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On New Year's Eve, I had a make-up customer who was going to go to festivities where I could take before and after pictures :)
She knew exactly what she wanted, a lot of focus on the eyes, a high cut crease make-up, sharp eyeliner with wing and red lips in the same tone as her hair accessory, great fun!
She has hooded eyes and then both cut crease and eyeliner wing are far from the lightest make-up, but is at the same time a very effective look for that eye shape :)
Annika often gets customers who do not have their own eyebrows at all, it is quite common and there are lots of different reasons such as chemotherapy, alopecia, and some do not even know why they suddenly lose their hair.
We often get questions from customers who want to see pictures of eyebrows that are tattooed on people who have no eyebrows at all, and this week Annika did eyebrows + eyeliner on a customer who had neither eyelashes nor eyebrows, and the result is so crazy nice !
I also got to take full pictures of the customer, which is super fun and great for future customers to see as well, in close-ups you see the technology and the result very well, but you do not see how much difference it makes on the whole face. But now you get to see it too! :)
Surely you can not believe that this tingle has neither eyelashes nor eyebrows? And is completely unmade up in the picture!
The pictures are taken immediately after the treatment, after healing both the eyes and eyebrows become less sharp and also a little brighter.
It will also probably (it is usually needed) need to be filled in after healing, that is why you have return visits so you can fill in areas where the paint has released more during healing, or if you want a darker color. It is always better to choose a lighter color if you are unsure, and then darken if you want on the return visit.
Here you see before and after:
Fantastic huh? :)
Like a completely different person in the afterimage!
Eyebrow tattoo costs SEK 5,700 and currently only Annika makes new eyebrow tattoos. Return visits are included, and are done at Amir.
The tattoo is semi-permanent and needs to be filled in when it fades so as not to disappear completely, filling in within a year is SEK 1,500, but if the shape has disappeared a lot, the hourly price is SEK 2,000 / hour. If the shape has disappeared completely, you must make an appointment for a new eyebrow tattoo.
You will find the entire price list Creativemakeup.se, we are working to make it even clearer, but if you have any questions, as usual, just shout! :)
My favorite color right now is a shade that I have had a hard time putting into words, a kind of mixture of rust red, burgundy, brown and purple. And it is a shade that I have mainly loved on makeup but also on interior design, clothes and hair colors.
Then I read about Color of the Year 2015 and then I finally got a name for the shade - Marsala! Did not know before what the shade had for name :)
Marsala was chosen Color of the Year 2015 by Pantone and looks like this:
Nice, is not it? I would also say that my hair color is Marsala, although it varies a lot depending on how diligent I have been with my hair wrap. Sometimes the marsala is more in the pink-purple direction :)
Anyway, today's makeup is inspired by the shade marsala, hope you like the look!
Dip Nanshy Blending brush in transparent powder and sweep along the globe line where the fade will be (not on the entire eyelid). This means that the colored shadow is not as sharp at the edges there, which makes it easier to get a nice fade later.
I love everything about this look actually, so simple and yet so stylish and well thought out. If I had not had the profession I have, I would have looked like this every single day right now, I think.
Look at the nice press release I received last week:
This super nice box contains the Perfume Olympea EdP from the perfume brand Paco Rabanne, and a body lotion in the same fragrance. The perfume in the kit (eau de parfume) contains 50 ml and the body lotion contains 100 ml.
I will also save the nice drawer and have as nice storage in the bookshelf :)
This fragrance is a new favorite and ends up in the top 3 in my entire perfume collection! Incredibly good!
The perfume is sweet, though not sweet in the fruity or berry direction but more in the vanilla direction. The scent feels smooth, mild and soft, and not strong at all, at the same time as it smells a lot and for a long time. And besides the vanilla scent, it also feels a bit floral and woody, a very homely scent :)
Everyone I have asked to smell the bottle loves it and thinks it smells super good, even my mother who is very sensitive to smells if they get too strong.
♥ Top notes - Green Mandarin, Ginger & Lily ♥ Heart notes - Water Jasmine, Salt & Vanilla ♥ Base notes - Sandalwood & Amber
Two big thumbs up I say! Both for bottle, fragrance, body lotion and the fragrance's durability.
The box is available for purchase at e.g. HERE and costs SEK 679.
I thought it might be fun with a small summary of the highlights in 2015, when I think back myself it feels like two years have passed and not just one haha. Here is a post with lots of what has happened in my career, but also a lot of private that otherwise ends up in the shadows here in the beauty blog!
Hope you think it's a little fun reading, so here's a lazy day after-day;)
♥ New Year's Eve 2014
Last New Year's Eve, I worked at Creative Make Up with Annika, I have done it the last few years and done New Year's make-up on a conveyor belt, so it was nothing different, but great fun as usual! We had decided just a week before that I would start with her one day a week from January, so I still had not started.
Samma dag skrev jag en lista med vad jag trodde skulle ske under 2015, och där står det “jag kommer jobba en dag i veckan hos Annika, i alla fall i början av året” haha, tänk om man hade vetat att vi skulle öppna en 360 kvm stor salong och starta ett aktiebolag ihop! :)
Annika already came up with a business proposal that I also grabbed right away, we have not had time to start with it properly yet, but without revealing more, I think that next autumn will be more about it!
♥ Creative Make Up
Just as planned, I started working at Creative Make Up on Thursdays, which I thought was a lot more fun than I actually expected! What I am most passionate about is the blog and testing products, but to alternate it with physical customers and get to shape nice eyebrows is the perfect combo :)
The only thing that was missing was when I did makeup consultations, because it includes products, you only use things that you can buy later, and that was so ofta som jag tänkte “åh vad fin det hade blivit om jag kunde lägga till den här produkten från min webshop”, gloMinerals är superbra men det är ganska mycket som inte finns. Exempelvis när man hade sminkkunder med oljig hy.
♥ The blog Otherwise, it was a calm start to the year, I had quite recently started with my flashes and my photo quality was incomparably much better! So I took lots of pictures, blogged a lot, and often worked from early morning until late at night. Miska and I got into really good routines, he went and worked at 6 in the morning so at 5 he made porridge or scrambled eggs and coffee, woke me up and then we had a cozy breakfast before we both started the day.
I worked with the blog and the webshop all day until Miska came home at 5 pm, and if he went to a friend after work, I could work 06-22 without a break, to fix both the webshop and elaborate and many blog posts.
So much fun, never gets tired! But when I think back on it, I understand that it is almost impossible to keep the same quality in the blog now that I also have a store to run. But there will be a change in that, the more help I get with other things the more time I will get to the blog again :)
Among other things, I tried to be a little innovative in my poses, here I had just dyed my hair and wanted to take nice pictures. It went like this;)
Lol!
And did a lot of makeup too, step by step makeup almost every day:
“Excuse me miss, you’ve got a little bit of face on your makeup there”
Glamliv vs koskit and rice porridge
Some parts of the year have been incredibly glamorous, I have been to a lot of events, including the Swedish Beauty & Cosmetics Awards, Finest Awards, and incredibly really fun press events with, among others, Make Up Store and Pür Minerals. Always just as fun and luxurious!
At the same time as we live in a tiny studio in Gimo, where the living room has been both a bedroom and a photo studio, and the kitchen table has been both an office and a dressing table. We have been a lot with mom with the house full of cats and old stuff everywhere, and with grandma in the country with a lot of cow shit on the farm;)
This is what I looked like at the Finest Awards :) The linen my friend Julia sewed!
Event with Pür Minerals.
Event with Make Up Store
And the next day I was with grandma and cuddled with the cows :)
And when I myself would fix luxury at home and invite my sister to dinner, it was rosé wine and rice porridge in the apartment;)
♥ Car inspection
Inspected my sister's car, it went like this:
First I was ashamed as I am both a bad driver and an everyday blower, and then I had to take the bus home haha.
♥ Wonderful summer
When the summer came, it became a little calmer pace, and I who knew that it would be an intense autumn took the opportunity to rest a lot, which was really needed. Take the opportunity to gather strength before we got the keys to the room.
♥ Mille
I became the aunt of another sweetie when Mille was born in June :)
Mille was spicy on Midsummer's Eve haha :)
♥ Agreement with new business partner
My summer horoscope said that July 2 was a good date to sign a contract with a new business partner, and guess what I did on July 2? ;) Then I, Miska and Annika wrote on the papers for our joint limited company By Her AB! It was also a thing that I wrote in my list on New Year's Eve, that Miska would quit her job and find a new one or start working with me, which I hoped for the most!
♥ In front of the sewing machine
The summer was, despite many quiet days, a stressful period. Geez how hard it is to relax when you know that there is so much you have to decide and do in a very short time, while we could not get to grips with everything right away. We waited for the keys to the room and there were thousands of things to decide on everything, job interviews, meetings, bookkeeping problems and lots of such things.
But what is most de-stressing for me is when I get the feeling to sew, turn on music, lock myself in my sewing room with my mother and be a little creative. And just sew simple things, so you do not have to think too much or get frustrated haha. You should be able to start and finish the same evening :)
There were two trousers, a pair for Mille:
And a couple to Mila:
♥ Pool
And what was most de-stressing was mom's pool and great company, gosh what fun we had in it!
♥ Access to the new premises
On the 16th of August, you received the keys to the premises, we hired carpenters to renovate the customer toilet in the waiting room and build walls to get more treatment rooms. But putty and painting, Miska and I took on (with the help of wonderful Frida and my sister Mia) and together we painted the whole room. It's something I never do about haha. I thought we would be ready in a maximum of a week if we started and worked intensively, but I could never have imagined how long it would take!
In this picture we have just started, Miska pulls nails out of the walls :) It looks smooth in the picture because it is so light, but there were like billions of holes in the walls and the color was golden.
♥ Decorate the salon
At the beginning of September, we still had not finished painting, and we would open the 25th. But as soon as we pulled the last brushstroke, we started and ordered furniture and then it rattled so we had everything in place and could put up shelves, products, mirrors and everything needed to be able to open.
Here I sit and build a desk for my and Miska's office / makeup room :)
♥ September 25th
And then came the day with a big D, the day we opened our joint salon Creative Makeup By Her!
Between the 16th of August and the 25th of September, the entire salon was fixed, from before the summer not even knowing if we would get access to the room at all. Crazy! And I who at the beginning of the year thought I would only work with Annika for a few months. So sick :)
Now I am 22 years old, an employer of three employees (one who works full time) and have AB and a 360 sqm salon together with Annika who won the Swedish Championships in makeup several years and is incomparably talented in permanent makeup.
♥ New Year's Eve 2015
It is said that how New Year's Eve is shows how next year will be, and my New Year's morning started with me sitting at the breakfast table and cracking my ass in my favorite jeans haha. How to interpret it? But they are six years old so it was time for them to get tired of my ass now;)
I worked at the salon and did New Year's make - up until 7 pm in the evening, then it was sleep over at my mother's with the sisters and their good children, so cozy! And this morning I woke up to coffee on the bed that Meja (8 years old) brought, and then my sister Malin cooked the world's tastiest (and fattest) breakfast - fried sandwich with fried sausage and fried egg haha. Wonderfully!
How 2016 will be actually feels a little scary to think about, there is so much new going on and it feels like 2015 is the year when it all started while 2016 will be the year when everything really starts. So exciting!
Hope you look forward to another year in the blog, filled with makeup inspiration, new products and a lot of entrepreneurship!
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