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En jättevanlig kommentar om mina sminkningar är “du passar ju i allt!”.
Bara här om dagen sa en kund till mig (som såg mig i blont hår för första gången) “det måste vara roligt att be able to change the look as much as you do! ” and meant that I have a look that fits in everything, while she just fits in as she always looks.
That people think I fit in everything is only because I actually dare to show myself in everything! :)
I skolan fick jag höra en gång “det är bara Helena som passar i alla färger, tänk om man själv hade kommit i grön ögonskugga!”. Men hade den personen kommit regelbundet i grön ögonskugga så hade alla tyckt att hon också passade i det.
Om man själv trivs i någonting så kommer man automatiskt tycka att man passar i det, både du själv (vilket är det enda viktiga) men också andra. Självklart ska man som makeupartist kunna färglära för att veta vad färgerna ger för effekter. Men när en kund säger “jag passar inte i kalla färger” så tar jag det som “jag känner mig inte fin i kalla färger” för det är självklart alla kan använda kalla färger och tvärtom.
Makeup has no rules;)
Jag önskar ibland att jag hade ett mer “sminkvänligt” utseende, som när man sminkar en person med superfin hy, skarpa kindben, fylliga läppar, stora ögonlock och snygga ögonbryn – och precis varenda sminkdetalj blir wow-snyggt direkt!
But I don’t have all that ;) Jag har ett väldigt “normalt” utseende och ser mig själv som två ögon, en näsa och en mun hahaha, min poäng är att det finns ingenting speciellt med varför just jag skulle passa i allting och inte alla dom personerna som säger dessa kommentarer.
So sum up: You do not have to go far outside your comfort zone, but if you think makeup is fun and want to experiment more, give it a try !! Try a color you do not usually use, add a little more eye shadow than usual or put your hair in a crazy hair knot with flowers. Anything :) One thing will lead to another and eventually release the barriers.
Offers an old treat haha, I did this make-up about 2.5 years ago.
I myself do not feel as nice in everything, e.g. blue-black make-up I can have a little hard for for some reason. But if I were to see a person who looks exactly the same as me who had that make-up, I would probably have thought it was just as nice!
It's just about what you yourself enjoy - and to know that you have to test yourself.
Do you have any input on this topic, feel free to comment, it would be fun :)
This week has been more active than last week, I am fever-free and feel like myself again!
I did not really recognize my brain last week with thoughts that my big dreams are extremely unrealistic and will never work. I, as always, am the master of big dreams haha. It should be so that people think that you are joking when you tell your future plans - then you know that they are at a good level;)
Men nu är jag mitt gamla vanliga jag igen och det märktes inte minst i fredags haha. Jag hade då ett kort telefonmöte med ett jättestort företag, allt är hemligt men det är absolut ingen stor grej varför dom pratade med just mig, så ni behöver inte bli nyfikna. Men jag sa i alla fall till Miska efteråt att det känns ändå roligt att få prata med en person som kommit långt i sin karriär inom ett framgångsrikt företag. Hon avslutade samtalet med “våra vägar kanske korsas i framtiden igen någon gång!” och Miskas svar på det var “jaa hon kanske jobbar för dig sen!” och jag instämde glatt haha! Inte alls höga tankar :)
Focus on different environments
Jag har svårt att koncentrera mig om jag ofta blir avbruten, alltså att någon pratar med mig, telefonen ringer, mailen plingar och sådana saker. När jag ibland står i receptionen och jobbar med “mitt eget” vid datorn så kan jag också ha svårt att koncentrera mig fast det är relativt tyst, bara för jag vet att jag måste ha koll på dörren när det kommer kunder o.s.v.
BUT if I know that I do not have to worry about the outside world, then I am very good at shutting out sound. I can be very focused in any type of environment! Almost fascinating :)
On Monday e.g. when I sat at home in the evening and made the salaries (overtime, completeness, vacation days and things to be compiled from last month) which is a lot of dates, minutes and numbers to keep track of, then Meja and Miska fooled next to me on the couch and I barely noticed by them.
My sister took this picture of us haha! :)
There have been some work evenings at home with the computer this week, so nice that you can catch up on things when you have had a lot of customers and other things during the day.
Student makeup
This Tuesday we left home just before 6 o'clock to have a student make-up in the morning!
We usually have lots of makeup and hair styling on student day, but we are so fully booked now that only I could start working early. And you can only take 1-2 make-ups per person because they must be ready so heavenly early to go to champagne breakfast. So we did not advertise student makeup this year.
I was a bit tired frozen and had thermos mug with coffee with me in the car and then Miska took out blankets too, so cozy ♥ You should enjoy the little moments in life :)
She was so nice! I helped her take this picture for her instagram :)
We actually did a simple hair styling, managed to do both make-up and hair in 1 hour! I'm not a hair stylist, but when she spontaneously needed help with her hair, I did my best with a few simple curls, and she was very happy!
I did not have time to do a step-by-step make-up before work when it got so early, but I was going to the NYX Nordic Face Awards in the evening so I put on make-up at work before opening instead, it worked well too :) I had some hours between student make-up and opening!
I had it so cozy! Listened to documentary podcasts and put on make-up (it felt unusual not to take photos between each product haha) and once we opened at 10 it felt very strange that people started coming because I had been alone there for so long haha.
NYX Nordic Face Awards & awake for almost 24 hours
This year I was invited to the NYX Nordic Face Awards again! Like this I looked last year :)
As I wrote above, I put on make-up at work, so I have no close-ups on that make-up, but it turned out to be a smokey eye in black, brown, pink-purple and silver glitter! And then red lips to it :)
And here is the whole outfit:
Me and best Molkan.se (awesome beauty blog-check it out!) matched so heavenly well with our outfits! I did not think about it until we stood there and glittered together in front of the camera haha.
Our makeup artist Lisa was so cute and curled my hair at her lunch before the event, so please! Many people want their very own team with makeup artist, hair stylist, etc. and we have that here :) Luxury!
And then I live with my sister and could borrow exactly the whole outfit from her too haha. I'm so damn spoiled!
NYX Professional Makeup had its competition NYX Nordic Face Awards for the 3rd year in a row and it is always so nicely organized at their event! You can actually see the whole gala that was broadcast live Nordicfaceawards.com ! :)
Always fun to meet Malin! She also had a camera with her (compared to me who only had a mobile phone) and was so cute and sent the pictures to me later!
Before the event, I queued up @LindaLoopiz for about 20 minutes before we got in - they ran out of GDPR paper haha. Like you haven't spent enough time on gdpr already;) So we needed to write on paper about handling personal data because it would be photographed and broadcast live.
Fine! ♥
Me and Camilla Söderlund posed in this pink fluff corner! I want this kind of decor at home in my make-up room too;)
It's never hard to go to events alone anymore, there are always people you know and it's always fun to see!
The jury is sitting and being interviewed :)
So inspiring to see all the creative looks! Just wanted to go home and put on make-up haha!
The winner of the Nordic Face Awards 2018 was @ritaermin! So good!
When I came home and scratched mine on the back, I found confetti that was glued to the skin haha! Two even! You can not not love confetti rain :)
IF I was falling asleep while sitting on the bus home then. I got up at 5 in the morning and went to bed at 2 at night. When I washed off the make-up and realized that the student make-up was the same day, I got a shock, the day was so long that it felt like it had happened earlier in the week.
Red day & planning meeting
But it did not matter so much that it was late in the day - because on Wednesday we worked from home and Annika came to Gimo and had a long meeting with me and miska. So I got some sleep in the morning before Annika came :)
Vi gick igenom lite “större” grejer som man aldrig hinner prata igenom under småluckor i schemat på jobbet, och det kändes riktigt skönt att kunna spika vissa grejer och få en röd tråd mellan saker och ting.
I forgot to take a picture from the meeting, we sat on our terrace and ate strawberries with a computer in front of us. But I look forward to an insight into our document with notes instead:
Feels ridiculous to blur like everything but now it gets so;) In Quip you can add checklists and different column stuff, absolutely perfect when you have to structure things!
More times for eyelash permanent / lash lift
Our summer planning was reversed when our makeup artist Ämma was unfortunately on long-term sick leave and our 3 makeup artists are so fully booked for the summer that there will be very long waiting times.
It is a positive problem to be fully booked, but no fun service when you answer the phone and someone wants to book an appointment for eyelash permanent (lash lift) and lash color and there is not a single time until after midsummer. In addition, we lose customers because if you want nice lashes at the beginning of the summer and there is no time, you will go to someone else, permanent makeup may be worth the wait, but lashes and eyebrows before the holiday is another matter.
So now both Olga and Lisa have gone up in time and work full days 5 days a week, the others sometimes book customers off their schedule and work overtime - all this is done and there is still no time for lash lift before midsummer haha.
That's why we started teaching our teeth whitening Mia on eyelash permanent too! She is not a makeup artist and will not shape eyebrows (even though she is crazy about beauty) but you do not need to be able to put on make-up to make eyelash permanent so she should start with that too and will also take evenings every other week all summer, woop woop!
We started teaching her a while ago and she has seen all our makeup artists do the treatment. Last Friday, she filmed when Olga permanent the lashes on a customer and has started practicing doing the treatment herself now as well.
Fringe permanent is not as simple as you might think, the treatment itself is not rocket science but you choose the size and shape of the spool based on the person's own lashes and wishes (some want very curved and some just a little lift) and then it differs in effect time as well. In addition, you should get the speed in, the lashes should be glued up nicely before the glue has time to dry. So there are a lot of aspects that come into play so you need to work up your own experience as well.
Mia will actually start with this the week after midsummer but I hope that we can possibly open up some more times before midsummer as well :)
Here Mia is sitting and watching when Olga does the treatment :)
Otherwise, it has not happened much more special, I have had a lot of customers e.g. a test makeup for bridal makeup I will do in August! We have had a staff meeting with the whole team, I have fixed salaries, statistics, invoices etc. because it is a month now and tried to blog as soon as I had a while left.
And also this week I publish the job-week post today even though it is Saturday (and not on a Sunday as usual) because today Annika and I are going to Milan over the weekend for a fair & conference with permanent makeup. Woop woop! So you get to know more about next weekend because now we will be flying around a lot!
Den här sminkningen kände jag mig väldigt fin i på jobbet, ni vet en sån där sminkning där man inte kan sätta fingret på exakt varför men det känns bara väldigt “jag”.
I've been thinking a lot lately that I really want to push extra for makeup does not have to be that difficult! :) There are so many who want to put on more make-up but do not do it because you think it must take a very long time, that it is difficult, you are afraid of making mistakes, etc. But I say it again - it does not have to be so difficult :)
“Lätt för dig att säga” tänker ni kanske nu, och visst har ni en poäng där haha. Jag vill dock understryka att man kan göra det svårt för sig och man kan göra det enkelt för sig! Om jag hade skippat ögonskuggsprimer och använt en för stor, för liten, sliten eller dålig borste eller gummi-grejen som ofta följer med ögonskuggor, då hade jag också tyckt att det var jättesvårt!
This make-up is easy to feel comfortable in (compared to many other colorful make-ups) and does not require much technology or a steady hand! It's not so much small pills that take time as well.
So I have put the purple eye shadow basically around the whole eye, and the rest of the shadows I have just dabbed on top for some nice shifts.
The light waterline in the eye is tattooed so I have it permanently, for exactly the same result as this make-up you can supplement with glo Eye Pencil (Peach)
If you have any questions about the make-up, it is as usual just to shout :)
I published this make-up in 2016 - but it is very useful and I know that many people appreciated this step by step, so now that I have been a bit half-hearted in producing make-up, I thought I could publish this again!
A favorite in replay simply :)
A soft sweep with a focus on the top of the eyes that lifts the gaze!
I posted this picture even before we sold these Paese lipsticks, this was during the trial period when I tested if they held the measure to qualify in our web shop!
Mark the outer edge of the eye with a line from the outer corner of the eye and outwards, preferably at the same angle / slope as the lower lash line for as lifting an effect as possible.
Apply more black eye shadow on the lower edge of the eyelid and fade the edge a little.
Look straight ahead in the mirror, relax your forehead, apply brown eye shadow above the crease line so that the brown eye shadow is visible even when you look straight ahead, then you get an even more lifting effect, Paese Opal Eyeshadow (Caffe Latte)
Look at the entire eyelid again and you will see how much skin is "inside the globe line" when you look straight ahead.
Fill the entire eyelid with the same brown eyeshadow and fade it into the black at the bottom edge.
Miska paints so many paintings at home and right now he is working on a painting in the colors turquoise, pink, yellow and black - which inspired me to today's makeup! :)
Att inte ha ögonskugga eller mascara på undersidan av ögonen gör dels att ögonformen blir mer “lyft” istället för förstorad/mer öppen som den blir om man lägger både uppe & nere. Dessutom känner man sig inte lika sminkad – så fort man får färg under ögonen så känns hela looken mer sminkad, vilket varken är bu eller bä men en bra grej att tänka på om man vill använda mycket smink men inte är van och har svårt att känna sig bekväm i det :)
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