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A base gives a lot of radiance and evens out the skin tone nicely. Her skin does not really need concealer, but on some pigment spots, we only put it on today because she was going out to festivities.
In the outer edges and globe line it is a completely matte reddish brown shadow, in the inner part of the eyelid a matte light shadow, and in the middle a shimmery peach / golden eye shadow :) . I chose matte shadows where there are more lines and then shimmer on slightly smoother areas.
There are a lot of discussions and tips about making the lips bigger, how to make them look fuller, etc.
Jag personligen tycker att små läppar och stora läppar är precis lika snyggt, och allt däremellan så klart. När jag tittar tillbaka på gamla bilder så gillar jag att munnen är smalare och lite mer “liten och plutig” i formen.
But what I love more than my natural lip shape is lipstick haha! I do not make my lips bigger because they actually look big - but because then I can have even more lipstick! I could have half my face with just mouth and lipstick if it had gone haha :)
And what is so fun about makeup is that you can play loose and paint far beyond your own contour (more / less easily on different lip shapes should be added) and vary your lips from day to day!
The picture on the left is a make-up from 2014 and the picture on the right is taken today.
As you can see, my natural upper lip is very narrow at the edges, like a small line just almost :) And it's great too! But the lipstick will not be as effective as when I paint further outside.
I have not done anything with the nose if any of you started comparing it as well, it only looks sickly different if you look from the left or right as it is a little slanted.
Exactly how I paint my lips is different from day to day, but I could make a post with different tips on how to make up outside the mold if you want to read it?
Today I am testing a new lip pen I received a press release on last week from the brand GOSH Copenhagen. Very good first impression! Can write more about it at a later time, sit at the salon and write so do not have a press info in front of me but I think it is a news that has not been released yet. May be wrong. But I have just eaten lunch and do not need better on the lips at all, sits very well!
One thing I see in the picture now and which I actually never thought of myself - apparently I keep my little finger under my chin to be more steady on the hand, that's a good tip! :) Will think about it next time I put on my lips, if I do it every time haha.
Most outside I put make-up on the edges of the upper lip, this is where my own shape is at its narrowest. But the whole lip is painted outside :)
I compare with an old picture because I have a lip tattoo nowadays which is also outside my own contour, so the difference is not as big :)
Makeup and strong colors are so much a habit. I remember the first time I had red lips in school, in high school, it felt like everyone was looking at me haha. And the first time I painted a little outside the contour, I felt like a clown!
Men nu när jag använder så mycket läppstift så är röda läppar väldigt naturligt, det är ju så klassiskt och vanligt också. När folk pratar om att “våga ha röda läppar till vardags” så understand I obviously like the thing and think it's great fun but for me personally it's so neutral that I do not even think about it :)
Hope you all have a great start to the new week!
I myself kickstart the week with the world's training pain after all the firewood I carried yesterday. We get both heat + water with wood burning = a lot of wood is used and the one we buy in the summer does not fit indoors but a large part is stored in our wood shed on the farm. So when it now starts to run out of wood inside, we have to refill from the outside.
Untrained, small and weak but incredibly stubborn, I drove all alone in the snow yesterday with the Success Pod in my ears :) Do you know how heavy it is to pull a wheelbarrow full of wood, in snow, with punk on the tire? I am well tender in the body today if you say so;)
Meen is good training and I felt good, so I do not complain at all!
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.
This make-up with warm brown tones (on both eyelids and lips) together with a cool purple detail under the eye is a simple but at the same time a finishing touch to make-up that I received a lot of compliments for at the salon!
Det är lite roligt att “mäta i komplimanger”, för jag som alltid har olika sminkningar vilket folk är vana vid får sällan kommentarer om dom just för att det är så vanligt. Men vissa sminkningar utmärker sig i antalet reaktioner, även om dom inte är speciellt avancerade, och då vet man att sminkningen har det där lilla extra :)
Och för att understryka, med komplimanger menar jag inte “vad fin du är” utan komplimanger specifikt för sminkningen. T.ex. denna dag fick jag höra “vad fint med lila!” och “vilken fin sminkning du har idag” väldigt ofta.
Och så när som på att eyeliner med vinge inte är det allra lättaste för alla, så är själva den lila “pricken över i-detaljen” superenkel att göra! Jag har bara blandat ljuslila ögonskugga med vätskan Kryolan Cake Liner Sealer and applied as eyeliner + mascara at the lower lashes with a flat brush. Goes in half a minute!
One topic that has interested me enormously lately and that we talk a lot about at the salon, is that beauty is not just surface but that it also does very good on the inside.
It's really something I learned after several years in the beauty industry, for most people it's more about well - being than vanity. Beauty is wellness!
The double standard around beauty
Det finns självklart olika sätt att se på detta. Ur ett rent feministiskt perspektiv så är det många som känner krav på att se bra ut och det finns massor av osunda reklamer och ideal. Men det är också dubbelmoral åt andra hållet – att sminka sig mycket och “onaturligt” ses som fåfängt, idealet är att vara “naturligt snygg” men hur många har flawless hy och pigga ögon utan hjälpmedel? Och om man tvärtom går osminkad så får man kommentarer som “är du trött?” “är du sjuk?” “vad har hänt med din hud?”.
All this I just want to erase! I can go from head to toe one day without caring about people's opinions about it, and the other day be completely unmade up with pimples on my face and with a tight tassel on my head because my hair is so frizzy that if I let it out that so the hair would still remain in the shape of a ponytail haha - without caring about people's opinions about it!
And in the same way, I want everyone to be able to do exactly what they want and just enjoy what the beauty routine means to that particular person.
Beauty is not just surface
Skönhet handlar om egentid, ta hand om sig själv och att trivas med det man ser i spegeln. För många är det också roligt och ett sätt att uttrycka sig, som smycken eller kläder. Fokuset för i princip alla kunder och personer jag pratar med är aldrig att bli snyggast i världen utan att framhäva sig själv och se en piggare och gladare person i spegeln och trivas med tanken att “det här är jag!”. Om man tittar i spegeln och inte ser en person som speglar sin insida så kommer det påverka psykiskt.
If I do not feel particularly tired but look in the mirror and see a gray person with a sour mouth, then that's exactly how I will feel later.
It's a bit like smiling at yourself in the mirror even though you are not happy, the brain is not so damn smart always, then you can fool yourself that you are happy and then you will be happier! :) And for me, a nice lipstick or that I like my eye makeup together with this smile is twice as effective! For others, it may be to conjure away a little darkness under the eyes, that the skin has a nice glow or a fun hair color in the hair!
It's about why you do it
It's all about why you use makeup and beauty products. If you think make-up is fun - make-up loose! If you think skin care is fun - cream on! And some people do not think it's fun to hold on and prefer to sleep a little longer, and for them it may be worth it to indulge in more lasting beauty such as lash color or permanent makeup. We are all different and you have to find your own way, beauty is a luxury that I think you should enjoy, it should not be an evil must.
Own time and take care of yourself
För mig personligen handlar det också mycket om “ritualen”. Det är när jag tvättar ansiktet med en väldoftande ansiktsrengöring på morgonen som jag vaknar till. Det är terapi för mig att leka framför sminkspegeln. Och när jag tvättar håret (vilket sker 1 gång i veckan = en procedur) så är det min bästa avslappning på hela veckan med härliga produkter och bredvid badkarskanten har jag min dator med en mysig serie.
Answer yes I am a self-proclaimed expert on everyday luxury;)
For some it is a nightmare to keep up as I do, but for me I think it is a big reason why I am very mentally well despite a lot of stress and pressure as a self-employed + had a tough time with grief and family conflicts since my mom passed away. I have never stopped taking care of the outside of my body which for me has been like cotton for the soul, and it's not just about good looks but about sitting and raw about myself.
Beauty can be therapy for many!
When I was a teenager, I had a lot of problems with both self-esteem and self-confidence and have had to struggle a lot with it. So I know it's not easy. But for me, make-up became therapy, both because it is creative but also because I felt better about it. If I felt insecure, I put on a little harder make-up around the eyes and stared into the mirror with a cool look and then I felt stronger! When I was in a bad mood, I had a green eye shadow from IsaDora and a pink lip gloss with shimmer that always made me happier!
Och att smörja in sig själv och ta hand om sig själv får kroppen att utsöndra “kärlekshormonet” oxytocin som bidrar till lugn och välbefinnande.
To work with beauty
The best thing about my job is that so many customers really do seems att man gjort dom gladare och mer energifyllda! Vissa går därifrån med en helt annan hållning och utstrålning! Även många säger rakt ut “gud vad härligt att se mina ögon igen!” eller “åh det här gjorde min dag vad glad jag känner mig nu!”.
We have also had several customers who cried with joy when they saw themselves in the mirror after an eyebrow tattoo, e.g. people who have undergone chemotherapy or have alopecia. We have also had a customer who never went out without make-up because she had such complexes for her skin, but after her brow tattoo, she told us on the return visit that she was so happy with the whole that she could now start going out without make-up. So awesome that a little can do so much for one person!
The goal for most people is not to be model-looking or perfect, but such simple things as highlighting their eyes or framing their face with a pair of well-shaped eyebrows can do so much.
Beauty can obviously be negative as well
As I wrote at the beginning of the post, it is of course individual what beauty means to you. Many people would feel better looking less in the mirror and focusing less on their appearance. You can always find fault if you look for them.
“Life does not become perfect just because you get completely symmetrical eyebrows"As my colleague Annika usually says;)
But not to underestimate beauty as a hobby, personal style or wellness - regardless of gender, age, profession, etc., I think it is very important for everyone to dare to look the way they want!
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