bring into my computer myself from the camera in the makeup studio while some others have sent via text message or email. All these pictures in different places make me crazy soon haha but also gives you lots of extra work to have to keep track of everything.

Men nu kommer snart alla lägga in sina bilder i vår delade mapp i dropbox, så jag kommer alltid ha alla på samma ställe! Sen när jag valt ut bilder, klippt ihop som före- och efter så lägger jag in dom i dropbox igen. Sen kommer mina kollegor att sköta publiceringen av dom! Det jättebra att dom kan hjälpa till med det, dels för att spara tid för mig men också för att dom vet själva vem som utfört behandlingen så att man kan skriva t.ex. “brynplock gjord av Olga” t.ex. Så det blir mycket smidigare så :)

I have also plucked the eyebrows of two guys and photographed it to market eyebrow plucking in connection with beard trimming and cutting. It makes such a big difference to pick your eyebrows at the same time!

And our barber Niclas is really so crazy good I must add too, so picky about details that I did not even know existed haha, like the shape of the hair on the back of the head if you look at the profile and things that require expert eyes. I have looked a bit at the best light etc for Niclas to take pictures of his customers and then it is so important but the angle to include all these important details :) I have learned a lot now haha!

Saturday job!
It was a long time since I was at the salon on a Saturday, but yesterday we had so many bookings that I had to jump in too :) So four fully booked makeup artists we were at Creative Makeup yesterday and it was so much fun to put on make-up! It's always fun to put on make-up but it's even more fun now when you work some Saturdays now and then only, I have one Saturday in February and one in March. Before, when I worked every Saturday and always 6-day weeks, people did not enjoy the Saturdays as much as I do now.

I took photos before and after of my client so it will be up in the blog sometime next week!

Here we stand and put on make-up on a rolling belt! Olga, Lisa, Ämma and so I on the far right who shows how my customer should cast the shadow to lift the gaze haha :)

Now I'm going to grab some do to's here at home. We just got home from the swimming pool and have been fooling around with my sister's two children! Now I will burn up some heat here in the house, talk goja with dad tel, fix with wood and then wash my hair and have a relaxing moment in the bath.

Have a continued fantastic Sunday fine you!

Hugs are! ♥